The New Tenants wins the Best Live Action Short Film award at the 82nd Academy Awards More at Oscars 2010

The New Tenants has won the award for the Best Live Action Short Film at the 82nd Academy Awards. American director Gregg Helvey’s 19-minute film “Kavi”, about a young boy who wants to play cricket and go to school, but is forced to work in a brick kiln, lost the best short film, live action Oscar to “The New Tenants”.

Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson walked away with the award for telling the story of a prying neighbour, a glassy-eyed drug dealer, and a husband brandishing both a weapon and a vendetta in “The New Tenants”.

Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett bagged the short documentary Oscar for ‘Music by Prudence’, while Nicolas Schmerkin got the best short animated film award for ‘Logorama’.

The venue of the 82nd Academy Awards is the Kodak Theatre. In this eventful evening, many winners have already been announced. ‘The Hurt Locker’ won the award for the Best Original Screenplay, where Christoph Waltz won the award for the Best Supporting Actor. Director Pete Docter has also picked up his very first Oscar for the animated flick ‘UP’ which won the Best Animated Film Award at the 82nd Academy Awards.

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