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2010

Experience over nine decades of the Oscars from 1927 to 2024

The 82nd Academy Awards | 2010
Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Honoring movies released in 2009
Highlights
Best Actor
Crazy Heart

Jeff Bridges winning Best Actor

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock

The Blind Side

Supporting Actor
Inglourious Basterds

Christoph Waltz

Memorable Moments
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin
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Experiencing 3-D while hosting the Oscars

Michael Giacchino
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Original Score winner for Up

A Tribute to John Hughes
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Macaulay Culkin, Matthew Broderick, Jon Cryer, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, and Judd Nelson

WINNERS & NOMINEES
Actor in a Leading Role
Winner
Jeff Bridges
Crazy Heart
Nominees
George Clooney
Up in the Air
Colin Firth
A Single Man
Morgan Freeman
Invictus
Jeremy Renner
The Hurt Locker
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Christoph Waltz
Inglourious Basterds
Nominees
Matt Damon
Invictus
Woody Harrelson
The Messenger
Christopher Plummer
The Last Station
Stanley Tucci
The Lovely Bones
Actress in a Leading Role
Winner
Sandra Bullock
The Blind Side
Nominees
Helen Mirren
The Last Station
Carey Mulligan
An Education
Gabourey Sidibe
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Meryl Streep
Julie & Julia
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Mo'Nique
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Nominees
Penélope Cruz
Nine
Vera Farmiga
Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick
Up in the Air
Animated Feature Film
Winner
Up
Pete Docter
Nominees
Coraline
Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog
John Musker and Ron Clements
The Secret of Kells
Tomm Moore
Art Direction
Winner
Avatar
Production Design: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
Nominees
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Production Design: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
Nine
Production Design: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
Sherlock Holmes
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Young Victoria
Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
Cinematography
Winner
Avatar
Mauro Fiore
Nominees
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker
Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds
Robert Richardson
The White Ribbon
Christian Berger
Costume Design
Winner
The Young Victoria
Sandy Powell
Nominees
Bright Star
Janet Patterson
Coco before Chanel
Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Monique Prudhomme
Nine
Colleen Atwood
Directing
Winner
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
Nominees
Avatar
James Cameron
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Lee Daniels
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
The Cove
Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
Nominees
Burma VJ
Burma VJ
Food, Inc.
Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
Which Way Home
Rebecca Cammisa
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
Music by Prudence
Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
Nominees
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
Rabbit à la Berlin
Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
Film Editing
Winner
The Hurt Locker
Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
Nominees
Avatar
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
District 9
Julian Clarke
Inglourious Basterds
Sally Menke
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Joe Klotz
Foreign Language Film
Winner
The Secret in Their Eyes
Argentina
Nominees
Ajami
Israel
The Milk of Sorrow
Peru
A Prophet
France
The White Ribbon
Germany
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
John Calley
Makeup
Winner
Star Trek
Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
Nominees
Il Divo
Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
The Young Victoria
Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
Music (Original Score)
Winner
Up
Michael Giacchino
Nominees
Avatar
James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes
Hans Zimmer
Music (Original Song)
Winner
Crazy Heart
The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart) in "Crazy Heart" Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Nominees
The Princess and the Frog
Almost There in "The Princess and the Frog" Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
The Princess and the Frog
Down In New Orleans in "The Princess and the Frog" Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Paris 36
Loin De Paname in "Paris 36" Music by Reinhardt Wagner; Lyric by Frank Thomas
Nine
Take It All in "Nine" Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
Best Picture
Winner
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers
Nominees
Avatar
James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
The Blind Side
Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Producers
District 9
Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
An Education
Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
Inglourious Basterds
Lawrence Bender, Producer
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
A Serious Man
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
Up
Jonas Rivera, Producer
Up in the Air
Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
Short Film (Animated)
Winner
Logorama
Nicolas Schmerkin
Nominees
French Roast
Fabrice O. Joubert
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Javier Recio Gracia
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Nick Park
Short Film (Live Action)
Winner
The New Tenants
Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Nominees
The Door
Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
Instead of Abracadabra
Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
Kavi
Gregg Helvey
Miracle Fish
Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
Sound Editing
Winner
The Hurt Locker
Paul N.J. Ottosson
Nominees
Avatar
Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Inglourious Basterds
Wylie Stateman
Star Trek
Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
Up
Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Sound Mixing
Winner
The Hurt Locker
Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
Nominees
Avatar
Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
Inglourious Basterds
Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
Star Trek
Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Visual Effects
Winner
Avatar
Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
Nominees
District 9
Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
Star Trek
Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Winner
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
Nominees
District 9
Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
An Education
Screenplay by Nick Hornby
In the Loop
Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Up in the Air
Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Winner
The Hurt Locker
Written by Mark Boal
Nominees
Inglourious Basterds
Written by Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger
Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
A Serious Man
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Up
Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter; Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

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Rabbit à la Berlin
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra