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The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony (so-called Oscar ceremony), presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of 2009. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on the 7th of March 2010. The Hurt Locker took the biggest prizes, winning Best Director and Best Picture, coming away with a stunning six nominations in all. The list of best movies in 2009 can be found below.
Best Picture - The Hurt Locker
Best Director - Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Best Actor - Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Actress - Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actree - Mo'nique, Precious
Best Original Screenplay - Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Best Adapted Screenplay - Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
Best Foreign Language Film - El Secretro de sus Ojo, Argentina
Best Animated Feature - Up
Best Art Direction - Avatar Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
Best Cinematography - Avatar Mauro Fiore
Best Costume design - The Young Victoria Sandy Powell
Best Sound Editing - The Hurt Locker Paul N.J. Ottosson
Best Sound Mixing - The Hurt Locker Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
Best Visual Effects - Avatar Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced live on Tuesday February 2, 2010. The category Best Picture included: Avatar; The Blind Side; District 9; An Education; The Hurt Locker; Inglourious Basterds; A Serious Man; Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire; Up and Up in the Air.
The lists of the Best Actor and Best Actress were: Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Bad Blake; George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham; Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer; Morgan Freeman – Invictus as Nelson Mandela; Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as Sgt. William James; Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy; Helen Mirren – The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoy; Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Miller; Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire as Clarieece "Precious" Jones and Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child.
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Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress was chosen among: Matt Damon – Invictus as François Pienaar; Woody Harrelson – The Messenger as Capt. Tony Stone; Christopher Plummer – The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy; Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey; Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa; Penélope Cruz – Nine as Carla Albanese; Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran; Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart as Jean Craddock; Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener and Mo'Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire as Mary Lee Johnston.
In the category of Best Original Screenplay the nominees were: The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal; Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino; The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman; A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen; Up – Tom McCarthy, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter. Best Adapted Screenplay: District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell; An Education – Nick Hornby; In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche;Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher; Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner.
Best Animated Feature included: Coraline – Henry Selick;Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson; The Princess and the Frog – Ron Clements and John Musker; The Secret of Kells – Tomm Moore and Up – Pete Docter. Best Foreign Language Film could be: Ajami (Israel) in Arabic and Hebrew – Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani; El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) in Spanish – Juan José Campanella; The Milk of Sorrow (Peru) in Spanish – Claudia Llosa; A Prophet (France) in French – Jacques Audiard or The White Ribbon (Germany) in German – Michael Haneke.
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