| 82nd Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | March 7, 2010 | |||
| Site | Kodak Theatre Hollywood, California | |||
| Host | Alec Baldwin Steve Martin | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | The Hurt Locker | |||
| Most wins | The Hurt Locker (6) | |||
| Most nominations | Avatar and The Hurt Locker (9) | |||
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The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was televised in the United States on ABC. Actors Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosted the show, Martin for the third time, after previously presiding over the 73rd and 75th ceremonies, and Baldwin for the first time.
Best Picture[]
See also: Best Picture
- Winner
- The Hurt Locker — Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, producers
- Nominees
- Avatar — James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers
- The Blind Side — Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, producers
- District 9 — Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, producers
- An Education — Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, producers
- Inglourious Basterds — Lawrence Bender, producer
- Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire — Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, producers
- A Serious Man — Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, producers
- Up — Jonas Rivera, producer
- Up in the Air — Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, producers
Best Actor[]
See also: Best Actor
- Winner
- Jeff Bridges — Crazy Heart
- Nominees
- George Clooney — Up in the Air
- Colin Firth — A Single Man
- Morgan Freeman — Invictus
- Jeremy Renner — The Hurt Locker
Best Actress[]
See also: Best Actress
- Winner
- Sandra Bullock — The Blind Side
- Nominees
- Helen Mirren — The Last Station
- Carey Mulligan — An Education
- Gabourey Sidibe — Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
- Meryl Streep — Julie & Julia
Best Supporting Actor[]
See also: Best Supporting Actor
- Winner
- Christoph Waltz — Inglourious Basterds
- Nominees
- Matt Damon — Invictus
- Woody Harrelson — The Messenger
- Christopher Plummer — The Last Station
- Stanley Tucci — The Lovely Bones
Best Supporting Actress[]
See also: Best Supporting Actress
- Winner
- Mo'Nique — Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
- Nominees
- Penélope Cruz — Nine
- Vera Farmiga — Up in the Air
- Maggie Gyllenhaal — Crazy Heart
- Anna Kendrick — Up in the Air
Best Director[]
See also: Best Director
- Winner
- Kathryn Bigelow — The Hurt Locker
- Nominees
- James Cameron — Avatar
- Lee Daniels — Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
- Jason Reitman — Up in the Air
- Quentin Tarantino — Inglourious Basterds
Best Original Screenplay[]
See also: Best Original Screenplay
- Winner
- The Hurt Locker — Written by Mark Boal
- Nominees
- Inglourious Basterds — Written by Quentin Tarantino
- The Messenger — Written by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
- A Serious Man — Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- Up — Screenplay by Bob Peterson and Pete Docter; Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson and Tom McCarthy
Best Adapted Screenplay[]
See also: Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire — Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
- Nominees
- District 9 — Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
- An Education — Screenplay by Nick Hornby
- In the Loop — Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche
- Up in the Air — Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Best Cinematography[]
See also: Best Cinematography
- Winner
- Avatar — Mauro Fiore
- Nominees
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — Bruno Delbonnel
- The Hurt Locker — Barry Ackroyd
- Inglourious Basterds — Robert Richardson
- The White Ribbon — Christian Berger
Best Film Editing[]
See also: Best Film Editing
- Winner
- The Hurt Locker — Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
- Nominees
- Avatar — Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
- District 9 — Julian Clarke
- Inglourious Basterds — Sally Menke
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire — Joe Klotz
Best Art Direction[]
See also: Best Art Direction
- Winner
- Avatar — Production Design: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
- Nominees
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — Production Design: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
- Nine — Production Design: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
- Sherlock Holmes — Production Design: Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
- The Young Victoria — Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
Best Costume Design[]
See also: Best Costume Design
- Winner
- The Young Victoria — Sandy Powell
- Nominees
- Bright Star — Janet Patterson
- Coco Before Chanel — Catherine Leterrier
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — Monique Prudhomme
- Nine — Colleen Atwood
Best Makeup[]
See also: Best Makeup
- Winner
- Star Trek — Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
- Nominees
- Il Divo — Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
- The Young Victoria — John Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
Best Original Score[]
See also: Best Original Score
- Winner
- Up — Michael Giacchino
- Nominees
- Avatar — James Horner
- Fantastic Mr. Fox — Alexandre Desplat
- The Hurt Locker — Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
- Sherlock Holmes — Hans Zimmer
Best Original Song[]
See also: Best Original Song
- Winner
- "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart — Music and Lyric by T-Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham
- Nominees
- "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog — Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
- "Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog — Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
- "Loin de Paname" from Paris 36 — Music by Reinhardt Wagner; Lyric by Frank Thomas
- "Take It All" from Nine — Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
Best Sound Mixing[]
See also: Best Sound Mixing
- Winner
- The Hurt Locker — Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
- Nominees
- Avatar — Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
- Inglourious Basterds — Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
- Star Trek — Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen — Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Best Sound Editing[]
See also: Best Sound Editing
- Winner
- The Hurt Locker — Paul N.J. Ottosson
- Nominees
- Avatar — Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
- Inglourious Basterds — Wylie Stateman
- Star Trek — Mark P. Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
- Up — Tom Myers and Michael Silvers]]
Best Visual Effects[]
See also: Best Visual Effects
- Winner
- Avatar — Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
- Nominees
- District 9 — Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
- Star Trek — Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Best Animated Feature[]
See also: Best Animated Feature
- Winner
- Up — Pete Docter
- Nominees
- Coraline — Henry Selick
- Fantastic Mr. Fox — Wes Anderson
- The Princess and the Frog — John Musker and Ron Clements
- The Secret of Kells — Tomm Moore
Best Foreign Language Film[]
See also: Best Foreign Language Film
- Winner
- The Secret in Their Eyes from Argentina — directed by Juan José Campanella
- Nominees
- Ajami from Israel — directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
- The White Ribbon from Germany — directed by Michael Haneke
- A Prophet from France — directed by Jacques Audiard
- The Milk of Sorrow from Peru — directed by Claudia Llosa
Best Documentary Feature[]
See also: Best Documentary Feature
- Winner
- The Cove — Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
- Nominees
- Burma VJ — Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
- Food, Inc. — Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
- The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers — Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
- Which Way Home — Rebecca Cammisa
Best Documentary Short[]
See also: Best Documentary Short
- Winner
- Music by Prudence — Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
- Nominees
- China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province — Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
- The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner — Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
- The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant — Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
- Rabbit à la Berlin — Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
Best Animated Short[]
See also: Best Animated Short
- Winner
- Logorama — Nicolas Schmerkin
- Nominees
- French Roast — Fabrice Joubert
- Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty — Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
- The Lady and the Reaper — Javier Recio Gracia
- A Matter of Loaf and Death — Nick Park
Best Live Action Short[]
See also: Best Live Action Short
- Winner
- The New Tenants — Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
- Nominees
- The Door — Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
- Instead of Abracadabra — Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
- Kavi — Gregg Helvey
- Miracle Fish — Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
Honorary Award[]
- Lauren Bacall "in recognition of her central place in the golden age of motion pictures."
- Roger Corman "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers."
- Gordon Willis "for unsurpassed mastery of light, shadow, color and motion."