The Oscars, 2010

[Seil]

I'll bold the winners. (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showthread.php?t=27478&) In pink.

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart
George Clooney for Up in the Air
Colin Firth for A Single Man
Morgan Freeman for Invictus
Jeremy Renner for The Hurt Locker

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side
Helen Mirren for The Last Station
Carey Mulligan for An Education
Gabourey Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Matt Damon for Invictus
Woody Harrelson for The Messenger
Christopher Plummer for The Last Station
Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Penélope Cruz for Nine
Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal for Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air
Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Best Achievement in Directing

Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
James Cameron for Avatar
Lee Daniels for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Jason Reitman for Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger, Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman
A Serious Man, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Up, Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Thomas McCarthy

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

District 9, Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
An Education, Nick Hornby
In the Loop, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Geoffrey Fletcher
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

Best Achievement in Cinematography

Avatar, Mauro Fiore
Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte, Christian Berger
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker, Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds, Robert Richardson

Best Achievement in Editing

Avatar, Stephen E. Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
District 9, Julian Clarke
The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
Inglourious Basterds, Sally Menke
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Joe Klotz

Best Achievement in Art Direction

Avatar, Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, David Warren, Anastasia Masaro, Caroline Smith
Nine, John Myhre, Gordon Sim
Sherlock Holmes, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
The Young Victoria, Patrice Vermette, Maggie Gray

Best Achievement in Costume Design

Bright Star, Janet Patterson
Coco avant Chanel, Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Monique Prudhomme
Nine, Colleen Atwood
The Young Victoria, Sandy Powell

Best Achievement in Makeup

Il divo, Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano
Star Trek, Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow
The Young Victoria, John Henry Gordon, Jenny Shircore

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

Avatar, James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker, Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes, Hans Zimmer
Up, Michael Giacchino

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

Crazy Heart, T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham ("The Weary Kind")
Faubourg 36, Reinhardt Wagner, Frank Thomas ("Loin de Paname")
Nine, Maury Yeston ("Take It All")
The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman ("Almost There")
The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman ("Down in New Orleans")

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

Avatar, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson
The Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett
Inglourious Basterds, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Mark Ulano
Star Trek, Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson, Peter J. Devlin
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

Avatar, Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
The Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson
Inglourious Basterds, Wylie Stateman
Star Trek, Mark P. Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin
Up, Michael Silvers, Tom Myers

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

Avatar, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andy Jones
District 9, Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken
Star Trek, Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Coraline, Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog, John Musker, Ron Clements
The Secret of Kells, Tomm Moore
Up, Pete Docter

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

Ajami (Israel)
Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (Germany)
El secreto de sus ojos (Argentina)
Un prophète (France)
La teta asustada (Peru)

Best Documentary, Features

Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land, Anders Østergaard, Lise Lense-Møller
The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, Fisher Stevens
Food, Inc., Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith
Which Way Home, Rebecca Cammisa

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, (TV) Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner, Daniel Junge, Henry Ansbacher
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (TV), Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
Królik po berlinsku, Bartosz Konopka, Anna Wydra
Music by Prudence, Roger Ross Williams, Elinor Burkett

Best Short Film, Animated

French Roast, Fabrice Joubert
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, Nicky Phelan, Darragh O'Connell
La dama y la muerte, Javier Recio Gracia
Logorama, Nicolas Schmerkin
Wallace and Gromit in 'A Matter of Loaf and Death', (TV) Nick Park

Best Short Film, Live Action

The Door, Juanita Wilson, James Flynn
Istället för abrakadabra, Patrik Eklund, Mathias Fjällström
Kavi, Gregg Helvey
Miracle Fish, Luke Doolan, Drew Bailey
The New Tenants, Joachim Back, Tivi Magnusson

[Seil]

Inglourious Basterds is first up. Taking bets now.

[MuMu]

Up got Best Animated Film, how unexpected. Here's hoping District 9 nabs something, fookin' prawns deserve some gold.

Edit: Holy shit, Na'vi Ben Stiller (http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3509/holyshitincomingnightma.jpg) is terrifying.

Edit 2: Aaaaand it's over, and I barely noticed it because they probably paid Tom Hanks per second on screen. Hurt Locker got the important stuff, Avatar the technical and Tarantino will get a pity Oscar in 2050.

