Academy Awards Nominations

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January 25, 2011

Wesley Lovell

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The 83rd Annual Academy Awards nominations have been announced. Below are those nominations. (Editor’s Note: List completed)

Nominations Tallies

(12) The King’s Speech
(10) True Grit
(8) Inception, The Social Network
(7) The Fighter
(6) 127 Hours
(5) Black Swan, Toy Story 3

The Nominations

Best Picture

Black Swan – Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
The Fighter – David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Mark Wahlberg
Inception – Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right – Gary GIlbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Celine Rattray
The King’s Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
127 Hours – Christian Colson, Danny Boyle, John Smithson
The Social Network – Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ceán Chaffin
Toy Story 3 – Darla K. Anderson
True Grit – Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Winter’s Bone – Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan-Yorkin

Best Animated Feature

How to Train Your Dragon – Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
The Illusionist – Sylvain Chomet
Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich

Best Director

Black Swan – Darren Aronofsky
The Fighter – David O. Russell
The King’s Speech – Tom Hooper
The Social Network – David Fincher
True Grit – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

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 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 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 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 Original Screenplay

Another Year – Mike Leigh
The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington
Inception – Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
The King’s Speech – David Seidler

Best Adapted Screenplay

127 Hours – Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
True Grit – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Winter’s Bone – Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini

Best 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, Atticus Ross

Best Original Song

Coming Home – Country Strong – Tom Douglas, Troy Verges, Hillary Lindsey
I See the Light – Tangled – Alan Menken, Glenn Slater
If I Rise – 127 Hours – A.R. Rahman, Dido, Rollo Armstrong
We Belong Together – Toy Story 3 – Randy Newman

Best Editing

Black Swan – Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter – Pamela Martin
The King’s Speech – Tariq Anwar
127 Hours – Jon Harris
The Social Network – Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter

Best Cinematography

Black Swan – Matthew Libatique
Inception – Wally Pfister
The King’s Speech – Danny Cohen
The Social Network – Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit – Roger Deakins

Best Art Direction

Alice in Wonderland – Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I – Stuart Craig, Stephanie McMillan
Inception – Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat
The King’s Speech – Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
True Grit – Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

Best Costume Design

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 Makeup

Barney’s Version – Adrien Morot
The Way Back – Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk, Yolanda Toussieng
The Wolfman – Rick Baker, Dave Elsey

Best Sound Mixing

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

Best Sound Editing

Inception – Richard King
Toy Story 3 – Tom Myers, Michael Silvers
TRON Legacy – Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Addison Teague
True Grit – Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey
Unstoppable – Mark P. Stoeckinger

Best Visual Effects

Alice in Wonderland – Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas, Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I – Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz, Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter – Michael Owens, Bryan Gill, Stephan Trojanski, Joe Farrell
Inception – Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb
Iron Man 2 – Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright, Daniel Sudick

Best Foreign Language Film

Biutiful – Mexico
Dogtooth – Greece
In a Better World – Denmark
Incendies – Canada
Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) – Algeria

Best Documentary Feature

Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy, Jaimie D’Cruz
Gasland – Josh Fox, Trish Adlesic
Inside Job – Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs
Restrepo – Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Waste Land – Lucy Walker, Angus Aynsley

Best Documentary Short Subject

Killing in the Name – Nominees to be determined
Poster Girl – Nominees to be determined
Strangers No More – Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Sun Come Up – Jennifer Redfearn, Tim Metzger
The Warriors of Qiugang – Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon

Best Animated Short Film

Day & Night – Teddy Newton
The Gruffalo – Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
Let’s Pollute – Geefwee Boedoe
The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan, Andrew Ruhemann
Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Madagascar, A Journey Diary) – Bastien Dubois

Best Live Action Short Film

The Confession – Tanel Toom
The Crush – Michael Creagh
God of Love – Luke Matheny
Na Wewe – Ivan Goldschmidt
Wish 143 – Ian Barnes, Samantha Waite

Comments

12 responses to “Academy Awards Nominations”

Almasy

January 25, 2011

I totally agree with Tarek with the scandalous snub of inception for best editing.

And How can they ignore Nolan for best director and danny boyle for 127 hours (a movie which the academy seem to like).

I think the academy will someday give an honorary oscar to Christopher Nolan with a big apology. No dark knight and no inception for best director, I’m very very personally insulted.

The Fighter for best director and editing shows that you only have to make a movie about a boxer and have a lot of chances to get nominated.

