They're Here. The 83rd Oscar Nominations
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 9:08AM The Day has arrived, capitals and bold intended.
I'm updated the OSCAR NOMINATION INDEX so you can look at everything as a complete chart and also see how I did prediction wise. Or you can open up this post to check out the entire list of nominees.
The most interesting responses in terms of nomination levels have to be Black Swan and Inception, neither of which hit Oscar's sweet spot in quite the nomination tally levels people generally expected. Inception missed in director which MUST give Nolan some kind of snub record since he's now been nominated by the DGA three times. Black Swan missed in art direction and sound and costumes all of which, one thinks, should have maybe been givens.
When in doubt remember -- I also forgot -- that Oscar resists genre films when they have traditional drama to nominate instead (The King's Speech)
Complete list of nominees after the jump or you can just see the big chart.
Best motion picture of the year
* Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) A Protozoa and Phoenix Pictures Production
Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
* The Fighter (Paramount) A Relativity Media Production
David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
* Inception (Warner Bros.) A Warner Bros. UK Services Production
Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers)
* The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features) An Antidote Films, Mandalay Vision and Gilbert Films Production
Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
* The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) A See-Saw Films and Bedlam Production
Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
* 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) An Hours Production
Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
* The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) A Columbia Pictures Production
Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
* Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) A Pixar Production
Darla K. Anderson, Producer
* True Grit (Paramount) A Paramount Pictures Production
Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
* Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions) A Winter's Bone Production
Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers
Performance by an actor in a leading role
* Javier Bardem in "Biutiful" (Roadside Attractions)
* Jeff Bridges in "True Grit" (Paramount)
* Jesse Eisenberg in "The Social Network" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
*Colin Firth in "The King's Speech"
* James Franco in "127 Hours" (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
* Christian Bale in "The Fighter" (Paramount)
* John Hawkes in "Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions)
* Jeremy Renner in "The Town" (Warner Bros.)
* Mark Ruffalo in "The Kids Are All Right" (Focus Features)
* Geoffrey Rush in "The King's Speech" (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
* Annette Bening in "The Kids Are All Right" (Focus Features)
* Nicole Kidman in "Rabbit Hole" (Lionsgate)
* Jennifer Lawrence in "Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions)
* Natalie Portman in "Black Swan" (Fox Searchlight)
* Michelle Williams in "Blue Valentine" (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
* Amy Adams in "The Fighter" (Paramount)
* Helena Bonham Carter in "The King's Speech" (The Weinstein Company)
* Melissa Leo in "The Fighter" (Paramount)
* Hailee Steinfeld in "True Grit" (Paramount)
* Jacki Weaver in "Animal Kingdom" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Best animated feature film of the year
* How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
* The Illusionist (Sony Pictures Classics) Sylvain Chomet
* Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Lee Unkrich
Art Direction
* Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney), Robert Stromberg (Production Design), Karen O'Hara (Set Decoration)
* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.), Stuart Craig (Production Design), Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration)
* Inception (Warner Bros.), Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration)/span>
* The King's Speech (Paramount), Eve Stewart (Production Design), Judy Farr (Set Decoration)
* True Grit (Paramount), Jess Gonchor (Production Design), Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration)
Achievement in Cinematography
* Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Matthew Libatique
* Inception (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister
* The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Danny Cohen
* The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeff Cronenweth
* True Grit (Paramount) Roger Deakins
Achievement in costume design
* Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Colleen Atwood
* I Am Love (Magnolia Pictures) Antonella Cannarozzi
* The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Jenny Beavan
* The Tempest (Miramax) Sandy Powell
* True Grit (Paramount) Mary Zophres
Achievement in directing
* Black Swan (Fox Searchlight), Darren Aronofsky
* The Fighter (Paramount), David O. Russell
* The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Tom Hooper
* The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), David Fincher
* True Grit (Paramount), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Best Documentary Feature
* Exit through the Gift Shop (Producers Distribution Agency) Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz A Paranoid Pictures Production
* Gasland Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic A Gasland Production
* Inside Job (Sony Pictures Classics) Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs A Representational Pictures Production
* Restrepo (National Geographic Entertainment) Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger An Outpost Films Production
* Waste Land Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley (Arthouse Films) An Almega Projects Production
WOW. Waiting For 'Superman' was snubbed.
