The Oscar award ceremony has just finished and people are searching for Oscar winning movies. Last year, an Indian movie titled Slumdog Millionaire became one of the most Oscar winning movies of all time. On
Best picture:
The Hurt Locker won the Oscar for Best picture.
Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro
Avatar
James Cameron and Jon Landau
The Blind Side
Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson
District 9
Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham
An Education
Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and
A Serious Man
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Up
Jonas Rivera
Up in the Air
Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman
Best actor:
Crazy Heart
Jeff Bridges won the Oscar for Best actor for his role in Crazy Heart.
Up in the Air
George Clooney
A Single Man
Colin Firth
Invictus
Morgan Freeman
The Hurt Locker
Jeremy Renner
Best supporting actor:
Inglourious Basterds.
Christoph Waltz won the Oscar in Best supporting actor category for his role in the movie.
Invictus
Matt Damon
The Messenger
Woody Harrelson
The Last Station
Christopher Plummer
The Lovely Bones
Actress in a leading role:
The Blind Side
Sandra Bullock won the Oscar in 2010 in actress in a leading role category for her performance in this movie.
The Last Station
Helen Mirren
An Education
Carey Mulligan
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Gabourey Sidibe
Julie & Julia
Meryl Streep
Actress in a supporting role:
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Mo'Nique won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance in this movie.
Nine
Penélope Cruz
Up in the Air
Vera Farmiga
Crazy Heart
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick
Animated feature film:
Up
Pete Docter, director of Up, won the Oscar for best animated feature film for this movie.
Coraline
Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog
John Musker and Ron Clements
The Secret of Kells
Tomm Moore
Art direction:
Avatar
Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (Art Direction) and Kim Sinclair (Set Decoration) took the Oscar for art direction.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro (Art Direction); Caroline Smith (Set Decoration)
Nine
John Myhre (Art Direction); Gordon Sim (Set Decoration)
Sherlock Holmes
Sarah Greenwood (Art Direction); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration)
The Young
Patrice Vermette (Art Direction); Maggie Gray (Set Decoration)
Cinematography:
Avatar
Mauro Fiore won the Oscar for best cinematography for Avatar.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker
Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds
Robert Richardson
The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band)
Christian Berger
Costume design:
The Young
Sandy Powell won the Oscar for best costume design in The Young Victoria.
Bright Star
Janet Patterson
Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Monique Prudhomme
Nine
Colleen Atwood
Best director:
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow won Oscar for best direction for The Hurt Locker.
Avatar
James Cameron
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Lee Daniels
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman
Documentary feature:
The Cove
Director duo Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens won the Oscar for best documentary feature.
Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
Food, Inc.
Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
The Most Dangerous Man in
Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
Which Way Home
Rebecca Cammisa
Documentary short:
Music by Prudence
Director duo Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett won the Oscar for best short documentary.
Rabbit à la Berlin
Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
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
Film editing:
The Hurt Locker
Bob Murawski and Chris Innis won the Oscar for best film editing for The Hurt Locker.
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
Foreign language film:
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)
Directed by Juan José Campanella this movie won the Oscar in Best foreign film category.
Ajami (
Directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada)
Directed by Claudia Llosa
A Prophet (Un Prophète)
Directed by Jacques Audiard
The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band)
Directed by Michael Haneke
Best make up:
Star Trek
Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow won the Oscar for best make up.
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)
Directed by Juan José Campanella
Il Divo
Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Music (original score)
Up
Michael Giacchino won the Oscar for best music (original score).
Avatar
James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes
Hans Zimmer
Music (original song)
Crazy Heart
"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)"
Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Crazy Heart took the Oscar for best song category.
The Princess and the Frog
"Almost There"
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
The Princess and the Frog
"Down in
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Loin de Paname"
Music by Reinhardt Wagner
Lyric by Frank Thomas
Nine
"Take It All"
Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
Short film:
Logorama
Nicolas Schmerkin
Logorama wins the Oscar for best short film.
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Nick Park
French Roast
Fabrice O. Joubert
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Javier Recio Gracia.
Short film (live action):
The New Tenants
Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson won the Oscar for best short film (live action).
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
Sound editing:
The Hurt Locker
Paul N.J. Ottosson won the Oscar for best sound editing.
Avatar
Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Inglourious Basterds
Wylie Stateman
Star Trek
Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
Up
Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Sound mixing:
The Hurt Locker
Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett won the Oscar for sound mixing.
Avatar
Christopher Boyes,
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,
Visual effects:
Avatar
Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones won the Oscar for creating best visual effects in Avatar.
District 9
Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
Star Trek
Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Writing (adapted screenplay)
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Geoffrey Fletcher won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay.
District 9
Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
An Education
Screenplay by Nick Hornby
In the
Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Up in the Air
Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Best screenplay (original)
The Hurt Locker
Mark Boal won the Oscar for best original screen play.
Inglourious Basterds
Written by Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger
Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
A Serious Man
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Up
Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter. Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy
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