The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro

• Avatar – James Cameron and Jon Landau
• An Education – Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
• Precious – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness
• Up in the Air – Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman and Daniel Dubiecki

Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

• James Cameron – Avatar
• Lone Scherfig – An Education
• Neill Blomkamp – District 9
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer

• Andy Serkis – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as Ian Dury
• George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Otis Blake
• Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as Sergeant First Class William James

Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Mellor

• Audrey Tautou – Coco Before Chanel as Coco Chanel
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Claireece Precious Jones
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child
• Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones as Susie Salmon

Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Hans Landa

• Alec Baldwin – It's Complicated as Jacob Adler
• Alfred Molina – An Education as Jack Mellor
• Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles as Orson Welles
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey

Mo'Nique – Precious as Mary Lee Johnston

• Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener
• Anne-Marie Duff – Nowhere Boy as Julia Lennon
• Kristin Scott Thomas – Nowhere Boy as Mimi Smith
• Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran

The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal

• The Hangover – Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
• Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
• A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Up – Bob Peterson and Pete Docter

Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

• District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
• An Education – Nick Hornby
• In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche
• Precious – Geoffrey S. Fletcher

The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd

• Avatar – Mauro Fiore
• District 9 – Trent Opaloch
• Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson
• The Road – Javier Aguirresarobe

The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell

• Bright Star – Janet Patterson
• Coco Before Chanel – Catherine Leterrier
• An Education – Odile Dicks-Mireaux
• A Single Man – Arianne Phillips

The Hurt Locker – Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

• Avatar – Stephen E. Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
• District 9 – Julian Clarke
• Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke
• Up in the Air – Dana E. Glauberman

The Young Victoria – Jenny Shircore

• Coco Before Chanel – Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen, Madeleine Cafano and Jane Milon
• An Education – Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Sarah Monzani
• Nine – Peter King

Up – Michael Giacchino

• Avatar – James Horner
• Crazy Heart – T Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
• Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Chaz Jankel

Avatar – Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair

• District 9 – Philip Ivey and Guy Potgieter
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillan
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Dave Warren, Anastasia Masaro and Caroline Smith
• Inglourious Basterds – David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

The Hurt Locker – Ray Beckett and Paul N. J. Ottosson

• Avatar – Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson and Addison Teague
• District 9 – Brent Burge, Chris Ward, Dave Whitehead, Michael Hedges and Ken Saville
• Star Trek – Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger and Ben Burtt
• Up – Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane

Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones

• District 9 – Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander and Nicolas Aithadi
• The Hurt Locker – Richard Stutsman
• Star Trek – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

Fish Tank – Kees Kasander, Nick Laws and Andrea Arnold

• An Education – Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Lone Scherfig and Nick Hornby
• In the Loop – Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche
• Moon – Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones and Nathan Parker
• Nowhere Boy – Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Matt Greenhalgh

Moon – Duncan Jones (Director)

• Exam – Stuart Hazeldine (Writer/Director/Producer)
• Mugabe and the White African – Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock and David Pearson (Director/Producer)
• Nowhere Boy – Sam Taylor-Johnson (Director)
• Shifty – Eran Creevy (Writer/Director)

Mother of Many – Sally Arther and Emma Lazanby

• The Gruffalo – Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
• The Happy Duckling – Gili Dolev

I Do Air – James Bolton and Martina Amati

• Fourteen – Asitha Ameresekere
• Jade – Samm Hailay and Daniel Elliott
• Mixtape – Luti Fagbenle and Luke Snellin
• Off Season – Jacob Jaffke and Jonathan Van Tulleken

Up – Pete Docter

• Coraline – Henry Selick
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson

A Prophet – Pascal Caucheteux, Marco Cherqui, Alix Raynaud and Jacques Audiard

• Broken Embraces – Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar
• Coco Before Chanel – Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassanne and Anne Fontaine
• Let the Right One In – Carl Molinder, John Nordling and Tomas Alfredson
• The White Ribbon – Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Ménégoz and Michael Haneke

Kristen Stewart

• Carey Mulligan
• Jesse Eisenberg
• Nicholas Hoult
• Tahar Rahim