Best documentary short subject
* Killing in the Name Nominees to be determined A Moxie Firecracker Films Production
* Poster Girl Nominees to be determined A Portrayal Films Production
* Strangers No More Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
* Sun Come Up Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger A Sun Come Up Production
* The Warriors of Qiugang Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon A Thomas Lennon Films Production
Achievement in film editing
* Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Andrew Weisblum
* The Fighter (Paramount) Pamela Martin
* The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Tariq Anwar
* 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Jon Harris
* The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Best foreign language film of the year
* Biutiful Mexico
* Dogtooth Greece
* In a Better World Denmark
* Incendies Canada
* Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) Algeria
Achievement in makeup
* Barney's Version (Sony Pictures Classics) Adrien Morot
* The Way Back (Newmarket Films in association with Wrekin Hill Entertainment and Image Entertainment) Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
* The Wolfman (Universal) Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
* How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) John Powell
* Inception (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
* The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Alexandre Desplat
* 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman
* The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
* Coming Home from Country Strong (Sony Pictures Releasing (Screen Gems)) Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
* I See the Light from Tangled (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
* If I Rise from 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
* We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
NOOOOOoooooo. No Cher performance at the Oscars. I hate the music branch so much. Every freaking year. Although they did nominated Social Network's score so points for that.
Best animated short film
* Day & Night (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Teddy Newton
* The Gruffalo A Magic Light Pictures Production Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
* Let's Pollute A Geefwee Boedoe Production Geefwee Boedoe
* The Lost Thing (Nick Batzias for Madman Entertainment) A Passion Pictures Australia Production Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
* Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) A Sacrebleu Production Bastien Dubois
Best live action short film
* The Confession (National Film and Television School) A National Film and Television School Production Tanel Toom
* The Crush (Network Ireland Television) A Purdy Pictures Production Michael Creagh
* God of Love A Luke Matheny Production Luke Matheny
* Na Wewe (Premium Films) A CUT! Production Ivan Goldschmidt
* Wish 143 A Swing and Shift Films/Union Pictures Production Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite
Achievement in sound editing
* Inception (Warner Bros.) Richard King
* Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
* Tron: Legacy (Walt Disney) Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
* True Grit (Paramount) Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
* Unstoppable (20th Century Fox) Mark P. Stoeckinger
Achievement in sound mixing
* Inception (Warner Bros.) Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
* The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
* Salt (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
* The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
* True Grit (Paramount) Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
Achievement in visual effects
* Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.) Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
* Hereafter (Warner Bros.) Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
* Inception (Warner Bros.) Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
* Iron Man 2 (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment, Distributed by Paramount) Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick
Adapted screenplay
* 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
* The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
* Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
* True Grit (Paramount), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
* Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions), Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
Original screenplay
* Another Year (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Mike Leigh
* The Fighter (Paramount), Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
* Inception (Warner Bros.), Written by Christopher Nolan
* The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features), Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
* The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Seidler
Black Swan, Inception, Oscars (10)
Reader Comments (75)
I think with all this Cher worship, Nat can never say anything about Nolan fanboys ever again. But, that's just my opinion. I never like the song nominees, but movies never seem to have good original songs EVER. Even good artists write terrible songs for movies. The Cher song is a spoonful of comeback narrative mixed with saccharine and I'm kind of glad it didn't get the nom.
Nat- I think you meant maybe meant Black Swan in your post instead of Inception?
Mike F -- that i did. thanks. I've fixed it.
Timothy -- oh come on now. I only get to enthuse about Cher once a decade. Nolan fanboys get to freak out and claim he deserved the Nobel Peace prize and every movie award every year or two. :)
Like every year, the nominations leave me with mixed feelings. ECSTATIC over Michelle Williams--I was sweating bullets for her!!! Terribly sad that Ryan Gosling missed---I was hoping for a Bridges snub.
Also really sad that Mila Kunis missed--I thought the Black Swan hype would carry her on (as it turns out, Black Swan HEAVILY underperformed...I guess it is true that the Academy IS quite conservative...although very happy Darren Aronofsky finally got nominated).