On the other hand, I like the surprise of seeing Michelle Williams, Javier Bardem, The Illusionist, Harry Potter (for best art direction) and The Tempest.

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Shoot the Critic

January 25, 2011

None of the nominations were surprising. I just posted an article on my winner predictions and personal picks, here: http://shootthecritic.com/features/academy_award_nominees_2011.

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rafael

January 25, 2011

I MISSED MILA KUNIS FOR BLACK SWAN, AND THE BURLESQUE’S SONGS TOO.

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Tarek

January 25, 2011

How can they ignore Inception for Film Editing? This is scandalous!!!
…Nevertheless I am happy to see Randy Newman nominated for Original Song. I loved the song from Toy Story 3. Also I am glad “I See the Light” got a nomination, although I would have preferred Tangled instead of The Illusionist for Best Animated Feature.

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lallolupo

January 25, 2011

I missed the Greek movie in the Foreign Film category.
I though Japan could have better chances.
Actually I found the Greek one pretty disgusting.
How the Academy could have snobbed the German film is a mystery to me…
I got the other four though.
I’m pretty sure Denmark will get it at this point. But watch out for Mexico…

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Mike Kelly

January 25, 2011

Some quick tallies: Three films received nominations in the big five categories: Picture, Director, Acting, Screenplay and Editing: The King’s Speech, The Social Network and The Fighter, which not coincidentally are the three front runners. True Grit did better than expected, but missed an Editing nomination. The Black Swan missed a Screenplay nomination and 127 Hours did not receive a Director nomination. Inception missed both a Director and Editing nomination.

When there have been two nominees in a supporting actress category from the same film competing, one wins just a bit more than a third of the time. This may bode well for Hailee Steinfeld. With 10 nominations, voters may wish to throw some votes its way and Supporting Actress may be the place.

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bette streep

January 25, 2011

The rules were changed so the 5 best songs aren’t automatically nominated.

The nominees must now satisfy another set of criteria – a grade or something – hence years when there are just 3 nominations and now 4.

This is a silly rule and I don’t understand why they passed it.

Overall – surprised with the huge number of noms for True Grit. Obviously Jeff and Hailee have succeeded in doing the rounds to promote the movie. And the Academy sure do love those Coen brothers!

I now am certain that King’s Speech will win the big one – but still think Fincher might win Director.

Biggest surprises? I thought about Bardem but changed my mind at the last minute. Also was convinced that Steinfeld would slot into the Lead category but now that she is supporting she is now the frontrunner.

And what happened to “Waiting for Superman”???? Yet again the Documentary jury have snubbed one of the most successful documentaries.

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1. Wesley Lovell
  
  January 25, 2011
  
  Successful or not, a lot of critics did not care much for Waiting for “Superman”. And, since many of those critics appreciate documentaries in the same way that documentary filmmakers do, my guess is they opted for more well made documentaries. Since I haven’t seen any of them, that’s supposition.
  
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  1. Brian
    
    January 25, 2011
    
    Waiting For Superman is by most accounts well-made (I haven’t seen it). Most of the criticism against it is along content lines; it’s said to scapegoat teacher’s unions and propagandize for charter schools.
    
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Mike Furlong

January 25, 2011

Anyone else wondering why there are only 4 nominations for song?

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1. Hollywood Z
  
  January 25, 2011
  
  Not really. This year was really weak for original songs. I’m more curious why a few montages in The King’s Speech were considered better than the multiple dream level editing of Inception!
  
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  1. Nathan Donarum
    
    January 25, 2011
    
    I think The King’s Speech is really well edited. I paid very close attention to it when I saw it, and I saw a number of interesting editing choices. For example, whenever Firth and Rush are in one of their sessions, when it cuts to either one of them, they’re juxtaposed on one sie of the other of the frame. One of them on the left, the other on the right. There are a number of reasons this could have been done – maybe putting them as equals, but showing that there is a separation between them? – it could be a number of things. My point is that The King’s Speech actually had some very nice editing techniques. If anything, The Fighter or 127 Hours should have been shut out for editing. The Fighter because it really offers nothing special and is really pretty basic. And 127 Hours because it’s just over-edited at times. Understandable why AMPAS would nominate it, though: they like movies that do that. …Which makes me wonder why Inception WASN’T nominated, since its editing, as smooth and as purposeful as it was, was quite showy.
    
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