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best director best picture best picture prediction first female winner James Cameron Kathryn Bigelow the hurt locker“Well the time has come” said barbara Streisand who was presenting the award to the Best Director Winner. The lucky director? Kathryn Bigelow, who became the first woman to win the little golden man in the category. It was an interesting race, as James Cameron, nominated for Avatar in the same category, is her ex-husband.
James Cameron, the pioneering creator of the blockbuster hit Avatar, was the front runner for Best Director Winner. Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds, Lee Daniels for Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire and Jason Reitman for Up in the Air were also nominated
The first of the Oscar Winners received his little golden man about 20 minutes into the program.
Christoph Waltz won the first award for Best Supporting Actor in Inglorious Basterds. He thanked Quentin Terrantino for his “Unorthodox” story telling style during his acceptance speech. Amongst the other nominees, he beat out Matt Damon for his roll as the rugby captain of the South African Rugby team during reconciliation and the first years of the post-apartheid government and Nelson Mandela (played by Morgan Freeman).
Up was the second winner, winning Best Animated Feature.
The song “the weary kind” won from Crazy Heart for best song.
StStar Trek won for Best Makeup.
Stay clicked to our constantly updating list of Oscar Winners here on Breaking Global news. We will be live blogging the 82nd annual academy awards all night. Stay tuned for who will win after the Best Director Winner.
