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The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts

Simon Brew


The Hurt Locker leads the field, as we round up the winners and losers of an ultimately really quite predictable Oscar night…

Published on Mar 8, 2010

In advance of the Academy Award ceremony this year, one or two people were suggesting that the build-up to the Oscars had been so straightforward that we were bound to get surprises.

The acting awards had been going to the same people at most pre-Oscar gong shows, The Hurt Locker had been emerging as the best film, and Kathryn Bigelow was lining up to be the first woman to ever win Best Director.

Only a bit of canvassing from one of The Hurt Locker’s producers threw any kind of spanner in the works. The early front-runner, Avatar, had seemingly long run out of steam for the big prizes.

As it turned out, there wasn’t a surprise in sight. All of the acting categories went as expected, Up did, indeed, beat Coraline to Best Animated Feature, The Hurt Locker took Best Picture and Bigelow Best Director.

In fact, you have to look quite hard to find any major surprises. It would, to be fair, have been a travesty if Avatar had won Best Picture, but it had to trade a few of the technical awards it had been expected to win with The Hurt Locker. Up In The Air was overlooked, and didn’t win a writing gong, with Precious beating it to Best Adapted Screenplay. Save for that? It was a night that went as close to the template as any in recent times.

Here’s the full list of winners and losers…

Best Picture
THE HURT LOCKER

Best Director
KATHRYN BIGELOW, THE HURT LOCKER

Best Actor
JEFF BRIDGES, CRAZY HEART

Best Actress
SANDRA BULLOCK, THE BLIND SIDE

Best Supporting Actor
CHRISTOPH WALTZ, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Best Supporting Actress
MO’NIQUE, PRECIOUS

Best Foreign Language Film
EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS (THE SECRET OF THEIR EYES)

Best Original Screenplay
MARK BOAL, THE HURT LOCKER

Best Animation
UP

Best Adapted Screenplay
GEOFFREY FLETCHER, PRECIOUS

Best Art Direction
AVATAR

Best Cinematography
AVATAR

Best Sound Mixing
THE HURT LOCKER

Best Sound Editing
THE HURT LOCKER

Best Original Song
CRAZY HEART

Best Original Score
UP

Best Costumes
THE YOUNG VICTORIA

Best Documentary Feature
THE COVE

Best Documentary Short
MUSIC BY PRUDENCE

Best Film Editing
THE HURT LOCKER

Best Make-up
STAR TREK

Best Animated Short Film
LOGORAMA

Best Live Action Short Film
THE NEW TENANTS

Best Visual Effects
AVATAR

One last thought on The Hurt Locker: by some distance, it’s going the lowest box office gross of a Best Picture winner. It was the 126th most popular film of the year at the US box office, and its worldwide take was just over $20m. Expect a few DVDs and Blu-rays to be shifted as a result of its win, however.

Here’s the final scorechart…

6 Oscars
THE HURT LOCKER

3 Oscars
AVATAR

2 Oscars
PRECIOUS
UP
CRAZY HEART

1 Oscar
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
STAR TREK
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
THE BLIND SIDE
THE COVE

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Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By lemonade 1 March 8, 2010 09:05:38 AM

The Hurt Locker shouldn't have won the sound awards that it did. That struck me as 'freebies' to bolster the oscar win that would give it a landslide win. Big up to Up for getting not only best animated, but best song. And Star Trek, for the first Star Trek oscar ever!

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By picknmix 1 March 8, 2010 09:43:24 AM

Possibly the most predictable Oscar result ever, most pundits hit at least a 95% accuracy with their predictions, if not better. Where's the shock result here???

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By DamonD 1 March 8, 2010 10:43:25 AM

Sometimes it's not about shock, it's about getting it right. Hurt Locker & Bigelow winning are getting it right.

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By syrdax 1 March 8, 2010 10:46:04 AM

lol When the Oscars gets shock results, people "complain". When it goes "by the books", still people "complains"... I need to watch again THL, can't see where's the Oscar part.

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By shadowmantis 1 March 8, 2010 10:59:49 AM

I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but.. best editing for The Hurt Locker? Best animation for Up? Those are technical categories, so regardless of the shallow storyline, Avatar should've won both. Can Up's animation really even compare to Avatar? Same for editing...

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By shadowmantis 1 March 8, 2010 11:01:29 AM

Oh, and big up to Jeff Bridges. If anyone really deserved an Oscar, it's him.

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By cordas2 1 March 8, 2010 11:18:11 AM

The Hurt Locker for best movie and direction? Well it just says 2009 was a poor year for films. I did enjoy THL but there were a number of better films released last year that should have been awarded Inviticus, Moon, District 9 to name but a couple.

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By coffeeshoppigeon 1 March 8, 2010 11:47:20 AM

As far as war movies go the hurt locker brought nothing new to the table and to me was just your average comment on the war in Iraq. Surely the academy could have recognised something more original for best picture like inglorious bastards or a serious man or district 9 who not only were more original but in my opinion better movies overall.

