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The nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning. The ceremony will be co-hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin on March 7th, at 8:00 pm EST. The nominees and awards categories are listed below.

Best Picture

• “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
• “The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined
• “District 9″ Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
• “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
• “The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined
• “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
• “A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
• “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer
• “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

Actress in a Leading Role

• Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
• Helen Mirren in “The Last Station”
• Carey Mulligan in “An Education”
• Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
• Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”

Actor in a Leading Role

• Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
• George Clooney in “Up in the Air”
• Colin Firth in “A Single Man”
• Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”
• Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker”

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Penélope Cruz in “Nine”
• Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air”
• Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart”
• Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air”
• Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Matt Damon in “Invictus”
• Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger”
• Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station”
• Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”
• Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”

Animated Feature Film

• “Coraline” Henry Selick
• “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Wes Anderson
• “The Princess and the Frog” John Musker and Ron Clements
• “The Secret of Kells” Tomm Moore
• “Up” Pete Docter

Art Direction

• “Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
• “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
• “Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
• “Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
• “The Young Victoria” Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Cinematography

• “Avatar” Mauro Fiore
• “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” Bruno Delbonnel
• “The Hurt Locker” Barry Ackroyd
• “Inglourious Basterds” Robert Richardson
• “The White Ribbon” Christian Berger

Costume Design

• “Bright Star” Janet Patterson
• “Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier
• “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme
• “Nine” Colleen Atwood
• “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell

Directing

• “Avatar” James Cameron
• “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow
• “Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels
• “Up in the Air” Jason Reitman

Documentary (Feature)

• “Burma VJ” Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
• “The Cove” Nominees to be determined
• “Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
• “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
• “Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa

Documentary (Short Subject)

• “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
• “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner” Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
• “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
• “Rabbit à la Berlin” Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

Film Editing

• “Avatar” Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
• “District 9″ Julian Clarke
• “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
• “Inglourious Basterds” Sally Menke
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Joe Klotz

Foreign Language Film

• “Ajami” Israel
• “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” Argentina
• “The Milk of Sorrow” Peru
• “Un Prophète” France
• “The White Ribbon” Germany

Makeup

• “Il Divo” Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
• “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
• “The Young Victoria” Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Music (Original Score)

• “Avatar” James Horner
• “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Alexandre Desplat
• “The Hurt Locker” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
• “Sherlock Holmes” Hans Zimmer
• “Up” Michael Giacchino

Music (Original Song)

• “Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
• “Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
• “Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36″ Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
• “Take It All” from “Nine” Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
• “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Short Film (Animated)

• “French Roast” Fabrice O. Joubert
• “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
• “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” Javier Recio Gracia
• “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin
• “A Matter of Loaf and Death” Nick Park

Short Film (Live Action)

• “The Door” Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
• “Instead of Abracadabra” Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
• “Kavi” Gregg Helvey
• “Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
• “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Sound Editing

• “Avatar” Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
• “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson
• “Inglourious Basterds” Wylie Stateman
• “Star Trek” Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
• “Up” Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Sound Mixing

• “Avatar” Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
• “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
• “Inglourious Basterds” Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
• “Star Trek” Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
• “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Visual Effects

• “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
• “District 9″ Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
• “Star Trek” Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

• “District 9″ Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
• “An Education” Screenplay by Nick Hornby
• “In the Loop” Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
• “Up in the Air” Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Writing (Original Screenplay)

• “The Hurt Locker” Written by Mark Boal
• “Inglourious Basterds” Written by Quentin Tarantino
• “The Messenger” Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
• “A Serious Man” Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
• “Up” Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

Starting tomorrow, in celebration of the upcoming Academy Awards, Movie Recipes will be bringing you actual recipes for food items that you can serve at your Oscar party!  We’ll give you one original recipe inspired by the nominees for Best Motion Picture (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader, and Slumdog Millionaire) each day this week.

We hope you’ll enjoy the recipes, and if you decide to make any of them, be sure to let us know how they turned out!

Here are the Razzie Award nominees for the worst movies and performances of 2008.  The Razzies will be given out Saturday, February 21st, 2009, the day before the Oscars.  How many of these did you see?  I’ve seen six of them.

WORST PICTURE

• Disaster Movie & Meet The Spartans (Two bad movies, one tired-ass concept)
• The Happening (Ouch, M. Night that’s gotta hurt!)
• The Hottie and The Nottie
• In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
• The Love Guru (Like no one saw that one coming.)

