TUIW Live Oscar Coverage!

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Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds). A deserving choice who gave a great speech. Hopefully we’ll see more of him through the years.

Best Animated Feature Film: Up. Another deserving choice, but it came out of a category that also had The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline, both of which could have won just as easily.

Best Original Song: Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett (“The Weary Kind”, Crazy Heart). Not a shocker, but it’s deserving, and truly the best of the nominated songs.

Best Original Screenplay: Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker). A pretty wide open category, but I’m a little surprised this wasn’t where Inglorious Basterds won. A good choice though definitely.

Best Animated Short: Logorama (dir. Nicholas Shmerkin). Gotta be honest, haven’t seen it, but it looks awesome! Best acceptance speech so far by the way.

Best Documentary Short: Music By Prudence (dir. Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett)

Best Live Action Short: The New Tenants (dir. Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson)

Best Makeup: Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow). Sci-fi wins in makeup category? Shocker!

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jeffrey Fletcher (Precious). I’m surprised, but yet not. I thought this would be Up In The Air‘s award, but Precious had a big shot here, and clearly won. (I bet Jason Reitman is pissed!)

Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique (Precious). Not a big shock. I don’t know about the line in the acceptance speech about “performance, not the politics.” Does that mean the other actresses weren’t deserving? Mo’Nique deserves it, but those were other great performances too that could have won. (End gripe session)

Best Art Direction: Avatar (Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (Art Direction); Kim Sinclair (Set Decoration)). That’s one.

Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell (The Young Victoria). A period piece wins best costumes? Shocker!

Best Sound Editing: Paul N.J. Ottosson (The Hurt Locker)

Best Sound Mixing: Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett (The Hurt Locker). You rarely see someone win in back to back categories. Weird to see someone holding two Oscars in an acceptance speech.

Best Cinematography: Mauro Fiore (Avatar). That’s two.

Best Original Score: Michael Giacchino (Up). Can we not do interpretive dance that has nothing to do with the movies for this category in the future? Thanks.

Best Visual Effects: Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones). That’s three.

Best Documentary Feature: The Cove (Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens). Yeah Fisher Stevens!

Best Film Editing: Bob Murawski and Chris Innis (The Hurt Locker). And The Hurt Locker retakes the lead!

Best Foreign Language Film: The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos). A little bit of a surprise, as A Prophet seemed to be favorite to win, but a strong category this year.

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart). The Dude finally got his Oscar! So great to see someone so overjoyed win after so long.

Best Actress: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side). Take note actors: you too can win an Oscar if someone writes a movie for you to do so! And it is possible to win a an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year.

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker). Fitting that the first woman to win Best Director directed the best film of the year. Cameron wouldn’t have surprised me, but I would have been disappointed. She deserved this big time.

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker. Wow! The most deserving of the candidates beat out the monster that was Avatar to take home the big prize! It figured to be close, but this is pretty big that it beat out the highest grossing film of all time to become the lowest grossing winner of best picture of all time.