2011 Oscar Nominations

On February 27 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the eighty-third annual Academy or Oscar Awards from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. The awards presentation will be broadcast live on television beginning at 8pm EST/5pmPST. Along with the live broadcast in the United States, the Academy Awards will be shown to some 200 countries around the world.

Winners for the Academy Awards are chosen by active members of the Motion Picture Academy; however, members can only vote for the best animated short film, live action short film, documentary - feature and short subject -, and the foreign language film only if they have seen all of the films in that particular category.

And the nominees are...

Best Actor in a Leading Role:
Javier Bardem in "Biutiful"
Jeff Bridges in "True Grit"
Jesse Eisenberg in "The Social Network"
Colin Firth in "The King's Speech"
James Franco in "127 Hours"

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Christian Bale in "The Fighter"
John Hawkes in "Winter's Bone"
Jeremy Renner in "The Town"
Mark Ruffalo in "The Kids are All Right"
Geoffrey Rush in "The King's Speech"

Best Actress in a Leading Role:
Annette Bening in "The Kids are All Right"
Nicole Kidman in "Rabbit Hole"
Jennifer Lawrence in "Winter's Bone"
Natalie Portman in "Black Swan"
Michelle Williams in "Blue Valentine"

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
Amy Adams in "The Fighter"
Helena Bonham Carter in "The King's Speech"

Melissa Leo in "The Fighter"
Hailee Steinfeld in "True Grit"
Jacki Weaver in "Animal Kingdom"

Best Animated Feature Film:

"How to Train Your Dragon"
"The Illusionist"
"Toy Story 3"

Best Art Direction:
Robert Stronmberg and Karen O'Hara for "Alice in Wonderland"
Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillan for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" part 1
Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, and Doug Mowat for "Inception"
Eve Stewart and Judy Farr for "The King's Speech"
Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh for "True Grit"

Best Cinematography:
Mattew Libatique for "Black Swan"
Wally Pfister for "Inception"
Danny Cohen for "The King's Speech"
Jeff Cronenweth for "The Social Newtork"
Roger Deakins for "True Grit"

Best Costume Design:
Colleen Atwood for "Alice in Wonderland"

Antonella Cannarozzi for "I Am Love"

Jenny Deavan for "The King's Speech"
Sandy Powell for "The Tempest"
Mary Zophres for "True Grit"

Best Direction:
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 and Ethan Coen for "True Grit"

Best Feature Documentary:
"Exit Through the Gift Shop"
"Gasland"
"Inside Job"
"Restrepo"
"Waste Land"

Best Short Subject Documentary:
"Killing in the Name"
"Poster Girl"
"Strangers No More"
"Sun come Up"
"The Warriors of Qiugang"

Best Film Editing:
Andrew Weisblum for "Black Swan"
Pamela Martin for "The Fighter"
Tariq Anwar for "The King's Speech"
Jon Harris for "127 Hours"
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter for "The Social Network"

Best Foreign Language Film:
"Biutiful" from Mexico
"Dogtooth" from Greece
"In a Better World" from Denmark
"Incendies" from Canada
"Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)" from Algeria

Best Makeup:
Adrien Morot for "Barney's Version"
Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk, and Yolanda Toussieng for "The Way Back"
Rick Baker and Dave Elsey for "The Wolfman"

Best Original Music Film Score:
John Powell for "How to Train Your Dragon"
Hans Zimmer for "Inception"
Alexandre Desplat for "The King's Speech"
A.R. Rahman for "127 Hours"
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for "The Social Network"

Best Original Song for a Film:
"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 Motion 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 Animated Short Film:
"Day and Night"
"The Gruffalo"
"Let's Pollute"
"The Lost Thing"
"Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage" (Madagascar, Diary of a Journey)

Best Short Live Action Film:
"The Confession"

"The Crush"
"God of Love"
"Na Wewe"
"Wish 143"

Best Film Editing:
Richard King for "Inception"
Tom Myers and Michael Silvers for "Toy Story 3"
Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague for "Tron: Legacy"
Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey for "True Grit"

Mark P. Stoeckinger for "Unstoppable"

Best Sound Mixing:
Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, and Ed Novick for "inception"
Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen, and John Midgley for "The King's Speech"
Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan, and William Sarokin for "Salt"
Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, and Mark Weingarten for "The Social Network"
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter F. Kurland for "True Grit"

Best Visual Effects:
Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas, and Sean Phillips for "Alice in Wonderland"
Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian manz, and Nicolas Aithadi for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" part 1
Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan troanski, and Joe Farrell for "Hereafter"
Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, and Peter Bebb for "Inception"
Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright, and Daniel Sudick for "Iron Man 2"

Best Adapted Screenplay Writing:
Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy for "127 Hours"
Aaron Sorkin for "The Social Newtork"
Michael Arndt, John Lassetr, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich for "Toy Story 3"
Joel and Ethan Coen for "True Grit"
Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for "Winter's Bone"

Best Original Screenplay Writing:
Mike Leigh for "Another Year"
Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson,and Keith Dorrington for "The Fighter"
Christopher Nolan for "Inception"
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg for "The Kids are All Right"
David Seidler for "The King's Speech"