The Hurt Locker maintains its lead in the Oscar race, but it's definitely looking over its shoulder at some blue people.
Coming off its big wins at the Golden Globes, Avatar joins the war film and the considerably smaller An Education on the leader board for the Orange British Film Academy Awards nominations, announced this morning. The trio of films is up for eight BAFTAs each.
District 9 follows close behind with seven and Up in the Air and Inglourious Basterds stay near the top with six each.
The British equivalent of the Oscars will be handed out on Feb. 21. Here is the complete list of nominations:
BEST FILM
- Avatar
- An Education
- The Hurt Locker
- Precious
- Up in the Air
LEADING ACTOR
- Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
- George Clooney, Up in the Air
- Colin Firth, A Single Man
- Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
- Andy Serkis, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
LEADING ACTRESS
- Carey Mulligan, An Education
- Saoirse Ronan, The Lovely Bones
- Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
- Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
- Audrey Tatou, Coco Before Chanel
SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Alec Baldwin, It's Complicated
- Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles
- Alfred Molina, An Education
- Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
- Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Anne-Marie Duff, Nowhere Boy
- Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
- Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
- Mo'Nique, Precious
- Kristin Scott Thomas, Nowhere Boy
DIRECTOR
- James Cameron, Avatar
- Neill Blomkamp, District 9
- Lone Scherfig, An Education
- Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
- Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, The Hangover
- Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
- Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
- Bob Peterson and Pete Docter, Up
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, District 9
- Nick Hornby, An Education
- Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche, In the Loop
- Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
- Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- Broken Embraces
- Coco Before Chanel
- Let the Right One In
- A Prophet
- The White Ribbon
ANIMATED FILM
- Coraline
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Up
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
- An Education
- Fish Tank
- In the Loop
- Moon
- Nowhere Boy
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
- Producers and directors Lucy Bailey Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock and David Pearson, Mugabe and the White African
- Writer-director Eran Creevy, Shifty
- Writer-director Stuart Hazeldine, Exam
- Director Duncan Jones, Moon
- Director Sam Taylor-Wood, Nowhere Boy
MUSIC
- James Horner, Avatar
- T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton, Crazy Heart
- Alexandre Desplat, Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Chaz Jankel, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
- Michael Giacchino, Up
CINEMATOGRAPHY
- Avatar
- District 9
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglourious Basterds
- The Road
EDITING
- Avatar
- District 9
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglourious Basterds
- Up in the Air
PRODUCTION DESIGN
- Avatar
- District 9
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Inglourious Basterds
COSTUME DESIGN
- Bright Star
- Coco Before Chanel
- An Education
- A Single Man
- The Young Victoria
SOUND
- Avatar
- District 9
- The Hurt Locker
- Star Trek
- Up
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
- Avatar
- District 9
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- The Hurt Locker
- Star Trek
MAKEUP & HAIR
- Coco Before Chanel
- An Education
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Nine
- The Young Victoria
SHORT ANIMATION
- The Gruffalo
- The Happy Duckling
- Mother of Many
SHORT FILM
- 14
- I Do Air
- Jade
- Mixtape
- Off Season
THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD (voted by the public)
- Jesse Eisenberg
- Nicholas Hoult
- Carey Mulligan
- Tahar Rahim
- Kristen Stewart
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