2011 Oscar Nominations

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Earlier today the nominations for this year’s Oscars; which will be the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony; were officially announced, and seemed to heavily favor a couple of films above all others; including The King’s Speech (which held the highest number of nominations; 12 in total), and True Grit (with 10 nominations), which came out ahead of competitors such as The Social Network (which received 8 nominations), and The Fighter (which came away with 7).

To find out who the winners are, you’ll have to wait until the awards are held on February 27th, but for now, a full breakdown of the nominations can be found below (including all the most popular awards; from Best Picture, and Best Director; and those that get considerably less press; such as Visual Effects, Best Documentary, and Best Original Score); including one category which practically seems to announce it’s winner already (as one of the nominations for Best Animated Picture also pops up with a Best Picture nomination).

Best Picture

127 Hours
Black Swan
Inception
The Fighter
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Javier Bardem – Biutiful
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)

Best Actress

Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Christian Bale (The Fighter)
John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech)
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Jackie Weaver (Animal Kingdom)

Best Animated Picture

How To Train Your Dragon
Toy Story 3
The Illusionist

Best Director


Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)
Joel and Ethan Coen (True Grit)
David O. Russell (The Fighter)

Best Original Screenplay


Another Year (Mike Leigh)
The Fighter (Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg)
The King’s Speech (David Seidler)

Best Adapted Screenplay


127 Hours (Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy)
Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt)
The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)
Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini)
True Grit (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

Best Foreign Language Film


Algeria, “Hors la Loi” (“Outside the Law”), Rachid Bouchareb, director;
Canada, “Incendies,” Denis Villeneuve, director;
Denmark, “In a Better World,” Susanne Bier, director;
Greece, “Dogtooth,” Yorgos Lanthimos, director;
Mexico, “Biutiful,” Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, director;

Art Direction

Alice in Wonderland (Robert Stromberg; Production Design; Karen O’Hara; Set Decoration)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Stuart Craig; Production Design; Stephenie McMillan; Set Decoration)
Inception (Guy Hendrix Dyas; Production Design; Larry Dias and Doug Mowat; Set Decoration)
The King’s Speech (Eve Stewart; Production Design; Judy Farr; Set Decoration)
True Grit (Jess Gonchor; Production Design; Nancy Haigh; Set Decoration)

Achievement in Cinematography

Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)
Inception (Wally Pfister)
The King’s Speech (Danny Cohen)
The Social Network (Jeff Cronenweth)
True Grit (Roger Deakins)

Achievement in Costume Design

Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)
I Am Love (Antonella Cannarozzi)
The King’s Speech (Jenny Beavan)
The Tempest (Sandy Powell)
True Grit (Mary Zophres)

Best Documentary

Exit through the Gift Shop (Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz)
Gasland (Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic)
Inside Job (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger)
Waste Land (Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley)

Best Documentary Short

Killing in the Name (Nominees to be determined)
Poster Girl (Nominees to be determined)
Strangers No More (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon)
Sun Come Up (Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger)
The Warriors of Qiugang (Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon)

Editing

Black Swan (Andrew Weisblum)
The Fighter (Pamela Martin)
The King’s Speech (Tariq Anwar)
127 Hours (Jon Harris)
The Social Network (Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter)

Makeup

Barney’s Version (Adrien Morot)
The Way Back (Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng)
The Wolfman (Rick Baker and Dave Elsey)

Original Score

How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
Inception (Hans Zimmer)
The King’s Speech (Alexandre Desplat)
127 Hours (A.R. Rahman)
The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)

Original Song

Coming Home (from Country Strong – Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey)
I See the Light (from Tangled – Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater)
If I Rise (from 127 Hours – Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong)
We Belong Together (from Toy Story 3 – Music and Lyric by Randy Newman)

Best Animated Short

Day & Night (Teddy Newton)
The Gruffalo (Jakob Schuh and Max Lang)
Let’s Pollute (Geefwee Boedoe)
The Lost Thing (Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)(Bastien Dubois)

Live Action Short

The Confession (Tanel Toom)
The Crush (Michael Creagh)
God of Love (Luke Matheny)
Na Wewe (Ivan Goldschmidt)
Wish 143 (Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite)

Sound Editing

Inception (Richard King)
Toy Story 3 (Tom Myers and Michael Silvers)
Tron: Legacy (Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey)
Unstoppable (Mark P. Stoeckinger)

Sound Mixing

Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick)
The King’s Speech (Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley)
Salt (Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin)
The Social Network (Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland)

Visual Effects

Alice in Wonderland (Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi)
Hereafter (Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell)
Inception (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb)
Iron Man 2 (Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick)

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Matt Wheeldon is the Founder, and Editor in Chief of Good Film Guide. He still refers to the cinema as "the pictures", and has what some would describe as a misguided appreciation for Waterworld.