Oscar Nominations for Best Sound Editing/Sound Mixing

Best Sound Editing:

Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle for 'Avatar'

Paul N.J. Ottosson for 'The Hurt Locker'

Wylie Stateman for 'Inglourious Basterds'

Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin for 'Star Trek'

Michael Silvers and Tom Myers for 'Up'

Best Sound Mixing:

Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson for 'Avatar'


Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett for 'The Hurt Locker'


Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano for 'Inglourious Basterds'


Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin for 'Star Trek'


Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson for 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'

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"

2010 Oscars to be hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the 82nd Academy Awards this year. The announcement was made lately by the Oscar's telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman. Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman stated that the team of Steve and Alec are the ideal pair of hosts for the Academy Awards. Schankman also conveyed that with the Martin-Baldwin casting, they intend to restore some energy into a night that's usually thought of as serious,but serious isn't all the time the most entertaining too. Steve will display the experience of having hosted the show in the past and Alec will be a completely fresh celebrity for this event.

Martin and Baldwin are thoroughly excited to co-host the Oscars this year. Martin had the privilege of hosting the 73rd and 75th Academy Awards shows.He has also served as an anchor on the show a number of times, most lately at the ceremony in February. He is presently touring with the bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers in promotion of his latest album, "The Crow: New Songs for the Five String Banjo." Steve Martin won Grammys for Best Comedy Recording, in both 1977 and 1978 . He also won a third Grammy in 2001 in the Best Country Instrumental Performance category.

Baldwin was nominated for the Oscars in 2003 for a supporting role in "The Cooler".Presently Baldwin stars as Jack Donaghy on the comedy "30 Rock", a character for which he won two Emmys in the year 2008 and 2009. He was also nominated for the Tony Awards in 1992 for his performance in “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

The Oscars will be held on March 7th at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

James Cameron’s "Avatar" nominated in 9 categories for 2010 Oscars

The movie Avatar directed by James Cameron has been nominated in 9 categories for the Academy awards 2010. There are high expectations that Avatar would dominate the Oscar awards 2010.Avatar is one of the most successful movies in hollywood on the box office breaking various records. Now Avatar is all set to break records at the Academy Awards after being nominated for 9 categories.


“Avatar” has been voted for categories Direction, Music (Original Score), Art Direction, Cinematography, Film Editing, Best Picture, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects.In the Oscar awards 2009 last year, Slumdog Millionaire (directed by Danny Boyle) was the foremost hit in various categories. There are great expectations that Avatar movie will lead the final list of Oscar Awards 2010 after dominating nomination list.

"Avatar" is based on a new world in which man have extra ordinary capabilities. The movie has so far been considered the best combination of technology and creativity. The Music for the movie is composed by James Horner.

AR Rahman's song set for the Oscars

Indian music maestro A.R Rahman's song Tamil "Na Na" from the film "Couples Retreat" has been nominated in Original Song category for the 82nd Academy Awards, that will be held on March 7th in Hollywood, California

This song will be competing with 62 songs from other nominated feature-length motion pictures .The final nominations will be announced on Feb 2.

"Na Na" is written by double Oscar winner A.R Rahman along with Blaaze and Vivian Chaix.Its is a very special song for AR Rehman as this is his son Alim’s debut song.Also, this is the first time Rahman has composed music for a Hollywood film.

"Couples Retreat" is directed by Emmy nominated Peter Billingsley and stars Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman and Kristin Davis. The story revolves around four couples who go to a tropical-island resort for a vacation.