83rd Academy Awards – The Nominations

Morning folks! Well, it’s Australia Day here Down Under, and the news coming out of Hollywood once more affirms my belief that we have some of the worlds best actors: a bunch of Aussies are up for an Oscar this year, including first time nominee Jackie Weaver, for her astonishingly good portrayal of Janine Cody in local flick Animal Kingdom. Geoofrey Rush is once more in the running, for his Best Supporting Actor nod for The King’s Speech, alongside everyone’s favourite Brit, Colin Firth, who’s up for Best Actor for the same film. Perennial awards attendee Nicole Kidman is up for a Best Actress gong for her searing showing in Rabbit Hole. To me, the big surprise is the lack of inclusion of Inception director Christopher Nolan for Best Director, while the film he made is included in the expanded 10-Nominee list for best feature.

I’ve stolen the complete list of nominees from Wikipedia, and you can check it out below! I’m going to scour the list and give you my hot tips in a week or so.

Nominations

Best Picture	Best Director
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	Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – True Grit David Fincher – The Social Network Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech David O. Russell – The Fighter
Best Actor	Best Actress
Javier Bardem – Biutiful as Uxbal Jeff Bridges – True Grit as Rooster Cogburn Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network as Mark Zuckerberg Colin Firth – The King’s Speech as King George VI James Franco – 127 Hours as Aron Ralston	Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right as Nic Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole as Becca Corbett Jennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone as Ree Dolly Natalie Portman – Black Swan as Nina Sayers Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine as Cindy
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Christian Bale – The Fighter as Dicky Eklund John Hawkes – Winter’s Bone as Teardrop Jeremy Renner – The Town as James “Gem” Coughlin Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right as Paul Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech as Lionel Logue	Amy Adams – The Fighter as Charlene Fleming Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Melissa Leo – The Fighter as Alice Ward Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit as Mattie Ross Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom as Janine “Smurf” Cody
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Another Year – Mike Leigh The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson Inception – Christopher Nolan The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg The King’s Speech – David Seidler	127 Hours – Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy from Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin from The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich; characters based on Toy Story and Toy Story 2 True Grit – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen from True Grit by Charles Portis Winter’s Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini from Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Best Animated Feature	Best Foreign Language Film
How to Train Your Dragon – Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois The Illusionist – Sylvain Chomet Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich	Biutiful (Mexico) in Spanish and English – Alejandro González Iñárritu Dogtooth (Greece) in Greek – Yorgos Lanthimos In a Better World (Denmark) in Danish, Swedish and English – Susanne Bier Incendies (Canada) in French and Arabic – Denis Villeneuve Outside the Law (Algeria) in Arabic and French – Rachid Bouchareb
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
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	Killing in the Name – Jed Rothstein Poster Girl – Sara Nesson 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
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
The Confession – Tanel Toom The Crush – Michael Creagh God of Love – Luke Matheny Na Wewe – Ivan Goldschmidt Wish 143 – Ian Barnes	Day & Night – Teddy Newton The Gruffalo – Max Lang and Jakob Schuh Let’s Pollute – Geefwee Boedoe The Lost Thing – Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan Madagascar, a Journey Diary – Bastien Dubois
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
127 Hours – A.R. Rahman How to Train Your Dragon – John Powell Inception – Hans Zimmer The King’s Speech – Alexandre Desplat The Social Network – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross	“Coming Home” from Country Strong – Bob DiPiero, Tom Douglas, Hillary Lindsey and Troy Verges “If I Rise” from 127 Hours – A.R. Rahman, Rollo Armstrong and Dido “I See the Light” from Tangled – Alan Menken and Glenn Slater “We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3 – Randy Newman
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
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	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
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Alice in Wonderland – Art Direction: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan Inception – Art Direction: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat The King’s Speech – Art Direction: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr True Grit – Art Direction: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh	Black Swan – Matthew Libatique Inception – Wally Pfister The King’s Speech – Danny Cohen The Social Network – Jeff Cronenweth True Grit – Roger Deakins
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
Barney’s Version – Adrien Morot The Way Back – Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng The Wolfman – Rick Baker and Dave Elsey	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 Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
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	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

Who wrote this?

Rodney Twelftree

“Some people say I like films. Those people are wrong. I *love* films.” – Me. I said this.

Rodney has been writing about films for well over two decades, appreciates a good wine, the love of his wife and kids, and the affection of his dog and cats. He has a fondness of cheesy 90’s action and classic Hollywood, hates that physical media is disappearing, and wishes somebody would make a high-budget series of The Neverending Story.

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2 thoughts on “83rd Academy Awards – The Nominations”

CMrok93 says:

January 28, 2011 at 5:14 pm

I'm not all that disappointed with the Oscars this year, except no love for Christopher Nolan, or The Town for that matter. However, it doesn't matter all that much really since The Social Network is practically going to win everything it's nominated for. Which kind of blows, but hey it really was an amazing piece of work. Can't wait for the show!
Dan says:

January 28, 2011 at 3:46 pm

I'd love to see The King's Speech or Black Swan burst The Social Network's bubble. But I'm predicting Hollywood will side with the Fincher/Sorkin combo.

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