The Hurt Locker (global box office $16 million) beating Avatar (global box office over $2 billion) - it's Bigelow's revenge on Cameron! And deserved.

Acting awards predictable (Bullock wins a Golden Raspberry and an Oscar), though by all accounts Christoph Waltz's one is richly deserved.

Precious beating Up in the Air to Best Adapted Screenplay. The Oscars preferring melodrama over sharp, funny dialogue. Nice one.

Wallace and Gromit don't win Best Animated Short

As usual when two big guns go head to head for Best Foreign Film (The White Ribbon and A Prophet this year) the Oscars ignore both.