OSCAR WATCH: BAFTA Nominations

The nominations for the BAFTA awards have been announcement and as expected, they've been a lot kinder to "An Education". Here is the full list:

Best Picture
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Up in the Air
Precious

Best British Film
An Education
Fish Tank
In the Loop
Moon
Nowhere Boy

Best Actress
Audrey Tautou, Coco Before Chanel
Saoirse Ronan, The Lovely Bones
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabby Sidibe, Precious
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Andy Serkis, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

Supporting Actor
Alec Baldwin, It's Complicated
Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles
Alfred Molina, An Education
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Supporting Actress
Anne-Marie Duff, Nowhere Boy
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Kristin Scott Thomas, Nowhere Boy
Mo’Nique, Precious

Best Director
James Cameron, Avatar
Neill Blomkamp, District 9
Lone Scherfig, An Education
Kathryn Bigelown, The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Best Orginal Screenplay
Jon Lucas & Scott Moore, The Hangover
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Bob Peterson & Pete Docter, Up

Best Adapted Screenplay
Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell, District 9
Nick Hornby, An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche, In the Loop
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
Jason Reitmanb & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Best Foreign Language Film
Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Let The Right One In
A Prophet
The White Ribbon

Best Animated Feature
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Up

Best Score
James Horner, Avatar
T-Bone Burnett & Stephen Bruton, Crazy Heart
Alexandre Desplat, Fantastic Mr. Fox
Chaz Jankel, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Michael Giacchino, Up

Best Cinematography
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Road

Best Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Up in the Air

Best Art Direction
Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Inglourious Basterds

Best Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
A Single Man
The Young Victoria

Best Sound
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Up

Best Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek

Best Makeup
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

Best Animated Short
The Happy Duckling
Mother of Many
The Gruffalo

Best Short Film
14
I Do Air
Jade
Mixtape
Off Season

Surprises:
Inglourious Basterds misses out on Best Picture nomination.
Oscar front-runners Sandra Bullock and Woody Harrelson left out (their films were ineligible since they haven't been released in the UK).
As if Up in the Air wasn't losing enough ground already, it misses out on a Directing nomination.