Oscar Nominations for Best Writing

Nominations for the Best Writing(Original Screenplay)

Mark Boal for "The Hurt Locker"

Quentin Tarantino for "Inglourious Basterds"

Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman for "The Messenger"


Joel Coen & Ethan Coen for "A Serious Man"


Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy for "Up"

Nominations for the Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell for "District 9"

Nick Hornby for "An Education"


Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche for "In The Loop"


Geoffrey Fletcher for "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"


Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for "Up in the Air"

The Curious case of Benjamin Button

This movie indeed stirs our curiosity to watch the movie.Nominated this year for nearly 13 Academy Awards,is altogether a totally different story.The nominations include Best Actor for Brad Pitt,Best Picture,Best Director for David Fincher as well as Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson. It was released on December 25th in USA.

The movie is an inspiration from the 1921 short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald,which was of the same name.Scott Fitzgerald, was inspired from a quote by Mark Twain: "Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18."

It depicts the life of a man named Benjamin Button who is born in his eighties and ages backwards with weird consequences.The story is set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918 to the 21st century, following the unusual journey of life of Benjamin Button.