The Hurt Locker, a powerful Iraq war drama, won the award for Best Picture and five more Oscars on Sunday night, including best director for Kathryn Bigelow.
Bigelow is the first woman ever to win an Academy Award for best director.
"There's no other way to describe it. It's the moment of a lifetime," Bigelow said.
The Hurt Locker stood out in a crowded Best Picture field that for the first time in more than 50 years included 10 nominees. The film, the lowest-grossing film ever to win the top Oscar, also won awards for original screenplay by Mark Boal, film editing, sound editing and sound mixing.
Avatar, which like The Hurt Locker received nine nominations, won for art direction, cinematography and visual effects. The list of winners:
Best picture: The Hurt Locker
Best director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Best actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Supporting actor: Christopher Walz, Inglourious Basterds
Supporting actress: Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Animated film: Up
Art direction: Avatar (Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair)
Cinematography: Mauro Fiore, Avatar
Costume design: Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria
Documentary (feature): Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens, The Cove
Documentary (short): Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett, Music by Prudence
Film editing: Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, The Hurt Locker
Foreign language film: The Secret in Their Eyes, Argentina
Makeup: Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow, Star Trek
Music - original score: Up, Michael Giacchino
Music - original song: “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” Crazy Heart
Short film - animated: Nicolas Schmerkin, Logorama
Short film - live action: Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson, The New Tenants
Sound editing: Paul N.J. Ottosson, The Hurt Locker
Sound mixing: Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett, The Hurt Locker
Visual effects: Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones, Avatar
Writing (adapted screenplay): Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Writing (original screenplay): Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