[Seil]

http://lookitsbray.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/thats-all-folks1.jpg

[Regulus Tera]

The better movie won.

That's what I would be saying if they had given the best picture award to An Education. But hey, at least Avatar lost!

[Seil]

2... 3... 4... Hurt Locker won 6 Oscars!?

[P-Sleazy]

You know what the sweetest part of Hurt Locker is?

The lady directing it is the former wife of James Cameron before he dumped her after Titanic (or sometime around then).

[Regulus Tera]

Coraline got robbed, though it was to be expected. It did more interesting things with its characters and CGI than Up did, even if it felt dragged at times.

I will say, though. that Up totally deserved that soundtrack award.

[Mirai Gen]

I'm glad Hurt Locker topped Avatar.

I'm also glad Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor because hoshit he was good.

[Corel]

Hooray for Jeff Bridges finally winning! Fantastic performance in Crazy Heart.

[Preturbed]

Mo'Nique won an oscar? I am officially never watching this show.

[Seil]

Hey, she was actually... wait, that was Queen Latifah in Stranger Than Fiction - who is Mo'Nique? Oh, this is Mo'Nique. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdcD3k5c5_o) Yeah - she got an Oscar for her performance in this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5FYahzVU44)

Clareece 'Precious' Jones: [Crying hysterically] Nobody loves me!
Ms. Rain: People do love you, Precious.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones: Don't lie to me! Love ain't done nothing for me! Love beat me down! Love rape me. Made me feel worthless!
Ms. Rain: [Tears begin falling from her eyes] But that's not love. Your baby loves you. *I* love you!

[Magus]

Tarantino should've won best director if they were going to give the Hurt Locker the other rewards. Objective voting is all well and good but c'mon.

At least Avatar didn't win for anything except what it should win for (best special effects and so on).

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Foreign film category continues its proud tradition of being even more of a mockery than the main film category. Good show.

[Magus]

Hey, The Secret of the [something] Eyes was obviously a beautiful film about secrets and eyes and something else. Seriously.

[Kerensky287]

Next time I get a chance I'm renting Hurt Locker and if it isn't officially 6 times better than Inglourious Basterds then I am carving a swastika into the forehead of every single member of the Oscar committee.

[EVILNess]

Next time I get a chance I'm renting Hurt Locker and if it isn't officially 6 times better than Inglourious Basterds then I am carving a swastika into the forehead of every single member of the Oscar committee.

It's alright, but they are two different kinds of movies. Also, it seems to me you are gonna hate it just because of the Oscars, no matter how good it is.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Hey, The Secret of the [something] Eyes was obviously a beautiful film about secrets and eyes and something else. Seriously.

It's got a romance story tied in with a crime story and its generic as all fuck. I think it just tied up the hispanic vote. And the gangster vote.

if it isn't officially 6 times better than Inglourious Basterds
It wouldn't be hard!

[Meister]

Not entirely sure how Hans Landa is only considered a supporting role.

[The Wandering God]

District 9 not winning anything is really fucking lame.

Oh and,

R.I.P. Dom DeLuise

[Magus]

Hans Landa is a supporting role by dint of being the antagonist. It's the same reason Ledger won for best supporting actor despite the Joker basically carrying the whole film--he's the antagonist and therefore not the main character, and therefore not the leading actor. Same thing happened to Javier Bardem, I think, despite Chigurh arguably being a main character and not just an antagonist...I don't know what they do for movies where there is no clear protagonist or antagonist like in Tarantino movies, but I guess Landa fit the bill of being clearly an antagonist...

[Seil]

Foreign film category continues its proud tradition of being even more of a mockery than the main film category. Good show.

Well, I've Loved You So Long (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2iSfhlNXZk) wasn't nominated in its year, I don't think, and Vier Minuten (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej24OZE8ivE) was either, only getting the German "Best Picture." What do you expect?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

White Ribbon was my pick for film of the year and it actually got nominated which was surprising- didn't win though.

[Bells]

Too bad i missed the opportunity to check out the official Oscar Forums like last year... that was "fun"!

[KittenMittons]

Avatar was soooooooo overrated. go hurt locker