I'll update the chart above with the 2009 viewership (36 million) later, but with these nominees, where do you think this year's Academy Awards ratings are headed?
via press release:
| 82nd ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED |
| Nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced today (Tuesday, February 2) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and 2008 Oscar® nominee Anne Hathaway.
Sherak and Hathaway, who was nominated for an Academy Award® for her lead performance in “Rachel Getting Married,” announced the nominees in 10 of the 24 categories at a 5:38 a.m., PT live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives. Lists of nominations in all categories were then distributed to the media in attendance and online via the official Academy Awards Web site, www.oscar.com. Academy members from each of the branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominations are selected by vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees; this year that category features 10 nominees instead of 5, as had been the case since 1943. Nominations ballots were mailed to the 5,777 voting members in late December and were returned directly to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the international accounting firm, for tabulation. Official screenings of all motion pictures with one or more nominations will begin for members this weekend at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Screenings also will be held at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and in London, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. All active and life members of the Academy are eligible to select the winners in all categories, although in five of them – Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject and Foreign Language Film – members can vote only if they have seen all of the nominated films in those categories. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5:00 p.m., PT / 8:00 p.m., ET. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide. NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORY – 82ND AWARDS Performance by an actor in a leading role Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight) George Clooney in “Up in the Air” (Paramount in assoc. with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Colin Firth in “A Single Man” (The Weinstein Company) Morgan Freeman in “Invictus” (Warner Bros.) Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Performance by an actor in a supporting role Matt Damon in “Invictus” (Warner Bros.) Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger” (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station” (Sony Pictures Classics) Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones” (DreamWorks in assoc. with Film4, Distributed by Paramount) Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) Performance by an actress in a leading role Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side” (Warner Bros.) Helen Mirren in “The Last Station” (Sony Pictures Classics) Carey Mulligan in “An Education” (Sony Pictures Classics) Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Performance by an actress in a supporting role Penélope Cruz in “Nine” (The Weinstein Company) Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight) Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) Best animated feature film of the year “Coraline” (Focus Features) “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (20th Century Fox) “The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney) “The Secret of Kells” (GKIDS) “Up” (Walt Disney) Achievement in art direction “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” (Sony Pictures Classics) “Nine” (The Weinstein Company) “Sherlock Holmes” (Warner Bros.) “The Young Victoria” (Apparition) Achievement in cinematography “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (Warner Bros.) “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) “The White Ribbon” (Sony Pictures Classics) Achievement in costume design “Bright Star” (Apparition) “Coco before Chanel” (Sony Pictures Classics) “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” (Sony Pictures Classics) “Nine” (The Weinstein Company) “The Young Victoria” (Apparition) Achievement in directing “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Best documentary feature “Burma VJ” (Oscilloscope Laboratories) “The Cove” (Roadside Attractions) “Food, Inc.” (Magnolia Pictures) “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” “Which Way Home” Best documentary short subject “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner” “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” “Music by Prudence” “Rabbit à la Berlin” (Deckert Distribution) Achievement in film editing “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) “District 9” (Sony Pictures Releasing) “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) Best foreign language film of the year “Ajami” (Kino International) “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” (Sony Pictures Classics) “The Milk of Sorrow” “Un Prophète” (Sony Pictures Classics) “The White Ribbon” (Sony Pictures Classics) Achievement in makeup “Il Divo” (MPI Media Group through Music Box) “Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) “The Young Victoria” (Apparition) Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (20th Century Fox) “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) “Sherlock Holmes” (Warner Bros.) “Up” (Walt Disney) Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) “Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney) “Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney) “Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” (Sony Pictures Classics) “Take It All” from “Nine” (The Weinstein Company) “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight) Best motion picture of the year “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) “The Blind Side” (Warner Bros.) “District 9” (Sony Pictures Releasing) “An Education” (Sony Pictures Classics) “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) “A Serious Man” (Focus Features) “Up” (Walt Disney) “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Best animated short film “French Roast” “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” (Brown Bag Films) “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” “Logorama” (Autour de Minuit) “A Matter of Loaf and Death” (Aardman Animations) Best live action short film “The Door” (Network Ireland Television) “Instead of Abracadabra” (The Swedish Film Institute) “Kavi” “Miracle Fish” (Premium Films) “The New Tenants” Achievement in sound editing “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) “Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) “Up” (Walt Disney) Achievement in sound mixing “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) “Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Achievement in visual effects “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) “District 9” (Sony Pictures Releasing) “Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Adapted screenplay “District 9” (Sony Pictures Releasing) “An Education” (Sony Pictures Classics) “In the Loop” (IFC Films) “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Original screenplay “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) “The Messenger” (Oscilloscope Laboratories) “A Serious Man” (Focus Features) “Up” (Walt Disney) ABOUT THE ACADEMY |
