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I’m sure we’ll have lots of post-Oscar coverage in podcasts and articles as well, but in the meantime, we’ll be updating all of the winners below as they’re announced. You’ll see the winners marked in bold red as they’re announced. If the live chat room isn’t your thing, feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments section below.
BEST MOTION PICTURE
An Education
A Serious Man
District 9
Up
Up in the Air
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The Blind Side
DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
James Cameron (Avatar)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
ACTOR
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up in the Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Matt Damon (Invictus)
ACTRESS
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sibide (Precious)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mo’Nique (Precious)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Penelope Cruz (Nine)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
ANIMATED FEATURE
Up
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Coraline
The Secret of Kells
The Princess and the Frog
ART DIRECTION
Avatar
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
The Young Victoria
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon
COSTUME DESIGN
The Young Victoria
Bright Star
Coco avant Chanel
Nine
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Cove
Food Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Burma Vj
Which Way Home
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Last Truck: The Closing of GM Plant
The Last Campaign of Gvernor Booth GardnerSendak
Rabbit a la Berlin
Music by Prudence
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
EDITING
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
District 9
Precious
Inglourious Basterds
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The White Ribbon
A Prophet
The Milk of Sorrow
Ajami
The Secret of Her Eyes
MAKEUP
The Young Victoria
Il Divo
Star Trek
ORIGINAL SCORE
Michael Giacchino (Up)
James Horner (Avatar)
Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders (The Hurt Locker)
Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes)
Alexandre Desplat (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
ORIGINAL SONG
“Take it All” (Nine)
“The Weary Kind” (Crazy Heart)
“Almost There” (The Princess & the Frog)
“Down in New Orleans” (The Princess & the Frog)
“Loin de Paname” (Paris 36)
SOUND EDITING
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Avatar
Up
Inglourious Basterds
SOUND MIXING
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Avatar
Transformers 2
Inglourious Basterds
VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
Star Trek
District 9
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Up in the Air
An Education
Precious
District 9
In the Loop
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Up
The Messenger
LIVE ACTION SHORT
The Door
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants
Kavi
Instead of Abracadabra
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
French Roast
The Lady and the Reaper
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death
how’d everyone do on their scorecard? I got 13 right, anyone beat that?
Well, it looks like I can watch the Oscars next year.
I got 14. Missed all the shorts and the sound categories.
Andrew – I thought I counted 17 for you in the Oscar Pool post – but I was counting quickly. I had 17 if you give me Sandra Bullock, who I thought would win even though I didn’t want her to. Even with 16, I think that’s about as good a prediction rate as I’ve ever had.
Ah yes. My answers were a little different in my personal ballot at home. Not sure what my answers were on the R3 ballot.
The greatest sadness of the Oscars: Haneke not winning. Everything else I don’t really care about, but that is just plain sad. Sure, he’ll do more films, but I highly doubt he’ll ever again hit the spot between the ‘philosophical’, the ‘audience-friendly’ (as far as a movie like he would do can be so) and the ‘overall wonderful’ so good as he did with ‘Das Weisse Band’, and the ‘Cache’ before it…
I think I got 16 out of 24 right in the pool.
As much as I adore Argentinean actor Ricardo Darin, yea, that was the biggest jaw-dropper of the night. The Lives of Others beating out Pan’s Labyrinth I can totally understand, but any of those films beating out The White Ribbon was simply baffling. I do regret skipping that Argentinean film at TIFF last year though.
White Ribbon losing was yeah, definitely the ONLY surprise of the night… Hurt Locker taking screenplay maybe over Basterds too.
My son and I have a standing head to head bet. Together we had 21 of 24 correct. Surprised at the Foreign Film and Precious winning for best screen play over “Up in the Air.”
I was hoping to see Tarantino get his second Oscar last night, but sadly it was not to be. Meh – besdies that, I don’t really have much of an issue with Mark Boal’s win.
As for the Best Foreign Language Film…well, that’s the category for ya. Always throwing curve balls. I guess The White Ribbon has now joined the likes of Waltz with Bashir, Pan’s Labyrinth and Amelie.
One of the more baffling SPEECH moments explained, Remember MUSIC BY PRUDENCE winning and the director being hijacked by the producer? Here is the story – http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/2010/03/07/music_by_prudence_burkett
Kurt – that is just… strange. And absolutely childish and nutty on Burkett’s part. Talk about a complete lack of class.
