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“If fashion was porn, this dress would be the money shot.”
–Gabourey Sidibe on her Oscar dress.

Best Picture
The Hurt Locker

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Best Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique, Precious

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Best Screenplay, Original
The Hurt Locker

Best Screenplay, Adapted
Precious!!!!!!!!!!

Best Animated Feature
Up

Best Art Direction
Avatar

Best Cinematography
Avatar

Best Costume Design
The Young Victoria

Best Documentary Feature
The Cove

Best Documentary Short
Music by Prudence

Best Film Editing
The Hurt Locker

Best Foreign Language Film
The Secret in Their Eyes

Best Makeup
Star Trek

Best Music, Original Score
Up

Best Music, Original Song
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)”, Crazy Heart

Best Short, Animated
Logorama

Best Short, Live Action
The New Tenants

Best Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker!

Best Sound Mixing
The Hurt Locker

Best Visual Effects
Avatar

12 Hours of Oscar: 2010 Academy Awards trivia every hour until the show starts.

I don’t think I’m the only one who was excited when it was announced that Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin were going to be the co-hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards. But when was the last time the Oscars had more than one host? You have to go back 23 years to 1987, when Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Paul Hogan co-hosted the 59th Academy Awards. Coincidentally, Platoon, a war picture, took home the trophy for Best Picture that night. Good news for The Hurt Locker?

Full list of Oscar Predictions HERE.

12 Hours of Oscar: 2010 Academy Awards trivia every hour until the show starts.

Sure it took expanding the category to 10 nominees to make it happen, but Pixar finally got a Best Picture nomination this year. Up is the first CG-animated feature to score a Best Picture nod and only the second animated movie to ever do so. (Beauty and the Beast was the first.) Just as important, Up is one of the most widely nominated animated films with five nominations in five categories, a tie with Ratatouille and just behind WALL-E, which scored six nominations in six categories.

Full list of Oscar Predictions HERE.

12 Hours of Oscar: 2010 Academy Awards trivia every hour until the show starts.

While he may be the oldest actor nominated for Oscar tonight, Christopher Plummer isn’t the oldest to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor. But he was close. Plummer, who is nominated for playing Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station, was 82 years and  51 days old when he got the nod on Feb. 2, 2010. Hal Holbrook was 218 days older than Plummer when he earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in Into the Wild back in 2008.

(via Wiki)

Full list of Oscar Predictions HERE.

12 Hours of Oscar: 2010 Academy Awards trivia every hour until the show starts.

While neither is Edith Head (35 Oscar nominations), costume designers Colleen Atwood (Nine) and Sandy Powell (The Young Victoria) both earned their eighth Oscar nominations this year. The designers, both two-time winners, have been competing against each other for a decade, with each winning Best Costume Design in the same year that the other was nominated. Powell took home the Oscar in 1999 and 2005 for Shakespeare in Love and The Aviator, respectively, beating Atwood who was nominated for Beloved and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. In turn, Atwood won Oscars in 2003 and 2006 for Chicago and Memoirs of a Geisha when Powell was nominated for Gangs of New York and Mrs. Henderson Presents.

If you’re wondering who’s going to win tonight, I’m putting my money on Powell for The Young Victoria.

Full list of Oscar Predictions HERE.

12 Hours of Oscar: 2010 Academy Awards trivia every hour until the show starts.

Want a reason to root for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen during tonight’s Oscar telecast? No, seriously. Do you?

Sound re-recording mixer Greg P. Russell has the dubious honor of being the night’s most nominated individual without a win. Russell has been nominated for Oscar 13 times, including his current Best Sound nomination for the Transformers sequel, but has yet to take home a trophy. Sound re-recording mixer Anna Behlmer, nominated for Star Trek, comes in second with 10 nominations and no wins. If you hear either Star Trek or Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen called out tonight when they open the envelope for Best Sound, know that someone had the award coming.

For the record, Kevin O’Connell, who is not nominated tonight, holds the record for the most nominations without a win. O’Connell, also a sound guy, has been nominated 20 times but has yet to win an Oscar.

Full list of Oscar Predictions HERE.

12 Hours of Oscar: 2010 Academy Awards trivia every hour until the show starts.

Avatar is the highest-grossing film of all time, which mean if it wins it will also be the highest-grossing Best Picture winner. What about the lowest? Right now, the Oscar winner with the lowest box office total is Annie Hall with $38 million. If The Hurt Locker takes the trophy, it will be the lowest-grossing Best Picture in Oscar history.

(via WSJ)

Full list of Oscar Predictions HERE.

12 Hours of Oscar: 2010 Academy Awards trivia every hour until the show starts.

With his Best Director nomination for Up in the Air, Jason Reitman entered the Oscar history books. At 32, Reitman is the youngest director to ever receive two nominations for Best Director. He was previously nominated in 2008 for Juno.

(via FilmSite.org)

Full list of Oscar Predictions HERE.

12 Hours of Oscar: 2010 Academy Awards trivia every hour until the show starts.

Tarantino gives many actors new leases on life. And while he’s directed five to Oscar nominations, including John Travolta (Pulp Fiction), Robert Forster (Jackie Brown), and this year, Christoph Waltz(Inglourious Bastereds), he’s never seen one win. If Waltz takes home the Best Supporting Actor trophy, his will be the first Tarantino-directed performance to ever win an Oscar.

Full list of Oscar Predictions HERE.