• Avatar wins its first Oscar of the evening, for art direction.
• Gay designer (and now filmmaker) Tom Ford co-presents the costuming Oscar to Sandy Powell for The Young Victoria.
• Taylor Lautner presents an award. Sigh. Too bad it was presenting a banal intro to a montage of horror films.
• The Hurt Locker wins two sound awards expected to go to Avatar, setting up a potential sweep in the major categories.
• Up wins the score Oscar for Lost‘s Michael Giacchino; visual effects (presented by bisexual actor Gerard Butler) goes as expected to Avatar. The count now stands at three Avatar, three Hurt Locker, two Precious, two Up.
