OSCARS 2011 - 83rd Academy Awards Nominations

Here are the nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards. 

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 Ceàn 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

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"

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"

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"

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"

Animated Feature Film
"How to Train Your Dragon" Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
"The Illusionist" Sylvain Chomet
"Toy Story 3" Lee Unkrich

Art Direction
"Alice in Wonderland"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1"
"Inception"
"The King's Speech"
"True Grit"

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

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

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

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

Documentary (Short Subject)
"Killing in the Name"
"Poster Girl"
"Strangers No More"
"Sun Come Up"
"The Warriors of Qiugang"

Film Editing
"Black Swan"
"The Fighter"
"The King's Speech"
"127 Hours"
"The Social Network"

Foreign Language Film
"Biutiful," Mexico
"Dogtooth," Greece
"In a Better World," Denmark
"Incendies," Canada
"Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)," Algeria

Makeup
"Barney's Version," Adrien Morot
"The Way Back," Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
"The Wolfman," Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bridges Vs. Clooney: What Really Happened (GIFs)

Adam Best
From: http://flicksided.com/

Both George Clooney and Jeff Bridges acted like the Best Actor Oscar they were battling for last Sunday wasn’t a big deal. Bridges tried to appear stoic, but ended up looking smug. So undude. Meanwhile, Clooney acted like he was just there to drink and party. That strategy backfired. By night’s end he resembled a bitter, shitfaced ex-girlfriend. For once, that’s not a good look for you, George. Here’s an out-of-context parody of the night visual evidence that the award was indeed a ginormous effin’ deal for both actors (GIFs via a great Oscars wrap-up at FourFour).

Bridges struggles to act humble…

Clooney does the “whateva” eye roll/clap…

Bridges REALLY struggles to act humble not laugh maniacally…

Clooney: “Well, get your ass up there, Jeff.”

Bridges: “Far out! Eat that you wannabe Cary Grant!”

Clooney: “Yep. I just lost to the fucking Dude.”

Academy Awards: Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win an Oscar for best director

By Anthony Venutolo/The Star-Ledger

GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images"

The Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow has won the Oscar for best director, become the first woman ever to achieve the top honor.Above, Bigelow arrives at the 82nd annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on February 15, 2010.

"The Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow has won the Oscar for best director, becoming the first woman ever to achieve the top honor at the Academy Awards.

While her best best-known films were such fare as the vampire pic "Near Dark" and the Patrick Swayze surfing drama "Point Break," the critically-acclaimed "The Hurt Locker" has put Bigelow into a different stratosphere.

She was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America award for outstanding directorial achievement in a motion picture for "The Hurt Locker." She also won the best director prize at the 2010 British Academy Film Awards.

She was nominated for a Golden Globe but ex-husband James Cameron took the prize for his 3D sci-fi epic "Avatar."

Bigelow was the first female to win a BAFTA Award for best direction and fourth ever to be nominated for an Oscar after Lina Wertmüller for "Seven Beauties" in 1976, Jane Campion for "The Piano" in 1993 and Sofia Coppola for "Lost in Translation" in 2003.

"The Hurt Locker" follows a United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team during the Iraq War and stars Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty and best actor nominee Jeremy Renner. They star as members of a U.S. Army EOD unit in Iraq and the film tells of their tour together as they contend with defusing bombs and the threat of insurgency.

Bigelow shot in the Middle East, specifically in Jordan, within miles of the Iraq border

Ben Stiller Presents Oscar As A Na’vi

This was fantastic!!!

Adam Best

Ben Stiller usually does something zany at the Oscars every year, but this year is probably his craziest stunt yet. Stiller presented the Achievement in Makeup award as a Na’vi from James Cameron’s Avatar. He heckled James Cameron a bit (which Borat wasn’t allowed to be involved in because of Jimmy’s thin blue skin) and made a funny Spock quip. Definitely one of the highlights of the night.

Complete List of Nominations for 82nd Academy Awards - 2010

Francouis Duhamel/ The Weinstein Co., David James/ The Weinstein Co., Dale Robinette/Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, WETA/ Twentieth Century Fox, Summit Entertainment

Avatar and The Hurt Locker lead all Academy Award nominees with nine nominations apiece, including Best Motion Picture and his and hers Best Directing nods for former spouses James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow. Inglourious Basterds is close behind with eight, followed by Precious and Up in the Air with six.

Meryl Streep, up for Best Actress for Julie & Julia, extends her reign as the most nominated performer in Academy history, with her 16th nod.

