82nd Academy Awards Make History For Women
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Kathryn Bigelow, Sandra Bullock, and Mo'Nique lead the historical night for women at the 82nd Academy Awards.
Kathryn Bigelow, director of "The Hurt Locker," becomes the first woman to win "Best Director" since the establishment of the Academy Awards, the most prestigious award giving body in the entertainment industry, 82 years ago.
"The Hurt Locker" has won over "Avatar" as the Iraq war drama rules the ceremony with 6 awards while merely 3 awards have been granted to the sci-fi movie. "The Hurt Locker" wins the most coveted award of the night, "Best Picture," plus five other recognitions namely "Best Directing," "Best Film Editing," "Best Sound Mixing," "Best Sound Editing," and "Best Writing (Original Screenplay)."
"This really is, there's no other way to describe it, the moment of a lifetime. I'd like to dedicate this to the women and men in the military who risk their lives in a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world. May they come home safe," says the triumphant Kathryn Bigelow who is only the fourth woman to be nominated for best director by Academy voters.
Because Kathryn Bigelow is James Cameron's ex-wife, their face-off at the awarding ceremony is also fondly dubbed as the "Battle of the Exes."
Meanwhile, Sandra Bullock receives her first Oscar's "Best Actress" trophy just a day after winning the Razzie's "Worst Actress" award. She is the first actor to receive both antonymous awards in a year.
"Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down?" the 39-year-old actress asked in good humor. Her Oscar winning is for the movie "The Blind Side" where she played Leigh Anne Tuohy, a real-life woman who took in the homeless black teenager Michael Oher and led him towards a great American football career. Sandra Bullock's "Worst Actress" award is for her performance in the box office flop "All About Steve."
Down-to-earth and cool, Sandra Bullock has surprised everyone when she personally received the "Worst Actress" trophy at the 30th Razzie Awards on Saturday. Her speech at the Oscars the following day has included plan of displaying her plastic gold spray painted raspberry Razzie award next to her golden Oscar statuette.
"They're going to sit side by side, as they should. You take the good with the not so good. It probably means more that both of them happened at the same time because it's the great equalizer. You know, nothing ever let's me get too full of myself."
"Best Supporting Actress" Mo'Nique has also marked a triumphant night for the female African-American actors. She is only the fifth black actress in the history of Academy Awards to win an Oscar after Hattie McDaniel, Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry and Jennifer Hudson.
Mo'Nique's acceptance speech has also paid tribute to Hattie McDaniel for the being the first black woman who triumphed in the most prestigious awarding ceremony:
"I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to. The reason why I have on this royal blue dress is because it's the color that Hattie McDaniel wore in 1940 when she accepted her Oscar. So, for you, Miss Hattie McDaniel, I feel you all over me, and it's about time that the world feels you all over them."
BEST PICTURE: "The Hurt Locker"
BEST DIRECTING: Kathryn Bigelow "The Hurt Locker"
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Sandra Bullock "The Blind Side"
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Jeff Bridges "Crazy Heart"
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)" Argentina
BEST FILM EDITING: "The Hurt Locker" Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
BEST DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE): "The Cove" Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: "Avatar" Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE): "Up" Michael Giacchino
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: "Avatar" Mauro Fiore
BEST SOUND MIXING: "The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
BEST SOUND EDITING: "The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Ottosson
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: "The Young Victoria" Sandy Powell
BEST ART DIRECTION: "Avatar": Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
BEST WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY): "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
BEST MAKEUP: "Star Trek" Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION): "The New Tenants" Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT): "Music by Prudence" Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED): "Logorama" Nicolas Schmerkin
BEST WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY): "The Hurt Locker" Mark Boal
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG): "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: "Up" Pete Docter
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds"
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS:
Mark Wolforth and Tony Sedivy for their contributions to the development of the Truelight real-time 3-D look-up table hardware system.
Dr. Klaus Anderle, Christian Baeker and Frank Billasch for their contributions to the LUTher 3-D look-up table hardware device and color management software.
Steve Sullivan, Kevin Wooley, Brett Allen and Colin Davidson for the development of the iMoCap on-set performance capture system.
Hayden Landis, Ken McGaugh and Hilmar Koch for advancing the technique of ambient occlusion rendering.
Björn Hedén for the design and mechanical engineering of the silent, two-stage planetary friction drive Hedén Lens Motors.
SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARDS:
Per Christensen, Michael Bunnell and Christophe Hery for the development of point-based rendering for indirect illumination and ambient occlusion.
Dr. Richard Kirk for the overall design and development of the Truelight real-time 3-D look-up table hardware device and color management software.
Volker Massmann, Markus Hasenzahl, Dr. Klaus Anderle and Andreas Loew for the development of the Spirit 4K/2K film scanning system as used in the digital intermediate process for motion pictures.
Michael Cieslinski, Dr. Reimar Lenz and Bernd Brauner for the development of the ARRISCAN film scanner, enabling high-resolution, high-dynamic range, pin-registered film scanning for use in the digital intermediate process.
Wolfgang Lempp, Theo Brown, Tony Sedivy and Dr. John Quartel for the development of the Northlight film scanner, which enables high-resolution, pin-registered scanning in the motion picture digital intermediate process.
Steve Chapman, Martin Tlaskal, Darrin Smart and Dr. James Logie for their contributions to the development of the Baselight color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process.
