AceShowbiz - The movie's star Jeremy Renner is up for the Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar, competing against George Clooney ("Up in the Air"), Morgan Freeman ("Invictus"), Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart") and Colin Firth ("A Single Man").

In the Best Director category, Bigelow will fight it out with her ex-husband James Cameron, who is praised for his sci-fi epic "Avatar", along with Quentin Tarantino ("Inglourious Basterds"), Lee Daniels ("Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire") and Jason Reitman ("Up in the Air").

"The Hurt Locker" is also in the running for Best Picture - the film is among 10 nominees for the prestigious accolade, including "Avatar", "Up in the Air", "The Blind Side" and "Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire".

Meanwhile, Sandra Bullock has landed her first Oscar nomination for her role in "The Blind Side" - the star will go up against Meryl Streep ("Julie & Julia"), Helen Mirren ("The Last Station"), Carey Mulligan ("An Education") and Gabourey Sidibe ("Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH By Sapphire") for the title of Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Matt Damon ("Invictus"), Woody Harrelson ("The Messenger (2009)") and Christoph Waltz ("Inglourious Basterds") are among the nominees for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar, while Penelope Cruz ("Nine"), Mo'Nique ("Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire"), Maggie Gyllenhaal ("Crazy Horse") and "Up in the Air" 's Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick will battle for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role prize.

The nominees for 10 of the 24 categories were unveiled by Anne Hathaway and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak at an early morning news conference on Tuesday, February 2 at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

The Oscars will be handed out on March 7 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

Full nominations list of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards: Best Motion Picture of the Year: "Avatar" "The Blind Side" "District 9" "An Education" "The Hurt Locker" "Inglourious Basterds" "Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire" "A Serious Man" "Up" "Up in the Air"

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Morgan Freeman - "Invictus" Jeff Bridges - "Crazy Heart" George Clooney - "Up in the Air" Colin Firth - "A Single Man" Jeremy Renner - "The Hurt Locker"

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Meryl Streep - "Julie & Julia" Sandra Bullock - "The Blind Side" Helen Mirren - "The Last Station" Gabourey Sidibe - "Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire" Carey Mulligan - "An Education"

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz - "Inglourious Basterds" Christopher Plummer - "The Last Station" Matt Damon - "Invictus" Stanley Tucci - "The Lovely Bones" Woody Harrelson - "The Messenger (2009)"

Performance by Actress in a Supporting Role: Penelope Cruz - "Nine" Vera Farmiga - "Up in the Air" Maggie Gyllenhaal - "Crazy Heart" Anna Kendrick - "Up in the Air" Mo'Nique - "Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire"

Achievement in Directing: James Cameron - "Avatar" Kathryn Bigelow - "The Hurt Locker" Quentin Tarantino - "Inglourious Basterds" Jason Reitman - "Up in the Air" Lee Daniels - "Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire"

Adapted Screenplay: "District 9" by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell "An Education" by Nick Hornby "Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire" by Geoffrey Fletcher "Up in the Air" by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner "In the Loop" by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony Roche

Original Screenplay: "The Hurt Locker" by Mark Boal "Inglourious Basterds" by Quentin Tarantino "A Serious Man" by Joel and Ethan Coen "Up" by Pete Docter and Bob Petersen "The Messenger (2009)" by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year: "Up" - Pete Docter and Bob Peterson "The Princess and the Frog" - Ron Clements and John Musker "Coraline" - Henry Selick "The Fantastic Mr Fox" - Wes Anderson "The Secret of Kells" - Tomm Moore

Best Documentary Feature: "Burma VJ" - Anders Ostergaard and Lise Lense-Moller "The Cove" - Nominees to be determined "Food, Inc." - Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" - Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith "Which Way Home" - Rebecca Cammisa

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: "Ajami" - Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, Israel "A Prophet" - Jacques Audiard, France "The Secret of Her Eyes" - Juan Jose Campanella, Argentina "The White Ribbon" - Michael Haneke, Germany "The Milk of Sorrow" - Claudia Llosa, Peru

Achievement in Art Direction: "Avatar" - Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" - Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith "Nine" - Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim "Sherlock Holmes" - Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer "The Young Victoria" - Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Achievement in Cinematography: "Avatar" - Mauro Fiore "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" - Bruno Delbonnel "The Hurt Locker" - Barry Ackroyd "Inglourious Basterds" - Robert Richardson "The White Ribbon" - Christian Berger

Achievement in Costume Design: "Bright Star" - Janet Patterson "Coco Before Chanel" - Catherine Leterrier "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" - Monique Prudhomme "Nine" - Colleen Atwood "The Young Victoria" - Sandy Powell

Achievement in Film Editing: "Avatar" - Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron "District 9" - Julian Clarke "The Hurt Locker" - Bob Murawski and Chris Innis "Inglourious Basterds" - Sally Menke "Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire" - Joe Klotz

Achievement in Makeup: "Il Divo" - Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano "Star Trek" - Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow "The Young Victoria" - Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score): "Avatar" - James Horner "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" - Alexandre Desplat "The Hurt Locker" - Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders "Sherlock Holmes" - Hans Zimmer "Up" - Michael Giacchino

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song): "Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" - Music and Lyric by Randy Newman "Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog" - Music and Lyric by Randy Newman "Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36" - Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas "Take It All" from "Nine" - Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston "The Weary Kind" from "Crazy Heart" - Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Achievement in Sound Editing: "Avatar" - Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle "The Hurt Locker" - Paul N.J. Ottosson "Inglourious Basterds" - Wylie Stateman "Star Trek" - Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin "Up" - Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Achievement in Sound Mixing: "Avatar" - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson "The Hurt Locker" - Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett "Inglourious Basterds" - Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano "Star Trek" - Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Achievement in Visual Effects: "Avatar" - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones "District 9" - Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken "Star Trek" - Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

Best Documentary Short Subject: "China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" - Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill "The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner" - Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher "The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant" - Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert "Music by Prudence" - Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett "Rabbit a la Berlin" - Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

Best Animated Short Film: "French Roast" - Fabrice O. Joubert "Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" - Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell "The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)" - Javier Recio Gracia "Logorama" - Nicolas Schmerkin "A Matter of Loaf and Death" - Nick Park

Best Live Action Short Film: "The Door" - Juanita Wilson and James Flynn "Instead of Abracadabra" - Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellstrom "Kavi" - Gregg Helvey "Miracle Fish" - Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey "The New Tenants" - Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson