A cerca de nove horas e 10 minutos do início da cerimónia, apresento a minha lista de prováveis vencedores:
Performance by an actor in a leading role
* George Clooney in "Up in the Air"
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
* Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
* Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
* Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
Best animated feature film of the year
* "Up" (Walt Disney) Pete Docter
Achievement in art direction
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
Achievement in cinematography
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Mauro Fiore
Achievement in costume design
* "Coco before Chanel" (Sony Pictures Classics) Catherine Leterrier
Achievement in directing
* "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow
Best documentary feature
* "Which Way Home"
A Mr. Mudd Production Rebecca Cammisa
Best documentary short subject
* "Rabbit à la Berlin" (Deckert Distribution)
An MS Films Production Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
Achievement in film editing
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
Best foreign language film of the year
* "The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics)
An X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red Production Germany
Achievement in makeup
* "The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
* "Up" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
* "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Best motion picture of the year
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox)
A Lightstorm Entertainment Production James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
Best animated short film
* "Logorama" (Autour de Minuit)
An Autour de Minuit Production Nicolas Schmerkin
Best live action short film
* "The Door" (Network Ireland Television)
An Octagon Films Production Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
Achievement in sound editing
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Achievement in sound mixing
* "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Distributed by Paramount) Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Achievement in visual effects
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
Adapted screenplay
* "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Original screenplay
* "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Written by Mark Boal
