Can You Help Me Find Good Recipes for an Oscars Dinner? Good Questions

Q: Every year I host a dinner for the Oscars, with themed dishes to correspond with the best picture nominees. With 10 movies this year, it's proving more challenging than before. Do you have any bright ideas?

Here's the list of best picture nominees (below the jump). Two years ago we did molten chocolate cake (like oil wells) for "There Will Be Blood" and blue slushie margaritas for "Juno", to give you an idea of what I'm going for.

Sent by Jess

2010 OSCARS BEST PICTURE NOMINEES:
“Avatar”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9″
“An Education”
"Inglorious Basterds"
“The Hurt Locker”
“Precious”
“A Serious Man”
"Up"
“Up in the Air”

Editor: Jess, how fun! We are doing a roundup late today of Oscar party recipes and ideas, so stay tuned for that! Meanwhile, we think you really can't go wrong with these amazing Oscars statue cookies from Bakerella.

• Oscars Cookies at Bakerella

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Comments (15)

To copy from some of the blogs I've checked out recently, you could do blueberry Avatarts for Avatar.

This 7-up Up cake looks adorable and delicious.

An alternative for Avatar, you could do some super-organic locavore earth friendly thing to show that you are in commune with the earth.

Tiny packets of peanuts for Up in the Air?

For District 9, you could do caviar (might get some gross outs from people who watched the film...)

Boiled pigs feet for Precious? (Again, might not get a lot of takers...)

Sounds like a great idea for a party!

You could do the blue margarita slushies again for "Avatar." Or maybe, you could make spring rolls or other Thai food and decorate the plate with beautiful, bright colored orchids (since the flowers in the movie were so bright and beautiful).

You could make a cake that looks like a pink slip or sugar cookies that look like pink slips for "Up in the Air."

I'm kind of at a loss for the rest of the movies..

The aliens in "District 9" ate cat food and trash, but you don't want to serve that to your guests.

For "Up," you could get a bunch of big brightly colored lollipops or make cakepops. You could make a rough house shape out of foam and stick the stems of the lollipops or cake pops in the foam so they look like balloons.

Jalepeno poppers for "Hurt Locker"? There was a great recipe linked from Photograzing a few weeks ago.

"Inglorious Basterds" - In honor of Shoshanna, potato pancakes (latkes) and challah bread.

The aliens ate cat food and trash in District 9? Serve pate with crackers (hello fancy pants oscars dinner!) or a "garbage cake" (there are so many recipes!).

Strudel and a glass of milk for Inglorious Basterds.

A Serious Mandarin Chicken?

Hurt Locker...... Don Miguel "Bomb Burrito"

check frozen food section.

Strudel and a glass of milk for Inglorious Basterds.

I totally agree with kestrel127 about that one.

Tiny packets of peanuts for Up in the Air: BRILLIANT.

x8spudnick wins.

Best Supporting Actress goes to christinalousie for the lollipop idea.

Avatar: Thin rice noodles and stirfried veggies
Up: rainbow cupcakes
Inglorious Bastards: I totally 2nd the studel and milk idea - brilliant!
Precious: chocolate martini (found here: http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink302.html)

I think you should have some kind of roasted wild game for Avatar. The Navi were hunter-gatherers, so think paleo!