Kathryn Bigelow is the first female ever to win the award for Best Director. She beat out her ex-husband, director James Cameron of "Avatar" for the honor.
Best Animated Feature Film: “Up”
Best Original Song: “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart),” music and lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, for “Crazy Heart”
Best Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, for “The Hurt Locker”
Best Documentary Short: “Music By Prudence”
Best Makeup: “Star Trek” Best Short Film (Animated): “Logorama”
Best Short Film (Live Action): “The New Tenants”
Best Adapted Screenplay: Goeffrey Fletcher, for “Precious: Based on The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire”
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, for “Precious: Based on The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire”
Food,Inc.: 2010 Academy Award-Nominated Documentary - "You'll never look at dinner the same way"
The corn industry is lashing out at the Oscar-nominated documentary that has grossed out grocery shoppers, saying the film is unfair to many of the nation's farmers and shouldn't win.
Mo'nique has won the Best Supporting Actress Award for "Precious" at the following:
NAACP Image Award New York Film Critics Circle Southeastern Film Critics Association National Society of Film Critics Broadcast Film Critics Association Independent Spirit Award Screen Actors Guild Award (SAG Award) London Film Critics’ Circle San Francisco Film Critics Circle Golden Globe Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (BAFTA)