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Revision as of 05:46, 8 March 2010

82nd
DateSunday, March 7, 2010
SiteKodak Theatre
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Hosted byAlec Baldwin
Steve Martin[1]
Preshow hostsJess Cagle
Kathy Ireland
Sherri Shepherd[2]
Produced byBill Mechanic
Adam Shankman[3]
Directed byHamish Hamilton[4]
Highlights
Best PictureThe Hurt Locker
Most awardsThe Hurt Locker (6)
Most nominationsAvatar and The Hurt Locker (9)
Television coverage
NetworkABC
Duration3 hours, 37 minutes
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The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST (01:30 UTC, March 8). The ceremony was scheduled from its usual late February date to avoid coinciding with the 2010 Winter Olympics.[5] The Academy Awards ceremony was televised in the United States on ABC. Actors Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosted the show. Martin hosted for the third time, after previously presiding over the 73rd and 75th ceremonies, while Baldwin hosted the show for the first time. This was the first telecast to have multiple hosts since the 59th ceremony.[6]

On February 20, 2010, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Template:City-state, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Elizabeth Banks.[7]

Nominees

On June 24, 2009, Academy president Sid Ganis announced at a press conference that the 2010 ceremony would feature ten Best Picture nominees instead of five,[8] a practice that was discontinued after 1943 Awards. The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced live on Tuesday February 2, 2010, at 05:38 AM PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Tom Sherak, president of the Academy, and Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway. Top nominated films were Avatar and The Hurt Locker, with 9 nominations each (see table below). The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 7, 2010.[9]

Honorary Academy Awards

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Major awards

Best Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Animated Feature Best Foreign Language Film

Other awards

Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short
  • Music by Prudence – Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
    • China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province – Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
    • The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner – Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
    • The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant – Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
    • Rabbit à la Berlin – Bartosz Konopka and Anna Wydra
Best Live Action Short Best Animated Short
  • The New Tenants – Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
    • The Door – Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
    • Instead of Abracadabra – Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
    • Kavi – Gregg Helvey
    • Miracle Fish – Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
Best Original Score Best Original Song
Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing
  • The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson
    • Avatar – Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
    • Inglourious Basterds – Wylie Stateman
    • Star Trek – Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
    • Up – Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
  • The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
    • Avatar – Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
    • Inglourious Basterds – Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
    • Star Trek – Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
    • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Best Art Direction Best Cinematography
Best Makeup Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects
  • Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
    • District 9 – Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, and Matt Aitken
    • Star Trek – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

Multiple nominations and wins

News and recap

Due to the declining viewership of recent Academy Awards ceremonies, the Academy had sought ideas to revamp the show while renewing interest with the nominated films. After last year's telecast which saw a 13% increase of viewership, many within the Motion Picture Academy thought of new ways to make the awards have a more populist appeal. As a result, then-president Sid Ganis announced that the ceremony will feature ten Best Picture nominees rather than traditional five. The expansion is a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and '40s, when anywhere between eight and 12 films were shortlisted. "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize," AMPAS President Sid Ganis said in a press conference. "I can't wait to see what that list of 10 looks like when the nominees are announced in February." Later, the Academy tapped director and choreographer Adam Shankman and former 20th Century Fox studio executive Bill Mechanic as the producers for the 82nd ceremony. Shankman revealed in an interview on NPR's Fresh Air that he and co-producer Mechanic had originally chosen Sacha Baron Cohen as the host, but the Academy rejected this idea because Cohen was "too much of a wild card."[10] Chris Harrison hosted "Road to the Oscars",[11] a weekly behind-the-scenes video blog on the Academy's website, oscar.com.[12] David Rockwell designed a new set and stage design for the ceremony.[13] The red carpet was directed by Robert Osborne. Gina Tuttle will reprise her position from last year's telecast as announcer for the ceremony.[14]

Shankman and Mechanic have revealed that the 82nd ceremony will bring back many of last year's well received elements, such as having five past winners present the Best Acting awards. They have also announced their intent to keep the running time of the telecast shorter.[15]

For the first time since 2003, the field of major nominees included at least one bona fide blockbuster at the U.S./Canada box office, with five movies grossing over $100 million prior to the announcement of the nominations.[16] Many critics, reporters, and entertainment industry analysts cite the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences's decision to expand the roster of Best Picture nominees from five to ten films as one of the reasons for such feat.[16][17][18]

Three of the ten Best Picture nominees was among the year's top ten releases in box office at the time of the nominations; at the time of the announcement on February 2, Avatar was the highest earner among the Best Picture nominees with $706 million in domestic box office receipts.[16] The other Best Picture nominees that were among the top ten domestic box office hits were Up with $293 million[16] and The Blind Side with $237.9 million.[16] Among the remaining seven nominees, Inglourious Basterds was the next highest grossing film with $120.5 million[16] followed by District 9 ($115.6 million)[16], Up in the Air ($73.5 million)[19], Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire ($45.5 million)[19], The Hurt Locker ($12 million)[19], An Education ($9.4 million)[20], and finally A Serious Man ($9.2 million).[20]

Out of the top 50 grossing movies of the year (prior to announcement), 46 nominations went to 13 films on the list. Only Avatar (1st), Up (5th), The Blind Side (8th), Inglourious Basterds (25th), District 9 (27th), The Princess and The Frog (32nd), Julie & Julia (34th), Up in the Air (41st), and Coraline (43rd) were nominated for best picture/animated feature, directing, acting, or screenwriting.[21] The other top-50 box office hits that earned nominations were Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2nd), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (3rd), Star Trek (7th), and Sherlock Holmes (10th).[21]

