By Garth Franklin Tuesday January 25th 2011 08:00AM The 83rd Annual Academy Award nominations have been announced and "The King's Speech" and "True Grit" lead the pack with twelve and ten nominations respectively, followed by "The Social Network" and "Inception" with eight each. Also faring well were "127 Hours" and "The Fighter" with seven each, "Toy Story 3" and "Black Swan" with five, and "Winter's Bone" and "The Kids Are All Right" with four. Here's the complete list: BEST PICTURE "127 Hours" "Black Swan" "The Fighter" "Inception" "The Kids Are All Right" "The King's Speech" "The Social Network" "Toy Story 3" "True Grit" "Winter's Bone" ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Javier Bardem for "Biutiful" Jeff Bridges for "True Grit" Jesse Eisenberg for "The Social Network" Colin Firth for "The King's Speech" James Franco for "127 Hours" ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Annette Benning for "The Kids Are All Right" Nicole Kidman for "Rabbit Hole" Jennifer Lawrence for "Winter's Bone" Natalie Portman for "Black Swan" Michelle Williams for "Blue Valentine" DIRECTING Darren Aronofsky for "Black Swan" David O. Russell for "The Fighter" Tom Hooper for "The King's Speech" David Fincher for "The Social Network" Joel & Ethan Coen for "True Grit" ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Christian Bale for "The Fighter" Mark Ruffalo for "The Kids Are All Right" Geoffrey Rush for "The King's Speech" Jeremy Renner for "The Town" John Hawkes for "Winter's Bone" ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Amy Adams for "The Fighter" Helena Bonham Carter for "The King's Speech" Melissa Leo for "The Fighter" Hailee Steinfeld for "True Grit" Jacki Weaver for "Animal Kingdom" FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM "Biutiful" - Mexico "Dogtooth" - Greece "In a Better World" - Denmark "Incendies" - Canada "Hors la Loi" ("Outside the Law") - Algeria ANIMATED FEATURE FILM "How To Train Your Dragon" "The Illusionist" "Toy Story 3" SCREENPLAY (Adapted) Michael Arndt for "Toy Story 3" Simon Beaufoy & Danny Boyle for "127 Hours" Joel & Ethan Coen for "True Grit " Aaron Sorkin for "The Social Network" Debra Granki, Anne Rosellini for "Winter's Bone" SCREENPLAY (Original) Mike Leigh for "Another Year" Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg for "The Kids Are All Right" Christopher Nolan for "Inception" David Seidler for "The King’s Speech" Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington for "The Fighter" ART DIRECTION "Alice in Wonderland" "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One" "Inception" "The King's Speech" "True Grit" CINEMATOGRAPHY "Black Swan" "Inception" "The King's Speech" "The Social Network" "True Grit" COSTUME DESIGN "Alice in Wonderland" "I Am Love" "The King's Speech" "The Tempest" "True Grit" DOCUMENTARY FEATURE "Exit Through the Gift Shop" "Gasland" "Inside Job" "Restrepo" "Waste Land" DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT "Killing in the Name" "Poster Girl" "Strangers No More" "Sun Come Up" "The Warriors of Qiugang" FILM EDITING "127 Hours" "Black Swan" "The Fighter" "The King's Speech" "The Social Network" MAKEUP "Barney's Version" "The Way Back" "The Wolfman" MUSIC (SCORE) A.R. Rahman for "127 Hours" John Powell for "How To Train Your Dragon" Hans Zimmer for "Inception" Alexandre Desplat for "The King's Speech" Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for "The Social Network" MUSIC (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" SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) "Day & Night" "The Gruffalo" "Let’s Pollute" "The Lost Thing" "Madagascar, a Journey Diary" SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) "The Confession" "The Crush" "God of Love" "Na Wewe" "Wish 143" SOUND EDITING "Inception" "Toy Story 3" "Tron: Legacy" "True Grit" "Unstoppable" SOUND MIXING "Inception" "The King's Speech" "Salt" "The Social Network" "True Grit" VISUAL EFFECTS "Alice in Wonderland" "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" "Hereafter" "Inception" "Iron Man 2" http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/19209/the-2011-oscar-nominations
I really thought Gosling's performance in Blue Valentine was superior to that of Williams but the best actor nominations look stacked. I REALLY REALLY need to go see The Fighter.
12 nominations for The Kings Speech. Damn. EDIT: Let me also say that Inception is really getting snubbed again too. This is some bull****.
They need to go back to just five best picture nominees. Toy Story 3, True Grit, and The Kids are All Right are not worthy of the nomination.
Oooohhh! The fan boys are about to get keyboard gangster over the Nolan snub. Bwahahahaha!!! Javier Bardem and Jackie Weaver are the biggest and best deserved surprises.
I thought True Grit was better than Black Swan, and liked inception better than them both. Those are the only three best nominated movies I saw.
They need to combine Foreign language film and Best Film into one Category...... In the past year or so there has been some films outside of the States that was considered the best film of that year like City Of God, Old Boy, Pan's Labyrinth to name a few....
yes I am a Coen Bros homer but I think True Grit is one of their finest masterpieces and definitely deserving of the nomination. I know the Academy is all over their nutz as well but that's just because they are excellent filmmakers.
True Grit was a good movie, but after winning for No Country for Old Men, I doubt they will win this year. But, when you put 10 nominations up there, of course you will have some pretenders. I think the real contenders would be: Black Swan, Social Network, The King's Speech, and Inception (ironically, I've only seen 1 of these). And, really, I think it'll be either King's Speech or Social Network that wins. The others just don't have the right profile or buzz.
Based on movies I've seen: Picture: Inception Actor: Bridges, True Grit Actress: No comment Actor, supporting: Bale, The Fighter Actress, supporting: Steinfield, True Grit Screenplay, Adapted: True Grit Screenplay, Original: Inception I then think Inception should blow through most of the technical awards for sound editing, etc.
There's this recent pattern of oscar-whoring by movies released a month or two before nominations. It seems the voters are easily swayed by the fresh effect of movies they just watched compared to movies released six to eight months ago. Otherwise how do you explain True Grit getting more nominations than Inception? And Nolan getting snubbed for Director?
