The most anticipated event in Hollywood’s movie industry,The 82nd Academy Awards. The event will honor the best films of 2009 and will take place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Actors Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will host the show.

Here are the Major award category and 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

Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
James Cameron – Avatar
Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

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 & 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

Penélope Cruz – Nine as Carla Albanese
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart as Jean Craddock
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener
Mo’Nique – Precious

Best Original ScreenPlay

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell from Alive in Joburg by Blomkamp
An Education – Nick Hornby from An Education by Lynn Barber
In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche from The Thick of It created by Iannucci
Precious – Geoffrey Fletcher from Push by Sapphire
Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner from Up in the Air by Walter Kirn

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Foreign Language Film

Ajami
El Secreto de Sus Ojos
The Milk of Sorrow
Un Prophète
The White Ribbon

Top nominated films were Avatar and The Hurt Locker, with 9 nominations each . The winners will be announced during the awards ceremony on March 7, 2010.

I’m getting so excited for this year’s upcoming movies. It seems that we got all the much awaited movie installments for this year. I don’t know but based on my observation, almost all the movies of the 20th century are remakes of the classic films from the 70’s and 80’s film just like the Clash of the Titans which is an original 1981 fantasy film about the adventure of Perseus. ilming was scheduled to begin in late April 2009, and the film is set to be released on March 26, 2010. Another movie remake is the comedy horror film entitled “Piranha 3D“. It is originally based on the 1978 film with the same title. The film is all about about the swarm of killer piranhas. Another interesting movie would be “The Expandables” which is an action adventure film with a star-studded cast. It includes action film veterans like Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke and a whole lot more.

We got great movie installments for this year like the much awaited Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 which would be the second to last installment of this immortalized  novel adaptation. Tony Stark is back with Iron Man 2. Another much awaited film installment would be  The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. There will be another installment of ” The Chronicles of Narnia” entitled The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Freddie Krueger is back on the screen as A Nightmare On Elm Street is set for another horrifying adventure this year.

2010 is generally for kids. Shrek is set for another movie installment in which i thought would be the last. The famous Lewis Carol’s creation “Alice In Wonderland” is an interesting film to watch too! Another film based on a children’s book would be “Robin Hood“. Unexpected but true, The film that started it all, The first ever 3D animeted film is set for a come back for its 3rd installment, it’s no other than the “Toy Story“

Amazing, i just can’t wait to watch all this films!