Oscars 2010: the winners in pictures

This man is gonna need a bigger shelf. The first winner of the evening was also the most predictable. Christoph Waltz, aka 'Jew-hunter' Colonel Landa, has won every best supporting actor gong going. Now he has an Oscar to add to them. In his speech, Waltz employed an extended metaphor about exploration to thank director Quentin Tarantino Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Photograph: Kevin Winter/guardian.co.uk Mark Boal picked up The Hurt Locker's first award of the evening, for best original screenplay. He dedicated it to the US troops fighting in Iraq, and to his father, who died a month ago Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Mark Ralston/guardian.co.uk Pete Docter, director of Up, with his Oscar for best animated feature. Another expected winner here: the universally loved Docter dedicated his award to the Pixar family and to his parents, wife and son Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters Photograph: Gary Hershorn/guardian.co.uk Another one – sorry, two – for The Hurt Locker. Ray Beckett and Paul NJ Ottosson with the Oscar for best sound mixing for The Hurt Locker, just after they picked up the award for best sound editing Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters Photograph: Gary Hershorn/guardian.co.uk Avatar strikes back: Rick Carter, Kim Sinclair and Robert Stromberg, who take one back for James Cameron's sci-fi behemoth with the Oscar for best art direction Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters Photograph: Gary Hershorn/guardian.co.uk Get in! Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett with their Oscar for best documentary short, for Music By Prudence Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Photograph: Kevin Winter/guardian.co.uk 'Well, I've already got two of these …' So began Sandy Powell's speech, but she still looks pleased to make it a hat-trick, picking up her third Oscar for best costume design, this time for The Young Victoria Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Photograph: Kevin Winter/guardian.co.uk T-Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham with the best song Oscar for The Weary Kind, from Crazy Heart. Bingham dedicated it to his wife, Anna ("I'd like to thank my wife, Anna. I love you more than rainbows, baby"). Burnett remained graciously silent Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Photograph: Kevin Winter/guardian.co.uk Ben Stiller masquerades as a Na'vi from Avatar to present the best makeup Oscar to Star Trek's Mindy Hall, who shares it with Barney Burman and Joel Harlow. Stiller must have regretted not coming as Spock Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Photograph: Kevin Winter/guardian.co.uk Geoffrey Fletcher with his Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Precious, beating Brits Nick Hornby (for An Education) and Armando Iannucci (for In the Loop). But hear his charmingly overcome 45-second ramble and you'd forgive him in an instant. "I wrote that script for him," boasted Steve Martin afterwards Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Photograph: Kevin Winter/guardian.co.uk Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson with their Oscar for best live action short for The New Tenants. We haven't seen it either Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Photograph: Kevin Winter/guardian.co.uk Mo'Nique accepts the award for best supporting actress for Precious: another locked-down category, but also another endearingly weepie 45 seconds Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters Photograph: Gary Hershorn/guardian.co.uk Frenchman Nicolas Schmerkin with his Oscar for best animated short, won for Logorama Photograph: Jason Merritt/Getty Images Photograph: Jason Merritt/guardian.co.uk One more on the mantelpiece for Avatar: Mauro Fiore accepts the award for best cinematography – though The Hurt Locker's Barry Ackroyd had been a firm favourite Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters Photograph: Gary Hershorn/guardian.co.uk A great day for a great film: Michael Giacchino with his Oscar for best original score for Up – one of the few scores not ruined forever by seeing a weird dance troupe backflip to it in jumpers Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Photograph: Kevin Winter/guardian.co.uk The quantity here is deceptive … just one Oscar, really, for best visual effects for Avatar. Joe Letteri (second from right), Stephen Rosenbaum (left), Richard Baneham (second from left) and Andrew R Jones (right) are all holding clones Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters Photograph: Gary Hershorn/guardian.co.uk And here's another one for The Hurt Locker – Chris Innis and Bob Murawski accept the Oscar for best film editing Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters Photograph: Gary Hershorn/guardian.co.uk Haneke? Pah! Audiard? Overrated! That seemed to be the view according to Academy voters, that is, who saw fit to give the best foreign language film Oscar to The Secret in Their Eyes from Argentina Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/guardian.co.uk The people behind The Cove accept the Oscar for best documentary – producer Fisher Stevens (left) and director Louie Psihoyos (right). Holding the sign is Ric O'Barry, the dolphin trainer turned anti-dolphin-slaughter activist at the heart of the documentary Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Photograph: Kevin Winter/guardian.co.uk Not a shock, but whose cockles haven't been warmed? It was fifth time lucky for Jeff Bridges, who finally landed a best actor Oscar for Crazy Heart Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Photograph: Kevin Winter/guardian.co.uk Sandra Bullock receives her best actress Oscar for playing an all-American mom who nurtures a troubled black football prodigy in The Blind Side and dedicates it to all the moms 'who never get any thanks'. Her warm, confident delivery broke down at the very end, when she paid tribute to her own mother Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters Photograph: Gary Hershorn/guardian.co.uk 'Well, the time has come,' pronounced Barbra Streisand in presenting the best director Oscar to Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win it. It was a significant moment as Streisand was passing the torch – she had been the first woman to win a Golden Globe for best director, for Yentl way back in 1984 Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters Photograph: Gary Hershorn/guardian.co.uk The Hurt Locker lands its sixth Oscar, and the most important: the 2010 Academy Award for best picture. Director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and producer Greg Shapiro, and (in the back row) actors Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie, gather on stage to accept the accolade Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Photograph: Kevin Winter/guardian.co.uk