So here we are, another year. The little gold men have spoken and this year’s big winner is undoubtably, and deservedly, Kathryn Bigelow’s bomb disposal drama Hurt Locker.
The Jeremy Renner-led war flick raked in an impressive six awards at last night’s event, hammering main rival Avatar into a lowly runner-up position – in spite of the $280-odd-million dollar budget gap between the two films.
Overall the film walked away with Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Sound Editing and Best Director for Bigelow – making her the first female in history to have walked away with the accolade.
Performance-wise the awards ran as expected, with Jeff Bridges picking up Best Actor for Crazy Heart, Sandra Bullock taking Best Actress for The Blind Side and Christoph Waltz and Mo’nique taking home Best Supporting Actor and Actress for Inglourious Basterds and Precious respectively.
Elsewhere Pixar’s Up unsurprisingly walked away with the Best Animated Feature award, with The Cove taking Best Documentary and Avatar having to settle with a Best Visual Effects and other such mumbo jumbo..
Unless you, quite wrongly, assumed Avatar was the best film in the running this year there really weren’t that many upsets at this year’s ceremony. The only exception being The Secret of Their Eyes, which whipped the Best Foreign Language Award away from favourites A Prophet and The White Ribbon.
The awards may not have come as a massive shock, but it was reassuring to see that the judges weren’t too swayed by Avatar’s all-conquering box-office boasts and elected to reward Hurt Locker – which was clearly a better, and in many ways more important, film.
The winners in full are:
BEST PICTURE
Winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
James Cameron (Avatar)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up in the Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
ACTRESS
Winner: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Mo’Nique (Precious)
Penelope Cruz (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Winner: El Secreto de Sus Ojos – The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina)
Ajami (Israel)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophete – A Prophet (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman (The Messenger)
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy (Up)
BEST ANIMATION
Winner: Up
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire)
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell (District 9)
Nick Hornby (An Education)
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (In the Loop)
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air)
BEST ART DIRECTION
Winner: Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
BEST ART DIRECTION
Winner: Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon
BEST SOUND MIXING
The winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
BEST SOUND EDITING
The winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Winner: The Weary Kind (theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart by Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett
Almost There from The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Loin de Paname from Paris 36 by Reinhardt Wagner, Frank Thomas
Take It All from Nine by Maury Yeston
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Winner: Up (Michael Giacchino)
Avatar (James Horner)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders)
Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
BEST COSTUMES
Winner: The Young Victoria
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The winner: The Cove
Burma VJ
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Winner: Music by Prudence
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Rabbit a la Berlin
BEST FILM EDITING
The winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
BEST MAKE-UP
Winner: Star Trek
Il Divo
The Young Victoria
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Winner: Logorama
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
A Matter of Loaf and Death
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Winner: The New Tenants
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner: Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
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