Pick The Clip For The Oscars 2010

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The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning. The awards show always plays a short clip for the movie or actor that is nominated. I want to know what you think is the most representative clip for each of the films and actors nominated. Here are the nominations in the main categories:

Best Picture:
• Avatar
• Inglourious Basterds
• The Hurt Locker
• Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
• Up in the Air
• District 9
• Up
• A Serious Man
• An Education
• The Blind Side

Best Actress:
• Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”
• Helen Mirren, “The Last Station”
• Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
• Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire”
• Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”

Best Actor:
• Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
• Morgan Freeman, “Invictus”
• George Clooney, “Up in the Air”
• Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
• Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”

Best Supporting Actress:
• Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”
• Penelope Cruz, “Nine”
• Mo’Nique, “Precious”
• Maggie Gyllenhaal, “Crazy Heart”
• Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”

Best Supporting Actor:
• Matt Damon, “Invictus”
• Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”
• Christopher Plummer, “The Last Station”
• Stanley Tucci, “The Lovely Bones”
• Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Director:
• Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”
• Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”
• James Cameron, “Avatar”
• Lee Daniels, “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
• Jason Reitman, “Up in the Air”

Best Animated Feature:
• “Up”
• “Coraline”
• “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
• “The Princess and the Frog”
• “The Secret of Kells”

My offering would be the clip for Christoph Waltz: the strudel scene

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Rumor has it that they may do something similar to what happened last year with the acting categories–abandoning clip scenes and instead having some member of Hollywood royalty praising the performance in a more personal fashion.

There have never been clip sequences for Directors, and now with 10 Best Picture nominees, I’m tempted to say they may get more montage-oriented instead of devoting separate time to each and every individual film.