Nominees for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning.

“Avatar” and ”The Hurt Locker” led the nominations with nine each. Interestingly enough, the two contenders were directed by ex-spouses James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow. Both films received Best Picture and Best Director nominations.

The biggest change in the nominations was the expansion of the Best Picture category, which now has 10 nominees instead of five. The directors of three other Best Picture nominees, “Up in the Air,” ”Inglourious Basterds,” and “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” are also up for Best Director. The other nominees for Best Picture are “District 9,” “The Blind Side,” “An Education,”  and “A Serious Man.” Pixar’s “Up” also received a nod and is the category’s only animated nominee.

For Best Actor, the five nominees were Jeff Bridges (”Crazy Heart”), George Clooney (”Up in the Air”), Colin Firth (”A Single Man”), Morgan Freeman (”Invictus”), and Jeremy Renner (”The Hurt Locker”).

Sandra Bullock (”The Blind Side”), Helen Mirren (”The Last Station”), Carey Mulligan (”An Education”), Gabourey Sidibe (”Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”) and Meryl Streep (”Julie & Julia”) all received nominations for Best Actress.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made headlines in the months leading up to the voting and nomination announcement, when they added new members (among them Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway) and eliminated past winner Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” from their so-called pre-nominations for the documentary category. The Michael Jackson “This Is It” documentary wasn’t submitted for the category and had a chance at a Best Picture nomination but didn’t garner one–or any, for that matter.

Tweeps discussed the nominations, celebrating some while feeling that their other favorites had been snubbed:

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   japan_now Ponyo Not Nominated for Oscars: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has announced its nominati… http://bit.ly/awi6iw
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   pegobry RT @CP_Branswell: Meryl Streep is the Roger Federer of acting. She has 16 Oscar nominations, he’s won 16 Slams. Both gods.
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   shantusharma #oscar nominations : almost predictable. not very out of the box nominations. my fav for winners- avatar for best pic and director.
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   shaafish #oscar nominations looks like an exact copy of #goldenglobe might as well make one ceremony and save cost.
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   TwitchingMonkey RT @james_gunn: I’m glad a Police Academy film wasn’t released this year, so that The Blind Side could get a chance at an Oscar nomination.
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   BlueRain86 Sandra Bullock was nominated for a oscar for best actress for The Blind Side hope she gets it
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   duke0099 I have never sat in a movie that i actually wanted to kill myself for watching, i know what my oscar pick isnt, and thats UP IN THE AIR

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   dary83 Really thought I was right about either “Inglorious Basterds” or “Up” winning Best Pic Oscar…’till I watched “The hurt locker”
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   mrsawesomesauce Wow. Precious was outstanding. Monique and that gal BOTH deserve the oscar.
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   vinodji And still on the Oscar noms, surely Matt Damon deserved one for ‘The Informant!’!
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   indranee why does Uncle Oscar hate Star Trek?
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   thegregloucks The Academy/Oscars prove yet again they are stupid! District 9 receives 4 Oscar Nominations? What a waste of time and a load of… movie #fb

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   Rockandrollluvr Hey wait a min!!!!! Michael Jackson’s “This is it” isn’t nominated?!!! NO WAY!!!thats it. Im boycotting the Oscars this year!who’s with me?!
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   TheGroomSays Oscars: hooray for Serious Man (best picture & screenplay) and Anna Kendrick. but no Moon? no Moore? No Where the Wild Things ARE? Damn you!

For a complete list of nominees, visit http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees. The Oscars, co-hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, will air Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 8 p.m. EST on ABC–and we’ll be live-blogging it with constant reaction straight from Twitterville!

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced its “short list” of fifteen films in contention for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards and noticeably missing from the list is Michael Moore’s latest film, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” EW.com reports.  Moore won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2002 with his film “Bowling for Columbine.”

Moore’s failure to even earn a pre-nomination garnered mixed reactions from the Twitterverse, with some tweeps feeling that Moore has been in the spotlight long enough:

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   danvzla SHAME ON THE OSCARS FOR NOT NOMINATING MICHAEL MOORE, I GUESS THE OSCAR’S IS PART OF THE CAPITALISM PROBLEM, + THEY NEVER NOMINATE SMALL MOV
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   MELizfuct who cares if michael moore didn’t get an oscar nod. he’s an idiot. and a biased one at that.
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   MancowMuller Michael Moore’s new movie “Capitalism: A Love Story” has been denied an Oscar nomination. Without him there they save a fortune on catering.
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   EAKEN Michael Moore’s latest film didn’t make the short list for Oscar nominations. So it seems people CAN learn after all.
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   StCyrlyMe2 Oscar Gives Michael Moore’s Love Story the Shaft (E! Online) : http://wik.io/hb3P/ And we all know why!
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   HelloWarshauer Why is the Oscar Best Documentary category obsessed w/ being out of touch? TYSON, SEPT. ISSUE, Michael Moore’s CAPITALISM all disqualified
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   davejesteadt Oscar doc nominees announced, no Michael Moore or Anvil! Looking forward to the outrage.
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   cmoviereview Michael Moore doesn’t make cut for Oscar for Capitalism – thankfully!
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   nathandonarum 1/2 HuffPo is mad that Michael Moore’s new documentary wasn’t nominated for an Oscar. Um… So what? He’s been nominated twice and won once.
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    unicornmajik Awww…Poor Michael Moore…”Capitalism” Misses Oscar List” http://tinyurl.com/yabap3g
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    evanchooly oh noes! michael moore not nominated for an oscar?!? the horror! maybe he’ll do us all a favor and stfu now.

Also missing from the list is the late Michael Jackson’s “This Is It,” since the film wasn’t submitted in time. The doc, however, is still eligible for Best Picture.

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