2010 best supporting Actress winner, Mo’Nique, took to the stage bright and early this morning (5:30am for the Hollywood elite – yikes!) to join Academy President, Tom Sherak, in announcing the 83rd Annual Academy Award nominations. Like last year, we have a full ten nominations for best picture, including a nod this year for Toy Story 3; only the second animated film to be nominated for best picture in almost 20 years (last year’s Up, also a Pixar studio film, being the other). Not too surprising that the love affair with the Coens continues as True Grit took 10 nominations. But it was The King’s Speech that got the most praise with a whopping 12 nominations including 5 of the 6 major categories. Everything else is pretty standard this year and not really a whole lot of surprises.
Having said that, take a look at the nominations below. See anything interesting or surprising? Anyone snubbed or is anything garnering undeserved attention? Sound off in the comments below!
The awards will be announced on February 27th at 8pm ET live on ABC at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. We’ll see you then for a live blogging/discussion session and hopefully some good times.
BEST MOTION PICTURE
The Social Network
Black Swan
The Fighter
True Grit
Toy Story 3
The King’s Speech
Inception
127 Hours
The Kids Are All Right
Winter’s Bone
DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)
Joel and Ethan Coen (True Grit)
David O. Russell (The Fighter
ACTOR
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
ACTRESS
Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jackie Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech)
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Another Year
The Fighter
Inception
The Kdis are All Right
King’s Speech
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 Hours
Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Biutiful
Dogtooth
In a Better World
Incendies
Outside the Law
ANIMATED
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3
ART DIRECTION
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
The King’s Speech
True Gri
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Swan
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
True Grit
COSTUME DESIGN
Alice in Wonderland
I Am Love
The King’s Speech
The Tempest
True Grit
DOCUMENTARY
Exit through the Gift Shop
Gasland
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waste Land
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang
EDITING
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
MAKE-UP
The Way Back
The Wolfman
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
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
SOUND EDITING
Inception
Toy Story 3
Tron: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable
SOUND MIXING
Inception
The King’s Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit
VISUAL EFFECTS
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2
ANIMATED SHORT
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let’s Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)
LIVE ACTION SHORT
The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143
John Hawkes nomination! Sweet!
I’m… pleased with the nomination list! how bout that!
and I predicted all the best picture nominees too
Immediate snub detection:
Ryan Gosling not nominated. That is craziness.
The 2 best performances of the year not recognized: Ryan Gosling and Lesley Manville [Another Year]. ridiculous
No Waiting for Superman, yes Exit Through the Gift Shop? Doc feature RULES this year.
Inside Job nom for doc … nice.
Yeah, Michelle Williams and not Ryan Gosling is really weird, nothing against Michelle. But the actress race seemed tighter than the actor race this year, so I figured it’d be tougher for her to make it in than him. rot, I heard one suggestion that Manville going for Best Actress rather than Best Supporting Actress may have hurt her – that she could’ve gotten a Supporting nod if she’d campaigned for that. (she = studio/publicists, whatever) Sucky if politics like that contributed to a snub.
Guess I have to see The King’s Speech and The Fighter. *sigh* (And 127 Hours and The Kids Are All Right, but I actually want to see those.)
The Make-up category is weird. Only two nominations. No True Grit, Black Swan, Valhalla Rising, 127 Hours, Girl w/ Dragon Tattoo, Scott Pilgrim, Centurion…!?
I also don’t get that Toy Story 3 is up for best animated and best picture. Logically, you’d think that just by being nominated for best pic it defaults as best winner in the animated category.
If How to Train Your Dragon isn’t nominated for best picture, but TS3 is, then automatically TS3 is “better”.
Weird.
Excellent news about John Hawkes and Dogtooth. Interesting, neither of the female directors were nominated though their films were. Guess Bigelow got in because she did a film about war, starring men? Sorry if I sound nick picky, but it’s sad and yet typical. Debra Granik should be nominated for Best Director instead of Tom Hooper.
They did that with Up last year, too. It does kind of seem to make the Animated category pointless.
Considering I think the Fighter sucks, I think both Nolan and Boyle deserve that spot instead. I’d put both of them ahead of Hooper.
Also… Exit Through the Gift Shop. Ugh. I don’t think its a film, and I don’t think it should count as a documentary.
correction: “I don’t think its a GOOD film”
John Hawkes won’t win, because he already gave his Oscar Performance, and the Academy Snubbed him way back in 2005.
Impressed by the amount of love for WINTER’S BONE. fingers crossed that there’s some sort of crazy upset. Most excited for the foreign film race… I have a feeling Canada might lose it to Greece and this year, I would have a little party of that happened.
Also quite thrilled to see TRUE GRIT step up when it’s been snubbed at so many other awards shows.
Also, not reall liking the score category but it was expected. Would beawesome if Trent & Atticus took home the Oscar. And frankly, a little surreal.
I think I’m just gonna buy Winter’s Bone sight unseen now, I cant get a rental copy anywhere.
Goon, it’s a one-time watch for me, (a solid-one-time-watch), but your mileage may vary.
This is 100% no way that Dogtooth will win the Oscar. Fantastic it even made it to the final 5.
Cool that Dragon’s score got nominated, with Jonsi’s song did too.
I dunno, Kurt – the best Foreign Language Film category is notorious for upsets, as we can all remember…
Is anyone else majorly disappointed by Shutter Island being totally ignored?
For the US version (not sure about the Canadian), Enter the Void and Dogtooth are both Netflix streaming.
Neither ENTER THE VOID or DOGTOOTH are streaming on Netflix Canada.
Shutter Island is so ‘genre’ (even compared to Inception) that of course it would be ignored. The academy instead went with Stutter Island…ahem…The King’s Speech which is possibly the worst directed prestige picture of last year, even if it has a host of wonderful performances.
