The Oscar Locker – The Results of the 82nd Academy Awards Are In

I ended up getting 18/24 categories right, which is one of my best years of predicting in awhile. For the most part I am very happy with the results of tonight’s ceremony. Really the biggest disappointment for me was Sandy over Meryl. Someday will be Meryl’s day again, I just know it. 

But boy was it Kathryn Bigelow’s night. Two Oscars in five minutes and one glass ceiling shattered forever. 

I don’t really have much to say about any of the other winners, so I’m just going to share photos of the acting winners and post a full list of the winners and call it good.

Best picture 
“Avatar”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9”
“An Education”
“The Hurt Locker” 
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
“Up in the Air”

Best actor 
Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart” 
George Clooney, “Up in the Air”
Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman, “Invictus”
Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”

Best actress 
Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side” 
Helen Mirren, “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious”
Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”

Best supporting actor 
Matt Damon, “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”
Christopher Plummer, “The Last Station”
Stanley Tucci, “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds” 

Best supporting actress 
Penelope Cruz, “Nine”
Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “Crazy Heart”
Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”
Mo’Nique, “Precious” 

Best director 
James Cameron, “Avatar”
Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker” 
Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”
Lee Daniels, “Precious”
Jason Reitman, “Up in the Air”

Best foreign-language film 
“Ajami,” Israel
“El Secreto de Sus Ojos,” Argentina 
“The Milk of Sorrow,” Peru
“Un Prophete,” France
“The White Ribbon,” Germany

Best adapted screenplay 
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, “District 9”
Nick Hornby, “An Education”
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, “In the Loop”
Geoffrey Fletcher, “Precious” 
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, “Up in the Air”

Best original screenplay 
Mark Boal, “The Hurt Locker” 
Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”
Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, “The Messenger”
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, “A Serious Man”
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter and Tom McCarthy, “Up”

Best animated feature film 
“Coraline”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“The Secret of Kells”
“Up” 

Best art direction 
“Avatar” 
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
“Nine” “Sherlock Holmes”
“The Young Victoria”

Best cinematography 
“Avatar” 
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“The White Ribbon”

Best sound mixing 
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker” 
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Star Trek”
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”

Best sound editing 
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker” 
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Star Trek”
“Up”

Best original score 
“Avatar,” James Horner
“Fantastic Mr. Fox,” Alexandre Desplat
“The Hurt Locker,” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
“Sherlock Holmes,” Hans Zimmer
“Up,” Michael Giacchino 

Best original song 
“Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog,” Randy Newman
“Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog,” Randy Newman
“Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36,” Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas
“Take It All” from “Nine,” Maury Yeston
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart,” Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best costume design 
“Bright Star”
“Coco Before Chanel”
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
“Nine”
“The Young Victoria” 

Best documentary feature 
“Burma VJ”
“The Cove” 
“Food, Inc.”
“The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers”
“Which Way Home”

Best documentary short 
“China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province”
“The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner”
“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”
“Music by Prudence” 
“Rabbit a la Berlin”

Best film editing 
“Avatar”
“District 9”
“The Hurt Locker” 
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”

Best makeup 
“Il Divo”
“Star Trek” 
“The Young Victoria”

Best animated short film 
“French Roast”
“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty”
“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)”
“Logorama” 
“A Matter of Loaf and Death”

Best live-action short film 
“The Door”
“Instead of Abracadabra”
“Kavi”
“Miracle Fish”
“The New Tenants” 

Best visual effects 
“Avatar” 
“District 9”
“Star Trek”

About Marya E. Gates

Cinephile to the max.

Posted on March 7, 2010, in the Academy Awards and tagged , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.

  1. dont you mean 2010?

    • it’s for film in 2009, therefore it was the 2009 Oscar race. it just aired in 2010. but I changed it to 82nd, because that way there’s no debate over whether to name the show after the year the films are from or the year the ceremony is aired.

  2. Good job on your 18 of 24. You did a lot of research and thinking.

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