Ha! That’s mad and yes Burkett sounds like a pain in the arse. She disowned the project, yet had a change of heart once it was up for an Oscar of course.
As for the pool I got 16 in my personal list, but the one I posted here was lower than that. I managed to win £10 off my friends though
“I don’t want to be associated with this project…wait, wut, Oscar….nevamind, i’mma be on stage and i’mma not gonna let him finish!”
I only got 14 this year, but my wife got 16 so she’s kept our family winning streak alive for another year (we pass an Oscar The Grouch to the winner of the pool and he’s been comfortably ensconced in our house for quite some time now…).
Burkett’s actions sure say a lot, don’t they? She strikes me as an awful, awful person.
Nicholas Chartier’s Speech from his Tent-party after being ‘banned’ from the Oscars due to a few phone calls.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/nicolas_chartier_this_is_what_its_about_being_passionate_for_independent_mo/
^^Speech starts after the 4 minute mark of the video at the bottom of the article.
The Director of the Cove got cut off by the music after the ‘Text “DOLPHIN” to 44144′ banner was unfurled, here was the speech that was drowned out by the orchestra:
http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2010/03/the-oscar-speech-the-coves-louie-psihoyos-couldnt-give.html
Via The LA-TIMES, this is about as well said as anything regarding THE HURT LOCKER and its place in 2010 Hollywood:
“It seems fair to say that an almost subconscious yearning in part motivated the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to vote the way they did. A yearning for a Hollywood that once existed but doesn’t anymore, a Hollywood where films like “The Hurt Locker” were business as usual and not something that was such an aberration, so outside of current norms, that it very nearly didn’t get made at all.
But if you voted for “The Hurt Locker,” you could pretend that wasn’t so. You could vote for a dream of a better world where these films lived long and prospered. And if the film actually won, it would be so much easier to make believe that that traditional Hollywood is still here when the reality is that it’s gone, gone, gone.
For though it was made with very modern skills, technologies and attitudes, “The Hurt Locker” at its core is a throwback to a time as far back as 1944, when “Casablanca” was the best of the 10-movie field, and the major studios were in the day-in day-out business of making smart, exciting, character-driven films intended primarily for a grown-up audience.
But after having been beaten down by studio neglect and disappointed by halfhearted efforts, that audience is now so gun-shy that it even stayed away from this film, making it the lowest-grossing of modern best picture winners.”
The Rest of the Article is here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-oscar-turan9-2010mar09,0,1943261.story
“For all the new ground it broke, “Avatar,” which cost more than $300 million to make and has become the highest-grossing film of all time, having taken in more than $2.6 billion worldwide, may have seemed to voters to be too tied to the movie business as it does exist, the movie business that many people who work in it would prefer to forget about, if only for one night. Which is why “The Hurt Locker” not only won best picture and director, it won five of the seven head-to-head clashes between the two films, with “Avatar” winning only cinematography and “Up” walking off with best score.”
Does everyone agree that the Hurt Locker is going to get a backlash? Because it
a) usurped the biggest movie of the year, a movie with way more big fans than you guys care to admit
b) has had so few see it that the majority who now do are walking in with even higher expectations than anyone, because this is now the ‘best picture of the year’
The 3 worst moments of the night were unfortunately all from female
3) Mo’nique’s speech, I hated it, I thought she was anything but gracious and overall it was so self-important
2) I’mmaletyoufinish Lady
1) The woman who won for costume design who was like ‘oh right another award la di da i think i’ll make it a doorstop’ – she made some attempt to say something but overall she came across as the ultimate hollywood phoney, some fashionista that on the Ali G Show Bruno would have had a field day with.
worst male moment:
Sean Penn’s baffling talk before announcing best actress.
With the 8 month critic love train, The Hurt Locker has has a small backlash for some time now amongst a set of regular filmgoers. I think the film can easily handle the expectations of best picture. It’s the type of movie that used to be very popular, is exceptionally well made, and easy to understand and follow. This movie is simply waiting for the Mass Consumption that it somehow missed (Summit’s lazy and unexpired Summer release on a couple hundred screens) upon its theatrical bow.
This is becoming a bit of a trend, with Slumdog also almost being dumped on DVD after sitting on the shelf for a while and then winning Best Picture last year. No Country was hardly a wide release (although it got there eventually), and neither was Crash which I believe also almost went straight to DVD.
