The Awards Circuit - Post Oscars Talk

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The Hurt Locker wins 6 Academy Awards!

Behold the winners:

• Best Picture: “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro
• Best Director: “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow
• Best Actor: Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
• Best Actress: Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
• Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”
• Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique in “Precious”
• Best Original Screenplay: “The Hurt Locker” Written by Mark Boal
• Best Adapted Screenplay: “Precious” Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
• Best Foreign Language: “The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)” Argentina
• Best Animated Film: “Up” Pete Docter
• Best Documentary: “The Cove” Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
• Best Cinematography: “Avatar” Mauro Fiore
• Best Art Direction: Avatar” Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
• Best Costumes: “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell
• Best Editing: “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
• Best Score: “Up” Michael Giacchino
• Best Song: “The Weary Kind”(Crazy Heart) Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
• Best Makeup: “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
• Best Visual Effects: “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
• Best Sound Editing: “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson
• Best Sound Mixing: “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
• Best Animated Short: “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin
• Best Live Action Short: “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
• Best Documentary Short: “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor

-Some trivia...The Hurt Locker becomes the lowest grossing Best Picture winner in history, Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to ever win Best Director, and all of the 8 major awards were won by first-time honorees (with only Bridges having been previously nominated at all). Congrats to them all!

Today's Posters: Brothers, Jennifer's Body, It Might Get Loud, and (500) Days of Summer

Today we start with what is my favorite Poster so far this year, this amazing one for Jim Sheridan's Oscar hopeful, Brothers:

Next is this decently cool one for Jennifer's Body:

Then we have a new look at the rock documentary It Might Get Loud:

And finally we wrap up with a new Poster for a film I think is going to be a big hit and a possible Oscar dark horse, (500) Days of Summer:

Thoughts?

A.R. Rahman gets his first U.S. gig

Variety has the details:
A.R. Rahman, the Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" composer, has agreed to score his first American feature.
Rahman will compose the score to "Couples Retreat," the Peter Billingsley-directed Universal Pictures comedy that stars Vince Vaughn.
Based on an idea by Vaughn, the pic follows four couples who head to a tropical resort, where one couple plans to work on their marriage.
-Good for him...thoughts?