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By rogerjchristian 1 March 8, 2010 04:13:17 PM

A science ficton film has never won an oscar, it says something about how the genre is still regarded. Lord of the Rings is fantasy and the only one that could be said to come close. There should be a separate category for science Fiction, and maybe slowly the stigma can be removed that still pervades against the genre. Some amazing writers like William Gibson, Frank Herbert, Arthur C Clarke, Ray Badbury have been prophetic and influential writers, who's words have often come true as humanity progresses into the new realms of internet revolutions and space.

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By RobGordon23 1 March 8, 2010 04:31:51 PM

Wow, I'm so surprised that this comments section is littered with negative comments about THL and Avatar. It seems you guys keep pace with what's cool pretty easily. It's funny how quickly a movie becomes 'stupid' or 'generic' the second it gets any sort of recognition. What's next on the list of 'movies i really liked but now hate since other people like them'? And before you say it, I know you didn't like Avatar, that's why it's doing so poorly at the box office.

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By Kapp 1 March 8, 2010 05:16:21 PM

I would say that 2009 was actually a great year for science fiction films, in that 2 sci-fi films got all the way to the best picture category (Avatar and District 9)...however, the Hurt Locker deserved those awards. Even though some people I know here who were former US Marines have said that the Hurt Locker was "too Hollywood" and "not realistic" in the 2nd half of the film, for at least the first hour, that movie was excellent and had anybody who has seen it on the edge of their seats...people can hate on thr Hurt Locker and examine it frame by frame for errors (and there are some missteps that I disagree with) but overall, that movie, especially due to it's first half, deserved those oscars

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By Kavorka 1 March 8, 2010 05:47:17 PM

Good job Kathryn! The Hurt Locker kicked major ass!

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By JonTheGod 1 March 8, 2010 06:51:07 PM

Christoph Waltz - totally deserved. He stole every single second that he was on screen.

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By Tlotoxl 1 March 8, 2010 06:54:49 PM

..and nobody has mentioned Nick Park missing out for "A Matter of Loaf and Death" As for The Hurt Locker I thought is was a good film but out of nominations I would be far more likely to watch Inglourious Basterds than the other 3 I have seen: Avatar, Hurt Locker and Up. (actually In The Loop was fantastic but wasn't even nominated)

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By KevinMoniker 1 March 8, 2010 07:18:30 PM

"I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but.. best editing for The Hurt Locker? Best animation for Up? Those are technical categories, so regardless of the shallow storyline, Avatar should've won both. Can Up's animation really even compare to Avatar? Same for editing..." Er... editing isn't a technical category in the literal sense, it's to do with pacing and crafting a coherent story from the shots taken from the shoot. If anything given how overlong Avatar is that should go against it for editing. As for animation, that's to do with style not technical prowess, the first ten minutes of Up are some of the best animation I've ever seen. Not because it was wow, but because of how it was used to tell a brilliant story.

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By Deggsy 1 March 9, 2010 06:00:33 AM

In a few years, the Hurt Locker will join A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator, Braveheart, The English Patient and The Departed in the list of Most Overrated Best Film Oscar Winner. It was a decidedly average movie with a few trailer-friendly suspense scenes, that's been embiggened because the director has a vagina (if untrue, why was it mentioned in practically every breath?). It was certainly unrealistic in its portrayal of the military operations in Iraq (every time I saw those three specialists, whom I'm assuming would be considered valuable personnel, running around alone and unaccompanied in hostile territory, I kept waiting to hear the A-Team theme). But if Bigelow has a "woman's perspective", she certainly never lets it appear onscreen, in this or her previous works. She has no distinctive style. Anybody could have shot this. In fact, in many ways Hurt Locker was a return to the John Wayne era of war films. Apart from the lovable orphan selling bootleg DVDs, and who appears dead later as a human bomb casing - did that really happen in Iraq? - just about every Iraqi we see is shifty and suspicious. I expected to hear portentous music every time one appeared. I never wanted Avatar to sweep the Big Awards, because for me the technical achievements were overshadowed by the average acting and the juvenile script while stole liberally from other, better sources. But at least I'd know Cameron wouldn't have pulled the hoary, distasteful "this movie was for all our brave men and women serving over there" bullshit.

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By coffeeshoppigeon 1 March 9, 2010 09:38:25 AM

@Deggsy I agree with everything you say there, very well put

Re: The Oscars 2010: full list of winners, and thoughts
Posted By RobGordon23 1 March 9, 2010 03:58:46 PM

@Deggsy...you were making solid points right up until you showed you never really watched The Hurt Locker. "Apart from the lovable orphan selling bootleg DVDs, and who appears dead later as a human bomb casing"...perhaps watch the movie and then comment on it's lesser aspects.
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