Best Lead Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine
Ben Whishaw, Bright Star
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Matt Damon, The Informants!
Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island

Best Lead Actress
Hilary Swank, Amelia
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon, Invictus
Tobey Maguire, Brothers
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker
Christopher Waltz, Inglorious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress
Judi Dench, Nine
Mo'Nique, Precious
Penelope Cruz, Nine
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Susan Sarandon, The Lovely Bones

Best Director
Rob Marshall, Nine
Lee Daniels, Precious
Jane Campion, Bright Star
Peter Jackson, The Lovely Bones
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Best Original Script
Jane Campion, Bright Star
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Judd Apatow, Funny People
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, & Thomas McCarthy, Up

Best Adapted Script
Nick Hornby, An Education
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
Laeta Kalogridis, Shutter Island
Michael Tolken & Anthony Minghella [posthumous], Nine
Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, & Peter Jackson, The Lovely Bones

Best Picture
Up
Nine
Avatar
Invictus
Precious
Bright Star
Shutter Island
The Hurt Locker
The Lovely Bones
Capitalism: A Love Story

Best Animated Film
Up
Ponyo
The Princess and the Frog

Best Cinematography
Avatar
Bright Star
The Hurt Locker
Broken Embraces
Where the Wild Things Are

Best Original Score
Up
Avatar
Invictus
Bright Star
Where the Wild Things Are

Best Film Editing
Avatar
Invictus
Bright Star
The Hurt Locker
Capitalism: A Love Story

Best Art Direction
Nine
Amelia
Avatar
Bright Star
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Best Costumes
Nine
Amelia
Bright Star
Public Enemies
Broken Embraces

Best Makeup
Star Trek
Bright Star
Broken Embraces

Best Visual F/X
2012
Avatar
Star Trek
The Lovely Bones
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Best Sound
Nine
Avatar
Amelia
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Sound Editing
Star Trek
The Hurt Locker
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

I dont think Antichrist is eligible for any kind of nominations since its being released On-demand or something, prior to its limited run.

Personally I don't think theres any way HP will get an FX nod over Transformers.

I think Nine will be the nomination leader and I think Dion Beebe who was nominated for Chicago and won a Oscar for Memoirs Of A Geisha, will recieve a cinematography Oscar nod for Nine. When I saw the trailer, that was one of the first things I noticed was the cinematography.

Switch out 2012's visual f/x nod and AVATAR's editing nod with nominations for DISTRICT 9

Best Lead Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine
Johnny Depp, Public Enemies
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 500 Days of Summer
Matt Damon, The Informant!

Best Lead Actress
Hilary Swank, Amelia
Meryl Streep, It's Complicated
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Soarise Ronan, The Lovely Bones
Audrey Tautou, Coco Avant Chanel

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon, Invictus
Alfred Molina, An Education
Tobey Maguire, Brothers
Alec Baldwin, It's Complicated
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones

Best Supporting Actress
Judi Dench, Nine
Mo'Nique, Precious
Susan Sarandon, The Lovely Bones
Michelle Williams, Shutter Island
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Best Director
Rob Marshall, Nine
Lee Daniels, Precious
Peter Jackson, The Lovely Bones
Clint Eastwood, Invictus
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Best Original Script
Bright Star
The Hurt Locker
500 Days of Summer
Love Ranch
Up

Best Adapted Script
The Road
Precious
Shutter Island
Nine
The Lovely Bones

Best Picture
Up
Nine
Star Trek
Invictus
Precious
Antichrist
Shutter Island
The Hurt Locker
The Lovely Bones
500 Days of Summer

Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia in supporting is not happening folks. She will go lead for that film.

Even if the studio behind Julie & Julia pushes for Streep to go lead, the academy could vote for her as supporting -- we all saw what happened to Winslet last year. -- and I know this point could also be used against me, but I really feel with her other film coming out Christmas time that her role in Julie & Julia is better for a supporting catergory

I do not see why there is no distributor for Within The Whirlwin yet. What the heck is going on. It's possibly Watson's best ever, and they are slow for a distributor ? Rarely am I moved by a trailer and I was was in that one. You'd have to be crazy to think if that film gets even a meager 09 release, that Emily Watson's chances at a Oscar nod wouldn't be high. As for Depp in Public Enemies... I have already forgot about that movie. Not that I didn't like it, just had no real effect or impact on me including the acting from Depp.

Entertainment Weekly made a rather bold prediction this last week, saying that the Oscar is Meryl's to lose this year. I couldn't agree more, and I think she could quite easily win in either category. Placement's not going to matter. She'll be the frontrunner regardless. I think it'll ultimatly end up landing her in the Lead Actress category. We have to remember that the film garnered such good reviews mostly in part to her, and it's also the same situation we saw in 2006 for "The Devil Wears Prada."

It's too early to make these calls...
It's all BS at this point..

it is too early to make these calls. meryl could be snubbed this year for all we know. we haven't seen none of the other performances. this alone just tells me ppl don't care about performance, but about status/career achievements.

Gainsbourg is not getting nominated even if she wins every critic award under the sun. It is not AMPAS friendly. They will find lesser, and baitier performances to turn to. And Meryl is going lead.

meryl streep will be nominated for lead actress in Julie & Julia. and i think she might just win. her performance is getting rave reviews, she plays an icon rather convincingly (lots of heart and soul) and she is way, way overdue for an oscar win.