"The Hurt Locker" winning Best Picture

Tom Hanks presenting the Best Picture Oscar® for "The Hurt Locker" to Producers Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal and Greg Shepard at the 82nd Academy Awards®.

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[EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

Haters gonna hate, I guess. I must be one of the few people who wasn't a fan of Avatar (then again, I've never been a James Cameron fan anyway).

HURT LOCKER FTW!!!!!

[jediclam]

@Alexander1234683 yeah, you can't get much more original than avatar's screenplay. oh wait, there's pocahontas and dances with wolves. ever heard of those movies? why should the best picture go to a 21st century ripoff that was the most expensive movie in history?

[bou212]

The Hurt Locker > Avatar

[lestatella]

The movie is not that bad i guess...but i didn't also like the Avatar that much,so i think Inglorious Basterds should have won it's an awesome movie and Tarantino is a genius!

[Peemeaux]

Inglorious Basterds > The Hurt Locker

[deeeznz]

Jeremy's yell at 1:10 is freakin' adorable! He sounds like he's cheering at a football or soccer game instead of a awards banquet!

[FallingRain123]

@zonemystery Because "Avatar" features so prominently in the current film discourse? "Avatar"'s Best Picture nomination was ONLY because of it's box office gross. Don't get it twisted. And if there is a sequel, Oscar's not touching it with a ten foot pole, not as far as anything outside of special effects goes. I'm not accusing "The Hurt Locker" of being "The Godfather", but it's a better movie than "Avatar". By miles.

[FallingRain123]

@madcreech Know what I'm saying? Fuck an Avatar.

[honeymiel12]

I don't know why people keep comparing The Hurt Locker and Avatar...Anyways The Hurt Locker totally deserved the win WOOHOO!

[RR202734]

Avatar should've won, this goes down with Brokeback not winning which was a travesty :'(.

[JJdaPK]

Inglorious Basterds, Avatar, District 9, Up in the Air, Up, and (dare I say it) the Blind Side were all better than the Hurt Locker. There was not one great quality in the movie...emotional detatchment from the characters, no story, poor pacing, no sense of direction...just a dull movie. And people can accept a woman for Best Director. They just want a woman to win because she deserves it and I dont think Bigelow does.

[madcreech]

Gotta love how everyone just assumes that Avatar would've gotten the Oscar if it didn't go to The Hurt Locker.