AFP - Welcome to AFP's live report on the 2010 Oscars. A crush of stars in all their finery are beginning to descend on Hollywood?s Kodak Theatre for the movie industry?s biggest night out.

AP - Talk about fantastic finishes. Just when Hollywood figured James Cameron would win the directing and motion picture awards for his super moneymaker "Avatar," it didn't happen that way.

AP - With his shaggy red hair, black leather jacket and skintight American flag-printed jeans, Olympic gold medalist Shaun White upstaged even glam Oscar winner Sandra Bullock at a pack of parties around town following the Academy Awards.

AP - The Dude finally has an Oscar.

AFP - 9:40pm in Los Angeles: And it's over. As many predicted, the night belonged to "The Hurt Locker". The little-seen, modestly budgeted Iraq war drama scooped six Oscars, including best picture and director. It's probably the lowest-grossing best picture winner in Academy history while Bigelow becomes the first woman to take home the directing Oscar.

AP - 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."

AP - The Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker" won best picture and five other prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow.

AP - Christoph Waltz was a veteran TV and stage actor in Europe who was virtually unknown in Hollywood. Then he met Quentin Tarantino.

AP - Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin just might have a future in show biz. Teamed up to co-host this year's Oscar broadcast, they offered a happy reminder that an often overstuffed, overwrought TV shindig can be lighthearted fun.

Reuters - Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman ever to win a best director Oscar on Sunday for her hard-nosed work on "The Hurt Locker," the Iraq war film about a team of U.S. soldiers who defuse bombs.

AP - The Academy Awards is without question Hollywood's biggest night, a time when the world stops to gawk at its celluloid heroes. Here's an insider's look from the Kodak Theatre at what you are not seeing on camera.

AFP - Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" dominated the 82nd Academy Awards here Sunday, scooping six Oscars including best picture on a historic night in Hollywood.

AP - Sandra Bullock paid her dues in Hollywood for more than 20 years. She was rewarded Sunday, winning the best-actress Oscar for playing a tough white Southern woman who adopted a black child in "The Blind Side."

Reuters - "The Hurt Locker" won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday, capping a historic Oscar ceremony that saw the low-budget Iraq war drama vanquish the sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar."

AP - Sandra Bullock dressed the part at Sunday's Academy Awards: She wore a gleaming, metallic, slim-fitting gown that seemed fashioned after the Oscar statuette itself.

AP - The Argentine film "The Secret in Their Eyes," a thriller about a 25-year-long manhunt, won the Academy Award for best foreign language film.

AP - Mo'Nique became the fifth black woman to win an acting Oscar, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel won the same honor for "Gone With the Wind" — the first Academy Award ever given to a black performer.