Major nominations for British Academy film awards

Nominations for British Academy film awards

LONDON — Nominees in major categories for the British Academy Film Awards, announced Thursday:

—Film: “Avatar”; “An Education”; “The Hurt Locker”; “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire”; “Up in the Air”

—British Film: “An Education”; “Fish Tank”; “In the Loop”; “Moon”; “Nowhere Boy”

—Director: James Cameron. “Avatar”; Neill Blomkamp, “District 9″; Lone Scherfig, “An Education”; Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker; Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”

—Leading actor: Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”; George Clooney, “Up in the Air”; Colin Firth, “A Single Man”; Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”; Andy Serkis “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”

—Leading Actress: Carey Mulligan, “An Education”; Saoirse Ronan, “The Lovely Bones”; Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire”; Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”; Audrey Tautou, “Coco Before Chanel”

—Supporting Actor: Alec Baldwin, “It’s Complicated”; Christian McKay, “Me and Orson Welles”; Alfred Molina, “An Education”; Stanley Tucci, “The Lovely Bones”; Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”

—Supporting Actress: Anne-Marie Duff, “Nowhere Boy”; Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”; Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”; Mo’nique, “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire”; Kristin Scott Thomas, “Nowhere Boy”

—Rising Star award (voted by the public): Jesse Eisenberg; Nicholas Hoult; Carey Mulligan; Tahar Rahim; Kristen Stewart

—Original Screenplay: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, “The Hangover”; Mark Boal, “The Hurt Locker”; Joel and Ethan Coen, “A Serious Man”; Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”; Bob Peterson and Pete Docter, “Up”

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

—Film not in the English language: “Coco Before Chanel”; “Broken Embraces”; “Let the Right One In”; “A Prophet”; “The White Ribbon.”

—Animated Film: “Coraline”; “Fantastic Mr. Fox”; “Up”