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How did the little movie best the huge one? Theories on how 'Hurt Locker' beat 'Avatar'. For Hollywood pundits, industry folk and Oscar fans still paying attention on Monday, a major question remained: How did David slay Goliath?

Welcome to AFP's live report on the 2010 Oscars. A crush of stars in all their finery are beginning to descend on Hollywood?s Kodak Theatre for the movie industry?s biggest night out.

A-list stars and Olympians mingle at Oscar after-parties. With his shaggy red hair, black leather jacket and skintight American flag-printed jeans, Olympic gold medalist Shaun White upstaged even glam Oscar winner Sandra Bullock at a pack of parties around town following the Academy Awards.

Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" blew away box office king "Avatar" to take six Oscars, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director award on a historic Hollywood night.

An Oscar triumph tops an extraordinary year for Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, who has now won every major film prize for his portrayal of a sadistic Germany officer, but has vowed never to play such a role again.

`Hurt Locker' director Bigelow pioneers Oscars with first win for female filmmaker. Kathryn Bigelow played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker" to the screen.

Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" blew away box office king "Avatar" to take six Oscars, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director award on a historic Hollywood night.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood finally entrusted a female director with an Oscar on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood finally entrusted a female director with an Oscar on Sunday.

Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" blew away box office king "Avatar" to take six Oscars, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director award on a historic Hollywood night.

`The Hurt Locker' wins six awards, including best picture, at predictable Oscars. On a night when so many changes were intended to shake up the Oscar ceremony, the winners themselves were pretty predictable, with "The Hurt Locker" taking six awards including best picture.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Twelve years ago, James Cameron declared he was "king of the world" when "Titanic" won the Oscar for best picture.

Waltz's gleefully evil Nazi in 'Inglourious Basterds' wins supporting actor Oscar. Christoph Waltz was a veteran TV and stage actor in Europe who was virtually unknown in Hollywood. Then he met Quentin Tarantino.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman ever to win a best director Oscar on Sunday for her hard-nosed work on "The Hurt Locker," the Iraq war film about a team of U.S. soldiers who defuse bombs.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Christoph Waltz won a best supporting actor Oscar on Sunday for his role as a ruthless Nazi officer in "Inglourious Basterds," claiming his first ever Academy Award.

In a classic Oscar upset, ``The Hurt Locker,'' a gritty low-budget movie about a bomb squad in Iraq, won best picture at the 82nd annual Academy Awards last night, beating out ``Avatar,'' the 3-D sci-fi extravaganza that with $2.6 billion in worldwide grosses is the most commercially successful movie of all time. As if that weren't enough drama, ``Hurt Locker'' director Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for best director over her ex-husband, ``Avatar'' maestro James Cameron. Her achievement was historic as well as personal: Bigelow is the first woman to receive the directing award in the history of the Academy Awards. ``There's no other way to describe it: It's the moment of a lifetime,'' Bigelow said upon taking the Oscar from presenter Barbra Streisand. She dedicated the statue to the men and women of the US military. In a much-expected win, Jeff Bridges received the best actor award for his portrayal of a boozy country music has-been in ``Crazy Heart.'' His first Oscar in five nominatio

Christoph Waltz, an Austrian actor unknown to American audiences, and Mo'Nique, a stand-up comedian not known for her dramatic skills, were early winners at the 82d annual Academy Awards, held last night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Waltz won best supporting actor for his performance as a merrily sadistic SS officer in Quentin Tarantino's revisionist World War II action film ``Inglourious Basterds.'' Accepting the award from presenter Penelope Cruz, Waltz said, ``Oscar and Penelope - that's an uber-bingo.'' Mo'Nique won best supporting actress for ``Precious: Based on the Novel `Push' by Sapphire,'' in which she played a nightmarishly abusive inner-city mother. A visibly emotional Mo'Nique thanked ``Gone With the Wind'' Oscar-winner Hattie McDaniels as a key groundbreaker and her husband, Sidney Hicks, for urging her to ``do what's right, not what's popular.'' She and Waltz were favorites to win their categories. Both won numerous plaudits in year-end critics' polls and industr

Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" is set for for an Oscars shoot-out with science-fiction epic "Avatar" Sunday as the movie industry descends on Hollywood for the 82nd Academy Awards.

Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" is set for for an Oscars shoot-out with science-fiction epic "Avatar" Sunday as the movie industry descends on Hollywood for the 82nd Academy Awards.

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Director Quentin Tarantino ranks it in the "top three of all rock movies." "Little Steven" Van Zandt proclaims it "the greatest rock movie you've never seen."