Star Trek XI Best Picture Oscar Snub
2 min readThe list of ten movies nominated for Best Picture for this year’s Oscars does not include Star Trek XI.
To the surprise of many, who if not expecting a Star Trek XI Best Picture win expected the movie to be on the list of potential Best Pictures, Star Trek XI has to be content with its other four nominations for Oscars in other categories.
The Best Picture list includes: Avatar, Blind Side (which many feel replaced Star Trek XI on the list), District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, A Serious Man, Up, and Up in the Air.
Star Trek XI was nominated for the Oscar in the following four categories:
Makeup:
- Il Divo-Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Soldano
- Star Trek-Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow
- The Young Victoria-Jon Henry Gordon, Jenny Shircore
Sound Editing:
- Avatar-Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
- The Hurt Locker-Paul N.J. Ottosson
- Inglourious Basterds-Wylie Stateman
- Star Trek-Mark Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin
- Up-Michael Silvers, Tom Myers
Sound Mixing:
- Avatar-Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson
- The Hurt Locker-Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett
- Inglourious Basterds-Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Mark Ulano
- Star Trek-Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson, Peter J. Devlin
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen-Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson
Visual Effects:
- Avatar-Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
- District 9-Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken
- Star Trek-Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will air on ABC at 8 P.M. on Sunday, March 7.
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