Kathryn Bigelow, director of "The Hurt Locker," becomes the first woman to win "Best Director" since the establishment of the Academy Awards, the most prestigious award giving body in the entertainment industry, 82 years ago.
"The Hurt Locker" has won over "Avatar" as the Iraq war drama rules the ceremony with 6 awards while merely 3 awards have been granted to the sci-fi movie. "The Hurt Locker" wins the most coveted award of the night, "Best Picture," plus five other recognitions namely "Best Directing," "Best Film Editing," "Best Sound Mixing," "Best Sound Editing," and "Best Writing (Original Screenplay)."
"This really is, there's no other way to describe it, the moment of a lifetime. I'd like to dedicate this to the women and men in the military who risk their lives in a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world. May they come home safe," says the triumphant Kathryn Bigelow who is only the fourth woman to be nominated for best director by Academy voters.
Because Kathryn Bigelow is James Cameron's ex-wife, their face-off at the awarding ceremony is also fondly dubbed as the "Battle of the Exes."
Meanwhile, Sandra Bullock receives her first Oscar's "Best Actress" trophy just a day after winning the Razzie's "Worst Actress" award. She is the first actor to receive both antonymous awards in a year.
"Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down?" the 39-year-old actress asked in good humor. Her Oscar winning is for the movie "The Blind Side" where she played Leigh Anne Tuohy, a real-life woman who took in the homeless black teenager Michael Oher and led him towards a great American football career. Sandra Bullock's "Worst Actress" award is for her performance in the box office flop "All About Steve."
Down-to-earth and cool, Sandra Bullock has surprised everyone when she personally received the "Worst Actress" trophy at the 30th Razzie Awards on Saturday. Her speech at the Oscars the following day has included plan of displaying her plastic gold spray painted raspberry Razzie award next to her golden Oscar statuette.
"They're going to sit side by side, as they should. You take the good with the not so good. It probably means more that both of them happened at the same time because it's the great equalizer. You know, nothing ever let's me get too full of myself."
"Best Supporting Actress" Mo'Nique has also marked a triumphant night for the female African-American actors. She is only the fifth black actress in the history of Academy Awards to win an Oscar after Hattie McDaniel, Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry and Jennifer Hudson.
Mo'Nique's acceptance speech has also paid tribute to Hattie McDaniel for the being the first black woman who triumphed in the most prestigious awarding ceremony:
"I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to. The reason why I have on this royal blue dress is because it's the color that Hattie McDaniel wore in 1940 when she accepted her Oscar. So, for you, Miss Hattie McDaniel, I feel you all over me, and it's about time that the world feels you all over them."
Academy Awards 2010 Complete List of Winners:
BEST PICTURE: "The Hurt Locker"
BEST DIRECTING: Kathryn Bigelow "The Hurt Locker"
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Sandra Bullock "The Blind Side"
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Jeff Bridges "Crazy Heart"
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)" Argentina
BEST FILM EDITING: "The Hurt Locker" Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
BEST DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE): "The Cove" Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: "Avatar" Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE): "Up" Michael Giacchino
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: "Avatar" Mauro Fiore
BEST SOUND MIXING: "The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
BEST SOUND EDITING: "The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Ottosson
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: "The Young Victoria" Sandy Powell
BEST ART DIRECTION: "Avatar": Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
BEST WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY): "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
BEST MAKEUP: "Star Trek" Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION): "The New Tenants" Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT): "Music by Prudence" Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED): "Logorama" Nicolas Schmerkin
BEST WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY): "The Hurt Locker" Mark Boal
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG): "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: "Up" Pete Docter
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds"
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS:
Mark Wolforth and Tony Sedivy for their contributions to the development of the Truelight real-time 3-D look-up table hardware system.
Dr. Klaus Anderle, Christian Baeker and Frank Billasch for their contributions to the LUTher 3-D look-up table hardware device and color management software.
Steve Sullivan, Kevin Wooley, Brett Allen and Colin Davidson for the development of the iMoCap on-set performance capture system.
Hayden Landis, Ken McGaugh and Hilmar Koch for advancing the technique of ambient occlusion rendering.
Björn Hedén for the design and mechanical engineering of the silent, two-stage planetary friction drive Hedén Lens Motors.
SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARDS:
Per Christensen, Michael Bunnell and Christophe Hery for the development of point-based rendering for indirect illumination and ambient occlusion.
Dr. Richard Kirk for the overall design and development of the Truelight real-time 3-D look-up table hardware device and color management software.
Volker Massmann, Markus Hasenzahl, Dr. Klaus Anderle and Andreas Loew for the development of the Spirit 4K/2K film scanning system as used in the digital intermediate process for motion pictures.
Michael Cieslinski, Dr. Reimar Lenz and Bernd Brauner for the development of the ARRISCAN film scanner, enabling high-resolution, high-dynamic range, pin-registered film scanning for use in the digital intermediate process.
Wolfgang Lempp, Theo Brown, Tony Sedivy and Dr. John Quartel for the development of the Northlight film scanner, which enables high-resolution, pin-registered scanning in the motion picture digital intermediate process.
Steve Chapman, Martin Tlaskal, Darrin Smart and Dr. James Logie for their contributions to the development of the Baselight color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process.
Labels: Avatar, James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, MoNique, Sandra Bullock
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