Kathryn Bigelow, center, holds her Oscars for best motion picture
of the year and best achievement in directing for "The Hurt Locker"
with hosts Alec Baldwin, right, and Steve Martin at the conclusion
of the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday, March 7, 2010, in the
Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow pushes James Cameron off the stage at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards winning Best Director for The Hurt Locker (2009). She makes filmmaking history by being the first female ever to win this Oscar. In the war of Kathryn Bigelow vs. James Cameron and The Hurt Locker vs. Avatar, clearly the winner of this boxing match is The Hurt Locker! It won Best Picture, an Oscar that James Cameron had his eyes set on for Avatar (2009). It also won 4 other Oscars for Original Screenplay, Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Although a disappointing night for James Cameron, as expected Avatar did win 3 Oscars notably in Cinematography, Art Direction and Visual Effects.
This will give Hollywood something to talk about for a long time as the production budget for The Hurt Locker was only $15 million compared to Avatar's $500 million. The Hurt Locker and Summit Entertainment made only a little over its production budget by making $14,700,000 domestically and $6,656,139 in foreign markets. Avatar made $720,189,000 (the highest of all nominations) domestically and $1,839,000,000 in foreign markets. For once the well deserved underdog wins showing a masterpiece does not need a huge budget or has to make a lot of money. With the huge win today, this should bring up DVD sales for The Hurt Locker in weeks to come and bring up earnings. Already the Best Buy exclusive collectible The Hurt Locker Blu-ray SteelBook that has been long out of stock and out of print has been commanding for high prices well over $80 each on eBay.com.
Sandra Bullock with her Oscar for
Best Acress at the Governors Ball
following the the 82nd Academy
Awards Sunday, March 7, 2010,
in the Hollywood section of Los
Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
In a stunning win another female, Sandra Bullock, won her first Oscar ever as Best Actress for her role in The Blind Side (2009). She had just received her first 2 Razzies the evening before the Oscars. She won Worst Actress for her role in All About Steve (2009) and Worst Screen Couple for her and Bradley Cooper for their roles in All About Steve.
Sandra Bullock even attended the Razzies, pulling onstage a wagon full of All About Steve to distribute to the Razzies attendees. She was very good-natured about winning the Razzies and promised to return again next year to The Gala 31th Annual RAZZIE Awards if everyone changed their mind after taking the All About Steve DVD home, really watching it and having a better understanding of the film. She also joked that since All About Steve is a film about a woman stalking a man, indeed that would make it seriously the Worst Screen Couple! Sandra Bullock definitely deserves this Oscar, if nothing else to show good sportsmanship and her openness to criticism, positive or negative. These are essential qualities for any actor or actress who wishes to succeed in show business.
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Mo'Nique accepts the award for best supporting actress for
"Precious: Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire" from
comedian Robin Williams during the 82nd Academy Awards
in Hollywood March 7, 2010. Credit: REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
Definitely a record breaking night for females, Mo'Nique won her first Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (2009). She is the fifth black female to win an acting Oscar. In her acceptance speech Mo'Nique thanked Hattie McDaniel for her inspiration, who was the first black female to win an Oscar for her supporting role 70 years ago in Gone With the Wind (1939). Whoopie Goldberg was the second black female who won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ghost (1990). Halle Berry was the only black female ever to win Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball (2001). Jennifer Hudson was the fourth black female to win Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dreamgirls (2006).
In a year of firsts, it was a first Oscar for both winners of Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Jeff Bridges won Best Actor for his role in Crazy Heart (2009). Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Inglourious Basterds (2009).
Here are the rest of the winners:
| Razzie Winners |
Oscar Winners |
| Worst Picture All About Steve G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Land of the Lost Old Dogs Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen |
Best Picture Best Animated Feature Film Foreign Language Film |
| Worst Actor Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas -- Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience Will Ferrell -- Land of the Lost Steve Martin -- The Pink Panther 2 Eddie Murphy -- Imagine That John Travolta -- Old Dogs |
Best Actor Jeff Bridges -- Crazy Heart George Clooney -- Up in the Air Colin Firth -- A Single Man' Morgan Freeman -- Invictus Jeremy Renner -- The Hurt Locker |
| Worst Actress Beyonce Knowles -- Obsessed Sandra Bullock -- All About Steve Miley Cyrus -- Hannah Montana: The Movie Megan Fox -- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Sarah Jessica Parker -- Did You Hear About The Morgans? |
Best Actress Sandra Bullock -- The Blind Side Helen Mirren -- The Last Station Carey Mulligan -- An Education Gabourey Sidibe -- Precious Meryl Streep -- Julie and Julia |
| Worst Supporting Actress Candice Bergen -- Bride Wars Ali Larter -- Obsessed Sienna Miller -- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Kelly Preston -- Old Dogs Julie White -- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen |
Best Supporting Actress |
| Worst Supporting Actor Billy Ray Cyrus -- Hannah Montana: The Movie Hugh Hefner -- Miss March Robert Pattinson -- The Twilight Saga: New Moon Jorma Taccone -- Land of the Lost Marlon Wayans -- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra |
Best Supporting Actor |
| Worst Director Michael Bay -- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Walt Beeker -- Old Dogs Brad Silberling -- Land of the Lost Stephen Sommers -- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Phil Traill -- All About Steve |
Best Director James Cameron -- Avatar Kathryn Bigelow -- The Hurt Locker Quentin Tarantino -- Inglourious Basterds Lee Daniels -- Precious Jason Reitman -- Up in the Air |
| Worst Screenplay All About Steve G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Land of the Lost Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen The Twilight Saga: New Moon |
Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Land of the Lost Pink Panther 2 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen The Twilight Saga: New Moon |
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| Worst Screen Couple Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas -- Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper -- All About Steve Will Ferrell and any co-star, creature or "comic riff" -- Land of the Lost Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox or any Transformer -- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner -- The Twilight Saga: New Moon |
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| Worst Picture of the Decade Battlefield Earth Freddy Got Fingered Gigli I Know Who Killed Me Swept Away |
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| Worst Actor of the Decade Ben Affleck Eddie Murphy Mike Myers Rob Schneider John Travolta |
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| Worst Actress of the Decade Mariah Carey Paris Hilton Lindsay Lohan Jennifer Lopez Madonna |
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Art Direction |
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| Cinematography Avatar Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds The White Ribbon |
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| Costume Design Bright Star Coco Before Chanel The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Nine The Young Victoria |
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Documentary (feature) Documentary (short subject) |
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Short Film (animated) Short Film (live action) |
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Music (original score) Music (original song) |
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| Film Editing Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious |
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Sound Editing Sound Mixing |
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| Makeup Il Divo (Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano) The Young Victoria (Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore) Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow) |
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| Visual Effects Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R Jones) District 9 (Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken) Star Trek (Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton) |
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