Notable nominations and awards

 *  - winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture,  †  - nominees for Best Picture

Film Awards Nominations Notes
Avatar 3 9
  • This was director James Cameron's first feature film since Titanic in 1997 which won a record-tying 11 Oscars.
  • Avatar (along with fellow Best Picture nominee District 9) became the first sci-fi film to earn a Best Picture nomination since 1982's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[22]
Crazy Heart 2 3
District 9 0 4
  • District 9 (along with fellow Best Picture nominee Avatar) became the first sci-fi film to earn a Best Picture nomination since 1982's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[24]
The Hurt Locker 6 9
Inglourious Basterds 1 8
Julie & Julia 0 1
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire 2 6
  • Director Lee Daniels becomes the second African-American to be nominated for Best Director after John Singleton for 1991's Boyz n the Hood.[29]
  • This is the first film directed by an African-American to be nominated for Best Picture.[23]
  • Gabourey Sidibe is the first African-American to be nominated in the Best Lead Actress category since Halle Berry's win for 2001's Monster's Ball.[30]
  • Screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher is the first African-American to win for Best Writing in either the Original or Adapted categories.
Up 2 5
  • Up becomes the first CGI animated feature film to be nominated for Best Picture and the second animated feature overall after Beauty and the Beast in 1991. The film is also the first to be nominated simultaneously in both the Best Picture and Best Animated Feature categories since the latter category's inception in 2001.[31][27]
Up in the Air 0 6
  • Director Jason Reitman becomes the youngest person to receive two directing nominations (age 32).[32]
  • Producers Jason Reitman and father Ivan Reitman are the second father-and-son duo to be nominated as producers for a Best Picture nominee. The first duo to receive this distinction was in 1996 when Mario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori for producing 1994's Il Postino.[27]

Presenters

Controversies

The Hurt Locker

Nicolas Chartier, a producer of Best Picture nominee The Hurt Locker, was banned from attending the ceremony by the Academy due to a violation of Oscar rules after Chartier sent e-mail to Academy members, advising them to vote for his film in the Best Picture category rather than the equally nominated Avatar. Chartier will be given an Oscar statuette on a later date if The Hurt Locker wins Best Picture.[33] However, due to a policy announced by the Academy which restricts Oscars to only three producers of a film, it is unlikely that Chartier will be given an award at all.[34] The producer has since apologized for his actions.[35][36][37]

Banning of Sacha Baron Cohen

Sacha Baron Cohen, who had originally been chosen by Mechanic and Shankman to host the ceremony before the Academy rejected the idea, was also uninvited from the Oscar ceremony as the producers of the show feared that a planned skit between him and Ben Stiller (which features Cohen resembling a female Na'vi, and Ben Stiller translating what he says, ending with Cohen declaring he is "pregnant with the love child of James Cameron"), would be insulting to the director.[38] However, Cameron has stated that he is content with the skit being performed.[39] Yet the skit has still been confirmed as cancelled with Cohen uninvited.[40]

The cutting of the Best Original Song performances

In February 2010, Mechanic and Shankman announced that the ceremony would not feature performances by the Best Original Song nominees, as in most years past. Instead all five pieces would be played over a montage of the films they appeared in.[41] Some Oscar producers have objected to this move, saying that it goes against Academy Award ceremony tradition, and it denies each song's respective musical artist from performing in front of a worldwide audience.[42]

Oscar advertising and viewership issues

On March 1, 2010, ABC New York City affiliate WABC-TV announced that it would likely end its services with Bethpage, New York cable television company Cablevision on Sunday March 7, 2010, which also happens to fall on the same weekend as the 82nd Academy Awards. The station was removed from Cablevision's lineup at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, March 7.[43][44] Over 3.1 million viewers in that area will be unable to watch the Oscars (and other station-related and ABC-related programming), and it is projected to cause a devastating blow to advertisers and viewership for the Oscars.[45]

At approximately 8:43 p.m. EST Cablevision resumed transmission of the WABC feed, which at that time consisted of the Academy Award ceremony already in progress.

Other controversies

Producers of the ceremony's In Memoriam tribute have also revealed concern due to a large number of celebrity passings in 2009, and a restriction which only allows up to 30 people to be honored during the tribute.[46] An individual tribute was made to John Hughes.

Schedule

As announced March 25, 2009:[47]
Date Event
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Official Screen Credits forms due
Monday, December 28, 2009 Nominations ballots mailed
Sunday, January 24, 2010 Nominations polls closed at 5:00 PM PST (8:00 PM EST) (01:00, Jan. 25 UTC)
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 Nominations announced at 05:38 AM PST (8:38 AM EST) (13:38 UTC) at Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Final ballots mailed
Monday, February 15, 2010 Nominees Luncheon
Saturday, February 20, 2010 Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards presentation
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Final polls closed at 5:00 PM PST (8:00 PM EST) (01:00, Mar. 3 UTC)
Sunday, March 7, 2010 82nd Annual Academy Awards presentation at 5:30 PM PST (8:30 PM EST) (01:30, Mar. 8 UTC)

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See also

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