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After the many build-up award shows that have been happening since the start of the year, the 2010 Academy Awards have finally arrived.

Hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, they take place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday night (7 March) - for us (CAT): the early hours of Monday (8 March).

The live broadcast will be on M-Net Movies 1 at 03h00 on Monday morning.

The delayed broadcast will be on M-Net on Monday night from 19h30 to 22h30.

Of course E! Entertainment will be doing a red carpet Build-Up, to a red carpet Countdown, to the Actual red carpet (ha - you know how it goes).

This is the schedule - as you'll see, the countdown lasts a whopping four hours:

Countdown to the Red Carpet
On: Sunday, 7 March 2010 at 21h00

A build-up show featuring behind-the-scenes footage of everything that goes on before the event, usually hosted by people we've never seen in our lives.

Live from the Red Carpet: The 2010 Academy Award
On: Monday, 8 March 2010 at 01h00

The real deal red carpet, hosted by Giuliana Rancic and Ryan Seacrest.

To wrap things up, the Fashion Police will do their usual thang in a special that looks at who was hott and not. This will be on next Thursday (11 March) at 21h00.

While the nominees and guests get ready again - they must be bored with all the hours of dressing up by now surely? - a recap of the nominees:

Best Picture

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Best Director

James Cameron (Avatar)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)

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)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia)

Best Supporting Actor

Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actress

Penelope Cruz (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Mo'Nique (Precious)

Best Foreign Language Film

Ajami (Israel)
El Secreto de Sus Ojos - The Secret of Their Eyes (Argentina)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophete - A Prophet (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)

Best Original Screenplay

Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman (The Messenger)
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy (Up)

Best Animation

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell (District 9)
Nick Hornby (An Education)
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (In the Loop)
Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious)
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air)

Best Art Direction

Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Best Cinematography

Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Best Sound Mixing

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

Best Sound Editing

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Best Original Song

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

Best Original Score

Avatar (James Horner)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders)
Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
Up (Michael Giacchino)

Best Costumes

Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

Best Documentary Feature

Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Best Documentary Short

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit a la Berlin

Best Film Editing

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Best Make-Up

Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Best Animated Short Film

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

Best Live Action Short Film

The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

Best Visual Effects

Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

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For more about the event, see: TVSA's 82nd Academy Awards Show Page.

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