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Monday 8th March 2010, 11:33
Oscars: Who won what
Well, what a ceremony. Was it? Well, not that many memorable moments. George Clooney's face looked sour during Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin's berating of him at the start. The hosts were quite amusing, but there wasn't the gusto of a Billy Crystal-style uber-pastiche, or a Hugh Jackman song-and-dance number (which they handed over to Neil Patrick Harris). None of the speeches were all that amusing. When the most interesting speech is Christoph Waltz likening his film to a ship, you know it probably wasn't worth staying up all night for.
That said, great news for The Hurt Locker, yah boo sucks to Avatar, which won for anything technical and visual (though not even the sound awards) but that's it. Maybe it would have had a shot at Best Foreign Language if it had been put in for that.
And the Brits came away sadly empty-handed. Much as we were rooting for Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan (and An Education generally), Helen Mirren, Nick Park (for Wallace & Gromit's A Matter of Loaf and Death), and Armando Ianucci & co (for In The Loop's screenplay). We'll satisfy ourselves with The Young Victoria's Best Costumes. It's all we wanted anyway.
Here's the list...
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 ACTOR Winner: 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 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 CINEMATOGRAPHY 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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