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Written by Ivan Radford   
Monday, 08 March 2010 09:14

Well, the stars were out in force, dresses and statues in tow, and overall the Academy Awards went to the right people. Sure, Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan didn't win, but they were never going to. The award everyone was watching out for was Best Film. Would it go to Avatar or The Hurt Locker? Well, the answer was a pretty resounding Hurt Locker.


Yes, the Oscars this year showed that money can't buy you awards (although it can buy you a lot of blue people), as Kathryn Bigelow walked away with a well-deserved and historic win for Best Director, as well as taking the Best Film Oscar too. Picking up technical nominations like Editing and Sound along the way, everything was pointing towards a clean sweep of the board. And it pretty much was.


The others all went as expected, with the major surprise being Best Foreign Language Film, which went to The Secret in Their Eyes instead of A Prophet or even The White Ribbon. And despite Jason Reitman's wins at other ceremonies, Best Adapted Screenplay chose Geoffrey Fletcher's full-on adaptation of Precious (Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire) instead. Maybe it was the title that did it.


Read on for a full list of this year's winners.

 

Best Picture

Avatar

The Blind Side

District 9

An Education

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious Basterds

Precious

A Serious Man

Up

Up In the Air


Best Director

James Cameron, Avatar

Katherine Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Quentin Tarentino, Inglourious Basterds

Lee Daniels, Precious

Jason Reitman, Up In The Air


Best Actor

Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

George Clooney, Up In The Air

Colin Firth, A Single Man

Morgan Freeman, Invictus

Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker


Best Actress

Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

Helen Mirren, The Last Station

Carey Mulligan, An Education

Gabourey Sidibe, Precious


Best Supporting Actress

Penelope Cruz, Nine

Vera Farmiga, Up In the Air

Anna Kendrick, Up In the Air

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart

Mo’nique, Precious


Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Matt Damon, Invictus

Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones

Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

Christopher Plummer, The Last Station


Best Adapted Screenplay

Neil Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell, District 9

Neil Hornby, An Education

Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, In The Loop

Geofrey Fletcher, Precious

Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air


Best Original Screenplay

Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker

Quentin Tarentino, Inglourious Basterds

Joel And Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, The Messenger

Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Up


Art Direction

Avatar

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Nine

Sherlock Holmes

The Young Victoria


Cinematography

Avatar

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

The White Ribbon


Costume Design

Bright Star

Coco Before Chanel

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Nine

The Young Victoria


Best Documentary Feature

Burma VJ

The Cove

Food Inc.

The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon

Papers

Which Way Home


Film Editing

Avatar

District 9

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire


Best Foreign Language Film

Ajami

El Secreto De Sus Ojos

The Milk of Sorrow

A Prophet

The White Ribbon


Make Up

Il Divo

Star Trek

The Young Victoria


Music: Original Score

Avatar

Fantastic Mr Fox

The Hurt Locker

Sherlock Holmes

Up


Music: Original Song

The Princess and The Frog – Almost There

The Princess and The Frog – Down In New Orleans

Paris 36 – Loin de Panane

Nine – Take It All

Crazy Heart – The Weary Kind


Short Film: Animated

French Roast

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty

The Lady And The Reaper

Logorama

A Matter of Loaf and Death


Sound Editing

Avatar

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Star Trek

Up


Sound Mixing

Avatar

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Star Trek

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen


Visual Effects

Avatar

District 9

Star Trek


Best Animated Feature Film

Coraline

Fantastic Mr Fox

The Princess And The Frog
The Secret Of Kells
Up

 

Best Short Film, Live Action

The Door

Instead of Abracadabra

Kavi

Miracle Fish

The New Tenants 

 

Best Short Film, Documentary 

China's Unnatural Disaster

The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

Music by Prudence

Rabbit A La Berlin 

 

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