The British Academy Of Film & Television Arts have released the nominees for their 2010 film awards ceremony, which will be held on 21 February. Avatar leads the pack with 8. The full list is below, and I've marked the nominees I think will win their category with an asterix:
Best Film
Avatar
An Education
*The Hurt Locker
Precious
Up In The Air
Leading Actor
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
*George Clooney (Up In The Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
Andy Serkis (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll)
Leading Actress
*Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
Audrey Tautou (Coco Before Chanel)
Supporting Actor
Alec Baldwin (It's Complicated)
Christian McKay (Me And Orson Welles)
Alfred Molina (An Education)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
*Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Supporting Actress
*Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy)
Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air)
Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)
Mo'Nique (Precious)
Kristin Scott Thomas (Nowhere Boy)
Outstanding British Film
*An Education
Fish Tank
In The Loop
Moon
Nowhere Boy
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer/Director/Producer
Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson (directors, producers: Mugabe And The White African)
Eran Creevy (writer & director: Shifty)
Stuart Hazeldine (writer & director: Exam)
*Duncan Jones (director: Moon)
Sam Taylor-Wood (director: Nowhere Boy)
Director
James Cameron (Avatar)
Neill Blomkamp (District 9)
Lone Scherfig (An Education)
*Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Original Screenplay
The Hangover (Jon Lucas, Scott Moore)
The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
*A Serious Man (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Up (Bob Peterson, Pete Docter)
Adapted Screenplay
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell)
An Education (Nick Hornby)
*In The Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche)
Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher)
Up In The Air (Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner)
Film Not In The English Language
Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
*Let The Right One In
A Prophet
The White Ribbon
Animated Film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
*Up
Music
Avatar (James Horner)
Crazy Heart (T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Chaz Jankel)
*Up (Michael Giacchino)
Cinematography
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
*The Road
Editing
*Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Up In The Air
Production Design
*Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Inglourious Basterds
Costume Design
Bright Star
*Coco Before Chanel
An Education
A Single Man
The Young Victoria
Sound
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
*Star Trek
Up
Special Visual Effects
*Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Make-up & Hair
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
*The Young Victoria
Short Animation
*The Gruffalo
The Happy Duckling
Mother Of Many
Short Film
14
I Do Air
Jade
Mixtape
Off Season
The Orange Rising Star Award
Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Carey Mulligan
*Tahar Rahim
Kristen Stewart
