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life TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010

‘Hurt Locker’ sweeps Oscars, Winners 82nd

makes history Best picture The drama won six Academy Awards, including best film and best director, Best actor while and were named best actress and best actor Jeff Bridges, Best actress By Bob Tourtellotte Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side , Director , The Hurt Locker Foreign language film (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) Supporting actor , Supporting actress Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Original screenplay , The Hurt Locker Adapted screenplay Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Animated feature Animated short film Logorama Art direction and (art direction) and (set decoration), Costume design Sandy Powell, Makeup , and , From left: Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Greg Shapiro celebrate winning the best picture Oscar for The Hurt Locker; Sandra Bullock poses with her best actress Oscar for The Blind Side; Jeff Bridges holds his best actor Oscar for Crazy Heart. Photos: Agencies Cinematography , Avatar he Hurt Locker director Kathryn “This has been a dream, beyond a who helps take a homeless youth off the McDaniel had when she won supporting Live action short film Bigelow battled her way into Oscar dream,” said Boal, a journalist who was street and makes him into a football success. actress in Gone With the Wind — a The New Tenants T history books on Sunday, topping embedded with US troops in Iraq. “Did I really earn this, or did I just wear trailblazing win because it was the first ever her movie’s best film honor with her own At best, he said, the film’s makers hoped you all down?” she joked on the Oscars stage. Oscar for an African American. Documentary feature Academy Award for directing to become the “we would find a distributor and someone She held back tears when thanking her “I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for The Cove first woman ever to earn that distinction. would like the movie.” own mother, whom she called “a trailblazer” enduring all she had to so that I would not Documentary short The low-budget film, which has earned Avatar walked away with three Oscars, and major influence in her own life. have to,” Mo’Nique said on stage. US$20 million at box offices, picked up six but in technical categories — , “To the moms who take care of the babies, Austrian actor Christoph Waltz won best awards in all and bested Avatar, directed cinematography and art direction. no matter where they come from. Those supporting actor for his turn as a menacing Visual effects by Bigelow’s ex-husband . moms never get thanked,” Bullock said. Nazi officer in revenge fantasy Inglourious , , Richard Baneham Avatar is the top-grossing movie of all time Family film Up, one of the best-reviewed Basterds, which follows a band of American and Andrew R. Jones, Avatar with US$2.5 billion. FAMILY NIGHT movies of 2009, won two Oscars for best Jews killing their enemies behind lines In a ceremony that harkened back to animated movie and original score with its during World War II. Sound editing old Hollywood with glamour, music and Veteran Jeff Bridges claimed best actor for tale of an elderly man who ties balloons to But it was the only trophy Quentin Paul N.J. Ottosson, The Hurt Locker comedy, the gritty drama about a squad playing a drunken country singer in drama his home and flies off on an adventure with Tarantino’s Basterds could claim after being Sound mixing of bomb-defusing specialists also secured Crazy Heart. The son of Hollywood star a young boy. the second-most nominated movie with Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett, The Hurt Locker writer Mark Boal the Academy Award for Lloyd Bridges held his trophy high over his Dark drama Precious: Based on the eight nods to nine apiece for Hurt Locker original screenplay and claimed honors for head, looking to the heavens and thanking Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire also earned two and Avatar. film editing, sound editing and mixing. his deceased parents. Oscars including best supporting actress for Oscar organizers promised a fast-paced and , The Hurt Locker “This really is, there’s no other way to “Mom and Dad, yeah,” he shouted. Mo’Nique and, in another piece of Academy show with lots of laughs from co-hosts Alec describe it, it’s the moment of a lifetime,” “Thank you Mom and Dad for turning me on Award history, adapted screenplay for Baldwin and . And after an Original score said Bigelow. Backstage, she told reporters to such a groovy profession.” writer Geoffrey Fletcher, who became the old-style musical from , Up that she hoped she was only the first of Sandra Bullock was named best actress first African American to claim that honor. with and men in tuxedos and Original song many women directors to win an Oscar. for The Blind Side in a first for the actress tails, Baldwin and Martin put on a stand-up , Crazy Heart Boal highlighted the struggle to make once dubbed “America’s Sweetheart” routine picking out stars in the audience. Looking back the movie when only a few years ago in because she won so many early fans in her “There’s that damn ,” Source: Reuters Hollywood money for such true-life drama romantic comedies. Martin said. was hard to find after audiences turned For The Blind Side, however, she took Mo’Nique told reporters backstage that in “No Steve, that’s Dame Helen Mirren,” their backs on war films. the part of a real-life, strong-willed mother her hair she wore the same gardenia Hattie Baldwin came back.