The Oscars will be handed out March 7 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Here's the complete list of nominees:

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Avatar
• The Blind Side
• District 9
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Precious
• A Serious Man
• Up
• Up in the Air

Achievement in Directing

• James Cameron, Avatar
• Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
• Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
• Lee Daniels, Precious
• Jason Reitman, Up in the Air

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
• George Clooney, Up in the Air
• Colin Firth, A Single Man
• Morgan Freeman, Invictus
• Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Matt Damon, Invictus
• Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
• Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
• Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
• Helen Mirren, The Last Station
• Carey Mulligan, An Education
• Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
• Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Penélope Cruz, Nine
• Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
• Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
• Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
• Mo'Nique, Precious

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Princess and the Frog
• The Secret of Kells
• Up

Original Screenplay

• The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal
• Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
• The Messenger, Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
• A Serious Man, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Up, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy and Bob Peterson

Adapted Screenplay

• District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
• An Education, Nick Hornby
• In the Loop, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche
• Precious, Geoffrey Fletcher
• Up in the Air, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

• Ajami (Israel)
• El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
• The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
• Un Prophète (France)
• The White Ribbon (Germany)

Original Score

• James Horner, Avatar
• Alexandre Desplat, Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, The Hurt Locker
• Hans Zimmer, Sherlock Holmes
• Michael Giacchino, Up

Original Song

• "Almost There," Music & Lyrics by Randy Newman (The Princess and the Frog)
• "Down in New Orleans," Music & Lyrics by Randy Newman (The Princess and the Frog)
• "Loin de Paname," Music by Reinhardt Wagner; Lyrics by Frank Thomas (Paris 36)
• "Take It All," Music & Lyrics by Maury Yeston (Nine)
• "The Weary Kind," Music & Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)

Achievement in Art Direction

• Avatar
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• Nine
• Sherlock Holmes
• The Young Victoria

Achievement in Cinematography

• Avatar, Mauro Fiore
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Bruno Delbonnel
• The Hurt Locker, Barry Ackroyd
• Inglourious Basterds, Robert Richardson
• The White Ribbon. Christian Berger

Achievement in Costume Design

• Bright Star, Janet Patterson
  
• Coco before Chanel, Catherine Leterrier
  
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Monique Prudhomme
  
• Nine, Colleen Atwood
  
• The Young Victori, Sandy Powell

Best Documentary Feature

• Burma VJ
• The Cove
• Food, Inc.
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
• Which Way Home

Best Documentary Short Subject

• China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
• The Last Campaign of Booth Gardner
• The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
• Music by Prudence
• Rabbit à la Berlin

Achievement in Film Editing

• Avatar, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
  
• District 9, Julian Clarke
• The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
  
• Inglourious Basterds, Sally Menke
• Precious, Joe Klotz

Achievement in Makeup

• Il Divo
• Star Trek
• The Young Victoria

Best Animated Short Film

• French Roast
• Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
• The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
• Logorama
• A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Live Action Short Film

• The Door
• Instead of Abracadabra
• Kavi
• Miracle Fish
• The New Tenants

Achievement in Sound Editing

• Avatar
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Star Trek
• Up

Achievement in Sound Mixing

• Avatar
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Star Trek
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Achievement in Visual Effects

• Avatar
• District 9
• Star Trek

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Flip through the Notable Nominees gallery and see everything else we've got on the 2010 Academy Awards right here!

Five Reasons Avatar Still Won’t Win Best Picture

I hate to post this article, after seeing the movie last night in IMAX 3D. Which i have to say deserves best picture. I agree if Lane Brown.

• By: Lane Brown
• From: http://nymag.com/

Photo: Courtesy of Fox

We go on vacation for a few measly days, and look what happens: James Cameron's ecstatically reviewed, box-office-conquering Avatar is suddenly, improbably, the front-runner in this year's Best Picture race. Far be it from us to tell the HMFIC what he can and can't do, but we still don't see the King of the World reigning on another Oscar night. After the jump, we count down the five biggest reasons why Avatar can't win the Academy's top award (or at least the five reasons we'll be surprised when Cameron swaggers up to the Oscar podium, spikes his award, and tells his haters to suck it in Na'vi).

1. The Special Effects.
When it was released in 1997, Titanic, too, had CGI impressive enough to distract from Cameron's tin-eared dialogue — but the film's clear focus was its sweeping, tragic, human-based love story (not that this helped Cameron get a nomination for his screenplay, of course). Avatar's script is serviceable, we guess, but have you heard a single person raving about anything but the movie's special effects? We have not.