And, I really do think that The King's Speech may actually end up winning this thing, which really pisses me off. The sad thing is that I really do like the movie--it's just so typical, unoriginal, boring Oscar-bait material. Cinematography, sound, and film editing nominations???? WTF!?!?
Really pissed that The King's Speech got a film editing nomination over Inception--I thought for sure Inception was a shoo-in for that category. And I'm totally pissed Nolan got snubbed in Best Director--seriously isn't fair!
But otherwise also extremely happy for Nicole Kidman and Jacki Weaver. I'm also happy for John Hawkes, even though it came at the expense of Andrew Garfield, who was totally deserving. I love Jeremy Renner but I have to agree with others that I'm a little baffled by his presence this awards season...it has to be the result of leftover goodwill from The Hurt Locker, because I didn't find anything too groundbreaking or memorable about his performance.
Can't believe no one has said this yet... Annette Bening has to be considered the frontrunner for Best Actress now. Only 5 nominations for Black Swan shows love for that movie is fading. Mark it down now.
BEST PICTURE: 10/10!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAAYAYAYAY! I SCORED PERFECTLY!
BEST DIRECTOR: Ooohh...the Coens made it. Poor Nolan, but I'm happy for Coens!
ACTOR: BARDEM MADE IT! HOLY CRAP! (I'm happy that he made it, but I wish I predicted him!)
ACTRESS: No big suprises, but yay! Williams made it! (Poor Lesley Manville.)
S. ACTOR: YAY! EVERYONE'S GOOD!
S. ACTRESS: HOLY SHIT, JACKI WEAVER MADE IT! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!
O. SCREENPLAY: Yay! Except for The Fighter!
A. SCREENPLAY: MORE YAY! 127 Hours made it! Shame on all of you who underestimated it!
FOREIGN FILM: DOGTOOTH MADE IT!?!?!?!? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! And Biutiful! And Incendies! (Ooooh...Japan got snubbed. That stinks.)
DOCUMENTARY: Gift Shop made it? YAY! WAITING FOR SUPERMAN DIDN'T MAKE IT! HOLY CRAP!!!!!!
ANIMATION: Illusionist made it! WOOOOOOOOOOO!
It's official. This batch > last year, and last year was just great.
The Academy is officially AWESOME.
Nat -- lol. Fair enough, but Cher already got her oscar! Nolan is doing brilliant work and deserves some attention. He always seems to be in that 6th place slot. I think he's going to eventually get it (you can't leave one of the #1 box office moneymakers out of the Oscar scene forever), but only if he goes smaller and less sci-fi (albeit with better results than Insomnia). If he cares about Oscars, expect a Nolan WWII film.
So Salt and Unstoppable are Oscar nominated films,
Shutter Island and The Ghost Writer are not.
What a crazy world we live in!
Oh, and Christopher Nolan really IS the new Rob Reiner! (3 DGA noms = 0 Oscar noms)
It does seem to be clear Nolan isn't making the kinds of films the academy is crazy about(although he was nominated by the writers and his film picked up a total of 8...so I wont pretend they totally hated it), but I also hope he doesn't go Oscar chasing...
I for one am THRILLED with the original song nominees. Love them all.
I'm:
Best Picture 9/10
Best Actress 5/5
Best Actor 4/5
I was always confident in Kidman and the BAFTA snub never really worried me, as a matter of fact I really hated how everyone started to doubt her nomination due to box office results and BAFTA exclusion... WAKE UP!
Couldn't be happier for Jeremy Renner! An amazing performance in a good film! WAY TO GO!
Great for Mark Ruffalo :)
Sad about Gosling and Garfield, both of them were beyond great!
and I'll add this one more time: I toooold you about Manville loooong time ago, even before the NBR
I am sad for Ryan Gosling and laughing very much about another Nolan snub. I'm sure the Inception fanboys are currently plotting the downfall of AMPAS.
But mostly I wonder why I didn't realize that *of course* Oscar would award Clint Eastwood for just that one scene!
The more I think about it, the worse I feel for Julianne Moore. This marks the 2nd year in a row she's been snubbed by AMPAS. Even last year she was more of a sure thing for A Single Man, and it still didn't happen.
