82nd Academy Awards (2010)

Highlights of 82nd Academy Awards ceremony

The 82nd Academy Awards honored the best films of 2009.
The award ceremony was held on 7th March 2010 at Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
The ceremony was hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.
Avatar and The Hurt Locker received maximum nominations.
The Hurt Locker won the Best Picture award.
Jeff Bridges won the Best Actor award for his role in Crazy Heart.
Sandra Bullock won the Best Actor award for his role in The Blind Side.
Kathryn Bigelow won the Best Director award for The Hurt Locker.
The following films received multiple nominations: 9 nominations: Avatar and The Hurt Locker
8 nominations: Inglourious Basterds
6 nominations: Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire and Up in the Air
5 nominations: Up
4 nominations: District 9, Nine and Star Trek
3 nominations: An Education, Crazy Heart, The Princess and the Frog and The Young Victoria
2 nominations: A Serious Man, The Blind Side, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Invictus, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Last Station, The Messenger, Sherlock Holmes and The White Ribbon
- WINNER

Best Picture

The Hurt Locker
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Up in the Air
Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Up

Best Director

The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow
Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
Avatar - James Cameron
Precious - Lee Daniels
Up in the Air - Jason Reitman

Best Original Screenplay

The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal
Up - Tom McCarthy, Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger - Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman
A Serious Man - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Best Adapted Screenplay

Precious - Geoffrey Fletcher
District 9 - Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
An Education - Nick Hornby
In the Loop - Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Up in the Air - Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Crazy Heart - Jeff Bridges
The Hurt Locker - Jeremy Renner
Up in the Air - George Clooney
A Single Man - Colin Firth
Invictus - Morgan Freeman

Best Actress in a Leading Role

The Blind Side - Sandra Bullock
Julie And Julia - Meryl Streep
The Last Station - Helen Mirren
An Education - Carey Mulligan
Precious - Gabourey Sidibe

Best Supporting Actor

Inglourious Basterds - Christoph Waltz
Invictus - Matt Damon
The Messenger - Woody Harrelson
The Last Station - Christopher Plummer
The Lovely Bones - Stanley Tucci

Best Supporting Actress

Precious - Mo'Nique
Nine - Penelope Cruz
Up in the Air - Vera Farmiga
Crazy Heart - Maggie Gyllenhaal
Up in the Air - Anna Kendrick

Best Art Direction

Avatar - Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
The Young Victoria - Patrice Vermette, Maggie Gray
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus - Dave Warren, Anastasia Masaro, Caroline Smith
Nine - John Myhre, Gordon Sim
Sherlock Holmes - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

Best Cinematography

Avatar - Mauro Fiore
The White Ribbon - Christian Berger
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds - Robert Richardson

Best Original Song

Crazy Heart - Ryan Bingham, T-Bone Burnett for "The Weary Kind"
The Princess and the Frog - Randy Newman for "Almost There"
The Princess and the Frog - Randy Newman for "Down in New Orleans"
Paris 36 - Reinhardt Wagner, Frank Thomas for "Loin de Paname"
Nine - Maury Yeston for "Take it All"

Best Original Score

Up - Michael Giacchino
Avatar - James Horner
Alexandre Desplat - Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker - Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer

Best Sound Mixing

The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett
Avatar - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson
Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson
Inglourious Basterds - Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Mark Ulano
Star Trek - Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson, Peter J. Devlin

Best Sound Editing

The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson
Avatar - Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Up - Michael Silvers, Tom Myers
Inglourious Basterds - Wylie Stateman
Star Trek - Mark Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin

Best Visual Effects

Avatar - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
Star Trek - Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton
District 9 - Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken

Best Costume Design

The Young Victoria - Sandy Powell
Bright Star - Janet Patterson
Coco Before Chanel - Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus - Monique Prudhomme
Nine - Colleen Atwood

Best Makeup

Star Trek - Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow
Il Divo - Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano
The Young Victoria - Jon Henry Gordon, Jenny Shircore

Best Animated Feature

Up - Pete Docter
Coraline - Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog - Ron Clements, John Musker
The Secret of Kells - Tomm Moore

Best Animated Short Film

Logorama - Nicolas Schmerkin
French Roast - Fabrice O. Joubert
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty - Nicky Phelan, Darragh O'Connell
The Lady and the Reaper - Javier Recio Gracia
A Matter of Loaf and Death - Nick Park

Best Documentary Feature

The Cove - Louie Psihoyos, Fisher Stevens
Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land - Anders Ostergaard, Lise Lense-Moller
Which Way Home - Rebecca Cammisa
Food, Inc. - Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers - Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith

Best Documentary Short Subject

Music by Prudence - Roger Ross Williams, Elinor Burket
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province - Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner - Daniel Junge, Henry Ansbacher
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant - Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
Rabbit a la Berlin - Bartosz Konopka, Anna Wydra

Best Foreign Language Film

El Secreto de Sus Ojos - Juan Jose Campanella
Ajami - Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
The White Ribbon - Michael Haneke
The Milk of Sorrow - Claudia Llosa
Un Prophete - Jacques Audiard

Best Live Action Short Film

The New Tenants - Joachim Back, Tivi Magnusson
The Door - Juanita Wilson, James Flynn
Instead of Abracadabra - Patrik Eklund, Mathias Fjellstrom
Kavi - Gregg Helvey
Miracle Fish - Luke Doolan, Drew Bailey

Best Film Editing

The Hurt Locker - Chris Innis, Bob Murawski
Avatar - James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin
District 9 - Julian Clarke
Precious - Joe Klotz
Inglourious Basterds - Sally Menke
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