‘The Hurt Locker’ won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2010. The movie also won six awards at the Oscars including Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture.

The other nominations in the category of Best Motion Picture of the Year were:

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

Sandra Bullock won the award for Best performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. She got the award for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

The other nominees in this category were:

Helen Mirren – ‘The Last Station’
Carey Mulligan – ‘An Education’
Gabourey Sidibe – ‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’
Meryl Streep – ‘Julie and Julia’

The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. This was the first telecast to have multiple hosts since the 59th ceremony. Actors Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosted the show.

Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner gave a tribute to horror films.

The winners of the 82nd Academy Awards are:

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa

Best Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire as Mary Lee Johnston

Best Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal

Best Adapted Screenplay
Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher from Push by Sapphire

Best Animated Feature
Up – Pete Docter

Best Live Action Short
The New Tenants – Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusso

Best Animated Short
Logorama – Nicolas Schmerkin

Best Original Song
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from Crazy Heart – Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett

Best Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson

Best Sound Mixing
The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett

Best Costume Design
The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell

Best Makeup
Star Trek – Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

Best Visual Effects
Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones

Best Original Score
Up – Michael Giacchino

Best Documentary Feature
”’The Cove – Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens’

Best Foreign Language Film
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) in Spanish – Juan José Campanella

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Otis “Bad” Blake

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

Best Picture
The Hurt Locker

Mo’Nique wins the award for Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role.

Monique Imes, known professionally as Mo’Nique, was the 16th African American actress to receive the Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She received the honor for her role in the film Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire.

‘Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire’ also won in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay

The other nominees in this category were:

Penelope Cruz – ‘Nine’
Vera Farmiga – ‘Up in the Air’
Maggie Gyllenhaal – ‘Crazy Heart’
Anna Kendrick – ‘Up in the Air’

‘Up’ wins the Best Animated Feature in 2010. The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, making Up only the second animated film in history to receive such a nomination, following Beauty and the Beast in 1991. Together with Avatar, the two films are the first 3D films ever nominated for Best Picture Oscar.

The other nominees in the category were:

‘Coraline’
‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’
‘The Princess and the Frog’
‘The Secret of Kells’

Avatar

It about knowing a new race a new world in a new horizon. The sequel starts with the war between the blue “Navi’s” and humans who wants to invade the alien planet “Pandora” for it priceless resources.

Navi’s are very emotional & spiritual beings who love and worships nature and very mysteriously connected with every living thing of their planet.

It is not another alien oriented film where Sigourney Weaver fights with the alliens but one of the most philosophic master piece that ever made by James Cameron which shows love and affection for the whole alien race. Actually it’s a massage in disguise that we must care for our priceless treasure, our mother earth.

It seems their has been an extensive years of research behind this movie and unique detailing in every scene. All the blue ‘Navi’s’ are so real that it reflects each and every human characters and the moral of the story is love for nature and fight for existence.

Avatar has topped all box-office records last year, making as much as £200million in one weekend, and it one of the most anticipated film for the oscars 2010.

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Claireece Precious Jones a deprived teenage girl with unfulfilled  dreams, raped by her own father abused by her own mother and infected with AIDS. It’s a very pathetic story of an American girl carelessly raised in messed up home.

Director Lee Daniels portrays “Precious” (Gabourey Sidibe) in an unbelievably realistic frame where anyone is compelled to feel for her with deepest sympathy.

The film is so down to earth that it makes us feel “Precious” is just one of our own daughter. “Precious” who is precious to no-one in her family impregnated twice by her father and treated as a slave by her mother (Mo’Nique) . This is an extremely tragic story of an imaginative girl with shattered dreams and unanswered tears, who strives hard to exists and express her sorrows.

The Hurt Locker

The film is based on real life scenario of war-zone Iraq, where life and death is determined in  matter of seconds. It’s focused on the team of US Army EOD and highlights basic human fears and frustrations of the soldiers in the bomb disposal squad.

The original story was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded with a bomb squad . The film shows graphical images of a young dead boy who has been surgically implanted with an unexploded bomb discovered by William James (Jeremy Renner).The flawless tight editing of this film gives a very realistic scene of war wrecked Baghdad beautifully composed by director Kathryn Bigelow.

The film has already won the BAFTA 2010 Best Film and speculations are high that it would sweep away this year’s Oscar too.