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The Nominees Are:
first, the sexy categories-

Best Picture:
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone

Best Director:
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, True Grit
David Fincher, The Social Network
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
David O. Russell, The Fighter

Best Actor:
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours

Best Actress:
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

Best Supporting Actor:
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

Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle, 127 Hours
Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network
Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich, Toy Story 3
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, True Grit
Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, Winter's Bone

Best Original Screenplay:
Mike Leigh, Another Year
Keith Dorrington, Eric Johnson, Scott Silver, and Paul Tamasy, The Fighter
Christopher Nolan, Inception
Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right
David Seidler, The King's Speech

Best Foreign Language Film:
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
In A Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Hors La Loi (Outside The Law) (Algeria)

Best Animated Feature:
How To Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3

====== Technical categories

Art direction

"Alice in Wonderland"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I"
"Inception"
"The King's Speech"
"True Grit"

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 Feature

"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"

Film editing

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

Makeup

“Barney's Version”
“The Way Back”
“The Wolfman”

Sound mixing

“Inception”
“The King's Speech”
“Salt”
“The Social Network”
“True Grit”

Original score

“How to Train Your Dragon”
“Inception”
“The King's Speech”
“127 Hours”
“The Social Network”

Visual effects

“Alice in Wonderland”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1”
“Hereafter”
“Inception”
“Iron Man 2”

Original song

“Coming Home” from “Country Strong”
“I See the Light” from “Tangled”
“If I Rise” from “127 Hours”
“We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3"

Whooooo! Incendies!

Another actionless British Costume Drama gets a shit-ton of nominations...

No surprises there. Most of the nominees were blatant Oscar bait, anyway (Toy Story 3, True Grit and Social Network aside), as usual.

I'd LOVE to see Exit Through the Gift Shop win, just to see if Bansky shows up. Because that alone would be worth the price of admission.

sixpackshaker said:

Another actionless British Costume Drama gets a shit-ton of nominations...

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Are you still sore about LotR sweeping the oscars that one year?

I certainly am. LotR should never have won best picture.

I need to do an Oscar-rental run, I've seen very few of these films.

How is Toy Story 3 an adapted Screenplay? was there a novel version I missed?

I feel bad for How I Trained Your Dragon. It was a great movie in a year where Pixar made a movie.

BOO! No Daft Punk.

I'm honestly not sure who I'm pulling for to win Best Picture. Of course, I've only seen four of the nominees, and I'm sort of leaning toward The Social Network out of those I've seen (even though I wasn't quite as wowed as I'd hoped to be ...). I guess I should really work to see the others before Oscar time.

I'm mildly surprised Eisenberg is up for Best Actor ... I imagine Firth will get it.

ThatNickGuy said:

I'd LOVE to see Exit Through the Gift Shop win, just to see if Bansky shows up. Because that alone would be worth the price of admission.

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Hells yeah! If there's one acceptance speech I'd want to see almost as much as Daft Punk, that would be it.
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Covar said:

How is Toy Story 3 an adapted Screenplay? was there a novel version I missed?

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Apparently it's considered adapted because it's a sequel ...

I'm disappointed that Scott Pilgrim vs. the World didn't at least get a nomination for visual effects.

Oh fuck, I forgot about SP. Shit, yo, that should-a got editing or something!

I agree. Also disappointed to see Daft Punk (Tron: Legacy) and Alexandre Desplat (The Ghost Writer) get overlooked for Original Score.

127 Hours should have been nominated for Cinematography and Sound Mixing. I'd like to see it at least win Best Adapted Screenplay.

It's hard not to pick the King's Speech for every category it's been nominate for because it was fantastic. I would certainly like to see it win Picture, Director, and Score. Colin Firth is my pick for Best Actor by a narrow margin over James Franco.I would, however, like to see Amy Adams win Best Supporting Actress over Helena Bonham Carter. It's a tossup between Christian Bale and Geoffrey Rush for Best Supporting Actor. They were both excellent and I would be happy seeing the award go to either of them.

I'd like to see Inception take Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Screenplay.

That's about all the informed picks I can make at this point. I thought I'd been better about seeing all the Oscar hopefuls as they came out but there are several I apparently missed.

I still need to see 127 Hours, King's Speech, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, and The Fighter for the normal categories.

I'd like to see Exit Through the Gift Shop and Restrepo (both are on Netflix Instant Watch).

I cannot stress enough that people should check out Dogtooth on Netflix Instant Watch as well. I'm SHOCKED the Academy nominated it, they usually play so safe with best foreign film and nominate something with Nazis. But this movie is insane in the best ways and unlike anything you've seen all year, I can guarantee. It's so good. Were I running the Oscars, I would straight up nominate it for Best Picture.

I'm shocked that you haven't seen any of those.