Just finished watching the Oscars. I thought most of the award winners were quite predictable. I enjoyed the dance performances,  Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin did an awesome job of keeping people entertained throughout the night. What I did find rather annoying though, was the rather slow pace of this years event.

The list of Oscar nominees and winners for this year is below:

Best Picture
Avatar
The Hurt Locker [Winner]
Inglourious Basterds
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Best Director
James Cameron – Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker [Winner]
Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side [Winner]
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart [Winner]
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man AH
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Mo’Nique – Precious [Winner]

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]

Animated Feature
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up [Winner]

Original Screenplay

The Hurt Locker [Winner]
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man AH
Up

Adapted Screenplay
District 9
An Education
In the Loop
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire [Winner]
Up in the Air

Art Direction
Avatar [Winner]
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Cinematography
Avatar [Winner]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Film Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker” [Winner]
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Foreign Language Film
Ajami (Israel)
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) [Winner]
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
The Prophet (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)

Best Original Score
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up [Winner]

Best Original Song
Almost There from The Princess and the Frog
Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog
Loin de Paname from Paris 36
Take It All from Nine
The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart [Winner]

Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria [Winner]

Best Documentary
Burma VJ
The Cove [Winner]
Food Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Best Documentary (Short Subject)
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner JB
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence [Winner]
Rabbit à la Berlin

Best Short Film (Animated)
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama [Winner]
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Short Film (Live Action)
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants [Winner]

Makeup
Il Divo
Star Trek [Winner]
The Young Victoria

Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker [Winner]
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker [Winner]
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Visual Effects
Avatar [Winner]
District 9
Star Trek

The above list of the winners of the 82nd Annual Academy Award nominees and winners was taken from the Oscars website .