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83rd Academy Award Nominations
This morning, just after 5:30am, Mo'Nique, last year's winner of the Best Supporting Actress category, and Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the following nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards, which will be broadcast live on Sunday, February 27th.
First "the Big" Categories:
Best Picture
Black Swan
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The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's BoneBest Actor
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
Best Actress
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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 Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, The Fighter
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John Hawkes, Winter's Bone
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
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Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
David O. Russell, The Fighter
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
David Fincher, The Social Network
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, True Grit
Best Animated Feature Film
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3Best Adapted Screenplay
127 Hours
Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's BoneBest Original Screenplay
Another Year
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's SpeechBest Foreign-Language Film
Mexico, Biutiful
Greece, Dogtooth
Denmark, A Better World
Canada, Incendies
Algeria, Outside the Law
Most-Nominated
The King's Speech = 12
True Grit = 10
The Social Network = 8
Inception = 8
The Fighter = 7
127 Hours = 6
We compared these nominations to Roger Ebert's predicted nominations just to see how he stacked up compared to our dismal performance predicting Golden Globe winners last week. Ebert got 9 out of the 10 Best Picture noms, 4 out of 4 for Best Actor, 2 out of 5 for Best Actress, 3 out of 4 for Best Supporting Actor, 2 out of 5 for Best Supporting Actress, 4 out of 5 for Best Director, 2 out of 3 for Best Animated Feature. Ebert did pretty darn good, kicked our 20%-correct butt in fact, but he's been doing this about 20 times longer than we have at this point. Since he knows he's a target for this sort of thing, he's put together a "$100,000 Outguess Ebert Contest" that you can enter later today at RogerEbert.com - count us in!
Here are the remaining categories:
Best Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
The King's Speech
True GritBest Cinematography
Black Swan
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network
True GritBest Sound Mixing
Inception
The King's Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True GritBest Sound Editing
Inception
Toy Story 3
Tron: Legacy
True Grit
UnstoppableBest 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.
Best Original Song
"Coming Home" from Country Strong - Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
"I See the Light" from Tangled - Alan Menken and Glenn Slater
"If I Rise" from 127 Hours - A.R. Rahman, Dido and Rollo Armstrong
"We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 - Randy Newman
Best Costume
Alice in Wonderland
I Am Love
The King’s Speech
The Tempest
True GritBest Documentary Feature
Exit through the Gift Shop
Gasland
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waste LandBest Documentary (Short Subject)
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of QiugangBest Film Editing
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King's Speech
127 HoursThe Social Network
Best Makeup
Barney’s Version
The Way Back
The WolfmanBest Animated Short Film
Day and 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 143Best Visual Effects
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2It's a bit disappointing to not see Tron: Legacy in more of these visual effects and art direction categories as there wasn't a film more visually stunning in 2010. Perhaps we can take solace in the documentary category which includes these excellent films: Exit through the Gift Shop, Gasland, and Restrepo - all Oscar worthy, but perhaps, for awareness' sake, a win for Gasland would be a huge win for all of us as it could help prevent a massive amount of pollution.
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