| Best Picture |
Best Director |
- The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro
- Avatar – James Cameron and Jon Landau
- The Blind Side – Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, and Broderick Johnson
- District 9 – Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham
- An Education – Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
- Inglourious Basterds – Lawrence Bender
- Precious – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and Gary Magness
- A Serious Man – Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
- Up – Jonas Rivera
- Up in the Air – Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, and Jason Reitman
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- Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
- James Cameron – Avatar
- Lee Daniels – Precious
- Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
- Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
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| Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Otis "Bad" Blake
- George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
- Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer
- Morgan Freeman – Invictus as Nelson Mandela
- Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as SFC. William James
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- Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy
- Helen Mirren – The Last Station as Sophia Tolstaya
- Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Mellor
- Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Claireece "Precious" Jones
- Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child
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| Best Supporting Actor |
Best Supporting Actress |
- Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as SS Col. Hans Landa
- Matt Damon – Invictus as François Pienaar
- Woody Harrelson – The Messenger as Cpt. Tony Stone
- Christopher Plummer – The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy
- Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey
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- Mo'Nique – Precious as Mary Lee Johnston
- Penélope Cruz – Nine as Carla Albanese
- Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran
- Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart as Jean Craddock
- Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener
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| Best Original Screenplay |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
- The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
- Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
- The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
- A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- Up – Tom McCarthy, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter
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- Precious – Geoffrey Fletcher from Push by Sapphire
- District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell from Alive in Joburg by Blomkamp
- An Education – Nick Hornby from An Education by Lynn Barber
- In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche from The Thick of It created by Iannucci
- Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner from Up in the Air by Walter Kirn
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| Best Animated Feature |
Best Foreign Language Film |
- Up – Pete Docter
- Coraline – Henry Selick
- Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson
- The Princess and the Frog – Ron Clements and John Musker
- The Secret of Kells – Tomm Moore
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- The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina) in Spanish – Juan José Campanella
- Ajami (Israel) in Arabic and Hebrew – Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
- The Milk of Sorrow (Peru) in Spanish and Quechua – Claudia Llosa
- A Prophet (France) in French, Corsican and Arabic – Jacques Audiard
- The White Ribbon (Germany) in German – Michael Haneke
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| Best Documentary Feature |
Best Documentary Short |
- The Cove – Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
- Burma VJ – Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
- 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
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- Music by Prudence – Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
- 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
- Rabbit à la Berlin – Bartosz Konopka and Anna Wydra
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| Best Live Action Short |
Best Animated Short |
- The New Tenants – Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
- 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
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- Logorama – Nicolas Schmerkin
- French Roast – Fabrice O. Joubert
- Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty – Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
- The Lady and the Reaper – Javier Recio Gracia
- A Matter of Loaf and Death – Nick Park
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| Best Original Score |
Best Original Song |
- Up – Michael Giacchino
- Avatar – James Horner
- Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
- The Hurt Locker – Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
- Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer
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- "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart – Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett
- "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman
- "Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman
- "Loin de Paname" from Paris 36 – Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas
- "Take it All" from Nine – Maury Yeston
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| Best Sound Editing |
Best Sound Mixing |
- The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson
- Avatar – Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
- Inglourious Basterds – Wylie Stateman
- Star Trek – Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
- Up – Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
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- The Hurt Locker – Paul N. J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
- Avatar – Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
- 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
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| Best Art Direction |
Best Cinematography |
- 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
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- 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
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| Best Makeup |
Best Costume Design |
- Star Trek – Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
- Il Divo – Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
- The Young Victoria – Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
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- The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell
- Bright Star – Janet Patterson
- Coco Before Chanel – Catherine Leterrier
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Monique Prudhomme
- Nine – Colleen Atwood
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| Best Film Editing |
Best Visual Effects |
- The Hurt Locker – Chris Innis and Bob Murawski
- Avatar – James Cameron, John Refoua and Stephen E. Rivkin
- District 9 – Julian Clarke
- Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke
- Precious – Joe Klotz
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- 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
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