This could have possibly been the most torturous 3 hours I have ever sat through in my life. Why? Because for the first time in 7 years, I couldn't watch the Oscars live thanks to some stupid news design lecture. And I wasn't even paying attention in the bloody class. I was like glued to the Internet refreshing imdb every 10 seconds to see who won the Oscars.
But anyway, the ceremony this year is history making. One being that Kathryn Bigelow became the first female director to ever win the Best Director award beating out her ex-husband James Cameron and his movie Avatar which only picked up 3 Oscars while The Hurt Locker won 6 including Best Picture.The acting awards went to the predictables. Christoph Waltz won for Inglorious Basterds, Mo'Nique for Precious, Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart and Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side. One a sad note... District 9 won zilch. Booooo!
Anyways, here's the full list of winners!
BEST PICTURE
•The Hurt Locker
•Inglourious Basterds
•Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
•A Serious Man
•Up
•Up in the Air
•Avatar
•The Blind Side
•District 9
•An Education
BEST DIRECTOR
•Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
•James Cameron – Avatar
•Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
•Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
•Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
•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 IN A LEADING ROLE
•Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
•Helen Mirren - The Last Station
•Carey Mulligan - An Education
•Gabourey Sidibe - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
•Meryl Streep - Julie and Julia
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
•Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
•Matt Damon – Invictus
•Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
•Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
•Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
•Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire •Penelope Cruz - Nine
•Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
•Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
•Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
•Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
•Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
•Neill Blomkamp and - District 9
•Nick Hornby - An Education
•Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche - In the Loop
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
•Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker
•Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
•Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon - The Messenger
•Joel and Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
•Pete Docter and Bob Peterson – Up
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
•El Secreto de sus Ojos
•The Milk of Sorrow
•Une Prophéte
•The White Ribbon
•Ajami
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
•Up
•Coraline
•Fantastic Mr. Fox
•The Princess and the Frog
•The Secret of the Kells
BEST ART DIRECTION
•Avatar
•The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
•Nine
•Sherlock Holmes
•The Young Victoria
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
•Avatar
•Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
•The Hurt Locker
•Inglourious Basterds
•The White Ribbon
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
•The Young Victoria
•Bright Star
•Coco Before Chanel
•The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
BEST FILM EDITING
•The Hurt Locker
•Inglourious Basterds
•Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
•Avatar
•District 9
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
•The Cove
•Food, Inc.
•The Most Dangerous Man in America
•Which Way Home
•Burma VJ
BEST MAKEUP
•Star Trek
•The Young Victoria
•Il Divo
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
•Up, Michael Giacchino
•Avatar, James Horner
•Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alexandre Desplat
•The Hurt Locker, Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
•Sherlock Holmes, Hans Zimmer
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
•The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart
•Almost There from The Princess and the Frog
•Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog
•Loin de Paname from Paris 36
•Take It All from Nine
BEST SOUND MIXING
•The Hurt Locker
•Inglourious Basterds
•Star Trek
•Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
•Avatar
BEST SOUND EDITING
•The Hurt Locker
•Inglourious Basterds
•Star Trek
•Up
•Avatar
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
•Avatar
•District 9
•Star Trek
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
•Music by Prudence
•Rabbit à la Berlin
•China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
•The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
•The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
•Logorama
•A Matter of Loaf and Death
•French Roast
•Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
•The Lady and the Reaper
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
•The New Tenants
•The Door
•Instead of Abracadabra
•Kavi
•Miracle Fish