Best Motion Picture of the Year

WINNER

The Hurt Locker: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro

NOMINEES

A Serious Man: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

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An Education: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey

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Avatar: James Cameron, Jon Landau

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District 9: Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham

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Inglourious Basterds: Lawrence Bender

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Precious: Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness

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The Blind Side: Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson

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Up: Jonas Rivera

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Up in the Air: Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Crazy Heart: Jeff Bridges

NOMINEES

A Single Man: Colin Firth

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Invictus: Morgan Freeman

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The Hurt Locker: Jeremy Renner

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Up in the Air: George Clooney

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

The Blind Side: Sandra Bullock

NOMINEES

An Education: Carey Mulligan

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Julie & Julia: Meryl Streep

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Precious: Gabourey Sidibe

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The Last Station: Helen Mirren

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Inglourious Basterds: Christoph Waltz

NOMINEES

Invictus: Matt Damon

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The Last Station: Christopher Plummer

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The Lovely Bones: Stanley Tucci

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The Messenger: Woody Harrelson

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Precious: Mo'Nique

NOMINEES

Crazy Heart: Maggie Gyllenhaal

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Nine: Penélope Cruz

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Up in the Air: Vera Farmiga

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Up in the Air: Anna Kendrick

Best Achievement in Directing

WINNER

The Hurt Locker: Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director.

NOMINEES

Avatar: James Cameron

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Inglourious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino

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Precious: Lee Daniels

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Up in the Air: Jason Reitman

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

WINNER

The Hurt Locker: Mark Boal

NOMINEES

A Serious Man: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

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Inglourious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino

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The Messenger: Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman

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Up: Bob Peterson (screenplay/story), Pete Docter (screenplay/story), Tom McCarthy (story)

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

WINNER

Precious: Geoffrey Fletcher
Geoffrey Fletcher became the first African American to win a Best Screenplay Oscar (Original or Adapted).

NOMINEES

An Education: Nick Hornby

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District 9: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell

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In the Loop: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche

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Up in the Air: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

Best Achievement in Cinematography

WINNER

Avatar: Mauro Fiore

NOMINEES

The White Ribbon: Christian Berger

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Bruno Delbonnel

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Inglourious Basterds: Robert Richardson

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The Hurt Locker: Barry Ackroyd

Best Achievement in Art Direction

WINNER

Avatar: Rick Carter (production designer), Robert Stromberg (production designer), Kim Sinclair (set decorator)

NOMINEES

Nine: John Myhre (production designer), Gordon Sim (set decorator)

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Sherlock Holmes: Sarah Greenwood (production designer), Katie Spencer (set decorator)

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: David Warren (production designer), Anastasia Masaro (production designer), Caroline Smith (set decorator)

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The Young Victoria: Patrice Vermette (production designer), Maggie Gray (set decorator)

Best Achievement in Costume Design

WINNER

The Young Victoria: Sandy Powell

NOMINEES

Bright Star: Janet Patterson

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Coco Before Chanel: Catherine Leterrier

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Nine: Colleen Atwood

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: Monique Prudhomme

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

WINNER

The Hurt Locker: Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett

NOMINEES

Avatar: Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson

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Inglourious Basterds: Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Mark Ulano

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Star Trek: Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson, Peter J. Devlin

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson

Best Achievement in Film Editing

WINNER

The Hurt Locker: Bob Murawski, Chris Innis

NOMINEES

Avatar: Stephen E. Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron

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District 9: Julian Clarke

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Inglourious Basterds: Sally Menke

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Precious: Joe Klotz

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

WINNER

The Hurt Locker: Paul N.J. Ottosson

NOMINEES

Avatar: Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle

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Inglourious Basterds: Wylie Stateman

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Star Trek: Mark P. Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin

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Up: Michael Silvers, Tom Myers

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

WINNER

Avatar: Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones

NOMINEES

District 9: Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken

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Star Trek: Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton

Best Achievement in Makeup

WINNER

Star Trek: Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow

NOMINEES

Il Divo: Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano

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The Young Victoria: Jon Henry Gordon, Jenny Shircore

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

WINNER

Crazy Heart: Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett
For the song "The Weary Kind".

