Hurt Locker Wins Most Oscars, Including Best Picture
The Hurt Locker dominated the Oscars last night. The film took home six awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Avatar won three awards but was beaten by the Hurt Locker in the main categories. Precious, Up and Crazy heart won two awards each. Here is a list of this year's winners.
- Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
- Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
- Best Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
- Best Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo'Nique, Precious
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
- Film Editing: The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
- Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal
- Adapted Screenplay: Precious, Geoffrey Fletcher
- Documentary Feature: The Cove
- Animated Film: Up
- Original Song: "The Weary Kind," Music and Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)
- Visual Effects: Avatar
- Original Score: Michael Giacchino, Up
- Cinematography: Avatar, Mauro Fiore
- Sound Mixing: The Hurt Locker
- Sound Editing: The Hurt Locker
- Costume Design: The Young Victoria, Sandy Powell
- Art Direction: Avatar
- Makeup: Star Trek
- Live Action Short Film: The New Tenants
- Documentary Short Subject: Music by Prudence
- Animated Short Film: Logorama
- Foreign Language Film: The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Argentina)
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Posted on March 8, 2010
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2009 Oscar Winners
The Oscars winners were pretty predictable Sunday night but the way the main acting awards were presented was both novel and an improvement. It was interesting hearing what each actor or actress had to say about each nominees. Slumdog Millionaire was the favorite heading into the awards they ended up winning eight Oscars including Best Picture. Here's a list of the winners:- Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
- Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
- Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
- Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
- Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
- Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, Milk
- Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
- Original Score: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
- Animated Film: WALL-E
- Short Animated Film: La Maison En Petite Cubes
- Art Direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Costume Design: The Duchess
- Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
- Live Action Short Film: Spielzeugland (Toyland)
- Original Song: A.R. Rahman and Gulzar, Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire
- Documentary: Man on Wire
- Documentary, Short Subjects: Smile Pinki
- Visual Effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Sound Editing: The Dark Knight
- Sound Mixing: Slumdog Millionaire
- Film Editing: Slumdog Millionaire
- Foreign Film: Departures (Japan)
Posted on February 23, 2009
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The Oscars Winners 2008
The Oscars winners are in. It was a smooth night without many surprises. Four awards went to No Country For Old Men including Best Picture. Marion Cotillard was surprise winner in the Best Actress category. Daniel Day-Lewis, Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton were also winners of acting awards. Here's a list of this year's winners.
You can see a complete list of all the nominees here. You can find lots of Oscars links and scoop here.
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Posted on February 25, 2008
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79th Academy Awards Winners List
Here are the winnners of the 79th Academy Awards.Posted on February 26, 2007
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