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Use your movie knowledge and skill as a movie critic to select all 20 winning Academy Awards® Categories. There could be a cool 100 GRAND as a reward for being right.


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Any entrant that earns 20 points will be the winner. See Official Rules.

Best motion picture of the year:

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Performance by an actor in a leading role:

Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart"
UGeorge Clooney in "Up in the Air"
Colin Firth in "A Single Man"
Morgan Freeman in "Invictus"
Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker"

Performance by an actor in a supporting role:

Matt Damon in "Invictus"
Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger"
Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station"
Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones"
Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds"

Performance by an actress in a leading role:

Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side"
Helen Mirren in "The Last Station"
Carey Mulligan in "An Education"
Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia"

Performance by an actress in a supporting role:

Penélope Cruz in "Nine"
Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air"
Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart"
Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air"
Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"

Best animated feature film of the year:

Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

Achievement in art direction:

Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Achievement in cinematography:

Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Achievement in costume design:

Bright Star
Coco before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

Achievement in directing:

Avatar - James Cameron
The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow
Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire - Lee Daniels
Up in the Air - Jason Reitman

Achievement in film editing:

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Best foreign language film of the year:

Ajami - Israel
El Secreto de Sus Ojos - Argentina
The Milk of Sorrow - Peru
Un Prophète - France
The White Ribbon - Germany

Achievement in makeup:

Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score):

Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song):

Almost There from "The Princess and the Frog"
Down in New Orleans from "The Princess and the Frog"
Loin de Paname from "Paris 36"
Take It All from "Nine"
The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) from "Crazy Heart"

Achievement in sound editing:

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Achievement in sound mixing:

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Achievement in visual effects:

Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Adapted screenplay:

District 9
An Education
In the Loop
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Up in the Air

Original screenplay:

The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up
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