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The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony (so-called Oscar ceremony), presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of 2009. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on the 7th of March 2010. The Hurt Locker took the biggest prizes, winning Best Director and Best Picture, coming away with a stunning six nominations in all. The list of best movies in 2009 can be found below.Best Picture – The Hurt Locker
Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Best Actor – Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Actress – Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actree – Mo’nique, Precious
Best Original Screenplay – Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Best Adapted Screenplay – Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
Best Foreign Language Film – El Secretro de sus Ojo, Argentina
Best Animated Feature – Up
Best Art Direction – Avatar Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
Best Cinematography – Avatar Mauro Fiore
Best Costume design – The Young Victoria Sandy Powell
Best Sound Editing – The Hurt Locker Paul N.J. Ottosson
Best Sound Mixing – The Hurt Locker Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
Best Visual Effects – Avatar Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced live on Tuesday February 2, 2010. The category Best Picture included: Avatar; The Blind Side; District 9; An Education; The Hurt Locker; Inglourious Basterds; A Serious Man; Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire; Up and Up in the Air.
The lists of the Best Actor and Best Actress were: Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Bad Blake; George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham; Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer; Morgan Freeman – Invictus as Nelson Mandela; Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as Sgt. William James; Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy; Helen Mirren – The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoy; Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Miller; Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire as Clarieece “Precious” Jones and Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child.