Isn't weird that she was the one to bring Annette to KIds R Allright, yet Anette gets the glory? Can't be easy to watch your costar win every other major award while you either lose repeatedly or are altogether left out. I LOVED Benning in the movie, but I do feel Moore had the more difficult role.
Maybe next year? Fingers crossed
If Benning wins at SAG she then is the marginal frontrunner, but if Portman wins then there will be no stopping her on Oscar night I believe. I really love the best actress category!
I kind of wish Hilary Swank had sneaked in for Conviction. That would be a great boost to Bening's chances to win considering all the media headlines she would be drawing for finally overcoming her archival in the 3rd attempt.
Wow Nate -- kudos for 19/20 on the acting noms!
-Feel bad for Gosling. Easily the best performance, male or female of the year. Just my opinion.
-Hailee Steinfeld is considered a "supporting" actress? But Bening is considered lead?
-Very weak field for supporting actor. It's been a weak category with an obvious winner for 4 years now.
127 Hours ended up with more nods than Black Swan. Who would've thought that?
Wow, I'm far from being a Nolan fanboy, but that snub it's not even a snub anymore, it's a stubborn "yes, you're right we don't want to nominate you. If you thought we had changed to 10 BP nominees because of that pesky movie of yours, you were wrong. Don't flatter yourself." Or something similar.
it's also interesting to see how the theories that stated Eisenberg + Gosling + Franco would be impossible in a Best actor list were right. But, if picking up young hot girls as best actresses is usually read as a beauty contest of actresses AMPAS members would like to f***, what's the reason behind not nominating/rewarding actors below 30? Are they some sort of sexual competitors? contenders for the same prey?
Also, about Steinfeld. Isn't category fraud discussion in the end, the best FYI possible? It keeps the name of a contender continually being discussed, instead of going the natural way and being forgotten at some point. Won't some voters vote for her to support actively or to correct actively the fraud without even considering the essential thing, if it's deserving or not? A part of me thinks voters don't think so much about a vote, but then the Nolan snub makes me think that yes, they give it some time to think about it.
iggy -- it's a simple matter of what the heteronormative patriarchal culture considers valuable. I'm not trying to be all intellectual or annoying about it (i know i bring it up a lot) but it's just the truth. Men are valued for wisdom and experience (i.e. being old makes you "distinguished") and women are valued for youth and beauty. it's fuckall annoying but that's the way it is and we see that reflective in things like awards and what people rave about.
fact: if Mattie Ross were Mark Ross and the performance was the same quality level, people would not want the 14 year old boy to win an Oscar.
rick -- i disagree that supporting actor is week. I'd say it's one of the best lineups of the decade in terms of qualify. i mean last year's just SUCKED (and was more typical) But yeah, obvious winner there in Bale.
No, it doesn't sound too intellectual or annoying. I'd like to read more about this kind of stuff when I read about awards, which is silly on my part. I should just expect movies talk.
Anyway, I think you're absolutely right. While I was reading your comment I just remembered that a few days ago at work, a woman who disagreed with me about something to the point of creating a quite tense situation, started treating me as "usted" (vous) but defending the other position, a woman's who's just my age, she referred to her as "that other girl", no even "that other woman". So, trying to keep at a good distance from me dialectically, he inadvertedly was treating me in a more respectful way than the woman she was defending. Not that this anecdote proves anything, but the way we use language can be so revealing sometimes.
I'm a little bit disapointed with some of the Academy's choices...
Christopher Nolan was snubed AGAIN! I think that the Academy doesn't want to recognize him or his talent is bigger than the visual capacities of the Oscar voters! After Memento and The Dark Knight, Nolan was snubed again in the directing category.
I really hoped that Ryan Gosling was going to get a nomination for Blue Valentine, the guy would deserve such a recognition for such a terrific performance!
Does anyone else think that Hailee Steinfeld might win this thing?
Does anyone else think that Sandy Powell, Colleen Atwood, and Jenny Beaven all hit their ninth nominations at the exact same time? And that Atwood will likely continue that odd trend of she and Powell/ exchanging wins each time they are nominated?