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#1 Posted: : Monday, March 08, 2010 9:21:20 AM
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There isn't one. Good lord. Here's all the winners for those that missed it (including myself)

Best Picture - The Hurt Locker
Best Lead Actor - Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Lead Actress - Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress - Mo'Nique, Precious
Best Animated Feature Film - Up
Art Direction - Avatar
Cinematography - Avatar
Costume Design - The Young Victoria
Best Director - The Hurt Locker
Documentary Feature - The Cove
Documentary Short - Music by Prudence
Film Editing - The Hurt Locker
Foreign Language Film - The Secret In Their Eyes
Makeup - Star Trek
Music (Original Score) - Up
Music (Original Song) - The Weary Kind, Crazy Heart
Short Film (Animated) - Logorama
Short Film (Live Action) - The New Tenants
Sound Editing - The Hurt Locker
Sound Mixing - The Hurt Locker
Visual Effects - Avatar
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - Precious, based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire
Writing (Original Screenplay) - The Hurt Locker

Hurt Locker was the big winner this year, it looks like. Anyone else see it? I saw it at the theater I work at and while it was good cinema, I don't know if it was Best Picture good. The other five awards it can have because it deserved them right-and-proper, but Best Picture? They spend the entire film flushing out a genuinely interesting main character (played with fantastic edge by Renner), only to cheapen him as an adrenaline junkie in the last 30 seconds of the movie by giving him the power-chords-in-the-sunset treatment? That's one big misstep, one that I think should cost a Best Picture award.

Jeff Bridges and Christoph Waltz were both shoe-ins for their respective awards in my opinion. Bridges has been at this game for too long without a win to lose out on one of his most honest roles yet--and there would have been blood in the streets if Waltz didn't take Best Supporting Actor. He was simply too good as the suave-cum-fearsome jew hunter (across four languages, no less).

Anyone else have any thoughts on this year's winners? Anything that should have done better than it did? I know I can't be the only one that saw Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

imo, Star Trek really only needed to win "Most Lens Flare" and was otherwise negligible.
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#2 Posted: : Monday, March 08, 2010 9:31:16 AM
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I love Up!

Avatar has been done before, but I thought that the effects were amazing.

I didn't see many of the other films, and didn't watch the Oscars.
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#3 Posted: : Monday, March 08, 2010 9:34:39 AM
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Mrs.Crawdad wrote:
I love Up!

Avatar has been done before, but I thought that the effects were amazing.

I didn't see many of the other films, and didn't watch the Oscars.

As far as technical achievements go, I felt Avatar was on par with District 9, just Avatar had more...stuff. District 9 managed to make the aliens and their technology very convincing and very, very real while Avatar managed to do the same thing with a whole planet. It's like watching two very, very fast runners. It's just that one of them is also tying balloon animals while running. That's Avatar. I was sad to see there was no mention of D9 in the Makeup department however. The main character's day-by-day transformation from human to "prawn" mirrors his character's dilemma and turmoil perfectly.

Up was a true feat of animation to me--genuinely pushing the bounds of how animation and character can affect the audience. As much as it was a guaranteed win for Best Animated Feature, it also strongly deserved the Best Original Score that it received.
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#4 Posted: : Monday, March 08, 2010 10:15:10 AM
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I thought "Hurt Locker" was one of the best films I've seen -- ever. I watched on DVD at least three times and kept coming away with more.
Avatar was eye candy compared to it -- "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"
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#5 Posted: : Monday, March 08, 2010 7:38:55 PM
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The Oscars have already happened? Hmm.. perhaps I've been spending to much time in CompSci labs.
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