Oscar Nominations 2011!

Best Picture

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

Who will win: The Social Network
Who I'd like to win: The Social Network
Surprises in this category: None, Glad to see Toy Story 3 there.

Best Director

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

Who will win: David Fincher
Who I'd like to win: David Fincher
Surprises in this category: The lack of Christopher Nolan.


Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Who will win: Colin Firth.
Who I'd like to win: Colin Firth.
Surprises in this category: Yes, wasn't expecting Javier Bardem, especially as his role is completely in Spanish. Surprising lack of Mark Wahlberg, as well.

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

Who will win: Christian Bale
Who I'd like to win: Jeremy Renner
Surprises in this category: Yes, a pleasant one, with John Hawkes getting nominated.

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Who will win: Natalie Portman
Who I'd like to win: Natalie Portman
Surprises in this category: None.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham-Carter, The King’s Speech
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Stansfield, True Grit
Jackie Weaver, Animal Kingdom

Who will win: Melissa Leo
Who I'd like to win: Hailee Stansfield
Surprises in this category: I certainly wasn't expecting Hailee to get nominated, as she is so young. Good on her though!

Best Adapted Screenplay

127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

Who will win: The Social Network
Who I'd like to win: The Social Network
Surprises in this category: None

Best Animated Feature

How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3

Who will win: Toy Story 3
Who I'd like to win: How to Train Your Dragon
Surprises in this category: The Illusionist. Happy to see it's not all dominated by CG animation.

Best Animated Short Film

Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let’s Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, carnet de voyage

Can't say anything about this category. Day & Night was interesting, but Oscar-worthy?

Best Art Direction

Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
The King’s Speech
True Grit

Who will win: The King's Speech
Who I'd like to win: Inception
Surprises in this category: The birth of the term "Oscar-nominated Alice in Wonderland"

Best Cinematography

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

Who will win: The Social Network
Who I'd like to win: Inception
Surprises in this category: I would've thought 127 Hours got nominated here as well.

Best Costume Design

Alice in Wonderland
I Am Love
The King’s Speech
The Tempest
True Grit

Who will win: The King's Speech
Who I'd like to win: The King's Speech
Surprises in this category: None

Best Documentary Feature

Exit Through the Gift Shop
Gasland
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waste Land

Can't say much here, other than I'm happy to see Exit Through the Gift Shop nominated.

Best Documentary Short Subject

Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang

Can't say anything here either.

Best Film Editing

Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter (Paramount) Pamela Martin
The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Company) Tariq Anwar
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Jon Harris
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Who will win: The Social Network
Who I'd like to win: The Social Network
Surprises in this category: Not really a surprise, but I think Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World definitely deserved to get nominated.

Best Foreign Language Film

Biutiful Mexico
Dogtooth Greece
In a Better World Denmark
Incendies Canada
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) Algeria

Glad to see Dogtooth nominated, think Biutiful will win this one though. And Nordic Love for Denmark, Yay!

Best Makeup

The Way Back
The Wolf Man
Barney’s Version

Who will win: The Wolf Man
Who I'd like to win: The Wolf Man
Surprises in this category: I'm just happy for Rick Baker. Though he's had his share, he's got at least 6 Oscars so far.


Best Original Score

How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) John Powell
Inception (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Company) Alexandre Desplat
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Who will win: The Social Network
Who I'd like to win: How to Train Your Dragon, my favourite score of the year.
Surprises in this category: Really wasn't expecting How to Train Your Dragon to get nominated, very happy about that.

Best Visual Effects

Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2

Who will win: Inception
Who I'd like to win: Inception
Surprises in this category: Hereafter? Academy really loves Clint Eastwood.

Best Original Screenplay

Another Year, Written by Mike Leigh
The Fighter, Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception, Written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right, Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
The King’s Speech, Screenplay by David Seidler

Who will win: The King's Speech
Who I'd like to win: Inception
Surprises in this category: None, happy to see Mike Leigh nominated though.

Best Original Song

‘Coming Home’ from Country Strong
‘I See the Light’ from Tangled
‘If I Rise’ from 127 Hours
‘We Belong Together’ from Toy Story 3

Who will win: Tangled
Who I'd like to win: Tangled, because why not?
Surprises in this category: None.

Best Sound Editing

Inception
Toy Story 3
Tron: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable

Inception was brilliant with this. Surprised for Unstoppable.

Best Sound Mixing

Inception
The King’s Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit

Inception here as well. And surprise of this category is definitely Salt.

Live Action Short Film

The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143

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