Oscar Winners 2010: The Hurt Locker Pips Avatar
The 82nd Academy Awards was held at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. And the 2010 Oscar winners are out, with The Hurt Locker bagging most of the awards, upsetting the Avatar speculation. 
The Oscar Awards were held on March 7, 2010, a rescheduled date which was a result of avoiding a clash with the Winter Olympics. Hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin lit up the grand evening, and this was the first show since 1987 to have multiple hosts.
SEE WINNERS…
These awards were for all the movies of the year 2009, and there were quite a few good ones too. The Academy Awards ceremony is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The AMPAS has a voting membership of 5,835 individuals, with the largest part comprising actors. For a film to be nominated, it has to open in the previous year, and must be a minimum of 40 minutes long (except for documentary and short awards). Technical benchmarks for any nomination is - 35mm or 70 mm print, 24 or 48 frames progressive scan digital cinema format, and resolution of at least 1280 × 720 pixels.
And these were the winners.
| Category | Winner |
| Best Picture | The Hurt Locker |
| Best Actor | Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) |
| Best Actress | Sandra Bullock(The Blind Side) |
| Best Supporting Actor | Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) |
| Best Supporting Actress | Mo’Nique (Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire) |
| Best Director | Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) |
| Best Original Screenplay | The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal) |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (Geoffrey Fletcher) |
| Best Foreign Language Film | El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) |
| Best Animated Film | Up |
| Best Film Editing | The Hurt Locker (Chris Innis & Bob Murawski) |
| Best Visual Effects | Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham & Andrew Jones) |
| Best Makeup | Star Trek (Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow & Barney Burman) |
| Best Costume Design | The Young Vistoria (Sandy Powell) |
| Best Art Direction | Avatar (Kim Sinclair, Rick Carter & Robert Stromberg) |
| Best Cinematography | Avatar (Mauro Fiore) |
| Best Sound Editing | The Hurt Locker (Paul Ottosson) |
| Best Sound Mixing | The Hurt Locker (Paul Ottosson & Ray Beckett) |
| Best Original Score | Up (Michael Giacchino) |
| Best Original Song | The Weary Kind - Theme from Crazy Heart (Ryan Bingham & T-Bone Burnett) |
| Best Animated - Short | Logorama |
| Best Live Action - Short | The New Tenants |
| Best Documentary Feature | The Cove |
| Best Documentary Short | Music by Prudence |
Avatar was nominated for 9 awards, just like The Hurt Locker. But in the end, The Hurt Locker managed to bag 6 Oscar Awards as opposed to Avatar’s 3, which surprised a few. Although, Avatar, being the most expensive movie ever made , is also the highest grossing movie of all time.
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By Clifford AGA Published: 3/8/2010 |
Filed under: Movies
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