NOMINEES

Paris 36: Reinhardt Wagner (music), Frank Thomas (lyrics)
For the song "Loin de Paname".

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Nine: Maury Yeston
For the song "Take It All".

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The Princess and the Frog: Randy Newman
For the song "Almost There".

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The Princess and the Frog: Randy Newman
For the song "Down in New Orleans".

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

WINNER

Up: Michael Giacchino

NOMINEES

Avatar: James Horner

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Fantastic Mr. Fox: Alexandre Desplat

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Sherlock Holmes: Hans Zimmer

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The Hurt Locker: Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders

Best Short Film, Animated

WINNER

Logorama: Nicolas Schmerkin

NOMINEES

French Roast: Fabrice Joubert

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Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty: Nicky Phelan, Darragh O'Connell

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The Lady and the Reaper (La dama y la muerte): Javier Recio Gracia

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A Matter of Loaf and Death: Nick Park

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER

The New Tenants: Joachim Back, Tivi Magnusson

NOMINEES

Instead of Abracadabra: Patrik Eklund, Mathias Fjellström

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Kavi: Gregg Helvey

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Miracle Fish: Luke Doolan, Drew Bailey

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The Door: Juanita Wilson, James Flynn

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER

Music by Prudence: Roger Ross Williams, Elinor Burkett

NOMINEES

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill

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Rabbit à la Berlin: Bartosz Konopka, Anna Wydra

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The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner: Daniel Junge, Henry Ansbacher

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The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER

The Cove: Louie Psihoyos, Fisher Stevens

NOMINEES

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country: Anders Østergaard, Lise Lense-Møller

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Food, Inc.: Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein

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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers: Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith

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Which Way Home: Rebecca Cammisa

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

WINNER

The Secret in Their Eyes
Argentina.

NOMINEES

The Milk of Sorrow
Peru.

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The White Ribbon
Germany.

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Ajami
Israel.

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A Prophet
France.

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

WINNER

Up: Pete Docter

NOMINEES

Coraline: Henry Selick

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Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson

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The Princess and the Frog: John Musker, Ron Clements

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The Secret of Kells: Tomm Moore

WINNERS

Roger Corman
For his rich engendering of films and filmmakers.

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Lauren Bacall
In recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures.

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Gordon Willis
For unsurpassed mastery of light, shadow, color and motion.

WINNER

John Calley

WINNERS

Alex MacDonald, Jim Rodnunsky, Mark Chapman (Cablecam International)
For the development of the Cablecam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.

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Mark Noel, John Frazier
For the design and construction of the NAC servo winches.

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Per Christensen, Christophe Hery
For the development of point-based rendering for indirect illumination and ambient occlusion.

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Wolfgang Lempp
For the development of the Northlight film scanner, which enables high-resolution, pin-registered scanning in the motion picture digital intermediate process.

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Steve Chapman, Martin Tlaskal
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.

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Márk Jászberényi, Gyula Priskin
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.

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(FUJIFILM Corporation)
For the design and development of Fujicolor ETERNA-RDI digital intermediate film, which was designed exclusively to reproduce motion picture digital masters.

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Paul Debevec, Tim Hawkins, John Monos, 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.

WINNERS

Mark Wolforth, Tony Sedivy
For their contributions to the development of the Truelight real-time 3D look-up table hardware system.

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Klaus Anderle, Christian Baeker, Frank Billaschco
For their contributions to the LUTher 3D look-up table hardware device and color management software.

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Steve Sullivan, Kevin Wooley, Brett Allen, Colin Davidson
For the development of the Imocap on-set performance capture system.

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Hayden Landis, Ken McGaugh, Hilmar Koch
For advancing the technique of ambient occlusion rendering.

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Bjorn Heden
For the design and mechanical engineering of the silent, two-stage planetary friction drive Heden Lens Motors.