The Hurt Locker took home 6 trophies, including Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, and Editing. Avatar took 3 (Visuals sure, but how does a cartoon get Art Direction and Cinematography?). Crazy Heart, Up, and Precious each took 2. Up in the Air was shut out. I haven't seen Precious, but the writing clip they showed had a large black woman stealing a big bucket of fried chicken and running down the street. UITA's screenplay seems a bit more subtle. Hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were excellent. Ben Stiller was funny, dressed up as Na'vi. The John Hughes tribute was surprisingly touching. The Neil Patrick Harris number was a bad way to start. James Taylor singing over the celebrity deaths was strange. The horror tribute was very good. Full list of winners after the jump.
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Director: The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique - Precious
Best Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal
Best Adapted Screenplay: Precious - Geoffrey Fletcher
Best Foreign Language: The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos), Argentina
Best Animated Film: Up - Pete Docter
Best Documentary: The Cove
Best Cinematography: Avatar
Best Art Direction: Avatar
Best Costumes: The Young Victoria
Best Editing: The Hurt Locker
Best Score: Up - Michael Giacchino
Best Song: “The Weary Kind” - Crazy Heart
Best Makeup: Star Trek
Best Visual Effects: Avatar
Best Sound Editing: The Hurt Locker
Best Sound Mixing: The Hurt Locker
Best Animated Short: Logorama
Best Live Action Short: The New Tenants
Best Documentary Short: Music by Prudence
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Oscar Winners
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Great that Cameron didn't get onstage. Glad UITA was shutout - totally overrated (take away the scenes where the firings take place over the computer and it turns into a bad romantic comedy - those scenes are in the source book). I also loved the hosts and hated the opening musical number. They should replace the 20 minutes of dancing with a live montage of the best song nominees. Not enough comedy this year - they should've had the whole hangover gang present or had the SNL presidents present for more edge.
I will say the Serious Man clips were much funnier than in the actual film - LOL'd at the "Dad, what is sodomy?" line.
Still love UITA. Not 1 but 2 strong female characters, independent and smart. I will agree that the message is decidedly mixed with family and friends important to the fired employees and career important to Clooney at the end. It feels part unfocused and part complex. There were definitely some pacing issues when Clooney goes to his sister's wedding. Too bad they couldn't shift the HL screenplay to adapted (because of that newspaper article), then QT would has his second well-deserved Oscar. We'll see how good Precious is tomorrow.
As for the show, the younger presenters were not quite disgraceful, but certainly embarrassing. Streisand was a disaster. Bigelow was the best director of the year, regardless of sex, age, race, or creed. Don't you feminists feel better because she actually deserved it?
The mini-Shawshank reunion was a highlight.
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