We love honoring writers of course, and we thought we’d take a post and honor the 2010 Academy Award nominees for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adaptation. Here they are:

Best Original Screenplay

‘The Hurt Locker’
by Mark Boal

‘Inglourious Basterds’
by Quentin Tarantino

‘The Messenger’
by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman

‘A Serious Man’
by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

‘Up’
by Peter Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

Best Adapted Screenplay

‘An Education’
by Nick Hornby

‘District 9′
by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell

‘In the Loop’
by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche

‘Precious’
by Geoffrey Fletcher

‘Up in the Air’
by Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner