Jerry Carr writes to ask…
Thanks for the informative and funny article about screeners. Now, since you get these things, can you tell us who the nominees will be for Best Picture?
Certainly. As you may have heard, there will be ten nominees this year in this category. The ten nominees will be, in alphabetical order: Avatar, An Education, Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Nine, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, and Up in the Air. And by the way, we're probably lucky that Billy Crystal isn't hosting the ceremony. He and Marc Shaiman would probably get hernias trying to whip up song parodies about all of those.