Avtar and The hurt luckers leads the 2010 pack with 9 oscar nomination each

Avtar and The hurt luckers leads the 2010 pack with 9 oscar nomination each
For the record, we (I) hate calling them the 2010 Oscar awards. They're for the films that came out in 2009. So in 10 years from now when you're asking who won the 2010 Oscars, you're probably going to be thinking about the films that came out in 2010, not 2009. Just sayin'.

We didn't do predictions for this year's 82 Annual Academy Awards because many of them seemed obvious and set and stone and as everyone expected, James Cameron's "Avatar," Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," Jason Reitman's "Up In The Air," Lee Daniels' "Precious" and Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker," all scored Best Director and Best Picture nods for their respective films. "Avatar" and somewhat surprisingly, "The Hurt Locker" lead the nominations with 9 slots each. Trailing these two polar opposite films which seem to be poised to showdown at the Oscars (and the directors are ex-husband and wife to make it that much more fun), were "Inglourious Basterds," with 8 nominations, and "Up In The Air" and "Precious' with 6 nominations each. The five aforementioned films should be seen as the real Oscar 5 with the others sort of filling out the newly added, additional five Best Picture slots (i.e. it's pretty to have them there, but they have zero shot at winning).

However, in big surprises, "The Blind Side" took a Best Picture nomination that caught everyone off guard, Matt Damon scored a nomination for his supporting role in "Invictus." The big snubs seemed to be "Invictus" and "Star Trek" but we'll get into those in a bit.