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

Snub: Maybe The Town? I picked nine out of 10 in early October, so there wasn’t much drama in this category, though I would have liked to see Another Year get in.

Favorite: The Social Network, and then King’s Speech. In third place? The Fighter. There probably isn’t a film that can win out of the other seven.

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Best Director

Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)

David O. Russell (The Fighter

Joel and Ethan Coen (True Grit)

David Fincher (The Social Network)

Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)

Snub: No Christopher Nolan? Sad times.

Favorite: David Fincher has it locked.

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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)

Snub: Lesley Manville from Another Year was completely robbed.

Favorite: Bening in a landslide.

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Actor in a Leading Role

Javier Bardem (Biutiful)

Jeff Brides (True Grit

Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)

Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)

James Franco (127 Hours)

Snub: No snubs, unless you had Gosling in this category.

Favorite: Colin Firth will win.

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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)

Favorite: After the Globes, Melissa Leo has the momentum.

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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)

Favorite: This is Bale’s category to lose.

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Best Animated Feature

How to Train Your Dragon

The Illusionist

Toy Story 3

Snub: Despicable Me deserved some love!

Favorite: Toy Story 3.

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Best Adapted Screenplay

127 Hours (Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle)

The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)

Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)

True Grit (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)

Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini)

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Best Original Screenplay

Another Year (Mike Leigh)

The Fighter (Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson)

Inception (Christopher Nolan)

The Kids are All Right (Stuart Blumberg, Lisa Cholodenko)

The King’s Speech (David Seidler)

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Best Foreign Language Film

Biutiful (Mexico)

Dogtooth (Greece)

In a Better World (Denmark)

Incendies (Canada)

Outside the Law (Algeria)

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Best Animated Short Film

Day & Night

The Gruffalo

Let’s Pollute

The Lost Thing

Madagascar, carnet de voyage

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Best Art Direction

Alice in Wonderland (Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One (Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan)

Inception (Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat)

The King’s Speech (Eve Stewart, Judy Farr)

True Grit (Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh)

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Best Cinematography

Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)

The King’s Speech (Danny Cohen)

Inception (Wally Pfister)

The Social Network (Jeff Cronenweth)

True Grit (Roger Deakins)

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Best Costume Design

Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)

I Am Love (Antonella Cannarozzi)

The King’s Speech (Jenny Beaven)

The Tempest (Sandy Powell)

True Grit (Mary Zophres)

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Best Documentary Feature

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Gasland

Inside Job

Restrepo

Waste Land

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Best Documentary Short Subject

Killing in the Name

Poster Girl

Strangers No More

Sun Come Up

The Warriors of Qiugang

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Best Film Editing

Black Swan (Andrew Weisblum)

The Fighter (Pamela Martin)

The King’s Speech (Tariq Anwar)

127 Hours (Jon Harris)

The Social Network (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall)

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Best Live Action Short Film

The Confession

The Crush

God of Love A

Na Wewe

Wish 143

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Best Makeup

Barney’s Version

The Wolfman

The Way Back

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Best 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)

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Best Original Song

“Coming Home” from Country Strong

“If I Rise” from 127 Hours

“I See the Light” from Tangled

“We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3

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Best Sound Editing

Inception

Toy Story 3

Tron: Legacy

True Grit

Unstoppable

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Best Sound Mixing

Inception

The King’s Speech

Salt

The Social Network

True Grit

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Best Visual Effects

Alice in Wonderland

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Hereafter

Inception

Iron Man 2

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