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Science-fiction epic and gritty Iraq war drama will battle for supremacy at the Oscars 2010 after topping the nominations with nine nods.
James Cameron's "Avatar" the most expensive movie ever made and the highest grossing film of all time picked up a slew of nominations including best picture and best director.
The low budget "The Hurt Locker" earned nine nominations including a nod for director Kathryn Bigelow Cameron's ex-wife as well as best picture, best actor and best original screenplay.
Tuesday's nominations were released in a dawn announcement at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills attended by Hollywood star Anne Hathaway.
Bigelow is only the fourth woman ever to be nominated for directing and the first since Sofia Coppola received a nod for "Lost in Translation" in 2003. No woman director has ever won the Oscars top prize.
However "The Hurt Locker," a tense thriller about a US army bomb disposal squad operating in Iraq, has emerged as the favorite to land the Oscars top best picture prize when the 82nd Academy Awards are presented on March 7.
Bigelow's film has already won a slew of awards this year which are regarded as reliable indicators of likely Oscars success.
This year's best picture race was expanded to 10 films by the Academy in a move analysts have said was intended to boost television ratings for the awards show.
Vying for the best picture race alongside "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" are Quentin Tarantino's bloody World War II revenge film "Inglourious Basterds," which weighed in with eight nominations.
It was followed by the independent "Precious," about the struggles of an illiterate abused teenager, which scored six nominations, including best picture and best director.
Other films in the best picture race include "District 9," South African director Neill Blomkamp's dazzling science-fiction film about aliens stranded in a Johannesburg township, and "Up," Pixar's charming animated film about a crotchety widower who ties balloons to his house and floats to South America.
It is the only second time in Oscars history that an animated film has made it into the best picture race following Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" in 1992.
Other best picture nominees included British drama "An Education," recession-era dramedy "Up In the Air", Joel and Ethan Coen's "A Serious Man," and the Sandra Bullock film "The Blind Side."
source: ph.news.yahoo.com
James Cameron's "Avatar" the most expensive movie ever made and the highest grossing film of all time picked up a slew of nominations including best picture and best director.
The low budget "The Hurt Locker" earned nine nominations including a nod for director Kathryn Bigelow Cameron's ex-wife as well as best picture, best actor and best original screenplay.
Tuesday's nominations were released in a dawn announcement at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills attended by Hollywood star Anne Hathaway.
Bigelow is only the fourth woman ever to be nominated for directing and the first since Sofia Coppola received a nod for "Lost in Translation" in 2003. No woman director has ever won the Oscars top prize.
However "The Hurt Locker," a tense thriller about a US army bomb disposal squad operating in Iraq, has emerged as the favorite to land the Oscars top best picture prize when the 82nd Academy Awards are presented on March 7.
Bigelow's film has already won a slew of awards this year which are regarded as reliable indicators of likely Oscars success.
This year's best picture race was expanded to 10 films by the Academy in a move analysts have said was intended to boost television ratings for the awards show.
Vying for the best picture race alongside "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" are Quentin Tarantino's bloody World War II revenge film "Inglourious Basterds," which weighed in with eight nominations.
It was followed by the independent "Precious," about the struggles of an illiterate abused teenager, which scored six nominations, including best picture and best director.
Other films in the best picture race include "District 9," South African director Neill Blomkamp's dazzling science-fiction film about aliens stranded in a Johannesburg township, and "Up," Pixar's charming animated film about a crotchety widower who ties balloons to his house and floats to South America.
It is the only second time in Oscars history that an animated film has made it into the best picture race following Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" in 1992.
Other best picture nominees included British drama "An Education," recession-era dramedy "Up In the Air", Joel and Ethan Coen's "A Serious Man," and the Sandra Bullock film "The Blind Side."
source: ph.news.yahoo.com
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