And bullseye. Goliath goes down. In your face 3D, "The Hurt Locker" won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Picture.
The intense action-based Iraq War film took six awards in total, including one for its director Kathryn Bigelow, who went down in the history books as the female director to ever win a Best Directing Academy Award prize.
Some argued the David vs. Goliath story over the blockbuster vs. the longtail award or the spectacle vs. quality, but suffice to say we were very pleased the indie picture dominated the night.
The Academy Branch tried their best to juke the stats this year, raising the Best Picture to 10 nominees, changing the voting system to a preferential ballot that favored populist films, but "Avatar," the highest grossing film of all time could still not defeat "The Hurt Locker," ironically, the lowest grossing picture of all the nominees (probably their win was the worst case scenario the Academy had in mind when they flipped the script this year, so we're kinda feeling a bit of schadenfreude that their cheap grab for ratings backfired). Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Christoph Waltz and Mo'Nique took their respective acting categories, as predicted by many (including us, we got 18 picks correct), but the biggest surprise of the evening was definitely "Precious" winning Best Adapted Screenplay. Geoffrey Fletcher's screenplay took the award, which almost everyone assumed was Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner's "Up In The Air" award to lose. And lose it they did. But otherwise the evening went the way most expected it would.
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