What an amazing and surprising night. 6000 members of the Academy, I take everything back, it ain’t all about the Benjamins for y’all. The Hurt Locker deservedly swept the awards for best picture, best director, screenplay, editing, sound and sound mixing. My interview with Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal can be found here, and have collected together lots of other The Hurt Locker stuff here. Now Awards season is over, everyone should come out from under a pre-awards embargo I’m hoping. Alredy confirmed is a feature on editors, including Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, for Little White Lies over the next couple of weeks, and also working on an interview with the sound team, Paul Ottosson and Ray Beckett. Will post as I complete them.
Actor in a supporting role
Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds
Animated feature film
Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)
Music (original song)
The Weary Kind, from Crazy Heart, by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Writing (original screenplay)
The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
Short film (animated)
Logorama (Nicolas Schmerkin)
Documentary (short subject)
Music by Prudence (Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett)
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 (Geoffrey Fletcher)
Actress in a supporting role
Mo’Nique in Precious
Art direction
Avatar (art direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; set decoration: Kim Sinclair)
Costume design
The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell)
Sound editing
The Hurt Locker (Paul NJ Ottosson)
Sound mixing
The Hurt Locker (Paul NJ Ottosson and Ray Beckett)
Cinematography
Avatar (Mauro Fiore)
Music (original score)
Up (Michael Giacchino)
Visual effects
Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R Jones)
Documentary (feature)
The Cove (Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens)
Film editing
The Hurt Locker (Bob Murawski and Chris Innis)
Foreign language film
The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan Jose Campanella, Argentina)
Actor in a leading role
Crazy Heart
Actress in a leading role
in The Blind Side
Directing
The Hurt Locker
Best picture
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, producers)
Kingsley Marshall is an academic and journalist who lectures in film and contributes music and film criticism, features and reviews to Little White Lies, Shook and Big Screen magazines in the UK. He was appointed Technical Editor at Clash magazine in 2010, where he writes a technology and games column.