BAFTA Announces the official nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2010.

 BAFTA has announced the official nominations for the Orange BAFTA Film Awards 2010 which will be held in London on Sunday February 21st 2010. Also published this week is this year's Orange Rising Star Award Full details.

Orange Rising Star: http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/orsa,951,BA.html

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NOMINEES

AVATAR James Cameron/Jon Landau

AN EDUCATION Finola Dwyer/Amanda Posey

THE HURT LOCKER Nominees TBC

PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE Lee Daniels/Sarah Siegel-Magness/Gary Magness

UP IN THE AIR Ivan Reitman/Jason Reitman/Daniel Dubiecki

AN EDUCATION Finola Dwyer/Amanda Posey/Lone Scherfig/Nick Hornby

FISH TANK Kees Kasander/Nick Laws/Andrea Arnold

IN THE LOOP Kevin Loader/Adam Tandy/Armando Iannucci/Jesse Armstrong/Simon Blackwell/Tony Roche

MOON Stuart Fenegan/Trudie Styler/Duncan Jones/Nathan Parker

NOWHERE BOY Kevin Loader/Douglas Rae/Robert Bernstein/Sam Taylor-Wood/Matt Greenhalgh

LUCY BAILEY/ANDREW THOMPSON/ELIZABETH MORGAN HEMLOCK/DAVID PEARSON (Directors, Producers) Mugabe and the White African

ERAN CREEVY (Writer/Director) Shifty

STUART HAZELDINE (Writer/Director) Exam

DUNCAN JONES (Director) Moon

SAM TAYLOR-WOOD (Director) Nowhere Boy

AVATAR James Cameron

DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp

AN EDUCATION Lone Scherfig

THE HURT LOCKER Kathryn Bigelow

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino

THE HANGOVER Jon Lucas/Scott Moore

THE HURT LOCKER Mark Boal

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino

A SERIOUS MAN Joel Coen/Ethan Coen

UP Bob Peterson/Pete Docter

DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp/Terri Tatchell

AN EDUCATION Nick Hornby

IN THE LOOP Jesse Armstrong/Simon Blackwell/Armando Iannucci/Tony Roche

PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE Geoffrey Fletcher

UP IN THE AIR Jason Reitman/Sheldon Turner

BROKEN EMBRACES Agustín Almodóvar/Pedro Almodóvar

COCO BEFORE CHANEL Carole Scotta/Caroline Benjo/Philippe Carcassonne/Anne Fontaine

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Carl Molinder/John Nordling/Tomas Alfredson

A PROPHET Pascal Caucheteux/Marco Chergui/Alix Raynaud/Jacques Audiard

THE WHITE RIBBON Stefan Arndt/Veit Heiduschka/Margaret Menegoz/Michael Haneke

CORALINE Henry Selick

FANTASTIC MR FOX Wes Anderson

UP Pete Docter

JEFF BRIDGES Crazy Heart

GEORGE CLOONEY Up in the Air

COLIN FIRTH A Single Man

JEREMY RENNER The Hurt Locker

ANDY SERKIS Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

CAREY MULLIGAN An Education

SAOIRSE RONAN The Lovely Bones

GABOUREY SIDIBE Precious: Based on the NovelPush by Sapphire

MERYL STREEP Julie & Julia

AUDREY TAUTOU Coco Before Chanel

ALEC BALDWIN It’s Complicated

CHRISTIAN McKAY Me and Orson Welles

ALFRED MOLINA An Education

STANLEY TUCCI The Lovely Bones

CHRISTOPH WALTZ Inglourious Basterds

ANNE-MARIE DUFF Nowhere Boy

VERA FARMIGA Up in the Air

ANNA KENDRICK Up in the Air

MO’NIQUE Precious: Based on the NovelPush by Sapphire

KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Nowhere Boy

AVATAR James Horner

CRAZY HEART T-Bone Burnett/Stephen Bruton

FANTASTIC MR FOX Alexandre Desplat

SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL Chaz Jankel

UP Michael Giacchino

AVATAR Mauro Fiore

DISTRICT 9 Trent Opaloch

THE HURT LOCKER Barry Ackroyd

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Robert Richardson

THE ROAD Javier Aguirresarobe

AVATAR Stephen Rivkin/John Refoua/James Cameron

DISTRICT 9 Julian Clarke

THE HURT LOCKER Bob Murawski/Chris Innis

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Sally Menke

UP IN THE AIR Dana E. Glauberman

AVATAR Rick Carter/Robert Stromberg/Kim Sinclair

DISTRICT 9 Philip Ivey/Guy Poltgieter

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCEStuart Craig/Stephenie McMillan

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUSNominees TBC

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS David Wasco/Sandy Reynolds Wasco

BRIGHT STAR Janet Patterson

COCO BEFORE CHANEL Catherine Leterrier

AN EDUCATION Odile Dicks-Mireaux

A SINGLE MAN Arianne Phillips

THE YOUNG VICTORIA Sandy Powell

AVATAR Christopher Boyes/Gary Summers/Andy Nelson/Tony Johnson/Addison Teague

DISTRICT 9 Brent Burge/Chris Ward/Dave Whitehead/Michael Hedges/Ken Saville

THE HURT LOCKER Ray Beckett/Paul N. J. Ottosson/Craig Stauffer

STAR TREK Peter J. Devlin/Andy Nelson/Anna Behlmer/ Mark Stoeckinger/Ben Burtt

UP Tom Myers/Michael Silvers/Michael Semanick

AVATAR Joe Letteri/Stephen Rosenbaum/Richard Baneham/Andrew R. Jones

DISTRICT 9 Dan Kaufman/Peter Muyzers/Robert Habros/Matt Aitken

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCEJohn Richardson/Tim Burke/Tim Alexander/Nicolas Aithadi

THE HURT LOCKER Richard Stutsman

STAR TREK Roger Guyett/Russell Earl/Paul Kavanagh/Burt Dalton

COCO BEFORE CHANEL Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen/Jane Milon

AN EDUCATION Lizzie Yianni Georgiou

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUSSarah Monzani

NINE Peter ‘Swords’ King

THE YOUNG VICTORIA Jenny Shircore

THE GRUFFALO Michael Rose/Martin Pope/Jakob Schuh/Max Lang

THE HAPPY DUCKLING Gili Dolev

MOTHER OF MANY Sally Arthur/Emma Lazenby

14 Asitha Ameresekere

I DO AIR James Bolton/Martina Amati

JADE Samm Haillay/Daniel Elliott

MIXTAPE Luti Fagbenle/Luke Snellin

OFF SEASON Jacob Jaffke/Jonathan van Tulleken

JESSE EISENBERG

NICHOLAS HOULT

CAREY MULLIGAN

TAHAR RAHIM

KRISTEN STEWART

*Nominations announced on 7 January

**Nominees announced on 12 January

Sunday 21 February 2010