Agreed. I don’t mind King’s Speech up for best picture (of course it is). I do mind Nolan or Granik being snubbed for Hooper. Because I agree that that movie was directed horribly. That movie is all script and acting.
Third Make Up nom is for Barney’s Version. There was a oddity in one of the lists but it’s on the PDF: http://a.oscar.go.com/media/2011/pdf/oscar_ballot_2011.pdf
Agree on snubs for Nolan (directing) and Gosling. Am I the only one that thinks its weird that James Franco is hosting & nominated? I wonder if that happened more in old-school Hollywood but it just feels weird!
I’m thrilled to see True Grit up for so many noms, although confused to be cheering for the Coens because I don’t always like their films! Just shows how things can change over time. I think the really late theatrical releases didn’t help it on the other awards show front, it doesn’t seem to make a difference with the Oscars but does for others.
Let the countdown begin!
I’m most happy about The Illusionist making the final 3 animated nominations. Of course, that race is already over, but since the film is just starting to go wider it may attract it a bit more attention. I hope to get a review up by end of week.
I have to say I’ve never liked the word “snubbed” – it indicates a purposeful widespread agreement amongst voters to ignore a particular person for reasons that have nothing to do with the merit. I know that’s not what people mean when they use it, but it still irks me…There just weren’t enough voters who thought the person/film was worthy. It doesn’t mean they’re right.
Happy to see Jackie Weaver in the mix. John Hawkes too. A bit surprised to see Jeremy Renner there (not upset, just surprised). “Black Swan” is the only Best Picture nomination without a screenplay nomination (again, not upset by that).
Very happy to see Waste Land in the Documentary category. I really recommend people see this if they can – it’s wonderful. I love Exit Through The Gift Shop – I think it’s a great entertaining film. Is it a doc? Don’t know, but I don’t mind it getting into the category. I expect Inside Job has this one, but Restrepo could eke something out here…
I remember the Disney songs being pretty strong from Tangled (can’t remember exactly which one was nominated – was it the one where they all talk about their dream careers? Cuz that was really fun) – better than the Toy Story 3 tunes.
Yeah, I definitely have to echo the confusion surrounding Toy Story 3 getting a nom for best picture and there still being an animated film category. I mean, How to Train Your Dragon and The Illusionist have absolutely no chance now to win Best Animated Feature. Although, there HAVE been surprises in the past.
Andrew, I was wondering that myself about the whole Makeup category. Maybe they forgot to nominate the rest…
How does THE KING’S SPEECH get a best editing nom but INCEPTION does not? Who would have thought SALT would ever be an Oscar nominee? I wish THE TILLMAN STORY would have broken through in the doc category, but love the fact that EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP made it!
I’m with Kurt on the direction of THE KING’S SPEECH. Tom Hooper sucks, and he can get chosen over Nolan is a head scratcher. I don’t get the love for this movie. It would be great if it was made in 1988, but is this really one of the best of the year? It wasn’t a bad movie, it’s just… too safe. It’s something I would recommend to my Grandma.
I suppose they can give Christopher Nolan his lifetime achievement award for Batman films next year or something to make up for this snub.
I agree on Bob’s notation of the word snub and want to revise that I was personally ‘surprized’ by Nolan & Gosling noms. I think the 5 in each category are deserving, even if they wouldn’t be my five. 2 points to Bob!
I wonder if Toy Story 3 in both film & animated might have a dark horse chance of splitting the vote or something weird like that. Every year I find there tends to be one weird, but oddly hindsighted, surprized.
Barney’s Version was also nominated for Make Up.
Good to see:
The Town NOT get nominated for best picture
Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes get nominations
Michelle Williams get a nomination for Blue Valentine
Jackie Weaver get a supporting actress nod
How To Train Your Dragon get recognition for it’s amazing score
Notable ommissions:
Nolan for director (obviously) – should easily have knocked out either Hooper or O. Russell
Ryan Gosling for acting
At least one if not all three of the supporting turns in The Social Network (most notably Garfield, but arguably also Timberlake and Armie Hammer)
Inception for editing
and the biggest snub in my opinion…Tron: Legacy for Daft Punk’s original score
Oh yeah, and Shutter Island…I know it was never gonna happen, but it should be up for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Cinematography, Editing, Costume and Sound.
Liking It:
Outside the Law
Michele Williams
Mike Leigh
Jackie Weaver
Amy Adams
Gasland
John Hawkes
Banksy
The Lost Thing
How to Train Your Dragon over Tangled
The Illusionist
The Kids Are Alright over The Town
Not Getting It:
Biutiful
Russell nod before Nolan
Renner over Hardy/Garfield (who had two worthy performances)
Leo over either Cotillard
Stainfeld in wrong category
Bening in wrong category
no R.Richardson, best cinematography of the year in Shutter Is
Bardem over Gosling
Of Gods & Men+Uncle Boonmee absent
and did anybody see Charlotte Gainsbourg in The Tree, bloody fantastic though I think Williams is now the best actress in the world.
other nods my fav film of 2010, Inception, should have got:
Best Director
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Costume
Best Editing
YES IT SHOULD HAVE GOT 13 NOMINATIONS, its that BIG
Bought Winter’s Bone on blu-ray sight unseen because of the nomination.
Mistake.
Uncle Boonmee’s absence was totally expected. As wonderful as it is, it’s waaaaay too befuddling for Academy members to even consider giving a chance. It’s just not an Oscar crowd movie. I’m just glad it already got the honors it and its director deserve at Cannes.
Seriously, Christopher Nolan didn’t get nominated for Best Director? Seriously?