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The awards season in Hollywood ended Sunday night when "The Hurt Locker" took home a surprising six Oscars, including Best Motion Picture.

Preceding the event was Barbara Walters' Oscar Special. During her program, Walters recapped her show's past and announced that this year's would be the last.

She also interviewed Sandra Bullock about her nomination for her lead role in "The Blind Side."

The main event began on the red carpet as stars arrived in designer gowns and tuxedos.

This year ABC's Kathy Ireland, fitness guru of the 90s, was there to awkwardly interview them with robotic gestures.

Once the glitzy introductions were over, the show kicked off with a song and dance number performed by Neil Patrick Harris.

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, this year's hosts, made an awkward pair and lacked comedic chemistry. Many of the jokes fell flat.

Steve Martin: "There's that damn Helen Mirren!"

Alec Baldwin: "I think you mean Dame Helen Mirren."

Wordplay? Really? Come on! To say the least, their hosting lacked basic entertainment, especially compared to the witty and charming work of Hugh Jackman last year.

This year's Oscars even had its own "Kanye moment" during Roger Ross Williams' acceptance of the award for Best Documentary Short Film.

The crazy woman who rushed the stage was Elinor Burkett, a disgruntled co-producer for the winning film "Music By Prudence," who quit the project nearly a year ago.

This year's Oscars did a successful job at making the show more audience-friendly.

They expanded the Best Motion Picture category and featured informative and interesting lead-ins for some of the more obscure categories such as Achievement in Sound Mixing and Best Short Film.

Sadly, these added features left no room for other Oscar traditions, such as live performances in the Best Original Song category.

The memoriam segment left many viewers, including myself, and filled with one big question:

"Where was Farrah Fawcett's tribute?"

As it turns out, producers only allow 30 names to be honored and felt that Farrah Fawcett shouldn't make the cut because she contributed more to television than film.

The John Hughes tribute, however, brought some much needed warmth to the ceremony.

Hughes wrote and directed many popular films of 80s and 90s - some of the most memorable being "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "The Breakfast Club" and "Home Alone."

Stars of his films, such as Macaulay Culkin, Molly Ringwald and Matthew Broderick, shared their fond memories of working with him.

This year there weren't many surprises in the winnings of the top awards.

Mo'Nique ("Precious") graciously accepted her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and Sandra Bullock ("The Blind Side") gave a heartfelt "thank you" to her late mother for her Best Lead Actress win.

Other top winners were:

•Best Achievement in Directing - Kathryn Bigelow for "The Hurt Locker"

•Best Actor in a Leading Role - Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart"

•Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Bastards"

•Animated Feature Film - "Up"

•Best Documentary Feature - "The Cove"

•Best Original Screenplay - "The Hurt Locker"

•Best Adapted Screenplay - "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"

To see the full list of this year's Oscar winners, visit http://oscar.go.com/