Oscar Nominations!

Every movie buff in the world (or at least America) looks forward to the Oscars. The Oscar nominations are the big time of the year for movies. There are always surprises and snubs, and this year was no exception. Overall, these are great nominations:

Best Picture	Best Director
127 Hours – Danny Boyle and Christian Colson Black Swan – Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, and Brian Oliver The Fighter – David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, and Mark Wahlberg Inception – Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas The Kids Are All Right – Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, and Celine Rattray The King's Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin The Social Network – Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca, and Scott Rudin Toy Story 3 – Darla K. Anderson True Grit – Ethan Coen and Joel Coen Winter's Bone – Alix Madigan and Anne Rosellini	Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan Ethan Coen and Joel Coen – True Grit David Fincher – The Social Network Tom Hooper – The King's Speech David O. Russell – The Fighter
Best Actor	Best Actress
Javier Bardem – Biutiful as Uxbal Jeff Bridges – True Grit as Rooster Cogburn Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network as Mark Zuckerberg Colin Firth – The King's Speech as Prince Albert / King George VI James Franco – 127 Hours as Aron Ralston	Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right as Nic Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole as Becca Corbett Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone as Ree Dolly Natalie Portman – Black Swan as Nina Sayers Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine as Cindy
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Christian Bale – The Fighter as Dicky Eklund John Hawkes – Winter's Bone as Teardrop Jeremy Renner – The Town as James "Gem" Coughlin Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right as Paul Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech as Lionel Logue	Amy Adams – The Fighter as Charlene Fleming Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon / Queen Elizabeth Melissa Leo – The Fighter as Alice Ward Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit as Mattie Ross Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom as Janine "Smurf" Cody
Best Writing – Original Screenplay	Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Another Year – Mike Leigh The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson Inception – Christopher Nolan The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg The King's Speech – David Seidler	127 Hours – Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy from Between a Rock and a Hard Place byAron Ralston The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin from The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich; characters based on Toy Story and Toy Story 2 True Grit – Ethan Coen and Joel Coen from True Grit by Charles Portis Winter's Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini from Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Best Animated Feature	Best Foreign Language Film
How to Train Your Dragon – Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois The Illusionist – Sylvain Chomet Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich	Biutiful (Mexico) in Spanish and English – Alejandro González Iñárritu Dogtooth (Greece) in Greek – Yorgos Lanthimos In a Better World (Denmark) in Danish, Swedish, and English – Susanne Bier Incendies (Canada) in French and Arabic – Denis Villeneuve Outside the Law (Algeria) in Arabic and French – Rachid Bouchareb
Best Documentary – Feature	Best Documentary – Short Subject
Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz Gasland – Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic Inside Job – Charles H. Ferguson and Audrey Marrs Restrepo – Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger Waste Land – Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley	Killing in the Name – Jed Rothstein Poster Girl – Sara Nesson 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
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
The Confession – Tanel Toom The Crush – Michael Creagh God of Love – Luke Matheny Na Wewe – Ivan Goldschmidt Wish 143 – Ian Barnes	Day & Night – Teddy Newton The Gruffalo – Max Lang and Jakob Schuh Let's Pollute – Geefwee Boedoe The Lost Thing – Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan Madagascar, a Journey Diary – Bastien Dubois
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
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 and Atticus Ross	"Coming Home" from Country Strong – Bob DiPiero, Tom Douglas, Hillary Lindsey, and Troy Verges "I See the Light" from Tangled – Alan Menken and Glenn Slater "If I Rise" from 127 Hours – A.R. Rahman, Rollo Armstrong, and Dido "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 – Randy Newman
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
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	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
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Alice in Wonderland – Art Direction: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan Inception – Art Direction: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat The King's Speech – Art Direction: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr True Grit – Art Direction: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh	Black Swan – Matthew Libatique Inception – Wally Pfister The King's Speech – Danny Cohen The Social Network – Jeff Cronenweth True Grit – Roger Deakins
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
Barney's Version – Adrien Morot The Way Back – Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk, and Yolanda Toussieng The Wolfman – Rick Baker and Dave Elsey	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 Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
127 Hours – Jon Harris Black Swan – Andrew Weisblum The Fighter – Pamela Martin The King's Speech – Tariq Anwar The Social Network – Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter	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

***Courtesy of Wikipedia.org


My Predications:
Best Visuals- Inception will most likely win, but Alice in Wonderland could take the win
Best Editing- Black Swan is my pick, but the Social Network can win
Best Costume Design- Almost a hands down win for Alice in Wonderland
Best Makeup- The Wolfman has a 99% chance, but The Way Back did have great makeup
Best Cinematography- Black Swan was filmed perfectly so it should win
Best Art Direction- Alice in Wonderland was so wonderfully art-directed and it has a lot of colors
Best Sound Mixing/Editing- These are two different categories, but Inception will win both.
Best Song- "If I Rise" from 127 Hours is the best of the bunch
Best Original Score- The Social Network has the most memorable.
Animated Short - Day and Night because I saw it in front of Toy Story 3
Live Action Short- The Crush for no reason
Best Short-Subject Documentary - Killing in the Name has the most interesting premise
Best Documnetary- Exit Through the Gift Shop is the most well-known 
Best Foreign Language FIlm- Biutiful has the Best Actor nomination so it is known and respected.
Best Animated Film- Toy Story 3... hands down
Best Adapted Screenplay- The Social Network had perfect dialogue and was overall perfectly scripted
Best Original Screenplay- Inception was so original and thought-provoking that only the King's Speech might beat it.
Best Supporting Actress- Hailee Steinfeld gave the best performance in the category even though Melissa Leo is getting the most awards for her slightly overrated performance.
Best Supporting Actor- The category with the most surprises (2) will be won by Christian Bale because he gave one of the best performances of the year and deserves a win
Best Actress- All amazing performances but Natalie Portman gave the best performance of the year and beyond, possibly decade.
Best Actor- The toughest category with no clear winner. Colin Firth will probably win based on his great performance.
Best Director- Darren Aronofsky directed Black Swan perfectly.
Best Picture- Black Swan really really stuck with me and it became my favorite movie of the year and one of my favorites of all time. A true masterpiece.