Vandaag zijn in Hollywood de nominaties voor de 83e Academy Awards bekendgemaakt. The King's Speech was de grote winnaar met maar liefst twaalf nominaties (ter vergelijking: The Hurt Locker kreeg afgelopen jaar negen nominaties). Op de tweede plaats eindigde True Grit van de gebroeders Joel & Ethan Coen met 10 nominaties. Een gedeelde derde plaats was er voor The Social Network en Inception, die beiden 8 nominaties kregen.

De grootste verrassing tijdens de nominaties was dat regisseur Christopher Nolan niet werd genomineerd als beste regisseur voor Inception, wat wel algemeen werd verwacht. De film dingt wel mee voor beste film, maar in de categorie beste regisseur moest Nolan David Fincher (The Social Network), Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), David O. Russell (The Fighter), Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) en Joel & Ethan Coen (True Grit) voor zich dulden. Deze vijf films dingen ook mee voor beste film, net als Inception, The Kids are all Right, Toy Story 3, 127 Hours en Winters Bone.

Ook de nominatie van Javier Bardem als beste acteur voor zijn rol in Biutiful kwam als een verrassing. Hoewel er een flinke campagne werd gevoerd om de prestatie van Bardem te laten opvallen, ontbrak zijn naam in de meeste prijzenshows tot nu toe. Bardem neemt het in de categorie beste acteur op tegen Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), James Franco (127 Hours), Colin Firth (The King's Speech) en Jeff Bridges (True Grit).

Als beste actrice werden Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right), Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole), Jennifer Lawrence (Winters Bone) en Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) genomineerd.

Alle nominaties:

Best Motion Picture of the Year

The Social Network
True Grit
Inception
The King's Speech
Toy Story 3
Winters Bone
Black Swan
The Fighter
The Kids are all Right
127 Hours

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Javier Bardem for Biutiful
Jeff Bridges for True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network
Colin Firth for The King's Speech
James Franco for 127 Hours

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence for Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman for Black Swan
Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Christian Bale for The Fighter
John Hawkes for Winter's Bone
Jeremy Renner for The Town
Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush for The King's Speech

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams for The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter for The King's Speech
Melissa Leo for The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit
Jacki Weaver for Animal Kingdom

Best Achievement in Directing

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

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

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

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

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

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

How to Train Your Dragon
L'illusionniste
Toy Story 3

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

Biutiful, Alejandro González Iñárritu(Mexico)
Kynodontas, Giorgos Lanthimos(Greece)
Hævnen, Susanne Bier(Denmark)
Incendies, Denis Villeneuve(Canada)
Hors-la-loi, Rachid Bouchareb(Algeria)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

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

Best Achievement in Editing

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

Best Achievement in Art Direction

Alice in Wonderland, Stefan Dechant
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Andrew Ackland-Snow
Inception, Guy Hendrix Dyas
The King's Speech, Netty Chapman
True Grit, Stefan Dechant

Best Achievement in Costume Design

Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood
Io sono l'amore, Antonella Cannarozzi
The King's Speech, Jenny Beavan
The Tempest, Sandy Powell
True Grit, Mary Zophres

Best Achievement in Makeup

Barney's Version
The Way Back
The Wolfman

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

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, Atticus Ross

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

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

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

Inception
The King's Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

Inception
Toy Story 3
TRON: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2

Best Documentary, Features

Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy
GasLand, Josh Fox
Inside Job, Charles Ferguson
Restrepo, Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Waste Land, Lucy Walker

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang

Best Short Film, Animated

Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let's Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, carnet de voyage

Best Short Film, Live Action

The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
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