Kathryn Bigelow takes it all with ‘The Hurt Locker’
Posted on: March 8, 2010
Yes, Kathryn Bigelow is the winner of the Avatar V.S The Hurt Locker showdown. ‘The Hurt Locker’ swept six awards from the Oscars, leaving Avatar with no Best Picture nor Best Director.
For the first time in the eight decades of the Academy Awards, Kathy Bigelow is the first female director to win the Best Director Award. When Bigelow went on stage to receive the award, she said with a stunned look, “It’s the moment of a lifetime.” Bigelow also added, “I’d like to dedicate this to the women and men in the military who risk their lives in a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world. May they come home safe.”
Besides this, ‘The Hurt Locker’ was the lead in this year’s Oscars, taking with it five other awards including Best Director. Some Avatar fans are disappointed that Avatar did not manage to clinch the award for Best Picture and many insisted that Bigelow’s film did not deserve the title.
To be honest, I was quite disappointed when I found out that Avatar did not received the Best Picture Award. Afterall, Cameron has put in a lot of effort in making sure that the film was in high definition and the bright colours and images found in the film really put an artistic touch to the film. However, the judging committee of the Oscars might have a different perspective and I feel that we should fully support their choice.
Check out the Oscar winners here:
Best Picture – The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro
Actor in a Leading Role – Jeff Bridges , Crazy Heart
Actress in a Leading Role – Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Actor in a Supporting Role – Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Bastards
Actress in a Supporting Role – Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Directing – The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow
Cinematography – Avatar, Mauro Fiore
Music (Original Score) – Up , Michael Giacchino
Animated Feature Film – Up , Pete Docter
Music (Original Song) – Crazy Heart , “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)”, Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Writing (Original Screenplay) – The Hurt Locker Written by Mark Boal
Visual Effects – Avatar , Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
Documentary Short – Music by Prudence, Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
Short Film (Animated) – Logorama, Nicolas Schmerkin
Short Film (Live Action) – The New Tenants , Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Makeup -Star Trek, Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
Art Direction – Avatar, Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (Art Direction); Kim Sinclair (Set Decoration)
Costume Design – The Young Victoria , Sandy Powell
Sound Editing – The Hurt Locker , Paul N.J. Ottosson
Sound Mixing – The Hurt Locker , Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
Film Editing – The Hurt Locker , Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
Documentary Feature – The Cove , Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
Foreign Language Film – The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos), Argentina, Directed by Juan Jos’ Campanella
I would like to comment on the winner of the Best Supporting Actress, Mo’ Nique from the film ‘Precious’ (2009, Lee Daniels). If any of you have read her life story, you will know that Mo’Nique had been sexually abused by her eldest brother during her childhood. She said that during the filming of ‘Precious’, she channelled her unfortunate experiences into her role as Mary. I have not watch ‘Precious’ but after reading some articles I found online, I feel that it will be a great film for teenagers to watch as it would call out to teenagers on the awareness of some social problems that the director had touched in his 110 minutes film.
Overall, I feel that the Academy Awards 2010 was a mixed of disappointments and pleasant surprises but nonetheless, it has definitely started the year with a big bang! Lets look forward to next year’s Oscars and better movies to come in the year!
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-Miriam
artsyfutsy
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March 8, 2010 at 10:52 am
Yes true, most expected Avatar to sweep the awards, being such a high-grossing 3D film. Still, it deserves recognition for the new dimesions it has added to the film industry, especially in terms of creative animation.