I pasted this Oscar® Nominations list from the Press Release that the Academy Awards® sent to my email this morning. I did fool around with the order of nominees …
Nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Javier Bardem in “Biutiful” (Roadside Attractions)
Jeff Bridges in “True Grit” (Paramount)
Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network” (Sony Pictures Releasing)….

I will put a photograph for now, to represent what I considered to be exceptional about this Oscar year.

I Tweeted A Day-Before-Oscars Question:
‘What Oscar Nominated Acting Performance Knocked Your Socks Off?’
Here are some of the tweets that I got back:

Every Year The Oscars® Hosts A Luncheon For All Oscar® Nominees
Here’s the full yearbook photo from this year’s Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon.

Ouch. Awfully early, I’d say. …

January 23rd Was D-day To Have Nominee Ballots In Here’s The Academy Of Motion Pictures Press Release: OSCAR® NOMINATION BALLOTS DUE JANUARY 23 Beverly Hills, CA — The 5,777 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences must return their completed Oscar nominations ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers no later than 5 p.m. on [...]

The Academy sent this press release, at 8 AM today. 2009 Oscar® Nomination Ballots Mailed to 5,777 Academy Voters Beverly Hills, CA — Nomination ballots for the 82nd Academy Awards® were mailed today to the 5,777 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Next, they reveal: What are underlying influential factors, determinants; that motivate the members of the Academy when choosing the winner?

    PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE   Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” Meryl Streep in “Doubt” PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Amy Adams in “Doubt” Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” Viola Davis in “Doubt” Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case [...]