'Hurt Locker' is the feel-good winner at this year's Oscars

Posted Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 11:39 PM Central
Last updated Monday, March 8, 2010 at 7:16 AM Central

Kathryn Bigelow celebrates with the two new men in her life. ©AMPAS®

The Academy shone its light on a wide variety of movies at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards but none as bright as that for The Hurt Locker. The Iraq war drama took home six Oscars including Best Picture.

Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman in the history of the awards to win Best Director. The film also won for Mark Boal's original screenplay and for prizes in film editing, sound editing and sound mixing.

The other big winners of the night were Sandra Bullock, who gave a tearful speech upon winning Best Actress for The Blind Side, and Jeff Bridges who dedicated his win for Crazy Heart to his showbiz parents.

Here are the winners in all categories:

Best Picture

Actor In A Leading Role

Actress In A Leading Role

Actor In A Supporting Role

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

Actress In A Supporting Role

Directing

WINNER - Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels, Precious
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air

Original Screenplay

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

Adapted Screenplay

WINNER - Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell, District 9
Nick Hornby, An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armand Iannucci & Tony Roche, In the Loop
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Animated Feature Film

Art Direction

Cinematography

Costume Design

Documentary Feature

Documentary Short Subject

WINNER - Music by Prudence
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Rabbit a la Berlin

Film Editing

Foreign Language Film

WINNER - (Argentina), El Secreto de Sus Ojos
(Israel), Ajami
(Peru), The Milk of Sorrow
(France), Un Prophete
(Germany), The White Ribbon

Makeup

Music (Original Score)

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

Music (Original Song)

WINNER - 'The Weary Kind' by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett, Crazy Heart
'Almost There' by Randy Newman, The Princess and the Frog
'Down in New Orleans' by Randy Newman, The Princess and the Frog
'Loin de Paname' by Reinhardt Wagner & Frank Thomas, Paris 36
'Take It All' by Maury Yeston, Nine

Short Film (Animated)

WINNER - Logorama
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Short Film (Live Action)

WINNER - The New Tenants
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish

Sound Editing

Sound Mixing

Visual Effects

Source: Oscars.org