Avatar and Hurt Locker lead Oscars race
Avatar leads the field in Oscar nominations
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James Cameron's Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker have nine nominations each as the shortlist for the 82nd annual Academy Awards was announced in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Avatar and The Hurt Locker are joined by An Education, A Serious Man, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, The Blind Side, Up and Up in the Air in a ten-strong best picture category.
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds follows on eight nominations, with Precious and Up In The Air gaining six each and Pixar's Up named in five categories.
Rachel Getting Married star Anne Hathaway joined Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak to reveal the nominees at a press conference at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre.
To read the major nominations, click here.
Cameron's Avatar, the highest grossing film of all time and the winner of two Golden Globes, is a near-certainty for awards in the technical categories while The Hurt Locker, Up in the Air and Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire were unsurprisingly shortlisted in multiple categories.
The nominations made pleasant reading for British actors and filmmakers with Colin Firth up for the best actor Oscar for A Single Man.
Rising star Carey Mulligan is nominated for the best actress Oscar alongside Dame Helen Mirren for The Last Station while there are also nominations in the best adapted screenplay category for the writers of In the Loop and An Education.
The 2010 Oscars will be presented on March 2nd at Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre.
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