Neil Patrick Harris, who hosted both the Tony and Emmy Awards in the past year, performed the comedic opening number that introduced co-hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Hairspray composer-lyricist Marc Shaiman was musical director with Broadway orchestrator Harold Wheeler also on hand. Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic produced the awards show.
Directors James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow, who were previously married, went head to head with their films "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker," respectively, which were the biggest winners of the night. Bigelow became the first woman to earn an Oscar for Best Direction on "The Hurt Locker," which also took Best Picture. Barbra Streisand presented Bigelow with her directorial honor.
The film adaptation of Maury Yeston's Tony Award-winning musical "Nine," which was nominated for four Academy Awards including a Best Supporting Actress nod for Penelope Cruz and Best Original Song for Yeston, went home empty-handed.
For the first time since 1943, ten films were nominated for the top prize.
Nominations, with winners in bold and preceded by an asterisk, follow:
"Avatar"
"The Blind Side"
"District 9"
"An Education"
*"The Hurt Locker"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
"A Serious Man"
"Up"
"Up in the Air"
*Jeff Bridges "Crazy Heart"
George Clooney "Up in the Air"
Colin Firth "A Single Man"
Morgan Freeman "Invictus"
Jeremy Renner "The Hurt Locker"
Matt Damon "Invictus"
Woody Harrelson "The Messenger"
Christopher Plummer "The Last Station"
Stanley Tucci "The Lovely Bones"
*Christoph Waltz "Inglourious Basterds"
*Sandra Bullock "The Blind Side"
Helen Mirren "The Last Station"
Carey Mulligan "An Education"
Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire"
Meryl Streep "Julie & Julia"
Penelope Cruz "Nine"
Vera Farmiga "Up in the Air"
Maggie Gyllenhaal "Crazy Heart"
Anna Kendrick "Up in the Air"
*Mo'Nique "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
"Coraline"
"Fantastick Mr. Fox"
"The Princess and the Frog"
"The Secret of Kells"
*"Up"
*"Avatar" (Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair)
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith)
"Nine" (Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim)
"Sherlock Holmes" (Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer)
"The Young Victoria" (Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray)
*"Avatar" (Mauro Fiore)
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Bruno Delbonnel)
"The Hurt Locker" (Barry Ackroyd)
"Inglourious Basterds" (Robert Richardson)
"The White Ribbon" (Christian Berger)
"Bright Star" (Janet Patterson)
"Coco before Chanel" (Catherine Leterrier)
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Monique Prudhomme)
"Nine" (Colleen Atwood)
*"The Young Victoria" (Sandy Powell)
"Avatar" (James Cameron)
*"The Hurt Locker" (Kathryn Bigelow)
"Inglourious Basterds" (Quentin Tarantino)
"Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire" (Lee Daniels)
"Up in the Air" (Jason Reitman)
"Burma VJ" (Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller)
*"The Cove" (Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens)
"Food, Inc." (Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein)
"The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" (Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith)
"Which Way Home" (Rebecca Cammisa)
"China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" (Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill)
"The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner" (Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher)
"The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant" (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert)
*"Music by Prudence" (Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett)
"Rabbit à la Berlin" (Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra)
"Avatar" (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron)
"District 9" (Julian Clarke)
*"The Hurt Locker" (Bob Murawski and Chris Innis)
"Inglourious Basterds" (Sally Menke)
"Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire" (Joe Klotz)
"Ajami" (Israel)
*"El Secreto de Sus Ojos" (Argentina)
"The Milk of Sorrow" (Peru)
"Un Prophète" (France)
"The White Ribbon" (Germany)
"Il Divo" (Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano)
*"Star Trek" (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow)
"The Young Victoria" (Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore)
"Avatar" (James Horner)
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" (Alexandre Desplat)
"The Hurt Locker" (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders)
"Sherlock Holmes" (Hans Zimmer)
*"Up" (Michael Giacchino)
"Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Music and Lyric by Randy Newman)
"Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Music and Lyric by Randy Newman)
"Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36" (Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas)
"Take It All" from "Nine" (Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston)
*"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" (Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett)
"French Roast" (Fabrice O. Joubert)
"Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" (Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell)
"The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)" (Javier Recio Gracia)
*"Logorama" (Nicolas Schmerkin)
"A Matter of Loaf and Death" (Nick Park)
"The Door" (Juanita Wilson and James Flynn)
"Instead of Abracadabra" (Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström)
"Kavi" (Gregg Helvey)
"Miracle Fish" (Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey)
*"The New Tenants" (Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson)
"Avatar" (Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
*"The Hurt Locker" (Paul N.J. Ottosson)
"Inglourious Basterds" (Wylie Stateman)
"Star Trek" (Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin)
"Up" (Michael Silvers and Tom Myers)
"Avatar" (Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson)
*"The Hurt Locker" (Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett)
"Inglourious Basterds” (Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano)
"Star Trek" (Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin)
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson)
*"Avatar" (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones)
"District 9" (Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken)
"Star Trek" (Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton)
"District 9" (Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell)
"An Education" (Screenplay by Nick Hornby)
"In the Loop" (Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche)
*"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher)
"Up in the Air" (Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner)
*"The Hurt Locker" (Written by Mark Boal)
"Inglourious Basterds" (Written by Quentin Tarantino)
"The Messenger" (Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman)
"A Serious Man" (Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
"Up” (Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy) For more information visit oscars.org.
