Jeff Bridges won the 2010 Oscar for Best Actor. In the film, "Crazy Heart", he plays Bad Blake, a faded, jaded country singer on the search for himself. As he reassesses his dysfunctional life, he also finds himself amidst a doomed romance that inevitably becomes an inspiration.

The award was presented by last year's Academy Award Winner for Best Actress winner Kate Winslet

Jeff Bridges accepts the Oscar for Best Actor at the 2010 Academy Awards.

Best Actor Nominees

Jeff Bridges "Crazy Heart"
A worn down country star is forced to reevaluate himself as he delves in deeper to a doomed romance that becomes an inspiration to him.

Jeremy Renner "The Hurt Locker"
In war-ridden Iraq, an elite Army bomb squad must come work together in a city where everyone is a possible enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

George Clooney "Up in the Air"
With a job that has him traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham leads an empty life out of a suitcase, until his company does the unexpected: ground him.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193138/

Colin Firth "A Single Man"
An English professor, mourning the recent death of his partner, attempts to go about his day in Los Angeles.

Morgan Freeman "Invictus"
In his first term as the South African President, Nelson Mandela initiates a venture to unite the apartheid-torn land. He enlists the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup

Oscar predictors and theorists are putting there money on Jeff Bridges of Crazy Heart. ""It's his time" is the popular refrain: The veteran actor Bridges -- who gives a career-best performance and does his own singing -- has been nominated four times in the past but has never won."http://www.moviefone.com/oscars-academy-awards/features/oscar-predictions

This year has been the year so far for Crazy Heart. Bridges won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. Only time will tell if his winning streak will continue.

• 2000: Russell Crowe Gladiator
• 2001: Denzel Washington Training Day
• 2002: Adrien Brody The Pianist
• 2003: Sean Penn Mystic River
• 2004: Jamie Foxx Ray
• 2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote
• 2006: Forest Whitaker That Last King of Scotland
• 2007: Daniel Day-Lewis There Will be Blood
• 2008: Sean Penn Milk

Jeff Bridges is currently working on two films:

• True Grit: A tough U.S. Marshal helps a young girl track down her father's murderer.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403865/ This movie is currently being filmed.

• TRON Legacy: A virtual world worker looks to take down the Master Control Program. This movie has been filmed and is currently in post-production.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001//ref