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 CarpetOn: 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 AwardOn: 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 PictureAvatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
Best DirectorJames Cameron (Avatar)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
Best ActorJeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up in the Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
Best ActressSandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia)
Best Supporting ActorMatt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Best Supporting ActressPenelope Cruz (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Mo'Nique (Precious)
Best Foreign Language FilmAjami (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 ScreenplayMark 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 AnimationCoraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up
Best Adapted ScreenplayNeill 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 DirectionAvatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
Best CinematographyAvatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon
Best Sound MixingAvatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Best Sound EditingAvatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up
Best Original SongAlmost 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 ScoreAvatar (James Horner)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders)
Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
Up (Michael Giacchino)
Best CostumesBright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria
Best Documentary FeatureBurma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home
Best Documentary ShortChina'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 EditingAvatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Best Make-UpIl Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria
Best Animated Short FilmFrench 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 FilmThe Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants
Best Visual EffectsAvatar
District 9
Star Trek
For more about the event, see:
TVSA's 82nd Academy Awards Show Page.