Bigelow makes history at the Oscars

Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman in history to win the Oscar for Best Director. His film, 'In a hostile land' manages to prevail over 'Avatar', Cameron's film which Hollywood has only recognized in the technical categories. The Spaniards Javier Recio, with his short film 'La Dama y la Muerte' and the actress Penélope Cruz will return home without a statuette. The Spanish-Argentine film 'The Secret of Their Eyes', co-produced by Tornasol Films and directed by Juan José Campanella, had better luck, which was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd edition of the American Academy Awards.

The 82nd edition of the Oscars had a special morbidity this year due to the duel between James Cameron, and a new way of making films that has elevated technology and 3D to a new dimension, and his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, with her 'European style' war drama In hostile land. Finally, Bigelow has made history for two reasons. The first, because Hollywood elevates an auteur film to the top and the second, because Bigelow has become the first woman in the eighty-two editions of these awards to receive the Oscar for Best Director.

Bigelow, 58, has already demonstrated his predilection for action sequences and psychological analysis as well as a particular visual style in films such as blue steel (1989), They call him Bodhi (1991), strange days (1995), The weight of water (2000) from K-19: The Widowmaker (2002).

In hostile land He had nine Oscar nominations, the same as his main opponent. Avatar, and finally it has prevailed in all categories over James Cameron's film, which has only obtained three of the nine statuettes for which it aspired. With a budget of 15 million dollars, In hostile land It has raised more than 21 million dollars worldwide (of which, almost two million in Spain released by DeAPlaneta).

Bigelow's film culminates with its six Oscars a brilliant international career of awards after being the great winner of the BAFTA Awards of the British Academy, the National Society of Film Critics of the United States, and receiving the distinctions for Best Film of the Year by the New York and Los Angeles Critics' Circle. As Variety confirmed: “it is the first film since L.A. Confidential to receive unanimous recognition from all three critics associations: the National, New York and Los Angeles.”

As for the Spaniards who were competing for the award, although Penélope Cruz was the first to go on stage to present the Oscar for best supporting actor to the Austrian Christoph Waltz (damn bastards), the woman from Madrid who chose her job in Nine she did not ascend the stairs again since Mo'Nique snatched the statuette from her as supporting actress for her role in Precious. An Oscar that will force the American to expand the windows of her home to accommodate the awards she has won this season, including a Golden Globe and a BAFTA, among many others.

Javier Recio, another Spaniard supported by the majority of his colleagues from the Granada studios Kandor Graphics, who had broken the piggy bank to travel to Los Angeles to live a dream moment, will have to return to Spain without the golden statuette but with the satisfaction of having placed his short The Lady and Death at the top. The award for animated short film finally went to Nicolas Schmerkin with Logorama. In full length animation, as expected, Up convinced the academics.

Spanish flavor also in the Spanish-Argentine film The secret of his eyes, directed by Juan José Campanella and co-produced by Gerardo Herrero and Tornasol Films, finally managed to unseat the French film The prophet, the German The white ribbon, which started as favorite, and the Peruvian style (also with Spanish participation) The scared tit.

Winners of the 82nd Oscars

Actor principal
* Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
* George Clooney en “Up in the Air”
* Colin Firth en “A Single Man”
*Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”
* Jeremy Renner a “The Hurt Locker”

Supporting actor
* Matt Damon an “Invictus”
* Woody Harrelson en “The Messenger”
* Christopher Plummer en “The Last Station”
* Stanley Tucci en “The Lovely Bones”
* Christoph Waltz a “Inglourious Basterds”

Lead actress
* Sandra Bullock en “The Blind Side”
* Helen Mirren en “The Last Station”
* Carey Mulligan en “An Education”
* Gabourey Sidibe en “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
* Meryl Streep en “Julie & Julia”

supporting actress
* Penelope Cruz in “Nine”
* Vera Farmiga en “Up in the Air”
* Maggie Gyllenhaal and “Crazy Heart”
* Anna Kendrick en “Up in the Air”
* Mo’Nique en “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

