Star Trek Oscar Nominations Past and Present
2 min readTomorrow, the 82nd Annual Academy Awards will be held and Star Trek fans wait to see if one of the four nominations for the J.J. Abrams film will strike Oscar gold.
While most Oscar fans will be waiting to see whether Avatar or The Hurt Locker will walk away with Best Picture honors, Trek fans are hoping that at the end of the night Star Trek will have laid claim to its first Oscar.
Four separate Star Trek movies have been nominated for ten Oscars, but all came away empty-handed. The nominations were for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (3), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (4), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (2) and Star Trek: First Contact (1).
This year, the nominations and competition are as follows:
Makeup:
- Il Divo. Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
- Star Trek. Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow
- The Young Victoria. Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
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
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
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
Hopefully tomorrow will break the losing streak.