82nd Academy Award Winners 2010 for the Best of 2009

And the winners are:

The Oscar® statuettes were presented to the "best of 2009" at the 82nd Academy Awards® gala on Sunday, 7 March 2010, in the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood & Highland Center®, Hollywood, California. They were and televised live around the world by the ABC Television Network.

BEST PICTURE:THE HURT LOCKER, directed by Kathryn Bigelow;

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Jeff Bridges, CRAZY HEART;

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Christoph Waltz, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS;

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Sandra Bullock, THE BLIND SIDE;

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Mo'Nique, PRECIOUS: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire;

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: UP, Pete Docter;

ART DIRECTION: AVATAR;

CINEMATOGRAPHY: AVATAR;

DIRECTING: THE HURT LOCKER, Kathryn Bigelow;

DOCUMENTARY (Feature): THE COVE;

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) Argentina, directed by Juan José Campanella;

MUSIC (Original Score):
UP, Michael Giacchino

MUSIC (Original Song):"The Weary Kind" from CRAZY HEART - Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett;

COSTUME DESIGN: THE YOUNG VICTORIA;

MAKEUP: STAR TREK;

FILM EDITING: THE HURT LOCKER;

SOUND EDITING: THE HURT LOCKER;

SOUND MIXING: THE HURT LOCKER;

VISUAL EFFECTS: AVATAR;

WRITING (Adapted Screenplay): PRECIOUS, Geoffrey Fletcher;

WRITING (Original Screenplay): THE HURT LOCKER, Mike Boal.

For the Academy Official Site and list of all nominees, winners, and to read acceptance speeches, click title of this post.

Writers Guild Motion Picture Winners

SERIES: Hollywood Guild Awards and Oscars®

Writers Guild of America (WGA), East (WGAE) and West (WGAW) Mortion Picture Screen Awards

The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and West (WGAW) announced the winners of the 2009 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for screen, television, radio, news, promotional, and videogames, in simultaneous ceremonies at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City and the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles last night, 20 February. Here are the motion picture screenwriting nominees with winners in red.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER, Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber;
AVATAR, Written by James Cameron;
THE HANGOVER, Written by Scott Moore;
THE HURT LOCKER, Written by Mark Boal;
A SERIOUS MAN, Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
CRAZY HEART, screenplay by Scott Cooper. based on the novel by Thomas Cobb;
JULIE & JULIA, screenplay by Nora Ephron, based on the books Julie & Julia by Julie Powell and My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme;
PECIOUS: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher, based on the novel Push by Sapphire;
STAR TREK, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, based upon TV show Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry;
UP in the AIR, screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, based on the novel by Walter Kirn.

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY:
AGAINST the TIDE, screenplay by Richard Trank, based on original material written by Richard Trank and Rabbi Marvin Hier;
CAPITALISM: A Love Story, written by Michael Moore;
THE COVE, written by Mark Monroe;
EARTH DAYS, written by Robert Stone;
GOOD HAIR, written by Chris Rock, Jeff Stilson, Lance Crouther and Chuck Sklar;
SOUNDTRAK for a REVOLUTION, written by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman.

For all nominees and winners, in all the categories, click the title of this post.

BAFTA Orange Nominees Announced

SERIES: Hollywood Guild Awards and Oscars®

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA®), announced the nominations for their BAFTA Orange Awards recently, honoring the best of 2009 in the UK film industry. Yes, BAFTA is their equivalent of the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS®), and an Orange Award is equivalent to an Oscar®.

The Los Angeles branch, BAFTA/LA, will host an annual Awards Brunch on Sunday, 21 February 2010. The Buffet Brunch will be followed by the live satellite broadcast from London of the BAFTA gala. You may ask, "What does the British Film and Television Academy (BAFTA) have to do with the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Academy Awards®?"

The answer to the best of my ability is as follows: 1. Unless you have been living under a box for the last 70 years, or so, you know that the UK is the same as Britain or British, but it is more politically and geographically correct to refer to the area now as the United Kingdom of Great Britian, "UK" for short, combining all countries in the area, including Wales and Ireland. However, the Academy was named long before the area became known as the UK.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA®), announced the nominations for their BAFTA Orange Awards recently, honoring the best of 2009 in the UK film industry. Yes, BAFTA is their equivalent of the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS®), and an Orange Award is equivalent to an Oscar®.

The Los Angeles branch, BAFTA/LA, will host an annual Awards Brunch on Sunday, 21 February 2010. The Buffet Brunch will be followed by the live satellite broadcast from London of the BAFTA gala. You may ask, "What does the British Film and Television Academy (BAFTA) have to do with the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Academy Awards®?"

