OFFICIAL 2010 OSCAR NOMINATION PREDICTIONS

With the nominations coming out tomorrow morning, here’s what my crystal ball shows…

Best Picture
“Avatar”
“District 9”
“An Education”
“(500) Days of Summer”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Invictus”
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
“Up”
“Up in the Air”

Best Animated Film
“Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”
“Coraline”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“Up”

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”
James Cameron, “Avatar”
Lee Daniels, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Jason Reitman, “Up in the Air”
Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney, “Up in the Air”
Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman, “Invictus”
Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”
Melanie Laurent, “Inglourious Basterds”
Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”

Best Supporting Actor
Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”
Christian McKay, “Me and Orson Welles”
Christopher Plummer, “The Last Station”
Stanley Tucci, “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Supporting Actress
Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”
Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”
Mo’Nique, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Julianne Moore, “A Single Man”
Samantha Morton, “The Messenger”

Best Original Screenplay
“(500) Days of Summer”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”

Best Adapted Screenplay
“District 9”
“An Education”
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
“A Single Man”
“Up in the Air”

Best Original Score
“Avatar”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“The Informant!”
“A Single Man”
“Up”

Best Original Song
All is Love, “Where the Wild Things Are”
Almost There, “The Princess and the Frog”
Cinema Italiano, “Nine”
I See You, “Avatar”
The Weary Kind, “Crazy Heart”

Best Editing
“Avatar”
“District 9”
“(500) Days of Summer”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”

Best Cinematography
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Public Enemies”
“The White Ribbon”

Best Art Direction
“Avatar”
“District 9”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“A Serious Man”
“Where the Wild Things Are”

Best Costume Design
“Bright Star”
“Coco Before Chanel”
“The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus”
“Nine”
“The Young Victoria”

Best Makeup
“Il Divo”
“District 9”
“The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus”

Best Sound Mixing
“Avatar”
“District 9”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglorious Basterds”
“Star Trek”

Best Sound Editing
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Star Trek”
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
“Up”

Best Visual Effects
“Avatar”
“Star Trek”
“2012”

Best Foreign Language Film
“Ajami,” Israel
“The Milk of Sorrow,” Peru
“Un Prophète,” France
“The White Ribbon,” Germany
“The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner,” Bulgaria

Best Documentary Feature
“Beaches of Agnes”
“The Cove”
“Facing Ali”
“Food, Inc.”
“Soundtrack for a Revolution”

Best Documentary Short Subject
“The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner”
“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”
“Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak”
“Woman Rebel”

Best Animated Short Film
“The Cat Piano”
“French Roast”
“A Matter of Loaf and Death”
“Partly Cloudy”
“Runaway”

Check back and see how I did!