"The Hurt Locker" (the Iraq War drama) won best picture and five other prizes at the Academy Awards, including best director for Kathryn Bigelow.
Bigelow is the first woman in the Oscars history to receive Best Director award.
"It's the moment of a lifetime," she said. "I hope I'm the first of many," she said afterward backstage.
"The Hurt Locker" won best picture in a year where there were 10 nominees instead of the usual five - an effort to include more commercial, popular movies in the mix. The historical Box Office sucess of Avatar did not impress the members too much who gave the film a 3 technical awards.
For once the predictors got it quite right (we were among those who predicted the success of The Hurt Locker against Avatar, but does that film needs oscars to build Box Office?)
Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart"
Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds"
Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side"
Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push' by Sapphire"
"Up" Pete Docter
"Avatar" Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
"Avatar" Mauro Fiore
"The Young Victoria" Sandy Powell
"The Hurt Locker" Kathryn Bigelow
"The Cove" Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
"Music by Prudence" Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
"The Hurt Locker" Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
"The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)" Argentina
"Star Trek" Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
"Up" Michael Giacchino
"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
"The Hurt Locker" Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers
"Logorama" Nicolas Schmerkin
"The New Tenants" Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
"The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Ottosson
"The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
"Avatar" Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
"Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push' by Sapphire" Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
"The Hurt Locker" Written by Mark Boal
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08.03.2010 | Editor's blog
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