2011 Academy Awards Results

Coming away the big winner at the 83rd Academy Awards was The King’s Speech which led the way with four Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay. In the role that will be perceived as runner-up, The Social Network pulled off three victories for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score, and Best Film Editing.

Despite not winning the big categories and even being snubbed in others (Christopher Nolan) Inception tied for the most Oscars as the film won Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing and Mixing, and Best Visual Effects. The Fighter came away with both supporting acting categories as expected for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo.

Overall it was a long and pretty miserable broadcast that brought with it predictable results. There was only one true surprise that came as Tom Hopper won Director over David Fincher.

*****Winners

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

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

Best Actress
*****Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Annette Benning – The Kids Are All Right
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone
Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine
Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole

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 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 Supporting Actor
*****Christian Bale – The Fighter
John Hawkes – Winter’s Bone
Jeremy Renner – The Town
Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech
Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right

Best Animated Film
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 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 Subject)
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

Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
*****In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Outside the Law (Algeria)

Best Makeup
Barney’s Version
The Way Back
*****The Wolfman

Best Music (Original Score)
How to Train Your Dragon
Inception
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
*****The Social Network

Best Music (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

Best Short Film (Animated)
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let’s Pollute
*****The Lost Thing
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)

Best Short Film (Live Action)
The Confession
The Crush
*****God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143

Best Sound Editing
*****Inception
Toy Story 3
Tron: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable

Best Sound Mixing
*****Inception
The King’s Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit

Best Visual Effects
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Hereafter
*****Inception
Iron Man 2

Best Adapted Screenplay
127 Hours
*****The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

Best Original Screenplay
Another Year
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
*****The King’s Speech