'The Hurt Locker' triumphs at Oscars

Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker has dominated the 2010 Academy Awards.

The intense war drama, about an EOD team defusing bombs during the Iraq war, has scooped six trophies at the prestigious Hollywood event. The film took home the coveted 'Best Picture' and 'Director' Oscars, along with awards for Mark Boal's 'Original Sceenplay', 'Editing', 'Sound Editing' and 'Sound Mixing'.

Bigelow made history by becoming the first female filmmaker to win the directing prize. "There's no way to describe it, it's the moment of a lifetime," she said after collecting the Oscar from Barbra Streisand.

Jeff Bridges won his first Academy Award, taking home the 'Best Actor' gong for his role as a washed-up country musician in Crazy Heart. The 60-year-old looked up and thanked his late parents, Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges, on winning the trophy.

"Thank you Mum and Dad for turning me on to a such a groovy profession," he said.

Sandra Bullock triumphed in the 'Best Actress' category over Brit stars Helen Mirren and Carey Mulligan, as well as Meryl Streep and Gabourey Sidibe. Her role as a conservative housewife who adopts a homeless black teenager in The Blind Side won her her first Oscar.

The supporting acting prizes went to Inglourious Basterds' Christoph Waltz and Precious's Mo'Nique.

Elsewhere, Up netted a fifth Oscar for Pixar in the 'Best Animated Feature' category and Avatar landed three technical awards ('Art Direction', 'Cinematography' and 'Visual Effects').

Editor's note: No sci-fi movie has ever won a major Academy Award. Star Trek, which was arguably the best sci-fi movie of last year, wasn't even nominated for any!

In Full: Oscars 2010 - The Winners
Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker - WINNER!
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

Director
James Cameron (Avatar)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) - WINNER!
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Jason Reitman (Up In The Air)

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) - WINNER!
George Clooney (Up In The Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) - WINNER!
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) - WINNER!

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)
Mo'Nique (Precious) - WINNER!

Adapted Screenplay
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell (District 9)
Nick Hornby (An Education)
Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell, Jesse Armstrong, Ian Martin, Tony Roche (In The Loop)
Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious) - WINNER!
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner (Up In The Air)

Original Screenplay
Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) - WINNER!
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman (The Messenger)
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (A Serious Man)
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Thomas McCarthy (Up)

Animated Feature
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess And The Frog
The Secret Of Kells
Up - WINNER!

Best Foreign Language Film
Ajami
El Secreto de Sus Ojos - WINNER!
The Milk Of Sorrow
A Prophet
The White Ribbon

Art Direction
Avatar - WINNER!
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Cinematography
Avatar - WINNER!
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria - WINNER!

Documentary Feature
Burma VJ
The Cove - WINNER!
Food, Inc
The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Documentary Short
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears Of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign Of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing Of A GM Plant
Music By Prudence - WINNER!
Rabbit a la Berlin

Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker - WINNER!
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Makeup
Il Divo
Star Trek - WINNER!
The Young Victoria

Original Score
James Horner (Avatar)
Alexandre Desplat (Fantastic Mr Fox)
Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders (The Hurt Locker)
Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes)
Michael Giacchino (Up) - WINNER!

Original Song
'Almost There' (The Princess And The Frog)
'Down In New Orleans' (The Princess And The Frog)
'Loin de Paname' (Paris 36)
'Take It All' (Nine)
'The Weary Kind' (Crazy Heart) - WINNER!

Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker - WINNER!
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker - WINNER!
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

Visual Effects
Avatar - WINNER!
District 9
Star Trek

Animated Short
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady And The Reaper
Logorama - WINNER!
A Matter Of Loaf And Death

Live Action Short
The Door
Instead Of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants - WINNER!