Animation length
* “Coraline” Henry Selick
* “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Wes Anderson
* “The Princess and the Frog” John Musker y Ron Clements
* “The Secret of Kells” Tomm Moore
* “Up” Pete Docter

art direction
* “Avatar” art direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; sets: 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

Photograph
* “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

costume design
* “Bright Star” Janet Patterson
* “Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier
* “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme
* “Nine” Colleen Atwood
* “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell

Address
* “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

long documentary
* "Burma VJ" Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
* “The Cove” Louie Psihoyos y Fisher Stevens
* “Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner y Elise Pearlstein
* “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich y Rick Goldsmith
* “Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa

short documentary
* “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” Jon Alpert y Matthew O’Neill
* “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner” Daniel Junge y Henry Ansbacher
* “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” Steven Bognar y Julia Reichert
* “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams y Elinor Burkett
* “Rabbit à la Berlin” by Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

Mounting
* “Avatar” Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua y James Cameron
* “District 9” Julian Clarke
* “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski y Chris Innis
* “Inglourious Basterds” Sally Menke
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Joe Klotz

Non-English language film
* “Ajami” Israel
* “The Milk of Sorrow” Peru
* “A Prophet (A Prophet)” France
* “The Secret in Their Eyes” Argentina-Spain
* “The White Ribbon” German

Make-up
* “Il Divo” Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
* “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall y Joel Harlow
* “The Young Victoria” Jon Henry Gordon y Jenny Shircore

Music
* “Avatar” James Horner
* “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Alexandre Desplat
* “The Hurt Locker” Marco Beltrami y Buck Sanders
* “Sherlock Holmes” Hans Zimmer
* “Up” Michael Giacchino

original song
* “Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” Música y letra de Randy Newman
* “Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” Música y letra de Randy Newman
* “Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyrics by Frank Thomas
* “Take It All” from “Nine” Música y letra de Maury Yeston
* “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Música y letra de Ryan Bingham y T Bone Burnett

best movie
* “Avatar” James Cameron y Jon Landau, Producers
* “The Blind Side” Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove y Broderick Johnson, productores
* “District 9” Peter Jackson y Carolynne Cunningham, productores
* “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, producers
* “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier y Greg Shapiro, productores
* “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, productor
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness y Gary Magness, productores
* “A Serious Man” Joel Coen y Ethan Coen, Producers
* “Up” Jonas Rivera, producer
* “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, producers

Animated short film
* “French Roast” Fabrice O. Joubert
* “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” Nicky Phelan y Darragh O’Connell
* “The Lady and the Reaper” Javier Recio Gracia
* “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin
* “A Matter of Loaf and Death” Nick Park

Short film
* “The Door” Juanita Wilson y James Flynn
* "Instead of Abracadabra" Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
* “Kavi” Gregg Helvey
* “Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan y Drew Bailey
* “The New Tenants” Joachim Back y Tivi Magnusson

Sound
* “Avatar” Christopher Boyes y Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
* “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson
* “Inglourious Basterds” Wylie Stateman
* “Star Trek” Mark Stoeckinger y Alan Rankin
* “Up” Michael Silvers y Tom Myers

Mixtures
* “Avatar” Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson y Tony Johnson
* “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson y Ray Beckett
* “Inglourious Basterds” Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti y Mark Ulano
* “Star Trek” Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson y Peter J. Devlin
* “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers y Geoffrey Patterson

Visual effects
* “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
* “District 9” Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros y Matt Aitken
* “Star Trek” Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh y Burt Dalton

Adapted script
* “District 9” Neill Blomkamp y Terri Tatchell
* “An Education” Nick Hornby
* “In the Loop” Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Geoffrey Fletcher
* “Up in the Air” Jason Reitman y Sheldon Turner

Original script
* “The Hurt Locker” Mark Boal
* “Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino
* “The Messenger” Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
* “A Serious Man” Joel Coen y Ethan Coen
* “Up”Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Pete Docter, Bob Peterson yTom McCarthy

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