‘The Hurt Locker’ Takes Home Best Picture at the Academy Awards

The Oscars made history last night (March 7) by awarding the Best Director statue to Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win in the category. Bigelow beat out her ex-husband James Cameron (Avatar), Jason Reitman (Up in the Air), Lee Daniels (Precious), and Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) for the coveted prize. The Hurt Locker also took home Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing.

Avatar, the film expected to sweep the awards, only earned three accolades — Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Visual Effects.

In the acting categories, Sandra Bullock picked up Best Actress for The Blind Side and Jeff Bridges won Best Actor for Crazy Heart. Best Supporting Actor went to Inglourious Basterds‘s Christoph Waltz and Best Supporting Actress went to Mo’Nique for Precious. Full list of winners below in the order the awards were handed out.

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ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Winner: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Winner: Up

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
Winner: “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from Crazy Heart, Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Winner: The Hurt Locker, written by Mark Boal

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Winner: Logorama

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
Winner: Music by Prudence

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Winner: The New Tenants

MAKEUP
Winner: Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow for Star Trek

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Winner: Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, written by Geoffrey Fletcher

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Winner: Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

ART DIRECTION
Winner: Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair, Avatar

COSTUME DESIGN
Winner: Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria

SOUND EDITING
Winner: Paul N.J. Ottosson, The Hurt Locker

SOUND MIXING
Winner: Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett, The Hurt Locker

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Mauro Fiore, Avatar

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Winner: Michael Giacchino, Up

VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner: Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones, Avatar

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
Winner: The Cove

FILM EDITING
Winner: Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, The Hurt Locker

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Winner: The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Winner: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Winner: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

DIRECTING
Winner: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

BEST PICTURE
Winner: The Hurt Locker

brian.mckechnie@citynews.rogers.com

Top image: Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award nominee for Best Director for “The Hurt Locker,” and James Cameron, Academy Award nominee for Best Director for “Avator,” at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA, on Sunday, March 7, 2010.