CRASH didn’t come out until something like two years after it was done filming, i think. which made sense, since it sucked. i’m pretty disappointed with THE HURT LOCKER winning and i take less and less interest in the Oscars each year, it seems. sometimes they get it right, but usually not.
The Hurt Locker is so clearly NOT best picture of the year (what is I guess right?). It’s a good actioner with a series of well crafted, intense moments. Nothing more really. It’s not really very heartfelt or much of anything to really hit you in the gut with though. Again, just glad that something decent beat out Avatar.
I agree, Andrew. I watched it a couple of weeks ago, and was like, yeah, that’s GOOD, but BEST? But it’s better than Avatar. I still say Up in the Air would’ve been the best choice all around.
Yeah, I’m not massively against it winning, but I’d be happier with A Serious Man, Up in the Air or Inglourious Basterds out of the nominees that I’ve seen.
I’m not disagreeing with you Guys, but scan the list of the Aughties Best Picture Winners and tell me again that THE HURT LOCKER is a ‘lesser’ choice for Best Picture. This was one of the better choices, although that hasn’t stopped a few people from labelling it a “CRASH” choice of short-sightedness.
No, that’s definitely true, Kurt. The Academy just doesn’t pick very good choices for Best Picture most of the time.
I’d rank:
No Country for Old Men
The Departed
The Hurt Locker
Slumdog Millionaire
Gladiator
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King [note, the trilogy as a whole, I'd place third or fourth on the list; the last one just pissed me off]
Chicago
Million Dollar Baby
Crash
And I haven’t seen A Beautiful Mind.
I’d rank:
LOTR: Return of the King (sorry guys!)
No Country For Old Men
The Hurt Locker
Gladiator
Million Dollar Baby
The Departed
Chicago
Slumdog Millionaire
Crash
I’ve not seen A Beautiful Mind either
As always, I am late on the discussion:
For the most part, Oscars awards are not correlated with best film of the year … Gladiator, Titanic, and Crash should not even have been nominated, let alone win the Best Picture. Well, as it turns out, I did not see Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, until after it won the Best Picture. During the ceremony, I routed for the film; I found James Cameroon’s Avatar (the other main contender) to be undeserving of the award. Even without seeing film, I rationalized that The Hurt Locker– an Independent, critically acclaim film – would be far more deserving winner than the special effects extravaganza.
Well, after watching the film, I learn a valuable lesson: to not endorse/champion an unseen film. Cameroon did a better film than his ex-wife. Action wise, Bigelow matches Cameroon; in fact, she manages to out due Cameroon’s specialty. Unlike the blue alien’s action sequences, there is intensity and unpredictability in the Iraq War’s action sequences. There is a more visceral reaction in the bombing sequences than in any of the dragons and mecha scenes. Judging solely on action, The Hurt Locker succeeds as an action film.
Aside from some of the minor characters, there is solid acting in the award winner, unlike the box office record holder. There is not as much outrageous and corny acting, as compared to Cameroon’s film. Jeremy Ratner could act and be the lead of a film—something that Sam Worthington has proven in his short Hollywood career. Avatar does have some notable actors and actresses, but they are hinder by the poor dialogue. Although far from being perfect (there are excreting conversations), it is not hinder by its dialogue.
If the acting, dialogue, and actions sequences are better than Avatar, how could it be an inferior film? The story is a complete mess … There are many scenes and many interactions that do not appear to belong in the same film. The film’s message is not only convey in a blunt manner, it is also done in a poor manner. Yes, Avatar is Pocahontas with aliens – but it does not hamper the film’s goal: to be a popcorn spectacle. The Hurt Locker feels like two films competing with each other. On one end, there is the well done action film; on the other end, there is the poorly done drama. For every exhilarating action scene, there is a dull conversation or an absurd plot development.
The Hurt Locker is a decent action film, but nowhere near being a classic or Best Picture winner. It should not have the won the award. It does not mean that Avatar should have been granted the award; instead, the award should have gone to more deserving films, such as Inglorious Baterds (awaits the backlash).
Couldn’t agree more Antho. I was happy Avatar lost, but after watching HL again, I’m a little surprised it’s considered “best picture.” I was even more baffled by all of the pre-fanboy buzz. Will it be HL or Avatar? I didn’t understand why those were the two in contention. I think both IB and An Education are better films… by far. But hey, the academy kind of messes things up every year. That’s why watch; to have something to grumble about.