Best Picture Winner
The Hurt Locker
Best Picture
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Studio: Summit Entertainment
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an elite bomb squad unit must confront dangerous insurgent attacks.
All Categories (27)
Animated Feature Film
Up— Pete Docter
Winner
Coraline— Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox— Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog— John Musker and Ron Clements
The Secret of Kells— Tomm Moore
Best Picture
The Hurt Locker— Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers
Winner
A Serious Man— Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
An Education— Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
Avatar— James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
District 9— Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
Inglourious Basterds— Lawrence Bender, Producer
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire— Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
The Blind Side— Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Producers
Up— Jonas Rivera, Producer
Up in the Air— Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
Actor In A Leading Role
Colin Firth— A Single Man {"George"}
George Clooney— Up in the Air {"Ryan Bingham"}
Jeremy Renner— The Hurt Locker {"Staff Sergeant William James"}
Morgan Freeman— Invictus {"Nelson Mandela"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Christopher Plummer— The Last Station {"Tolstoy"}
Matt Damon— Invictus {"Francois Pienaar"}
Stanley Tucci— The Lovely Bones {"George Harvey"}
Woody Harrelson— The Messenger {"Captain Tony Stone"}
Actress In A Leading Role
Carey Mulligan— An Education {"Jenny"}
Gabourey Sidibe— Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire {"Precious"}
Helen Mirren— The Last Station {"Sofya"}
Meryl Streep— Julie & Julia {"Julia Child"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Anna Kendrick— Up in the Air {"Natalie Keener"}
Maggie Gyllenhaal— Crazy Heart {"Jean Craddock"}
Penélope Cruz— Nine {"Carla"}
Vera Farmiga— Up in the Air {"Alex Goran"}
Directing
Avatar— James Cameron
Inglourious Basterds— Quentin Tarantino
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire— Lee Daniels
Up in the Air— Jason Reitman
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire— Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
Winner
An Education— Screenplay by Nick Hornby
District 9— Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
In the Loop— Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Up in the Air— Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Hurt Locker— Written by Mark Boal
Winner
A Serious Man— Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Inglourious Basterds— Written by Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger— Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
Up— Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter; Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy
Cinematography
Avatar— Mauro Fiore
Winner
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince— Bruno Delbonnel
Inglourious Basterds— Robert Richardson
The Hurt Locker— Barry Ackroyd
The White Ribbon— Christian Berger
Music (Original Score)
Up— Michael Giacchino
Winner
Avatar— James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox— Alexandre Desplat
Sherlock Holmes— Hans Zimmer
The Hurt Locker— Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Music (Original Song)
"The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)" from Crazy Heart— Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Winner
"Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog— Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Down In New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog— Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Loin De Paname" from Paris 36— Music by Reinhardt Wagner; Lyric by Frank Thomas
"Take It All" from Nine— Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
Art Direction
Avatar— Production Design: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
Winner
Nine— Production Design: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
Sherlock Holmes— Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus— Production Design: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
The Young Victoria— Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
Visual Effects
Avatar— Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
Winner
District 9— Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
Star Trek— Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Film Editing
The Hurt Locker— Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
Winner
Avatar— Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
District 9— Julian Clarke
Inglourious Basterds— Sally Menke
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire— Joe Klotz
Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker— Paul N.J. Ottosson
Winner
Avatar— Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Inglourious Basterds— Wylie Stateman
Star Trek— Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
Up— Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Sound Mixing
The Hurt Locker— Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
Winner
Avatar— Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
Inglourious Basterds— Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
Star Trek— Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen— Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Costume Design
The Young Victoria— Sandy Powell
Winner
Bright Star— Janet Patterson
Coco before Chanel— Catherine Leterrier
Nine— Colleen Atwood
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus— Monique Prudhomme
Makeup
Star Trek— Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
Winner
Il Divo— Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
The Young Victoria— Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
Documentary (Feature)
The Cove— Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
Winner
Burma VJ— Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
Food, Inc.— Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers— Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
Which Way Home— Rebecca Cammisa
Documentary (Short Subject)
Music by Prudence— Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
Winner
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province— Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
Rabbit à la Berlin— Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner— Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant— Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
Short Film (Animated)
Logorama— Nicolas Schmerkin
Winner
A Matter of Loaf and Death— Nick Park
French Roast— Fabrice O. Joubert
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty— Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)— Javier Recio Gracia
Short Film (Live Action)
The New Tenants— Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Winner
Instead of Abracadabra— Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
Kavi— Gregg Helvey
Miracle Fish— Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
The Door— Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
Foreign Language Film
The Secret in Their Eyes— Argentina
Winner
A Prophet— France
Ajami— Israel
The Milk of Sorrow— Peru
The White Ribbon— Germany
Honorary Award
To Lauren Bacall in recognition of her central place in the golden age of motion pictures.
Winner
IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD
John Calley
To Gordon Willis for unsurpassed mastery of light, shadow, color and motion.
To Roger Corman for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers.
