Members of the Academy Award can choose from now their candidacies

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The 5,777 members of the Academy of the Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Hollywood that they have right to choose the films candidates for the prizes Oscar of 2010 can begin to emit their votes as of 29 December, 2009.

The Academy of Hollywood began to send yesterday by mail the problems that will determine the 82 nominations of edition of the Oscar. The votes must be sent to PricewaterhouseCoopers auditor before the 17,00 hours of the 23 of January of 2010 (01,00 GMT of the 24 of January) and the Academy stressed that the problems that are received spent that hour will be entered.


The name films will be announced Tuesday 2 of February to 17,30 local time, (01,30 GMT of the 3 of February) in the Theater Samuel Goldwyn de Beverly Hills. The east newness year is the extension of the films name to the prize of Better Film from five to ten. After the announcement of the nominations, the members of the Academy of Hollywood will emit a new vote to determine the winners of the Oscar and the traditional delivery of the statuettes sea breams will be realised the 7 of March in the Kodak Theater of Hollywood.

The observers consider that the members of the Academy have this year a difficult task at the time of choosing the nominations later and the winners since there are no clear candidates for the main awards.

Between the films that are considered with more possibilities are released “Transformation just”, of the Canadian director James Cameron, considered by the specialized press a revolutionary film technologically by its three-dimensional conception. “Up in the Air”, carried out by George Clooney and directed by also the Canadian Jason Reitman, is another one of the films seen like favorites and that it has secured good results in the ticket offices. Other names that sound are the independent film “Hurt Locker” and the Spanish “the broken hugs”, of Pedro Almodóvar.

The film of Almodóvar, although is not the official representative of Spain for the prize to the Best Foreign Film, has been outstanding by the press specialized American like one of which edition of the Oscar has more possibilities of obtaining some of the 82 statuettes of. Indeed her protagonist, Penélope Cruz, also are mentioned like one of the possible winners next the 7 of March by her action in “Nine”, a film in musical format and that already has served to him to the Spanish actress to be name like better secondary actress in the prizes of the Union of Actores (SAG) of the USA and for Gold Globes.