With 10 films up for Best Picture for the first time ever, the contenders seemed a bit more varied for movies' biggest night this year, and included James Cameron's visual effects feast Avatar, Kathryn Bigelow's hard-hitting war drama The Hurt Locker and Quentin Tarantino's revenge fantasy Read more

Plot: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers nicknamed "The Basterds" are chosen to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.... Read more