2. The Academy: still snobby.
While it may be true that only whiny snobs are still complaining about Avatar's extravisual shortcomings, it's worth noting that the Academy's current membership is comprised primarily of whiny snobs. Remember last year, when they snubbed The Dark Knight in favor of The Reader? Or the year before that, in which the cumulative gross of the five Best Picture nominees was approximately half of what it costs to see Avatar in IMAX? Not since 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King have popcorn-allergic Oscar voters rewarded anything crowd-pleasing and blockbusting in the top category.

3. Screeners.
Another thing Academy members are snobby about is sharing recirculated movie-theater air with mouth-breathing non-Oscar-voting plebeians. Studios interested in winning awards generally have to furnish agoraphobic, non-theater-visiting voters with DVD copies of their movies — standard-definition, 2-D DVDs obviously incapable of showcasing the three-dimensional, IMAX-def glory that is Avatar.

4. Oscar still hates science fiction.
Like comedy, animation, and movies featuring brown people, science fiction has historically been ignored by the Academy Awards. No space-based movie has ever won Best Picture, and none have been nominated since E.T. in 1982 (it lost to Gandhi, which featured not a single alien).

5. Actors.
One argument for Avatar's Best Picture chances is that 3-D movies (and higher ticket prices) are the film industry's current best hope for longevity, and that the Academy might cast a vote for its own survival. Fat chance, we say: The organization's biggest contingent, by far, is actors, the very same people replaced by blue pixels on James Cameron's computer-generated, thespian-free Pandora. Sure, one could correctly argue that Avatar features the motion-captured performances of real human beings, but just try explaining that to technophobic ballot-wielding elderlies like Mickey Rooney and Dame Judi Dench.

Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to host Oscars

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Will be Martin's third time hosting; Baldwin's first

By Gregg Kilday

Steve Martin, left, and Alec Baldwin (Getty)

Doubling down on comedy, the producers said, "Steve will bring the experience of having hosted the show in the past, and Alec will be a completely fresh personality for this event."

As a solo act, Martin hosted the Oscars in 2001 and 2003, earning an Emmy nomination for his first turn at-bat. He's also been a presenter on a number of occasions including this year, when he appeared with Tina Fey to hand out a trophy.

Baldwin has appeared as a presenter, most recently in 2004 when he was nominated as best supporting actor for his appearance in "The Cooler."

"Adam and I, from our first meeting on, knew we wanted an emphasis on comedy," Mechanic said. "If we err in any one direction, we want to take a show that can feel long and boring at times and make it feel shorter and more fun. The idea of two co-hosts who could move things along just seemed like a great idea."

The fact that Martin and Baldwin aren't a pre-existing comedy team also appealed to the producers.

"One way to make it fresher," Mechanic said, "was to find people who aren't doing the same thing they always do."

Shankman has relationships with both men. He directed Martin in 2003's "Bringing Down the House," and during a visit to the Hamptons in September, he tweeted that he'd played Truth or Dare with Baldwin the previous night, and "his truths=amazing." And so Shankman reached out to both.

During the '70s and '80s, the Oscars frequently resorted to multiple hosts. In 1972, Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr. and Jack Lemmon shared the honors; Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan made it a trio in 1987.

But the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hasn't relied on two performers since 1957, when Jerry Lewis and Celeste Holm made an odd-couple teaming. Technically, though, that wasn't considered a co-hosting situation: It was the era of bicoastal Oscar ceremonies, and Lewis presided over the main event in Los Angeles while Holm played the role of New York emcee.

The only time two hosts have shared the same locale on Oscar Night was at the first ceremony in 1929, presided over by Douglas Fairbanks and William C. DeMille.

Martin and Baldwin have had plenty of practice with live TV. In fact, they lead the list of repeat hosts on NBC's "Saturday Night Live"; Martin has hosted 15 times, Baldwin 14.

They've also worked together before, both appearing on NBC's "30 Rock," for which Baldwin has earned two Emmys. Last season, Martin guested on the show and earned Emmy nom.

They're also appearing together in Nancy Meyer's comedy "It's Complicated," starring Meryl Streep, which Universal will release in December.

Warming up the inevitable banter, Martin said, "I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy Alec Baldwin." Baldwin volleyed, "I don't play the banjo, but I'm thrilled to be hosting the Oscars."

The 82nd Oscars will be held March 7 and broadcast live by ABC from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland.

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