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Rushes recounts on all the goings on at the 82nd annual Oscars awards.

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Best Picture - The Hurt Locker

Surprisingly, against all the Avatar sized odds, The Hurt Locker won Best Picture, making it the lowest-grossing Best Picture of all time, but definitely not the worst - let’s not forget Shakespeare In Love. I think if we’re all honest we can safely say that The Hurt Locker deserved this award.

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Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow

About time – coincidentally coinciding with International Women’s Day, a gal has finally won Best Director, beating   Hollywood greats, in particular her ex-husband James Cameron. With almost a century of Oscars, a woman has never quite won – until now. It’s slightly embarrassing that it’s taken so long.

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Best Actor – Jeff Bridges

With very strong competition, including Colin Firth’s heartbroken professor and Morgan Freeman’s Nelson Mandela, Jeff Bridges came out on top and won the coveted Best Actor award he deserved to win years ago when he gave us The Dude. This is the Academy apologising and giving Bridges a well overdue pat on the back.

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Best Actress – Sandra Bullock

It pains me to say it, but yes – Sandra Bullock won Best Actress. Carry Mulligan, you were indeed cheated, but take solace in the fact that it's not everyday an Oscar nominee can say “I lost out to someone who simultaneously won a Razzie in the same 24 hours” – If that helps.

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Best Supporting Actor – Christopher Waltz

Predominantly a TV and stage actor it’s hard to imagine somebody more unlikely to win an Oscar than Christopher Waltz. Despite this and thanks to Tarantino providing Waltz with such a juicy role as terrifying Nazi Colonel Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds there isn’t anybody more deserving of this award. His portrayal is guaranteed to last in everyone’s mind for a very long time.

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Best Supporting Actress – Mo’Nique

Again, richly deserved and not a surprise. Though competition wasn’t stiff for this award, Mo’Nique thoroughly earned this one. With two nominations for performances in Up In The Air and one for Crazy Heart and Nine (none of which were spectacular), nothing was going to see off Mo’Nique, whose larger than life performance was equal only to the circumference of her waist.

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Best Original Screenplay – Mark Boal’s, for The Hurt Locker

Showing how much of an understated powerhouse the film is, the award for Best Original Screenplay also goes to The Hurt Locker. Take that Tarantino, who looked suitably bitter on hearing the news despite having God on his side (well technically behind him).

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Best Adapted Screenplay – Geoffrey Fletcher’s script for Precious

Perhaps lucky to pip In the Loop to the award in this category, Geoffrey Fletcher’s script for Precious took home the gold, in an otherwise weak category. Then again, having Oprah Winfrey on your side is about as influential as the big almighty when it comes to impressing the American general public.

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Best Cinematography – Avatar

An award that Avatar actually deserved to win. This is the first of three minor Oscar wins that Avatar won, and they’re the only three that it warranted. Mauro Fiore’s abilities were infinitely more substantial in terms of cinematography than his rival’s, and was one of the few actually credible aspects of Avatar's production.

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Best Editing – The Hurt Locker

Another award for The Hurt Locker, proving a low-budget film can dominate over the most over-sized-budget egotist-directed film in the modern age. Then again, the rest were all pretty dire in this department (We won’t be telling Bob Murawski and Chris Innis that though).

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Best Art Direction – Avatar

While Imaginarium was a farcical mess of a movie, its art direction was most definitely more detailed and beautiful than Avatar’s – whose admittedly fantastic wildlife and forestry really didn’t require the decade that was spent on it. Yawn.

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Best Costume Design – The Young Victoria

Unsurprisingly, a period drama won Best Costume Design, which is about as surprising as turning to page three of the Sun and seeing boobs. If you want to win this award then we suggest you film something historical, ideally with aristocrats involved.

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Best Makeup – Star Trek

Deservedly, Star Trek won its only nomination, admittedly in a category of just three and with The Young Victoria winning Best Costume Design, this was a sure fire bet especially when it’s makeup was a magnificently superior upgrade of its cheesy 60’s source.

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Best Original Score – Up

THANK GOD, that James Horners, unoriginal and boring Avatar score didn't win, although we're still very angry that Karen O’s score for Where the Wild Things Are was omitted we’re certainly

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Best Original Song – “The Weary Kind” – Crazy Heart

Extremely weak competition in this category this year with the tedious Nine’s inclusion and the average Disney flick Princess and the Frog. No surprises as Crazy heart sweeps this award alongside its Best Actor win.

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Both Best Sound Mixing and Sound Editing – The Hurt Locker

The fact that both of these awards have gone towards The Hurt Locker’s sound department is a reward in itself. The tense atmosphere of war is brilliantly realised in Bigelow’s award-nabbing sleeper hit.

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Best Visual Effects – Avatar

Predictably and deservedly Avatar gets this award. Considering so much time was spent on them, the visual effects had better be bloody good!

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Best Animated Feature – Up

Did Up deserve this award? We can’t help but be really annoyed by it. Pixar winning the best animation is now a given and after so many years of tedium, it was the perfect opportunity for Coraline to take home the award right from under Pixar’s feet. Nay it wasn’t the case - Double Yawn.

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Best Foreign Language Film – El secreto de sus ojos (The Secret in their eyes)

Coming right out of left field, nobody saw this coming and was perhaps more shocking than the Avatar Vs Hurt Locker result. I’m sure most people in the Kodak Theatre were waiting for either The Prophet or White Ribbon to take home the little golden man. Instead it goes to El secreto de sus ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes), don’t expect to see swarms of people queuing up to see this at the cinema mind…

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A round up of the rest :

Best Documentary Feature – The Cove

Best Documentary Short Subjects – Music By Prudence

Best Animated Short -  Logorama

Best Live Action Short – The New Tenants

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