Oscar winners 2010 (full list)
Posted on March 8, 2010
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The 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony is being held in Hollywood, with the movie industry’s biggest stars gathered together to recognize the year’s top films and filmmakers. In early awards, Christoph Waltz won the best supporting actor for his role as a cunning Nazi officer in Inglourious Basterds. Actress Mo’Nique won best supporting actress for her role as an abusive mother in the drama Precious. Mark Boal took the first Oscar for The Hurt Locker – winning best original screenplay. Jeffrey Fletcher won best adapted screenplay for Precious. The science fiction epic Avatar and the critically acclaimed Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker top the list of contenders with nine Oscar nominations each. Those include best picture and best director for James Cameron of Avatar, the highest grossing film of all time, and best director for Kathryn Bigelow of The Hurt Locker. Bigelow, who is Cameron’s ex-wife, is the odds-on favorite to win Best Director after receiving a series of awards seen as early indicators to Oscar success. To date, no woman ever has received Best Director Academy Award. A total of 10 films are nominated for best picture hits year, including the World War II revenge saga Inglourious Basterds – District 9 a science-fiction thriller set in South Africa – and Precious a story of inner city life in Harlem.
Other contenders are the football drama The Blind Side, the British teen tale An Education, the Jewish domestic chronicle A Serious Man, the recession-era drama Up in the Air, and the animated adventure Up. In the best acting categories, veteran actor Jeff Bridges earned a nomination for his performance as a downtrodden country singer in Crazy Heart, while Sandra Bullock leads the pack for best actress for her role as an adoptive mother in The Blind Side. Nominations the foreign language category include the Israeli-Arab film Ajami, which depicts life in a mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood in the Mediterranean city of Jaffa.
Other nominees include The Milk of Sorrow, set in the aftermath of Peru’s violent and former repressive regime, the bleak black and white German murder mystery The White Ribbon, the Argentine crime drama The Secret in their Eyes, and France’s A Prophet. Disney Pixar’s balloon adventure Up won in the category of best animated feature. That gives Pixar Animation Studios, which was bought by the Walt Disney Co in 2006, an industry-leading five Oscars for animation since that award was first handed out in 2002. Up director Pete Docter accepted the award on behalf of the studio and his animation team. Ryan Birgham and T Bone Burnett won the award for the Best Original Song for ‘Crazy Heart’.
Mark Boal won the Best Sreenplay Award for The Hurt Locker.
Logoramawon the award for the Best Short film.
The New Tenant won in the category of Live action short. Kavi, a film by Gregg Helvey on an Indian boy and whose parents who work as bonded laboureres was among the nominees.
Music by Prudence won the Documentary Short Subject Award
Star Trek won the Oscar for Best Makeup.
Geoffrey Fletcher won the Best Screenwriter award for Precious: based on the Novel Push by Sapphire.
Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg won the award for Outstanding Art Direction for Avatar.
Sandy Powell won the award for Best costume for The Young Victoria.
The Hurt Locker won awards for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.
Mauro Fiore won Best Cinematography Award for Avatar
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