Oscars 2010: Major Award Winners

The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony took place on March 7, 2010 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Here are the Major Award Nominations and Winners List.



Catagory : Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner : The Hurt Locker
Nominees :
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Catagory : Best Actor
Winner : Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Otis "Bad" Blake
Nominees :
George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer
Morgan Freeman – Invictus as Nelson Mandela
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as Sgt. William James




Catagory : Best Supporting Actor
Winner : Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa
Nominees :
Matt Damon – Invictus as François Pienaar
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger as Capt. Tony Stone
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey



Catagory : Best Actress
Winner : Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy
Nominees :
Helen Mirren – The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoy
Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Miller
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire as Claireece "Precious" Jones
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child



Catagory : Best Supporting Actress
Winner : Mo'Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire as Mary Lee Johnston
Nominees :
Penélope Cruz – Nine as Carla Albanese
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart as Jean Craddock
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener




Catagory : Best Director
Winner : Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Nominees :
James Cameron – Avatar
Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds


Catagory : Best Original Screenplay
Winner : The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
Nominees :
Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Up – Tom McCarthy, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter




Catagory : Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner : Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher from Push by Sapphire
Nominees :
District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell from Alive in Joburg by Blomkamp
An Education – Nick Hornby from An Education by Lynn Barber
In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche from The Thick of It created by Iannucci
Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner from Up in the Air by Walter Kirn

 
Catagory : Best Animated Feature
Winner : Up – Pete Docter
Nominees :
Coraline – Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog – Ron Clements and John Musker
The Secret of Kells – Tomm Moore



 

Catagory : Best Foreign Language Film
Winner : El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) in Spanish – Juan José Campanella
Nominees :
Ajami (Israel) in Arabic and Hebrew – Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru) in Spanish and Quechua – Claudia Llosa
A Prophet (France) in French, Corsican and Arabic – Jacques Audiard
The White Ribbon (Germany) in German – Michael Haneke

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