Best director

LOS ANGELES - Kathryn Bigelow made Oscar history Sunday night, becoming the first woman to win best director at the Academy Awards for her gritty Iraq war saga "The Hurt Locker." Bigelow's film, which also won best picture, follows the dangerous daily existence of an Army bomb defusal team.

LOS ANGELES - The Academy Awards is without question Hollywood's biggest night, a time when the world stops to gawk at its celluloid heroes.