After NPH warmed up the crowd, co-hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin took over, playing it safe, never singing or dancing, and did little to perk up the proceedings. A week after the awards are over it's highly doubtful anything they said or did will be remembered.
Thankfully, the 2010 Oscars did deliver some memorable moments when the Oscar winners took to the stage to accept their awards. For the first time in the history of the Academy, a woman took home the Best Director trophy. The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow finally broke through the gender barrier, forever earning a spot in the Oscar history books. And Bigelow's Best Director Oscar wasn't the only Academy Award The Hurt Locker picked up. The character-driven war drama about a bomb disposal unit collected a total of six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
82nd Academy Awards Nominees and Winners:
Best Picture:Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
Winner: The Hurt Locker
Actor in a Leading Role:
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Winner: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Actor in a Supporting Role:
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Winner: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Actress in a Leading Role:
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Winner: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Actress in a Supporting Role:
Penélope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Winner: Mo’Nique, Precious
Animated Feature Film:
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Winner: Up
Best Director:
Avatar, James Cameron
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
Precious, Lee Daniels
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman
Winner: The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow
Adapted Screenplay:
District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
An Education, Nick Hornby
In the Loop, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Winner: Precious, Geoffrey Fletcher
Original Screenplay:
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger, Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
A Serious Man, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Up, Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
Winner: The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal
Art Direction:
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
Winner: Avatar
Cinematography:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker, Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds, Robert Richardson
The White Ribbon, Christian Berger
Winner: Avatar, Mauro Fiore
Costume Design:
Bright Star, Janet Patterson
Coco before Chanel, Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Monique Prudhomme
Nine, Colleen Atwood
Winner: The Young Victoria, Sandy Powell
Documentary (Feature):
Burma VJ
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home
Winner: The Cove
Documentary (Short Subject):
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Rabbit à la Berlin
Winner: Music by Prudence
Film Editing:
Avatar, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
District 9, Julian Clarke
Inglourious Basterds, Sally Menke
Precious, Joe Klotz
Winner: The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
Foreign Language Film:
Ajami, Israel
The Milk of Sorrow, Peru
Un Prophète, France
The White Ribbon, Germany
Winner: El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Argentina
Makeup:
Il Divo, Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
The Young Victoria, Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
Winner: Star Trek, Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
Original Score:
Avatar, James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker, Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes, Hans Zimmer
Winner: Up, Michael Giacchino
Original Song:
"Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog
"Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog
"Loin de Paname" from Paris 36
"Take It All" from Nine
Winner: "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from Crazy Heart
Short Film (Animated):
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Winner: Logorama
Short Film (Live Action):
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
Winner: The New Tenants
Sound Editing:
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up
Winner: The Hurt Locker
Sound Mixing:
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Winner: The Hurt Locker
Visual Effects:
District 9
Star Trek
Winner: Avatar
The 82nd Academy Awards were held on Sunday, March 7, 2010.
