Best Special Effects Winner

It’s probably no contest this year for the Best Special Effects Winner — Avatar is a virtual shoe-in, having grossed over $2 billion worldwide, largely on the strength of its visual effects and pioneering technology.  Too bad for the other nominees in the category, as this year featured some visually stunning movies, like District 9, an alien invasion movie nominated for Best picture and Star Trek, and updated version of the old classic.

Best Special Effects Winner coming up, many announced

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.

Star Trek won for Best Makeup.

Precious won for the best adapted screenplay, beating out Up in the Air.  Both films are nominated for best picture.

Many categories have yet to be announced: best picture, best actor, best actress, best director and best foreign film.  Avatar and the Hurt Locker are the favorites for best picture; james cameron is the favorite for best director for the blockbuster hit Avatar; jeff bridges is the favorite for best actor and sandra bullock is one of the favorites for best actress.

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 be the Best Special Effects Winner.