Oscars 2010 Makes Herstory

The 82nd Annual Academy Awards are now over...And The Hurt Locker is the big winner...and so is director Kathryn Bigelow beating out her ex hubby James Cameron and his sci-fi pic Avatar- making history to become the first female to win the award--Locker won six awards in total...

Here are the WINNERS:

BEST PICTURE The Hurt Locker

BEST DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

BEST ACTOR Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Best Foreign Language Film El Secreto do Sus Ojos (Argentina)

Best Editing The Hurt Locker

Best Documentary The Cove

Best Visual Effects Avatar Best Score Up

Best Cinematography Avatar

Best Sound Mixing The Hurt Locker

Best Sound Editing The Hurt Locker

Best Costume Design The Young Victoria

Best Art Direction Avatar

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Mo’Nique, Precious

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious

Best Makeup Star Trek

Best Live-Action Short The New Tenants

Best Documentary Short Music by Prudence

Best Animated Short Logorama

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker

Best Song “The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart, T-Bone Burnett & Ryan Bingham

Best Animated Film Up

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds



As for the ceremony itself I thought it was pretty lifeless with a few exceptions; For all of the talk before the show about the unpredictable hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin--they fell pretty flat...The opening bit was actually painfully unfunny--Their best bit was the filmed before hand Paranormal Activity spoof otherwise...zzzz

There was some golden moments though...

Ben Stiller spoofs 'Avatar while handing "Star Trek" its win for make-up--It might be worth having Stiller host next year....

The best acceptance speech of the night goes to Monique as Best Supporting Actress for her turn in "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire"

The Horror tribute montage...

And the heartfelt tribute to the late great John Hughes Introduced by Matthew Broderick and Molly Ringwald, the montage of great Hughes moments was followed by a handful of his most famous leading actors talking about him-- On stage were Hughes alum Anthony Michael Hall, Macaulay Culkin, Jon Cryer, Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson wirh his family in the audience....

Having 10 Best Pic noms meant nothing in the end because it was always between 'Tar and Locker anyway...