Here is the complete list of Academy Award winners from the 82nd Annual ceremony held on Sunday, March 7, 2010.  In all, 24 awards were handed out in a star-studded parade of excess that lasted over three-and-a-half hours.

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin served as dual hosts and did a fantastic job.  They had great chemistry, and we're sure a film starring the two of them together would be a big hit.  However, in spite of the Academy trying to improve television ratings by including a wider variety of nominees for Best Picture, the overall affair, while entertaining, proved to be one of the least suspenseful Oscar telecasts ever.

All of the actors that industry pundits had predicted to win did win: Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges, Mo'Nique, and Christoph Waltz.

The Best Picture winner was equally as predictable.  While some thought that James Cameron's record-breaking Avatar would take home the big prize, it was obvious to us in the run-up to the awards that The Hurt Locker would stage an "upset." It's just the kind of movie that Hollywood loves to award, while a scifi spectacle like Avatar is decidedly not.  To those who thought Avatar was a shoo-in: have you learned nothing from ET: The Extra Terrestrial ?

The tally of multiple award winners is as follows:

The Hurt Locker - 6 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay
Avatar - 3 Oscars including Best Visual Effects
Crazy Heart - 2 Oscars including Best Actor
Precious - 2 Oscars including Best Supporting Actress
Up - 2 Oscars including Best Animated Feature

MAIN AWARDS

BEST DIRECTOR: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Other Nominees: James Cameron (Avatar), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), Lee Daniels (Precious), Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)

BEST ACTRESS: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Other Nominees: Helen Mirren (The Last Station), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

BEST ACTOR: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
Other Nominees: George Clooney (Up in the Air), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Morgan Freeman (Invictus), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Mo'Nique (Precious)
Other Nominees: Penelope Cruz (Nine), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart), Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Other Nominees: Matt Damon (Invictus), Woody Harrelson (The Messenger), Christopher Plummer (The Last Station), Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)

OTHER AWARDS

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: The Hurt Locker
Other Nominees: Inglorious Basterds, The Messenger, A Serious Man, Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Precious
Other Nominees: District 9, An Education, In the Loop, Up in the Air

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: "The Weary Kind" (Crazy Heart)
Other Nominees: "Almost There" (The Princess and the Frog), "Down in New Orleans" (The Prncess and the Frog), "Lion de Paname" (Paris 36), "Take it All" (Nine)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Up
Other Nominees: Avatar, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Hurt Locker, Sherlock Holmes

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Up
Other Nominees: Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, The Secret of Kells

BEST ANIMATED SHORT: Logorama
Other Nominees: French Roast, Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte), A Matter of Loaf and Death

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: The Cove
Other Nominees: Burma VJ, Food, Inc., Which Way Home, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: Music by Prudence
Other Nominees: 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

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: The New Tenants
Other Nominees: The Door, Instead of Abracadabra, Kavi, Miracle Fish

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: El Secreto De Sus Ojos (from Argentina)
Other Nominees: Ajami (from Israel), The Milk of Sorrow (from Peru), A Prophet (from France), The White Ribbon (from Germany)

OTHER AWARDS - MAJOR CRAFTSPEOPLE

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Avatar
Other Nominees: District 9, Star Trek 

BEST FILM EDITING: The Hurt Locker
Other Nominees: Avatar, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Precious 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Avatar
Other Nominees: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, The White Ribbon

BEST SOUND EDITING: The Hurt Locker
Other Nominees: Avatar, Inglourious Basterds, Star Trek, Up

BEST SOUND MIXING: The Hurt Locker
Other Nominees: Avatar, Inglourious Basterds, Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

BEST ART DIRECTION: Avatar
Other Nominees: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Nine, Sherlock Holmes, The Young Victoria

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: The Young Victoria
Other Nominees: Bright Star, Coco Before Chanel, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Nine

BEST MAKEUP: Star Trek
Other Nominees: Il Divo, The Young Victoria

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• |2010-03-08 02:44:45 Mike
  AVATAR should have won!!!!
  
  Come on, Hollywood! That's why no one watches the Oscars anymore.
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