Monday, January 24, 2011

Oscar nominations predictions

The time has come. 8:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, we find out if we've actually been reading this race correctly, if the Academy is going to throw a "Reader"-sized curveball into the proceedings. Here are my picks in every category.


Best Picture

Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
The Town
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

Alternates: 127 Hours; Another Year

Best Director

Darren Aronofsky for Black Sawn
David Fincher for The Social Network
Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech
Christopher Nolan for Inception
David O. Russell for The Fighter

Alternate: Joel and Ethan Coen for True Grit

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges for True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network
Colin Firth for The King’s Speech
James Franco for 127 Hours
Mark Wahlberg for The Fighter

Alternate: Ryan Gosling for Blue Valentine

Best Actress

Annete Bening for The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman for Black Swan
Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine

Alternate: Lesley Manville for Another Year

Best Supporting Actor

Christian Bale for The Fighter
Andrew Garfield for The Social Network
Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right
Jeremy Renner for The Town
Geoffrey Rush for The King’s Speech

Alternate: Michael Douglas for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams for The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter for The King’s Speech
Mila Kunis for Black Swan
Melissa Leo for The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit

Alternate: Jacki Weaver for Animal Kingdom

Best Original Screenplay

Black Swan, Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John J. McLaughlin
The Fighter, Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
Inception, Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
The King’s Speech, David Seidler

Alternate: Another Year, Mike Leigh

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski and Robert Harris
The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3, Michael Arndt
True Grit, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik and Anne Rosselini

Alternate: 127 Hours, Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle

Best Animated Film

How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3

Alternate: Despicable Me

Best Foreign Language

Biutiful
Confessions
Dogtooth
In a Better World
Life, Above All

Alternate: Incendies

Best Documentary Feature

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waiting for Superman

Alternate: Exit Through the Gift Shop

Best Art Direction

Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Inception
The King’s Speech
True Grit

Alternate: Shutter Island

Best Cinematography

Black Swan
Inception
Shutter Island
The Social Network
True Grit

Alternate: 127 Hours

Best Costume Design

Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Get Low
The King’s Speech
True Grit

Alternate: Robin Hood

Best Film Editing

Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network

Alternate: Shutter Island

Best Original Score

Alice in Wonderland
How to Train Your Dragon
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network

Alternate: 127 Hours

Best Original Song

If I Rise from 127 Hours
You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me Yet from Burlesque
Shine from Waiting for Superman
I See the Light from Tangled
We Belong Together from Toy Story 3

Best Sound Mixing

Black Swan
Inception
The King’s Speech
Toy Story 3
True Grit

Alternate: How to Train Your Dragon

Best Sound Editing

How to Train Your Dragon
Inception
Iron Man 2
Toy Story 3
True Grit

Best Makeup

Alice in Wonderland
True Grit
The Wolfman

Alternate: The Fighter

Best Visual Effects

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
TRON: Legacy

Alternate: Alice in Wonderland

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