OSCAR RACE 2009

commentary by Nathaniel R

* statistics reflect screenplay categories only

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Original Screenplay Nominees

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The Hurt Locker Mark Boal
1st nomination!
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino
2 noms / 1 win
The Messenger
Oren Moverman & Allesandro Canon
1st nomination!
A Serious Man
The Coen Bros
4 noms / 2 wins
Up
Bob Peterson
2nd nomination

 

Adapted Screenplay Nominees


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District 9
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
1st nomination!

inspired by the previous short film

An Education
Nick Hornby
1st nomination!

based on the Lynn Barber memoirs

In the Loop
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
1st nomination!

following up on the British miniseries

Precious
Geoffrey Fletcher
1st nomination!

from the novel by Sapphire

Up in the Air
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
1st nomination!


adapting the book by Walter Kirn

 

 

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