Announcement: The 2011 Academy Awards Nominations List
Here they are, folks, your 2011 Academy Award Nominations list! Some of these are still in theaters, some are on DVD or Netflix Watch Instantly, but these are the cream of the crop for 2010, so check them out! Linked will be the available Keeping It Reel reviews for all nominated films. Enjoy!
Best Picture
“Black Swan” Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
“The Fighter” David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
“Inception” Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
“The Kids Are All Right” Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
“The King’s Speech” Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
“127 Hours” Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
“The Social Network” Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
“Toy Story 3” Darla K. Anderson, Producer
“True Grit” Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
“Winter’s Bone” Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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Animated Feature Film
“How to Train Your Dragon” Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
“The Illusionist” Sylvain Chomet
“Toy Story 3” Lee Unkrich
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Art Direction
“Alice in Wonderland” – Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” – Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
“Inception” – Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
“The King’s Speech” – Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr
“True Grit” – Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
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Cinematography
“Black Swan” Matthew Libatique
“Inception” Wally Pfister
“The King’s Speech” Danny Cohen
“The Social Network” Jeff Cronenweth
“True Grit” Roger Deakins
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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
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Directing
“Black Swan” Darren Aronofsky
“The Fighter” David O. Russell
“The King’s Speech” Tom Hooper
“The Social Network” David Fincher
“True Grit” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
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Documentary (Feature)
“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
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Documentary (Short Subject)
“Killing in the Name” Nominees to be determined
“Poster Girl” Nominees to be determined
“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
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Film Editing
“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
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Foreign Language Film
“Biutiful” Mexico
“Dogtooth” Greece
“In a Better World” Denmark
“Incendies” Canada
“Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)” Algeria
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Makeup
“Barney’s Version” Adrien Morot
“The Way Back” Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
“The Wolfman” Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
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Music (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 and Atticus Ross
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Music (Original Song)
“Coming Home” from “Country Strong” Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
“I See the Light” from “Tangled” Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
“If I Rise” from “127 Hours” Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
“We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
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Short Film (Animated)
“Day & Night” Teddy Newton
“The Gruffalo” Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
“Let’s Pollute” Geefwee Boedoe
“The Lost Thing” Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
“Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)” Bastien Dubois
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Short Film (Live Action)
“The Confession” Tanel Toom
“The Crush” Michael Creagh
“God of Love” Luke Matheny
“Na Wewe” Ivan Goldschmidt
“Wish 143” Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite
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Sound Editing
“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
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Sound Mixing
“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
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Visual Effects
“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
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Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
“127 Hours” Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
“The Social Network” Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
“Toy Story 3” Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
“True Grit” Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
“Winter’s Bone” Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
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Writing (Original Screenplay)
“Another Year” Written by Mike Leigh
“The Fighter” Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
“Inception” Written by Christopher Nolan
“The Kids Are All Right” Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
“The King’s Speech” Screenplay by David Seidler
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Nothing too shocking about who got in or who was left out, though I’m particularly glad to see Jeremy Renner and Jacki Weaver getting Best Supporting noms.
The only one that I really want to win and will be really rooting for that night is “Inception” for Best Original Screenplay.
I think it (“Inception”) has a solid chance.
Looking at the awards trend, it’ll probably go to The Kids Are All Right, but I would like to see Inception pull it out.
I hope so! I Loved Inception and so did my daughter!
What pains me most about the Oscars is that even in the technical categories, it’s still the same handful of films – there’s such a dearth of variety here – how many films were eligible this year? And what percentage of those actually get nominated? What’s the criteria for an editing award – certainly the editing in 127 hours was impressive, but I really don’t see why The Kings Speech has been included in this category; it’s as if the Academy says ‘ Oh yes this is a great film, get it into every category’.
Having had my annual whinge, I’m rooting for Rush and Melissa Leo ( and I haven’t even seen the film but she is such a great actress, she deserves this). I really hope Nolan gets something because Inception was such an extraordinary film but I’ve a feeling he won’t, although the film should get the Oscar for Art Direction imho.
As I’ve said, I haven’t seen The Social Network and the number of nominations for it I find a little disturbing – I can’t think that it would be of much interest to people outside of a certain demographic but I guess that shouldn’t count against it.
The love for “The King’s Speech” has spread beyond the reach of the crown, it seems. The best part of that film was the relationship between the two. Some of the cinematography was good and it had a nice score, beyond that…same old Oscar bait. “Inception” surely should have been nominated for Editing but alas, Nolan’s film gets little Oscar love.
Leo was great but Steinfeld was better.
I have been witness to a “certain demographic” who just don’t get “The Social Network” and list the film as one of the reasons why 2010 was a ho-hum year for films. They are wrong on both counts.
You cannot possibly knock a film’s award nominations if you haven’t seen it. That is preposterous. The Social Network is not about the creation of Facebook at all. It is a movie with the core themes of a good story: friendship, loyalty, betrayal, insecurity, etc. See it. There is a reason it has a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes… and believe me, most of the contributors DO NOT fall within the “certain demographic”.
Jeff Bridges? notsomuch… and how is Hailee Steinfields role ‘Supporting’? good grief the girl had more dialogue than most of the ‘Leading’ roles, and basically MADE the film IMO. plus, it was her first time out of the gate! Same applies to G Rush. What constitutes ‘Supporting’ in the Academy’s eye?
Yes, Bridges! Who else coulda played that role so well? Come on….think of someone. No? See? As for Steinfeld, I am just as baffled. They want her odds to increase, so they toss her there. Doesn’t make sense considering her competition AND the fact that it wasn’t suppporting. As for Rush, his was supporting through and through. The King was the prominent role and yes, the story was about the friendship between the two men….but it was Birdie’s who Logue was supporting. He was the consummate supporter!
I’m secretly relieved Jennifer Lawrence and Hailee Steinfeld are not in the same category. I can’t divide my love like that. And Please let this be Roger Deakins’ year. He’s the Susan Lucci of cinematographers.
Team Deakins!
Jesse Eisenberg – in, Andrew Garfield – out? I think that one was mixed up.
Granted, I haven’t seen Animal Kingdom, and I have no idea who Jacki Weaver is, but her over Mila Kunis in Black Swan? Really?
Did The Town peak too early? Why was it left out of the Best Picture nominee list?
Jacki Weaver DOMINATES Mila Kunis’ performance. Dominates.
… and I LOVED Black Swan, so that’s saying a lot.
Definitely check out Animal Kingdom. It’s on DVD or Netflix.
Actually, yeah….really. Kunis was fine but far from Oscar-worthy. “Black Swan” was nominated in the appropriate categories. “The Town” is not worthy of Best Picture….so, no loss there.
I am most happy that the majority of the movies picked this year are already in the mainstream. I always try to scramble the last month to see all the nominated movies and wind up driving far away to the one theater that is playing one of the nominated films. I have many friends who always say that they only nominate movies that no one has ever heard of and for that reason they never even want to watch the Oscars, I would have to say that this year that is not the case.
Yeah, they very well could give it to “The Kids Are Alright” partially for the directing snubs Cholodenko has received this awards season.