Avatar won its first Oscar for the best set design at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. '13 years ago doctors told me I won't survive and I thought the dream of standing here would never come true. But here I am,' said Avatar set designer.

 

Best cinematography, Best Visual Effects for Avatar.

 
Avatar has picked up 3 Oscars by now--Mauro Fiore won the award for best cinematography for Avatar, Best visual effects and best art direction too gone into Cameron's kitty.

 
Avatar picked its very first Oscar at the 82nd Academy Aawrds night for the best set design. For Art Direction, Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
 
"13 years ago doctors told me I won’t survive and I thought the dream of standing here would never come true. But here I am. I thank hundreds of people who contributed to making this film. Everyday we went to work, we knew we were working with the geniuses,” said Kim Sinclair as he accepted the Award.
 
As its being touted the real Oscar was is between Avatar and The Hurt Locker, both standing 9 nominations in the Oscars.
 
With the best set design in its kitty, its yet to be seen, if Avatar sets a record with Oscars the way it did with its box office collections.
 

Best supporting actress Oscar was won by Mo’Nique for Precious.
Even though the actress shone in just a few scenes in "couple of scenes in a grotesquely overrated film" (as critics put it), Monique won the best supporting actress Oscar award.
 
Best Makeup: Star Trek
The sci-fi movie which got snubbed in other categories won the Oscar for the best make up. An Avatar spoof Ben Stiller welcomed artists Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow.
 
"Can I step on your tail," joked Mindy Hall as she accepted the award.
 
Best Original screenplay: Mark Boal wins Oscar for The Hurt Locker
Mark Boal won the Oscar for the best original screenplay for The Hurt Locker. Few know that the brilliant Iraq bomb disposal drama was an account by Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded with a bomb squad.
 
Boal thanked his father, "american soldiers deployed in Iraq" for the ispiration that won him an Oscar award.
 
Best Supporting Actor won by Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Bastards)
Waltz whose role as an expansive, charming but darkly cruel SS Officer enlivened Inglourious Basterds and helped us forget the overlong scenes that simply didn’t work.

Few actors upstage Quentin Tarantino in his own films: Waltz did so with relish. The award was presented by Penelope Cruz.
 
Best Animated Film: UP
Pete Docter thanked Disney and his "amazing wife Amanada" as he picked up the Best Animated Film Award at the 82nd Academy Award.
 
Best Adapted Screenplay: Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire.
A teary eyed Geoffrey said, "This is for everybody who workd for a dream everyday. Anybody who believes in me."
 
Best Animated Short Film: Logorama
Best Short Film (Live Action): The New Tenants
Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson won the Oscar for the best short film live action. Indian film Kavi failed to make a mark in this category.
 
With Avatar, Cameron got rewarded as a producer, which doesn’t seem inappropriate. 3D sci-fi juggernaut Avatar, which has taken more than $2bn (£1.32bn) at the box office, had looked like a favourite in early 2010.
 
Avatar that created a box office history surpassing even Titanic records, had received fair share of criticism for being un-American.
 
Conservative commentators said it was a tired attack on the Iraq War. Some said the movie was both "anti-American" and "anti-human."
But Cameron was not shy about the movie's political message, telling that he wanted "Avatar" to say something about both foreign policy and the environment.
 
"I don't know if there is a political agenda exactly, but as an artist I felt a need to say something about what I saw around me. I think we all need to take stewardship of our planet."