The 10-spot roster for best picture includes the two aforementioned films, along with Precious, Inglorious Bastards,District 9, The Blind Side, An Education, A Serious Man, UP, and Jason Reitman's Up In The Air.
The inclusion of UP as a contender for the best Picture is a serious change of pace. Since the movie is also nominated for best Animated feature, I doubt it will be able to win both. In my opinion, the oscars may be making way for Fantastic Mr. Fox, or Coraline to win best Animated feature, and UP will just have to live with two nominations. (of course, I could be wrong... but it seems odd to include UP in both Best Picture and Best Animated Feature categories.)
Unfortunately, Avatar is probably going to win a great number of its nominations, mainly because of its receipt at the box office. Having crossed the $2 billion mark (and beating Titanic's all-time world-wide record) and on the verge of crossing the $600 million mark (which it could possible surpass by the end of today), Avatar has a good chance of being the pick.
In another arena, the best original score (another one of my favorite aspects of film following (next to box office counts)) has some good contenders with some of my favorite composers in the running. UP, the score by Michael Giacchino (Star Trek, Lost, Alias,Mission Impossible III, and several other Pixar films) is in the running with another animation Fantastic Mr. Fox by Alexandre Desplat (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Golden Compass, The Queen). Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma, I, Robot, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) composed for The Hurt Locker alongside Buck Sanders. Hans Zimmer, one of my most recent favorites, (Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, The DaVinci Code, Thelma and Louise) composed for Sherlock Holmes this year. And of course,Avatar's composer James Horner (Titanic, Troy, A Beautiful Mind,Glory) takes his stab at the Oscar.
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