"Avatar" si "The Hurt Locker" conduc in cursa pentru Oscaruri cu cate noua nominalizari fiecare.

Cel mai bun regizor 

James Cameron- "Avatar", Katherine Bigellow- "The Hurt Locker", Quentin Tarantino- "Inglorious Basterds", Jason Reitman- "Up in the Air", Lee Daniels- "Precious"

Cel mai bun film

"Avatar", "The Blind Side", "Precious", "District 9", "An Education", "The Hurt Locker", "Inglorious Bastards", "Precious", "Up", "A Serious Man", "Up in the Air"

Cea mai buna actrita in rol principal

Sandra Bullock- "The Blind Side"; Helen Mirren- "The Last Station"; Carey Mulligan- "An Education"; Gabourey Sidibe- "Precious: Based on the Novel `Push' By Sapphire"; Meryl Streep- "Julie & Julia."
 

Cel mai bun actor in rol principal

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

Cel mai bun actor in rol secundar

Matt Damon- "Invictus", Woody Harrelson- "The Messenger", Christopher Plummer- "The Last Station", Stanley Tucci- "The Lovely Bones", Christoph Waltz- "Inglourious Basterds"

Cea mai buna actrita in rol secundar

Penelope Cruz- "Nine", Maggie Gyllenhaal si Vera Farmiga-"Up in the Air", Anna Kendrick- Up in the Air", Mo'Nique, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
 

Cel mai bun film de animatie

"Coraline", "Fantastic Mr. Fox","The Princess and the Frog", "The Secret of Kells", "Up"

Cel mai bun scenariu original

"Inglourious Basterds", "The Hurt Locker", "The Messenger", "A Serious Man", "Up"

Cel mai bun scenariu adaptat

"District 9", "An Education", "In the Loop", "Precious", "Up in the Air"

Cel mai bun film strain
 

"Ajami" (Israel), "El Secreto de Sus Ojos" (Argentina), "The Milk of Sorrow" (Peru), "Un Prophete" (France), "The White Ribbon" (Germany)

Cea mai buna regie artistica

 “Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith, “Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim, “Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer,
 “The Young Victoria” Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Cea mai buna imagine

"Avatar", "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", "The Hurt Locker", "Inglourious Basterds", "Das Weisse Band"

Cele mai bune costume

“Bright Star” Janet Patterson, “Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme, “Nine” Colleen Atwood, “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell

Cel mai bun lungmetraj documentar

“Burma VJ” Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller, “The Cove” Nominees to be determined, “Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein, “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, “Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa

Cel mai bun scurtmetraj documentar

“China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill, “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner” Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher,
“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett, “Rabbit à la Berlin” Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

Cel mai bun machiaj

“Il Divo” Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano, “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow, “The Young Victoria” Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Cel mai bun mixaj de sunet

"Avatar", "The Hurt Locker", "Inglourious Basterds", "Star Trek", "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"

Cel mai bun montaj de sunet

"Avatar", "The Hurt Locker", "Inglourious Basterds", "Star Trek", "Up"

Cel mai bun montaj

"Avatar", "District 9", "The Hurt Locker", "Inglourious Basterds", "Precious"

Cel mai bun scurtmetraj

"The Door", "Instead of Abracadabra", "Kavi", "Miracle Fish", "The New Tenants"

Cel mai bun scurtmetraj animat

"French Roast", "Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty", "The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)", "Logorama", "A Matter of Loaf and Death"

Cele mai bune efecte vizuale

"Avatar", "District 9","Star Trek"

Cea mai buna coloana sonora

"Avatar" - James Horner, "Fantastic Mr. Fox" - Alexandre Desplat, "The Hurt Locker" - Marco Beltrami şi Buck Sanders, "Sherlock Holmes" - Hans Zimmer, "Up" - Michael Giacchino

Cel mai bun cantec

"Almost There" din "The Princess and the Frog" - Randy Newman, "Down in New Orleans" din "The Princess and the Frog" - Randy Newman, "Loin de Paname" din "Paris 36" - Reinhardt Wagner şi Frank Thomas, "Take It All" din "Nine" - Maury Yeston, "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" din "Crazy Heart" - Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett