The Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker" won best picture and five other prizes at the Academy Awards, besides best director for Kathryn Bigelow, becoming the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers. Sandra Bullock went home with best actress award for ‘The Blind Side’; Jeff Bridges as best actor for ‘Crazy Heart’; Mo'Nique as supporting actress for ‘Precious’ and the first black actress to win an Oscar; and Christoph Waltz as supporting actor for ‘Inglourious Basterds’. ‘Precious’ also won the adapted-screenplay Oscar for Geoffrey Fletcher. ‘Avatar’ won three Oscars, for visual effects, art direction and cinematography, beating ‘The Hurt Locker’ for the latter. ‘The Hurt Locker’ also won out over ‘Avatar’ for film editing, sound editing and sound mixing. ‘Hurt Locker’ screenwriter Mark Boal, won the Oscar for original screenplay. ‘Up’ earned the third-straight feature-animation Oscar for Disney's Pixar Animation, which now has won five of the nine awards since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences added the category. Argentina's ‘The Secret in Their Eyes’ pulled off a surprise win for foreign-language film while ‘Crazy Heart’ also won for original song with its theme tune ‘The Weary Kind’. ‘The Cove’, an investigation into grisly dolphin-fishing operations in Japan, was picked as best documentary. Oscar hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin opened the show with playful ribbing of nominees.
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