Best Original Song: "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart. Composers T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham shared the award. Below is Bingham's 2010 Oscar acceptance speech:
"Thank you so much. I'd like to thank my wife Anna, I love you more than rainbows, baby. My uncle Clay, my band, Jack Whigham, Scott Cooper, the cast of Crazy Heart, Jeff [Bridges] and Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and Colin [Farrell] and Mr. Bob [Robert Duvall]. Everyone at Fox Searchlight and Mr. T Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton. Thank you all so much."
Photo: Crazy Heart (Lorey Sebastian / 20th Century Fox)
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