9 Academy Award Nominations for Avatar

James Cameron’s Avatar led the field in this morning’s Oscar Nominations with 9 nominations,for best picture, best director, best original score, sound mixing, sound editing, cinematography, art direction, editing, and visual effects.  Not surprisingly, the sci-fi epic missed out on nominations in the writing and acting categories, and as a result fell quite a bit short of Titanic’s 14 nominations in 1998.