Answer to the best of my ability is as follows: 1. Unless you have been living under a box for the last 70 years, or so, you know that the UK is the same as Britain or British, but it is more politically and geographically correct to refer to the area now as the United Kingdom of Great Britian, "UK" for short, combining all countries in the area, including Wales and Ireland. However, the Academy was named long before the area became known as the UK.

2. Citizens in the UK countries working in the movie industry are most likely to be dual citizens in the USA, and working in the industry in the U.S. Not only that, they are probably voting members of AMPAS, or some Hollywood guild, as well as BAFTA.

3. There is now a Los Angeles Chapter of the BAFTA (BAFTA/LA), and they vote for the BAFTA Awards held in London. Therefore, the bestowal of a BAFTA award, as with a Hollywood guild award, gives us an indication of how the members of those guilds and academies will vote in the Oscar® race. I keep repeating the importance of these guild awards. Are you getting it yet?


BAFTA ORANGE FILM NOMINEES:

Feature Film:
AVATAR
AN EDUCATION
THE HURT LOCKER
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
UP IN THE AIR

Outstanding British Film:
AN EDUCATION
FISH TANK
IN THE LOOP
MOON
NOWHERE BOY

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer:
Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson, Directors/Producers – MUGABE and the WHITE AFRICAN
Eran Creevy, Writer/Director – SHIFTY
Stuart Hazeldine, Writer/Director – EXAM
Duncan Jones, Director – Moon
Sam Taylor-Wood, Director – Nowhere Boy

Director:
AVATAR - James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 - Neill Blomkamp
AN EDUCATION - Lone Scherfig
THE HURT LOCKER - Kathryn Bigelow
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS - Quentin Tarantino

Original Screenplay:
THE HANGOVER - Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
THE HURT LOCKER - Mark Boal
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS - Quentin Tarantino
A SERIOUS MAN - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
UP - Bob Peterson, Pete Docter

Adapted Screenplay:
DISTRICT 9 - Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
AN EDUCATION - Nick Hornby
IN THE LOOP - Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE - Geoffrey Fletcher
UP IN THE AIR - Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

Film Not in the English Language:
BROKEN EMBRACES - Agust'n Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
COCO BEFORE CHANEL - Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN - Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson
A PROPHET - Pascale Caucheteux, Marco Chergui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard
THE WHITE RIBBON - Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke

Animated Film:
CORALINE - Henry Selick
FANTASTIC MR FOX - Wes Anderson
UP - Pete Docter

Leading Actor:
Jeff Bridges - CRAZY HEART
George Clooney - UP in the AIR
Colin Firth - A SINGLE MAN
Jeremy Renner - THE HURT LOCKER
Andy Serkis - SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL

Leading Actress:
Carey Mulligan - AN EDUCATION
Saoirse Ronan - THE LOVELY BONES
Gabourey Sidibe - PRECIOUS: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Meryl Streep - JULIE & JULIA
Audrey Tautou - COCO BEFORE CHANEL

Supporting Actor:
ALEC BALDWIN It’s Complicated
CHRISTIAN McKAY Me and Orson Welles
ALFRED MOLINA An Education
STANLEY TUCCI The Lovely Bones
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Inglourious Basterds

Supporting Actress:
ANNE-MARIE DUFF Nowhere Boy
VERA FARMIGA Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick - UP IN THE AIR
Mo'Nique - PRECIOUS: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Kristin Scott Thomas - Nowhere Boy

Music:
AVATAR - James Horner
CRAZY HEART - T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
FANTASTIC MR FOX - Alexandre Desplat
SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL - Chaz Jankel
UP - Michael Giacchino

Cinematography:
AVATAR - Mauro Fiore
DISTRICT 9 - Trent Opaloch
THE HURT LOCKER - Barry Ackroyd
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS - Robert Richardson
THE ROAD - Javier Aguirresarobe

Editing:
AVATAR - Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 - Julian Clarke
THE HURT LOCKER - Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS - Sally Menke
UP IN THE AIR - Dana E. Glauberman

Production Design:
AVATAR - Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
DISTRICT 9 - Philip Ivey, Guy Poltgieter
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE - Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS - Nominees TBC
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS - David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco

Costume Design:
BRIGHT STAR - Janet Patterson
COCO BEFORE CHANEL - Catherine Leterrier
AN EDUCATION - Odile Dicks-Mireaux
A SINGLE MAN - Arianne Phillips
THE YOUNG VICTORIA - Sandy Powell

Sound:
AVATAR
DISTRICT 9
THE HURT LOCKER
STAR TREK
UP

Special Visual Effects:
AVATAR
DISTRICT 9
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
THE HURT LOCKER
STAR TREK

Make Up & Hair:
COCO BEFORE CHANEL
AN EDUCATION
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
NINE
THE YOUNG VICTORIA

For more on BAFTA and/or the Orange Awards, click the title of this post.