Best set design: Avatar, Mark Boal won the Oscar for the best original screenplay for The Hurt Locker. Best Supporting Actor won by Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Bastards). Best make up: Star Trek at the 82nd Academy Awards.

Best Set Design, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects: Avatar
 
Avatar goes on bagging awards and it seems it may break the Oscar records after grossing highest box office numbers.

 
Avatar won Oscar for best set design, visual effects and cinematography. 
 
For Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair were honoured.
 
Cameron's sci-fi picked its first Oscar for the best set design and second for best cinematography 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. 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 of now Avatar and The Hurt Locker have both won 2 Oscars each, 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.

 
A stellar star-studded evening at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles marks the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday night.
 
Jennifer Lopez, Minoque, Miley Cyrus, Kylie Minogue were some of the stars who entered the red carpet first as the Oscar Awards or the 82nd Academy Awards opened at the Kodak Theatre, LA.
 
All eyes are now set on the husband - (ex)wife rivalry with most bets placed on the sci-fi 1 billion pounds grosser Avatar to walk away with maximum awards tonight. What's your take?
 
Best Film: Avatar vs The Hurt Locker

It's James Cameron vs Kathryn Bigelow in the Best film award category. Lets see where the two films stand today:
 
Avatar to win?
 
Cameron got rewarded as a producer, which doesn’t seem inappropriate.
Avatar created a box office history surpassing even Titanic records, but it also received fair share of criticism for being un-American.
 
Some 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."
 
Despite the talks, 3D sci-fi juggernaut Avatar, which has taken more than $2bn (£1.32bn) at the box office, stands a favourite film of 2010.
 
Chances for The Hurt Locker?
 
The Iraq bomb disposal drama The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow was being touted as the winner ever since the Oscar race began.
 
Excluding some excellent memoirs by Iraq veterans and despite some technical inaccuracies, The Hurt Locker captures more existential truth about the conflict than you'll find anywhere.
 
Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal were right to focus on explosions as the signature experience of the war. The high wire, without-a-net tensions that attends the film's Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit were a perfect microcosm of the endless, metaphorical booby-traps laid by negligent war planners.


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