The results of the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony...

The Academy showered Kathryn Bigelow"s film The Hurt Locker with six Oscars, including Best Writing (Original Screenplay), Best Achievement in Directing and Best Motion Picture of the Year. The latter two were awarded personally to her.

The intrigue of who would come out on top - Bigelow or her ex-husband James Cameron, who shot Avatar, the most financially successful film in history - started as early as a month before the awards ceremony. The Director"s Guild added fuel to the fire by naming Bigelow Best Director last year. It is curious that in its entire existence, the Guild has been wrong in its forecasts only a handful of times. It was right again this year.

This tough war drama about a U.S. Army bomb squad in Iraq, shot by Bigelow in a deliberately documentary style on a low budget, was more interesting to Academy members than Cameron"s 3D sci-fi epic Avatar, which had grossed more than $2 billion worldwide as of March 1. Avatar received only three Oscars: Best

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