Scientific And Technical Award (Scientific And Engineering Award)
To PER CHRISTENSEN, MICHAEL BUNNELL and CHRISTOPHE HERY for the development of point-based rendering for indirect illumination and ambient occlusion. Much faster than previous ray-traced methods, this computer graphics technique has enabled color bleeding effects and realistic shadows for complex scenes in motion pictures. [Digital Imaging Technology]
Winner
To BRAD WALKER, D. SCOTT DEWALD, BILL WERNER and GREG PETTITT for their contributions furthering the design and refinement of the Texas Instruments DLP Projector technology, achieving a level of performance that enabled color-accurate digital intermediate previews of motion pictures. Working in conjunction with the film industry, Texas Instruments created a high-resolution, color-accurate, high-quality digital intermediate projection system that could closely emulate film-based projection in a theatrical environment. [Projection]
To DR. RICHARD KIRK for the overall design and development of the Truelight real-time 3D look-up table hardware device and color management software. Through the use of color management software and hardware, this complete system enables accurate color presentation in the digital intermediate preview process. The Truelight system is widely utilized in digital intermediate production environments around the world. [Laboratory]
To FUJIFILM CORPORATION, RYOJI NISHIMURA, MASAAKI MIKI and YOUICHI HOSOYA for the design and development of Fujicolor ETERNA-RDI digital intermediate film, which was designed exclusively to reproduce motion picture digital masters. The Fujicolor ETERNA-RDI Type 8511/4511 digital intermediate film has thinner emulsion layers with extremely efficient couplers made possible by Super-Nano Cubic Grain Technology. This invention allows improved color sensitivity with the ability to absorb scattered light, providing extremely sharp images. The ETERNA-RDI emulsion technology also achieves less color cross-talk for exacting reproduction. Its expanded latitude and linearity provides superior highlights and shadows in a film stock with exceptional latent image stability. [Film]
To MARK JASZBERENYI, GYULA PRISKIN and TAMAS PERLAKI for their contributions to the development of the Lustre color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process. Lustre is a software solution that enables non-linear, real-time digital color grading across an entire feature film, emulating the photochemical color-timing process. [Laboratory]
To MICHAEL CIESLINSKI, DR. REIMAR LENZ and BERND BRAUNER for the development of the ARRISCAN film scanner, enabling high-resolution, high-dynamic range, pin-registered film scanning for use in the digital intermediate process. The ARRISCAN film scanner utilizes a specially designed CMOS array sensor mounted on a micro-positioning platform and a custom LED light source. Capture of the film's full dynamic range at various scan resolutions is implemented through sub-pixel offsets of the sensor along with multiple exposures of each frame. [Laboratory]
To PAUL DEBEVEC, TIM HAWKINS, JOHN MONOS and DR. MARK SAGAR for the design and engineering of the Light Stage capture devices and the image-based facial rendering system developed for character relighting in motion pictures. The combination of these systems, with their ability to capture high fidelity reflectance data of human subjects, allows for the creation of photorealistic digital faces as they would appear in any lighting condition. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To STEVE CHAPMAN, MARTIN TLASKAL, DARRIN SMART and DR. JAMES LOGIE for their contributions to the development of the Baselight color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process. Baselight was one of the first digital color correction systems to enter the digital intermediate market and has seen wide acceptance in the motion picture industry. [Laboratory]
To VOLKER MASSMANN, MARKUS HASENZAHL, DR. KLAUS ANDERLE and ANDREAS LOEW for the development of the Spirit 4K/2K film scanning system as used in the digital intermediate process for motion pictures. The Spirit 4K/2K has distinguished itself by incorporating a continuous-motion transport mechanism enabling full-range, high-resolution scanning at much higher frame rates than non-continuous transport scanners. [Laboratory]
To WOLFGANG LEMPP, THEO BROWN, TONY SEDIVY and DR. JOHN QUARTEL for the development of the Northlight film scanner, which enables high-resolution, pin-registered scanning in the motion picture digital intermediate process. Developed for the digital intermediate and motion picture visual effects markets, the Northlight scanner was designed with a 6K CCD sensor, making it unique in its ability to produce high-resolution scans of 35mm, 8-perf film frames. [Laboratory]
Scientific And Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award)
To MARK WOLFORTH and TONY SEDIVY for their contributions to the development of the Truelight real-time 3D look-up table hardware system. Through the use of color management software and hardware, this complete system enables accurate color presentation in the digital intermediate preview process. The Truelight system is widely utilized in digital intermediate production environments around the world. [Laboratory]
Winner
To BJÖRN HEDÉN for the design and mechanical engineering of the silent, two-stage planetary friction drive Hedén Lens Motors. Solving a series of problems with one integrated mechanism, this device had an immediate and significant impact on the motion picture industry. [Photography]
To DR. KLAUS ANDERLE, CHRISTIAN BAEKER and FRANK BILLASCH for their contributions to the LUTher 3D look-up table hardware device and color management software. The LUTher system was one of the first color look-up table processors to be widely adopted by the pioneering digital intermediate facilities in the industry. This innovation enabled accurate color presentation by facilities that had analyzed projected film output and built 3D look-up tables in order to emulate print film. [Laboratory]
To HAYDEN LANDIS, KEN McGAUGH and HILMAR KOCH for advancing the technique of ambient occlusion rendering. Ambient occlusion has enabled a new level of realism in synthesized imagery and has become a standard tool for computer graphics lighting in motion pictures. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To STEVE SULLIVAN, KEVIN WOOLEY, BRETT ALLEN and COLIN DAVIDSON for the development of the Imocap on-set performance capture system. Developed at Industrial Light & Magic and consisting of custom hardware and software, Imocap is an innovative system that successfully addresses the need for on-set, low-impact performance capture. [Digital Imaging Technology]