82nd Oscars - The Academy Award

Updated March 8, 2010

I was knocked down asleep waiting for the ceremony in TV. I was propitious enough to wake up though for the final awards, here are some tidbits of what’s in….

BEST ACTRESS - Sandra Bullock paid her dues in Hollywood for more than 20 years. She was rewarded Sunday, winning the best-actress Oscar for playing a tough white Southern woman who adopted a black child in “The Blind Side.”

BEST ACTOR -Jeff Bridges, the affable and well-liked star of “Crazy Heart,” won the best actor Academy Award Sunday night, an honor that has eluded him four times before. His first nomination came nearly 40 years ago in 1971.

BEST DIRECTOR - Kathryn Bigelow made Oscar history Sunday night, becoming the first woman to win best director at the Academy Awards for her gritty Iraq war saga "The Hurt Locker."

AVATAR head to head with HURT LOCKER

Critical darling "The Hurt Locker" beat out blockbuster "Avatar" for the best picture Oscar Sunday night, but some msnbc.com readers disagree with the academy.

"Hurt Locker" won the Academy Award for best picture, and its director, Kathryn Bigelow, became the first woman ever to win the best director Oscar.

THE HOSTS

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin just might have a future in show biz. Teamed up to co-host this year's Oscarcast, they're offering a pleasant reminder that an often overstuffed, cumbersome TV shindig can be lighthearted fun.

WHAT ABOUT JAMES CAMERON? James Cameron isn’t batting an eye over the recent Oscar-vote e-mail campaign by a producer of “The Hurt Locker,” a move that got Nicolas Chartier barred from Sunday’s event.

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