BEST PICTURE

“The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment)

BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight)

BEST ACTRESS

Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side” (Warner Bros.)

DIRECTOR

Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

“The Secret in Their Eyes” (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) – Argentina (Sony Pictures Classics)

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christoph Waltz for “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mo’Nique for “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mark Boal for “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment)

Best Picture

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker – WINNER!
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

Director
James Cameron (Avatar)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) – WINNER!
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Jason Reitman (Up In The Air)

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) – WINNER!
George Clooney (Up In The Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) – WINNER!
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) – WINNER!

As Oscars go, this one stuck pretty much to the script.

There were no major upsets in the acting categories. Everyone who was expected to win, won.

Kathryn Bigelow’s David toppled James Cameron’s Goliath – and made history in the process.

Bigelow became the first female director to win an Oscar for Iraq bomb drama The Hurt Locker, while Cameron’s sci-fi spectacular Avatar went away with three technical awards.

The wait for a sci-fi best picture winner continues.

Speaking after the ceremony, Bigelow said she hoped she would be the first of many female directors to win.

She said: “I’d love to just think of myself as a film-maker, and I long for the day when a modifier can be a moot point.

“But I’m ever grateful if I can inspire some young, intrepid, tenacious male or female film-maker and have them feel that the impossible is possible and never give up on your dream.”