“District 9” (Sony Pictures Releasing), Julian Clarke

“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment), Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

“Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company), Sally Menke

“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate), Joe Klotz

Best foreign language film of the year

“Ajami” (Kino International), An Inosan Production, Israel

“El Secreto de Sus Ojos” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haddock Films Production, Argentina

“The Milk of Sorrow”, A Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogrà/Vela Production, Peru

“Un Prophète” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Why Not/Page 114/Chic Films Production, France

“The White Ribbon” (Sony Pictures Classics), An X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red Production, Germany

Achievement in makeup

“Il Divo” (MPI Media Group through Music Box), Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano

“Star Trek” (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment), Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

“The Young Victoria” (Apparition), Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

“Avatar” (20th Century Fox), James Horner

“Fantastic Mr. Fox” (20th Century Fox), Alexandre Desplat

“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment), Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders

“Sherlock Holmes” (Warner Bros.), Hans Zimmer

“Up” (Walt Disney), Michael Giacchino

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

“Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney), Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

“Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney), Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

“Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” (Sony Pictures Classics), Music by Reinhardt Wagner, Lyric by Frank Thomas

“Take It All” from “Nine” (The Weinstein Company), Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston

“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best motion picture of the year

“Avatar” (20th Century Fox), A Lightstorm Entertainment Production, James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers

“The Blind Side” (Warner Bros.), An Alcon Entertainment Production, Nominees to be determined

“District 9” (Sony Pictures Releasing), A Block/Hanson Production, Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers

“An Education” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production, Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers

“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment), A Voltage Pictures Production, Nominees to be determined

“Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company), A Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production, Lawrence Bender, Producer

“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate), A Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production, Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers

“A Serious Man” (Focus Features), A Working Title Films Production, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers

“Up” (Walt Disney), A Pixar Production, Jonas Rivera, Producer

“Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios), A Montecito Picture Company Production, Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

Best animated short film

“French Roast” , A Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films Production, Fabrice O. Joubert

“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” (Brown Bag Films), A Brown Bag Films Production, Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell

“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)”, A Kandor Graphics and Green Moon Production, Javier Recio Gracia

“Logorama” (Autour de Minuit), An Autour de Minuit Production, Nicolas Schmerkin

“A Matter of Loaf and Death” (Aardman Animations), An Aardman Animations Production, Nick Park

Best live action short film

“The Door” (Network Ireland Television), An Octagon Films Production, Juanita Wilson and James Flynn

“Instead of Abracadabra”, (The Swedish Film Institute), A Directörn & Fabrikörn Production, Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström

“Kavi”, A Gregg Helvey Production, Gregg Helvey