[DollyCali]

Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards

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”
  Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara
• “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1”
  

  Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan

• “Inception”
  Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
• “The King's Speech”
  Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr
• “True Grit”
  

  Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
  

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” Jed Rothstein

• “Poster Girl” Sara Nesson and Mitchell W. Block
• “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

Film Editing

• “Black Swan” Andrew Weisblum
• “The Fighter” Pamela Martin

• “The King's Speech” Tariq Anwar
• “127 Hours” Jon Harris
• “The Social Network” Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

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

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 Ceán 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

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 Trojansky 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

 

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[napscoordinator]

Go James Franco and 127 hours. What an incredible movie. I liked the Social Network too but 127 hours was better.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Could you imagine what the reaction from the Left would be if Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld handed each other awards all night?

[Suvroc10]

I despise many of these actors and the films they nominate for Oscars. The vast majority of these unworthy actors are nothing but left-wing activists and Dem voters, while many of the films nominated each year push some left-wing idea.

[hattend]

Hattend’s prediction of winners for the 83rd Academy Awards

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Actor in a Leading Role

•Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech”

Actor in a Supporting Role

•Geoffrey Rush in “The King’s Speech”

Actress in a Leading Role

•Natalie Portman in “Black Swan”

Actress in a Supporting Role

•Hailee Steinfeld in “True Grit”

Animated Feature Film

•“Toy Story 3” Lee Unkrich

Art Direction

•“The King’s Speech”
Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr

Cinematography

•“True Grit” Roger Deakins

Costume Design

•“True Grit” Mary Zophres

Directing

•“The King’s Speech” Tom Hooper

Documentary (Feature)

• Beats Me

Documentary (Short Subject)
• Beats Me

Film Editing

•“The King’s Speech” Tariq Anwar

Foreign Language Film

• Beats Me

Makeup

•“The Wolfman” Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Music (Original Score)

•“The Social Network” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Music (Original Song)

•“If I Rise” from “127 Hours” Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong

Best Picture

•“The King’s Speech” Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers

or

•“True Grit” Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
(Really? Ten movies vying for Best Pic? C’mon!)

Short Film (Animated)
• Beats Me

Short Film (Live Action)
• Beats Me

Sound Editing

•“True Grit” Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey

Sound Mixing

•“True Grit” Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

Visual Effects

•“Inception” Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

•“True Grit” Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Writing (Original Screenplay)

•“The King’s Speech” Screenplay by David Seidler

[windcliff]

Ping

[llmc1]

Your “hate the Oscars” thread is cute! I can’t help but look forward to the big show, though.
Some of my guesses:
King’s Speech (best pic)
Toy Story (best anim)
Inception (vis eff)
How to Train Dragon (score)
Alice in Wonderland (costume)

It’s a tough year for predictions.

[Gena Bukin]

For the big six, my predictions are:

Colin Firth
Christian Bale
Natalie Portman (with Annette Bening as a possible upset)
Hailee Steinfeld
David Fincher
King's Speech

[dfwgator]

And as for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, I’m with Bill Murray, Who cares?

[Yaelle]

Cool thread. I love the academy awards, maybe because I was born in Hollywood. I love the clothes and I love ripping the stupid liberal comments the actors make, and it’s just plain fun to watch.

Sadly, my son has a huge athletic competition during Oscar time today so I have to watch it tomorrow! Bummer.

I assume a lot of the ladies have been scrambling in the past few days to find wraps for their gowns. It’s a beautiful sunny day but freezing (for us) with a high of 50 in LA today, which means that by 3 pm it will be less than 50. Highly unusual for here so we are freezing. Tonight it will get down into the 30s again.

[John W]

We have seen the following:

The King’s Speech-Excellent. Best Picture, Actor and Supporting Actor.

The Social Network-Very good, not on a par with the one above though.

True Grit-Very good. Best Supporting Actress.

The Black Swan-Didn’t care for it at all.

[Liberty Valance]

*placemarker* thanks for posting.

[stylecouncilor]

I’ve only seen The King’s Speech, so I hope it wins! :) Looking forward to the red carpet fashion.

[nutmeg]

Dolly! I knew you’d be hosting (or at least posting on) tonight’s live Oscar thread! :-)

[nutmeg]

If you're interested in participating in tonight's Oscars / Academy Awards thread... here it is!

THANK YOU for hosting this annual thread, DollyCali.

Here's hoping "The King's Speech" wins 'em all!

[Fishtalk]

Hiya DC....thanks for doing this thread. I sit here and watch this year’s show and missed the interaction of a live thread.

On another note, don’t know if you remember that I’m the one compiling the Freep ping list.

Took a bit of thinking but I’ve learned the HTML code for...tada...a table!

Also am categorizing all the ping lists, putting it on, get this, AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET! Add the HTML code, copy, and boom, posts great on the Blog!

Can now sort the entries by any “field” etc.

Anyway, it’ll be easy to maintain. I’ll ping you when it’s done.

Now on thread topic, may I say that Reese Witherspoon’s hair looked quite fake.

More snarky comments to come.

[doug from upland]

I expect some really good FReeper mocking on this thread. How about starting with a YouTube.

THEY SUCK IN HOLLYWOOD, SING-ALONG
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2680992/posts

[Lmo56]

Glad Melissa won - she shoulda won 2 years ago for “Frozen River” ...

BTW: Is it me - or did she have some MAJOR cosmetic work done, she looks COMPLETELY different !!!

[Lmo56]

Sorkin just won for "The Social Network" -

[Lmo56]

King’s Speech - Best Director