Gowns and gems dazzle on the red carpet Hollywood’s leading ladies, including Sandra Bullock, and , awed fans with gowns in many colors and shimmering metallics by SAMANTHA CRITCHELL thank God. It was the most interesting Angeles. Bullock’s gown had a and an exaggerated modern train that black Prada was adorned in unusual shoulder Badgley Mischka was a lovely AP, Los Angeles red carpet in a long time,” said Suze delicate floral embroidery and Mo’Nique jutted out from her hip. Armani said the embroidery: tiny forks, knives and shade of pink and the mermaid shape “is Sandra Bullock dressed the part at Yalof Schwartz, Glamour magazine’s complemented her electric blue Tadashi dress was inspired by the romance and scissors. She said she didn’t choose it the right way to dress a curvy woman,” Sunday’s Academy Awards: She wore executive fashion editor at large. “You Shoji asymmetrical dress with gardenias mystery of the moon. to make a statement. said Yalof Schwartz. a gleaming, metallic, slim-fitting gown want to see a dress that makes you say in her hair. She said she did it in the also had a futuristic “I just thought it was really cool,” she Mariah Carey seemed a little tame in that seemed fashioned after the Oscar ‘Wow!’ and I saw at least six of those.” spirit of the late Hattie McDaniel, who vibe in her amethyst gown by John said. “It’s not a dress where I have to her navy dress, but she promised that statuette itself. There had been a trend in recent years had done the same in 1940. Galliano for Dior with two folded rosettes wear Spanx or anything, so I’m good.” the slit on her Valentino would blow The dress was a winner, making the to make safe choices at the Oscars, with A few looks seemed sure to generate not on the bustline but on the bust itself. Another fashion-forward look was wide open if the wind kicked up. best actress one of many who stepped knowing that the photos chatter because they weren’t standard- “Charlize’s dress was really Zoe Saldana’s Givenchy gown with a But in fashion, it was Bullock going up their style on what is considered taken there would follow them for issue, red-carpet styles. ’s dramatic,” said Stephenson. “Love sparkly light pink bodice and a lilac skirt for the gold, said designer Patricia Field, Hollywood’s most important runway. the rest of their lives. But there was a sculpted, strapless pale-pink Armani it or hate it, you want to talk about that descended into tight ruffles in all who called it “simple, classy — it looked Top actresses made bold color choices, refreshing sense of fun — and some Prive had a dramatic slit on one side it.” ’s full-skirted shades of purple. ’s one- good on her.” donned stiffer shapes and used sparkle directional fashion — this year. strategically to get them noticed. “We’re moving into architectural “This red carpet was whimsical, shapes and away from all the drapery. There were not a lot of ‘goddesses’ this year,” observed Sharon Graubard, Bullock, ‘’ make Razzies list senior vice president of trend analysis at forecasting firm Stylesight. “This was By DAVID GERMAIN was picked as last year’s worst picture to show up at the awards. Bullock said if the tie-breaking vote to Land of the Lost. about glamour, very tasteful, grown-up AP, LOS ANGELES and won two other Razzies, worst they watched the DVD — “I mean really “It really did stink and I thought, well, glamour.” Gold was a huge trend, with Sandra Bullock warmed up for the director for and worst watch it” — and decided it was not the it ought to get something, because it is a looking like an old-school Academy Awards with a stop at the screenplay for , Roberto worst performance of the year after all, very bad movie,” Wilson said. movie star in her sleek, strapless gold Razzies to collect a dubious honor: a Orci and . then she would come back next year and Razzie voters also made worst-of- gown by Yves Saint Laurent and Deco- worst-actress prize for her romantic Bay and his team probably will not “give back the Razzie ... then we’ll go the-decade picks, with ’s inspired US$2.5 million yellow-diamond comedy flop . lose any sleep over it. Though reviled by drink afterwards.” science fiction debacle Battlefield Earth necklace from Tiffany & Co. Cameron Bullock swung by the Razzies on the critics, Transformers took in US$402.1 The worst actor Razzie went to winning worst picture. Diaz, with bold red lips, was another eve of her expected triumph at Sunday’s million in the US, No. 2 on the 2009 box- siblings Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas Among all-time Hollywood dreck, screen siren in a gold strapless gown with Oscars, where she won best actress for office chart behind Avatar. for Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Battlefield Earth is “like the 800-pound metallic ribbons and pailettes by Oscar de The Blind Side. Bullock was the first Bullock, who also shared the Razzie Experience. The Jonas’ pal , mongrel gorilla in the room,” Wilson la Renta; Miley Cyrus wore a bustier-style person to win an Oscar and a Razzie for worst screen couple with All About star of Hannah Montana: The Movie, lost said. “It’s one of my favorite type of bad strapless gold number by Jenny Packham; over the same weekend. Steve co-star , was the the worst actress category to Bullock. movies. It’s so bad, it’s entertaining, in and chose a custom “I think this is an extraordinary first acting winner to show up at the ’s action comedy flop ways that the people who made it had yellow Chanel with silver flowers around award,” said Bullock, who had promised Razzies since won worst Land of the Lost had come in tied with no idea it would be.” the bustline. throughout awards season that if she won actress for Catwoman five years ago. Transformers for the Razzies lead with Hilton was chosen as the “I loved Sarah Jessica Parker in the Razzie, she would accept it in person. As she took the stage, Bullock pulled seven nominations, but it was nearly decade’s worst actress for movies such Chanel. It was interesting, romantic and “And I didn’t realize that, in Hollywood, a little red wagon filled with DVDs of All shut out in every category. as The Hottie and the Nottie and Repo: she’s a fashion risk-taker,” said Mary all you had to do was say you’d show About Steve, saying she was giving a copy Once ballots had been counted from The Genetic Opera. , a Alice Stephenson, stylist and fashion up, and then you’d get the award. If I’d to everyone in the audience of about 300. the roughly 650 Razzies voters, Land of 2009 Razzie nominee for Imagine That, Charlize Theron, left, and pose during commentator. known that, I would have said I was Bullock implied that many Razzie the Lost was tied for the group’s worst was named the decade’s worst actor for the Governors Ball after the Oscars. Photo: Reuters Flowers were another dominant appearing at the Oscars a long time ago.” voters had not actually seen the movie remake, rip-off or sequel prize. Razzies such bombs as The Adventures of Pluto theme at the Kodak Theatre in Los Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen but cast ballots for her hoping to get her founder John Wilson, who votes last, gave Nash, I Spy and Meet Dave.