King's Speech, True Grit Lead 83rd Academy Award Nominations
There you have it: Your 83rd Academy Award nominations are on the record, with the season's front-running standard bearers The King's Speech, The Social Network, True Grit, Black Swan and The Fighter leading the way. And as usual, Academy voters also let slip a few key surprises and snubs that we'll no doubt be talking about for the hours and days (if not weeks and months) come. Read on for the Oscar class of 2011 and chime with your hopes, dreams, apprehensions, resentments and whatever else strikes you about this year's nominees.
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
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, True Grit
David Fincher, The Social Network
David O. Russell, The Fighter
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
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
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Best Supporting Actor
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 Adapted Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, True Grit
Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, Toy Story 3
Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini, Winter's Bone
Simon Beaufoy, Danny Boyle, 127 Hours
Best Original Screenplay
Eric Johnson, Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, The Fighter
Mike Leigh, Another Year
Christopher Nolan, Inception
Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right
David Seidler, The King's Speech
Best Foreign-Language Film
Biutiful, Mexico
Dogtooth, Greece
In a Better World, Denmark
Incendies, Canada
Outside the Law, Algeria
Best Animated Feature
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3
Best Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
The King's Speech
True Grit
Best Cinematography
Matthew Libatique, Black Swan
Wally Pfister, Inception
Danny Cohen, The King's Speech
Jeff Cronenweth, The Social Network
Roger Deakins, True Grit
Best costume design
Alice in Wonderland
I Am Love
The King's Speech
The Tempest
True Grit
Best Documentary Feature
Exit through the Gift Shop
Gasland
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waste Land
Best documentary short subject
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang
Best film editing
Andrew Weisblum, Black Swan
Pamela Martin, The Fighter
Tariq Anwar, The King's Speech
Jon Harris, 127 Hours
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter, The Social Network
Best Makeup
Barney's Version
The Way Back
The Wolfman
Best Original Score
John Powell, How to Train Your Dragon
Hans Zimmer, Inception
Alexandre Desplat, The King's Speech
A.R. Rahman, 127 Hours
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Social Network
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
Best animated short film
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let's Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)
Best live action short film
The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143
Best sound editing
Inception
Toy Story 3
Tron: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable
Best sound mixing
Inception
The King's Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit
Best Visual Effects
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2
Comments
Hey, they recognized Dogtooth! Looks like I stand (happily) corrected.
WTF?! Where is THE TOWN?! And where is Andrew Garfield's Best Supporting Actor Nomination?!
Andrew Garfield should have been nominated over Ruffalo for supporting actor.
what about ryan gosling for blue valentine?! only michelle gets recognized??
HAHAHAHA lmao -- I predicted that True Grit would be the sleeper movie and get a lot of awards....it's this year's Blind Side. I expect Colin to win actor, but it may be split between him and Jeff Bridges.....could be an upset there. I didn't see where Inception was that big a deal as a movie. Love that Hailie got nom'd but she belongs in best actress. I predicted that the Coens would bump somebody for best direction.
Best Direction means actors and acting and they did a helluva job with True Grit. My fave movie of the year. Go True Grit!
You know it was a bad year when Inception shows up on the ballots.
I'd hate to see King's Speech win. Best Film of 1956? Yes; 2010, no. Overall, good choices. The biggest omission? The reviled Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness, a superior, criminally overlooked film.
This completely shocked and delighted me. I guess I'll have to watch the film tonight to celebrate (I've had it on pre-order at Amazon for weeks, and it arrives/is released today).
Happy to see "Winter's Bone" represented, especially the acting noms. John Hawkes in particular was great. Ryan Gosling was sort of robbed, but it is hard to feel too bad b/c he gets to continue going through life being Ryan Gosling (I wonder if voters were turned off by the overall tone of the film, it really was the "feel bad movie of the year").
Toy Story 3 nominated in Adapted Screenplay? How does that work?
At least NIN is now an Oscar nominee. That's literally the only award I care about anymore this year.
Overall this is a pretty good list, it certainly could have been worse. Subtract The Kids Are All Right and Winter's Bone and add The Town and Ghost Writer and you'd have a great list. Inception should not have been nominated either, but there was no way around that, unless the Academy was willing to risk a full scale fanboy attack in the form of really shitty tech support.
Thanks for removing my comment about Toy Story 3 from earlier this morning. I guess you have something against coloring books.
No matter what your opinion on Inception - No Editing nomination is completely stupid. No Editing for Inception is the single biggest snub of the Oscars.
All other 'snubs' have worthy replacements - But Inception's Editing was a lot better than the Editing in other films. It won the Critics Choice in the Category...