2011 Academy Award Nominations

Boom baby! It's that time of the year again. It's my Christmas baby! The season of joy has come and I have the full list of nominees for the Academy Awards that's happening in exactly one month from now.

BEST PICTURE
•Black Swan
•The Fighter
•Inception
•The Kids Are All Right
•The King's Speech
•127 Hours
•The Social Network
•Toy Story 3
•True Grit
•Winter's Bone 

BEST DIRECTOR
•Darren Aronofsky- Black Swan
•David. O. Russell- The Fighter
•Tom Hooper- The King's Speech
•David Fincher- The Social Network
•Joel Coen and Ethan Coen- True Grit 

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
•Javier Bardem- Biutiful
•Jeff Bridges- True Grit
•Jesse Eisenberg- The Social Network
•Colin Firth- The King's Speech
•James Franco- 127 Hours 

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
•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 IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
•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 ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
•Amy Adams- The Fighter
•Helena Bonham Carter- The King's Speech
•Melissa Leo- The Fighter
•Hailee Steinfeld- True Grit
•Jacki Weaver- Animal Kingdom 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
•127 Hours
•The Social Network
•Toy Story 3
•True Grit
•Winter's Bone 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY'
•Another Year
•The Fighter
•Inception
•The Kids Are All Right
•The King's Speech 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
•Biutiful
•Dogtooth
•In A Better World
•Incendies
•Outside the Law

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
•How to Train Your Dragon
•The Illusionist
•Toy Story 3

BEST ART DIRECTION

•Alice In Wonderland
•Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 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 FILM EDITING

•Black Swan
•The Fighter
•The King's Speech
•127 Hours
•The Social Network

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

•Exit Through the Gift Shop
•Gasland
•Inside Job
•Restrepo
•Waste Land

BEST MAKEUP

•Barney's Version
•The Way Back
•The Wolfman

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

•How to Train Your Dragon
•Inception
•The King's Speech
•127 Hours
•The Social Network

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 SOUND MIXING

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

BEST SOUND EDITING

•Inception
•Toy Story 3
•Tron: Legacy
•True Grit
•Unstoppable

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

•Alice In Wonderland
•Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
•Hereafter
•Inception
•Iron Man 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

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

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

•Day & Night
•The Gruffalo
•Let's Pollute
•The Lost Thing
•Madagascar, A Journey Diary

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

•The Confession
•The Crush
•God of Love
•Na Wewe
•Wish 143

   

So this years nomination sees the academy falling back on the usual, safer kind of films in contrast to last years nominations which saw films like District 9, Ajami and The Secret of Kells being nominated. Here we have our same old predictables. The period drama, the epic western, the box office champ, the boxer movie, the indie gem and Pixar.

The King's Speech leads the nominees with a staggering 12 nominations while True Grit trails with 10 nominations. Inception and David Fincher's Golden Globe winning Social Network holds 8 nods while The Fighter earned 7 nominations. Character pieces like 127 Hours and Black Swan have 6 and 5 nominations each.

First off, I predict the Oscars will be fair game season this year. With all these films performing equally well with each other, and the critics awards being split between many of these films.. it's easy to say that all these films are going to walk away with wins come March. No film is going to pull a LOTR and sweep everything, all films are going to take home something.

My money is on The Social Network to win Best Picture, if not that then it should be The King's Speech. While I don't agree with The King's Speech, it's sheer number of nods is hard to overlook. David Fincher for Best Director. Colin Firth for Best Actor. Natalie Portman for Best Actress. Christian Bale for Best Supporting Actor. Either Melissa Leo or Hailee Steinfeld for Best Supporting Actress.

But for God sakes academy. No nomination for Chris Nolan again?? A fuuuuuuuuuk you.