(BBC)-Blockbuster Avatar and low-budget indie The Hurt Locker led the nominations as the ceremony commenced on Sunday, with nine nominations apiece, but James Cameron's 3D sci-fi juggernaut left with just three technical awards - for art direction, cinematography and visual effects. Speaking on the red carpet ahead of the awards, Cameron paid tribute to Bigelow, to whom he was briefly married, and with whom he has made a number of films. "I've extolled her virtues to the world and supported her as a film-maker. I'd be tremendously proud if she won." "We feel we've already been sufficiently celebrated," he added, referring to Avatar's "tremendous box office and the nine nominations".
The Hurt Locker's screenwriter Mark Boal heralded the film's first success of the night, winning best original screenplay. Technical awards followed in film editing, sound editing and sound mixing. Former journalist Boal paid tribute to the film-makers, cast and crew: "The results widely exceeded my expectations," adding "this belongs to one extraordinary and visionary individual, Kathryn Bigelow".
For her part, Bigelow said: "I would not be standing here if it wasn't for Mark Boal, who risked his life for the words on the page." Despite expanding the best picture category to 10 nominees, in an attempt to allow more populist films to feature at the ceremony, The Hurt Locker has made just $15m (£9.9m) at the box office, becoming the lowest-grossing film ever to win best picture. Avatar, meanwhile, has become the biggest-grossing film in history, taking more than $2bn (£1.32bn) in the box office.
Here is the full list of nominees for the 2010 Academy Awards, to be held in Hollywood
BEST PICTURE
Winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
James Cameron (Avatar)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
BEST ACTOR
Winner: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up in the Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
ACTRESS
Winner: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Mo'Nique (Precious)
Penelope Cruz (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The winner: El Secreto de Sus Ojos - The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina
Ajami (Israel
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru
Un Prophete - A Prophet (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman (The Messenger)
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy (Up)
BEST ANIMATION
Winner: Up
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire)
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell (District 9)
Nick Hornby (An Education)
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (In the Loop )
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air)
BEST ART DIRECTION
Winner: Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon
BEST SOUND MIXING
The winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
BEST SOUND EDITING
The winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Winner: The Weary Kind (theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart by Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett
Almost There from The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Down in New Orleans
Loin de Paname from Paris
Take It All from Nine by Maury Yeston
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Winner: Up (Michael Giacchino)
Avatar (James Horner)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders)
Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
BEST COSTUMES
Winner: The Young Victoria
Bright Star
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The winner: The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Which Way Home
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Winner: Music by Prudence
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Rabbit a la Berlin
BEST FILM EDITING
The winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
BEST MAKE-UP
Winner: Star Trek
Il Divo
The Young Victoria
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Winner: Logorama
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
A Matter of Loaf and Death
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Winner: The New Tenants
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner: Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
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1 comments:
They're the best.... Kathryn Bigelow, she's gud gud director and she's 1st female winner fot best director.... so remember Sofia Coppola winner of the women also
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