Hurt Locker’ Sweeps Oscars, Winners 82Nd Academy Awards
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life TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010 ‘Hurt Locker’ sweeps Oscars, Winners 82nd Academy Awards makes Hollywood history Best picture The Hurt Locker The Iraq war drama won six Academy Awards, including best film and best director, Best actor while Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges were named best actress and best actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart Best actress BY BOB TOurtellOtte Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side REUTERS, LOS ANGELES Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Foreign language film The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) Supporting actor Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds Supporting actress Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Original screenplay Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker Adapted screenplay Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Animated feature Up Animated short film Logorama Art direction Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (art direction) and Kim Sinclair (set decoration), Avatar Costume design Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria Makeup Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow, Star Trek 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 Mauro Fiore, 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. Music by Prudence US$20 million at box offices, picked up six but in technical categories — visual effects, “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 James Cameron. moms never get thanked,” Bullock said. Nazi officer in revenge fantasy Inglourious Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, 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 film editing, sound editing and mixing. his deceased parents. Oscars including best supporting actress for Oscar organizers promised a fast-paced Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, 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 Steve Martin. 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 Neil Patrick Harris Michael Giacchino, Up that she hoped she was only the first of Sandra Bullock was named best actress first African American to claim that honor. with showgirls 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 The Weary Kind, 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 Helen Mirren,” 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, Cameron Diaz and Zoe Saldana, awed fans with gowns in many colors and shimmering metallics BY SAMANTHA CRITCHELL thank God. It was the most interesting Angeles. Bullock’s Marchesa 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 Charlize Theron 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 celebrities 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. Jennifer Lopez’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.” Carey Mulligan’s full-skirted shades of purple. Queen Latifah’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, ‘Transformers’ 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.