‘The Hurt Locker’ Defies the Odds, Snags Best Picture Award… Oscar Winners List for 82nd Annual Academy Awards
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 8, 2010
Oscar Upset: 'The Hurt Locker' won Best Picture Academy Award last night
You just never can be sure what will happen at the Oscar awards… last night’s 82nd annual Academy Award ceremony presented the Best Picture win to the low-budget film The Hurt Locker, surprising to some, and thus it beat out the assumed-to-win, big-budget sci-fi Avatar. Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman in the Academy’s history to win the Best Director Oscar for her excellent work on The Hurt Locker. Sandra Bullock’s win for Best Actress for The Blind Side was also a surprise — Bullock had won a Razzie award for Worst Actress just the day before for a different film.
From Reuters, “The Hurt Locker” wins Oscar for best picture:
“The Hurt Locker” won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday, capping a historic Oscar ceremony that saw the low-budget Iraq war drama vanquish the sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar.”
Its victory also brought a second statuette for Kathryn Bigelow.
Bigelow was one of the four producers of “The Hurt Locker,” along with journalist Mark Boal, financier Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro. Chartier was banned from the ceremony after the French native broke Oscar campaign rules by e-mailing voters on behalf of the picture.
“The Hurt Locker,” which centers on an American bomb-disposal squad in Iraq, is now out on DVD. It earned a modest $15 million at the North American box office. It was distributed by closely held Summit Entertainment.
Its closest Oscar competition was considered to be “Avatar,” the all-time box office champ produced and directed by James Cameron, Bigelow’s ex-husband.
Both films received nine nominations.
From SF Gate, San Francisco Chronicle, Oscars 2010: ‘Hurt Locker’ is biggest winner:
On an evening when “The Hurt Locker” bested “Avatar” for the most Oscar glory – with six awards including best picture – the film’s director also made history. Kathryn Bigelow, a San Carlos native, became the first woman to win the best director award.
Jeff Bridges won the most enthusiastic applause when he was honored as best actor for his portrayal of a boozy country singer trying to clean up his act in “Crazy Heart.” The Oscar marks a career peak for Bridges, a beloved Hollywood veteran who had been nominated four times in the previous 38 years without winning. Meanwhile, Sandra Bullock pulled off an unlikely twofer, winning the best actress Oscar for “The Blind Side” a day after she took home the Razzie for worst actress for her work in “All About Steve.”
From Vancouver Sun, Oscar’s antics take a step forward:
Anyone who entered an Oscar pool probably predicted that Avatar would take home every technically based award of the night. Unfortunately, those people lost a few points when The Hurt Locker beat the big-budget blockbuster for both sound mixing and sound editing. It was the first big hint that maybe Avatar wouldn’t be winning the big prizes, either — and if we didn’t already love The Hurt Locker, the fact that it made Jim Cameron the night’s big loser cemented the film’s place in our hearts.
From The Australian, Kathryn Bigelow the first woman to win best director Oscar:
The intense Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker is the Academy Awards best picture and its director Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win the Oscar for best director.
“Well, the time has come,” presenter Barbra Streisand said before announcing Bigelow’s name.“There’s no other way to describe it, it’s the moment of a lifetime,” Bigelow said.
The bomb squad drama filmed in Jordan topped the night with six Academy Awards and denied the highest-grossing film of all time, Avatar, the top prizes.
From MomLogic:
In the race that was most closely watched on Sunday – between Bigelow’s modestly budgeted war movie and her ex-husband James Cameron’s futuristic $250-million, 3-D extravaganza Avatar, the highest-grossing movie ever – both went into the evening with nine nominations each, including Best Picture and Best Director.
In all, Hurt Locker won for Original Screenplay, Sound Design, Sound Mixing, Film Editing, Direction and Picture. Avatar took home three Oscars, for Art direction, Cinematography and Visual Effects.
It also got the last word on the evening. Said co-host Steve Martin after the more than 3½-hour event, “The show is so long that Avatar now takes place in the past.”
Here’s the list of last night’s Oscar winners:
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, for “The Hurt Locker”
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, for “Crazy Heart”
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, for “The Blind Side”
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, for “Inglourious Basterds”
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, for “Precious: Based on The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire”
Best Animated Feature Film: “Up”
Best Original Song: “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart),” music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, for “Crazy Heart”
Best Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, for “The Hurt Locker”
Best Adapted Screenplay: Goeffrey Fletcher, for “Precious: Based on The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire”
Best Foreign Film: “El Secreto de Sus Ojos”
Best Documentary Short: “Music By Prudence”
Best Makeup: “Star Trek”
Best Short Film (Animated): “Logorama”
Best Short Film (Live Action): “The New Tenants”
Best Art Direction: “Avatar”
Best Costume Design: “The Young Victoria”
Best Sound Editing: “The Hurt Locker”
Best Sound Mixing: “The Hurt Locker”
Best Cinematography: “Avatar”
Best Original Score: “Up”
Best Visual Effects: “Avatar”
Best Editing: “The Hurt Locker”
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Vicki,… My wife and I are big fans of Sandra Bullock.
We were pleased to see her win an Oscar for best actress.
Glenn Beck stated this morning that she is a conservative christian woman surviving in the cesspool of liberal, America hating Hollywood.
Is this true?
You follow these people much more closely than I do.
BTW, my favorite movie w/Sandra is ‘The Net’.
We haven’t seen ‘The Blind Side’ but I hear it’s great.
AFVET, because of financial constraints, we’ve not been able to see any movies as a family in ages, and if we don’t go as a family, I usually don’t want to go to spend those precious few bucks we have stashed away for family outings. Going to the theater is a financial nightmare. The reviews for “The Blind Side” were good, as were the clips, but I’ve not seen it. I had no interest in seeing “Avatar” because of its anti-military theme that had gotten a lot of coverage by conservative bloggers (i.e., American Marines). One of the last films we saw as a family in the theater was last year’s “Gran Torino” with Clint Eastwood… loved that film tremendously. Also saw “Julie & Julia” – the plot bogged down with the current-day blogger stuff, loved the Meryl Streep flashbacks (Streep was fabulous), but overall, was disappointed. There was also an anti-Republican remark in the film (purely gratuitous) which bristled me.
As far as Sandra Bullock goes, she has had her share of cruddy film roles, but I’ve always liked her. “America’s Sweetheart,” as it were. I had heard about her Christian background and her close ties to her family, but haven’t kept up on her bio (which is odd, because that’s the kind of thing I love to do – Sandra must’ve slipped through my radar). I’ll look into it, because there are not many in Tinseltown who don’t worship at the holy alter of “ego and vanity.”
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