WORST ACTOR

• Larry The Cable Guy, Witless Protection
• Eddie Murphy, Meet Dave
• Mike Myers, The Love Guru
• Al Pacino, 88 Minutes & Righteous Kill (double ouch!)
• Mark Wahlberg, The Happening & Max Payne

WORST ACTRESS

• Jessica Alba, The Eye & The Love Guru
• The cast of The Women, (Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Meg Ryan)
• Cameron Diaz, What Happens In Vegas
• Paris Hilton, The Hottie and The Nottie
• Kate Hudson, Fools Gold & My Best Friend’s Girl

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Uwe Boll, Uwe Boll’s Postal
• Pierce Brosnan, Mama Mia!
• Ben Kingsley, The Love Guru & The Wackness
• Burt Reynolds, Deal & In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
• Verne Troyer, The Love Guru & Uwe Boll’s Postal
  

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Carmen Electra, Meet The Spartans & Disaster Movie
• Paris Hilton, Repo: The Genetic Opera
• Kim Kardashian, Disaster Movie
• Jenny McCarthy, Witless Protection
  
• Leelee Sobieski, 88 Minutes & In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale Read the rest of this entry »

The nominees for the 81st Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning in Beverly Hills, CA.  The awards show takes place on Sunday, February 22, 2009 and Hugh Jackman is scheduled to host the festivities.  Below is the list of the awards categories and the nominees.

Best motion picture of the year

• Slumdog Millionaire
  
• Milk
• Frost/Nixon
  
• The Reader
  
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon
• Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
  
• Sean Penn in Milk
• Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  
• Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
  

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
  
• Josh Brolin in Milk
• Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
  
• Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt
• Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road
  

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married
  
• Angelina Jolie in Changeling
• Melissa Leo in Frozen River
  
• Meryl Streep in Doubt
• Kate Winslet in The Reader

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Amy Adams in Doubt
• Penelop Cruz in Vicky Christina Barcelona
• Viola Davis in Doubt
• Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler
  
• Taraji P. Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  

Best animated feature film of the year

• Bolt
  
• Wall-E
• Kung Fu Panda Read the rest of this entry »

We made it through all 14 movies with only one injury which luckily didn’t affect our ability to watch movies.  We also only went to the theater on 5 different days and were joined by 10 Movie Recipes readers on at least one occasion.  For those of you having trouble quantifying what has gone down in the past week, here are a few statistics that may be of interest:

• Time spent watching movies:  1517 minutes (25 hours 17 minutes)
• Previews watched:  42
• Number of different previews:  26
• Most watched preview:  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Dark Knight tied at 5 times each
• Number of Coke commercials watched:  28
• Highest percentage of seats filled:  Beverly Hills Chihuahua
• Lowest percentage of seats filled:  Saw V
• Best Movie Recipes readers’ attendance:  Zack and Miri Make a Porno – 6
• Total Movie Recipes readers’ attendance: 19
• Chef Garrison’s Average Rating: 6.5
• Chef Jason’s Average Rating:  6.3

If this sounds like fun join us for all or part of Picture Pandemonium 2009 at a time to be announced later!

We discovered yesterday that Zack and Miri Make A Porno is sharing a theater with Igor, so we will be able to see 14 movies!

Also, as a fun fact, here is the house that was used in Nights in Rodanthe if you want to go see it.  It’s actually called Serendipity, and they only used the outside of the house for the movie.  The inside shots were in a house in Wilmington somewhere.

It’s that time again (just a week late) for the second annual Movie Recipe’s Picture Pandemonium.  Once again we’ll be holding the event at the Carmike Blue Ridge 14 Cinema in Raleigh, NC.  If you’re in the area and want to watch some films with us, come on out!  If you’re not familiar with the Picture Pandemonium, let me explain.  Every year we go see all 14 movies at the $1.50 theater in 6 days or less.  This year we only have 13 movies because High School Musical 3 is in two theaters, but that’s alright.  We have an unprecedented schedule planned for the weekend.  12 movies in 3 days.  You can’t handle the intensity of that.  The schedule we’ll be following is below.  So if you’re in the area, come to any or all of them!

Friday, January 2nd, 2009
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1:00 – High School Musical 3
3:15 – Quarantine
5:30 – Nights in Rodanthe
7:30 – Beverly Hills Chihuahua
9:50 – Tyler Perry’s The Family that Preys

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
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1:00 – Eagle Eye
4:00 – Igor
10:00 – Body of Lies

Sunday, January 4th, 2009
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1:00 – The Dark Knight
4:00 – W.
7:30 – Role Models
9:50 – Lakeview Terrace

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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9:40 – Saw V

There you have it!  See you at the movies!

Here at Movie Recipes we’ve been lucky enough to add yet another sous chef to our team.  We want to give a big welcome to Sous Chef Jen who hails from Canada.  Maybe we can have an all Canadian recipes week or something.  Do they even have their own recipes in Canada?  Moose burgers or something I suppose…  Anyway, welcome Jen!

Everyone give a warm welcome to our newest sous chef, Nick!  He’s from Australia, so he better bring us some good kangaroo and koala bear recipes.  The next recipe is from him so, leave him some good comments.

You can now keep up with the latest movie recipes on Twitter.  Just follow movie_recipes and you’ll be set.  All the latest recipes will be tweeted, so you’ll always be kept up-to-date.