Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq war drama ‘The Hurt Locker’ was the pick of the bunch at this years Oscars beating off strong competition from the likes of ‘Avatar’ and ‘Inglorious Basterds’ to win awards for ‘Best Picture’, ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Screenplay’.
So in spite of the fact that this years glittering awards ceremony pretty much followed the script their was one moment of history: Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman is OSCAR history to win best director, she described winning as ‘the moment of a lifetime’.
Many people had predicting that the coveted award for ‘Best Picture’ would be between ‘The Hurt Locker’ and James Cameron’s sci-fi epic ‘Avatar’ which is now the highest grossing movie of all time but despite this, it had to settle for just three awards: ‘Best Visual Effects’, ‘Best Cinematography’ and ‘Best Art Direction’.
Meanwhile the honours for Best Actor went to Jeff Bridges for his role as aging country singer in ‘Crazy Heart’. Bridges, who beat off stiff competition from Morgan Freeman, George Clooney and Colin Firth, said ‘ Thank you mum and dad for turning me on to such a groovy profession, this is honouring them as much as me’. The award for ‘Best Actress’ went to Sandra Bullock who, ironically, had won a ‘Razzie’ for Worst Actress.
In the animation category Pixars 3D film ‘UP’ scooped the award for ‘Best Animated Feature Film’, director Pete Docter said ‘It was an incredible adventure making this movie’. With another record breaking year of film just passing everybody will be hoping to improve for the next batch of films that will be hitting our screens soon.
Now watch the trailer for 'The Hurt Locker'
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