Many had expected "Avatar" to bag the best picture award. But it was "The Hurt Locker" that won the award making some new records in the Oscars’ history:

• The Hurt Locker is the lowest-grossing best picture winner of all time.
• Also a first time – a lowest-grossing movie beat the the highest-grossing movie in modern history, Avatar.
• One of the producers of the winner movie was banned from attending the Academy Awards – and that was also the first in the Awards history.

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