nomeados: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell (Distrito 9) Nick Hornby (Uma Outra Educação) Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (In the Loop) Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner (Nas Nuvens)
nomeados: Burma VJ Food, Inc. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Which Way Home
melhor curta-metragem documental best documentary, short subjects
Music by Prudence
nomeados: China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant Rabbit à la Berlin
melhor curta-metragem best short film, live action
The New Tenants
nomeados: The Door Instead of Abracadabra Kavi Miracle Fish
melhor curta-metragem de animação best short film, animated
Logorama
nomeados: French Roast Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty La Dama y la Muerte A Matter of Loaf and Death
melhor canção original best original song
"The Weary Kind" Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)
nomeados: "Almost There" Randy Newman (A Princesa e o Sapo) "Down in New Orleans" Randy Newman (A Princesa e o Sapo) "Loin de Paname" Reinhardt Wagner, Frank Thomas (Paris 36) "Take It All" Maury Yeston (Nove)