Quit doing all your home work, and pay good attention! Why? What do you mean – why? The nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards have just been announced, and you don’t want to miss that, do you?
So, who are the biggest players this year?
Tom Hooper‘s The King’s Speech definitely leads the race with even 12 nominations, including best picture, directing, original screenplay and actor for Colin Firth.
As usual, Joel and Ethan Coen are the part of the race too, this time with the remake of the western True Grit, that gained 10 nominations, including best picture.
Let’s move on…
Christopher Nolan is surprisingly ignored as Best Director and Inception will have to conform with the nomination for best original screenplay and seven more.
The same score has David Fincher‘s The Social Network – eight nominations including Best Picture.
The King’s Speech – Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and director Tom Hooper all up for Oscar gold
While we’re here at the Best Picture nominations, let’s mention all movies that will compete for the top prize: 127 Hours, Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, The King’s Speech, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit and Winter’s Bone.
The five nominees announced in category for Best Foreign film are Biutiful, Dogtooth, Outside the Law, Incendies, and In a Better World.
We’re glad to find Dogtooth on this list, we’re definitely cheering for this Greece movie!
James Franco, who will host the Academy Awards alongside Anne Hathaway this year, is nominated for the best actor prize for his role in 127 Hours.
We’re glad to see that Javier Bardem, after winning an Oscar (No Country for Old Men) for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role, nominated for Best Actor In Leading Role for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful. That would be the second nomination for Biutiful.
On the other hand, Jeremy Renner is again nominated for Best Supporting Actor for the role in The Town, after last year’s nomination for Best Actor in Leading Role (The Hurt Locker).
Fantastic Nicole Kidman is in the race for Best Actress prize for her role in the Rabbit Hole.
Ok, enough of chat, check out the full list of the nominees!
BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
David O. Russell, The Fighter
Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
David Fincher, The Social Network
Joel & Ethan Coen , True Grit
BEST PICTURE (10 nominations)
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
Toy Story 3
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 ACTOR
Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
James Franco, 127 Hours
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
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 ANIMATED FILM
How to Train your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3
BEST ART DIRECTION
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 1
Inception
The King’s Speech
True Grit
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Swan
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
True Grit
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Alice in Wonderland
I Am Love
The King’s Speech
The Tempest
True Grit
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Exit through the Gift Shop
Gasland
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waste Land
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang
BEST FILM EDITING
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Outside the Law – Hors-la-loi (Algeria)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
How to Train your Dragon
Inception
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
BEST MAKEUP
Barney’s Version
The Way Back
The Wolfman
BEST ORIGINAL 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
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let’s Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)
The King’s Speech – Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and director Tom Hooper all up for Oscar gold
