The Academy Awards!

Ok, so I always love predicting the winners of the Academy Awards every year, and this year is no exception! This has been a fairly good year for movies-- a lot better than last year, anyway, which was pretty unmemorable.


So, here is a list of nominees from moviephone.com, with my picks for winner highlighted. Some of them are guesses-- Best Supporting Actress, for example. From what I've seen, and the reviews I've read, it really seems to be a toss-up. But for now, I'll go with Steinfeld. Also, I really am not sure about Best Original Song. I love Randy Newman, and his song for Toy Story 3, but he has been nominated for an almost record number of times without winning, and most of his songs are very similar.

For Foreign Language Film, "In A Better World" seems to be another high choice among judges, but I'm still going to go with Biutiful, because it really seems to be a popular favorite, and the Best Actor nomination can't hurt.

Finally, for Best Original Score (yayy!), I'm sticking with my buddy Desplat. It's really about time that he won his much-deserved Academy Award, and I've been with him through good times (Benjamin Button, which won several awards the year it was released, excluding the Oscar), difficult times (The Queen, which is my favorite score of Desplat's, nominated for an Oscar the year that the stupid score to Babel won), and silly times (yes, he did in fact write a score for one of the Twilight movies. Then again, so did Howard Shore. I like to think they felt sorry for poor, poor quality of the movies and wanted to help out a little with that). Anyway, it's time for him to finally win one. :)

(btw, sorry for the bad html. I did delete a few categories that I don't really know anything about, and that plus highlighting the "winner" names kind of messed with everything. For Best Animated Short, which I did not mean to delete, I am naturally going to choose Night and Day.)

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

Darren Aronofsky

'Black Swan'

David O. Russell

'The Fighter'

Tom Hooper

'The King's Speech'

David Fincher

'The Social Network'

Joel and Ethan Coen

'True Grit'

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 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'

Mark Ruffalo

'The Kids Are All Right'

Geoffrey Rush

'The King's Speech'

Best Animated Feature Film

'How to Train Your Dragon'

'Illusionist'

'Toy Story 3'

Best Foreign Language Film

'Biutiful'

Mexico

'Dogtooth'

Greece

'In a Better World'

Denmark

'Incendies'

Canada

'Outside the law'

Algeria

Best Original Screenplay

Mike Leigh

'Another Year'

Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy; Eric Johnson

'The Fighter'

Christopher Nolan

'Inception'

Lisa Cholodenko; Stuart Blumberg

'The Kids Are All Right'

David Seidler

'The King's Speech'

Best Adapted Screenplay

Danny Boyle; Simon Beaufoy

'127 Hours'

Aaron Sorkin

'The Social Network'

John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton; Lee Unkrich

'Toy Story 3'

Joel Coen; Ethan Coen

'True Grit'

Debra Granik; Anne Rosellini

'Winter's Bone'

Best Original Song

'Coming Home' from 'Country Strong'

Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey

'I See the Light' from 'Tangled'

Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater

'If I Rise' from '127 Hours'

Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong

'We Belong Together' from 'Toy Story 3'

Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

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

Best Film Editing

'Black Swan'

Andrew Weisblum

'The Fighter'

Pamela Martin

'The King's Speech'

Tariq Anwar

'127 Hours'

Jon Harris

'The Social Network'

Angus Wall; Kirk Baxter

Best Visual Effects

'Alice in Wonderland'

Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas; Sean Phillips

'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1'

Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz; Nicolas Aithadi

'Hereafter'

Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski; Joe Farrell

'Inception'

Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley; Peter Bebb

'Iron Man 2'

Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright; Daniel Sudick

Best Cinematography

'Black Swan'

Matthew Libatique

'Inception'

Wally Pfister

'The King's Speech'

Danny Cohen

'The Social Network'

Jeff Cronenweth

'True Grit'

Roger Deakins

Best Sound Mixing

'Inception'

Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo; Ed Novick

'The King's Speech'

Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen; John Midgley

'Salt'

Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan; William Sarokin

'The Social Network'

Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick; Mark Weingarten

'True Grit'

Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff; Peter F. Kurland

Best Sound Editing

'Inception'

Richard King

'Toy Story 3'

Tom Myers; Michael Silvers

'Tron: Legacy'

Gwendolyn Yates Whittle; Addison Teague

'True Grit'

Skip Lievsay; Craig Berkey

'Unstoppable'

Mark P. Stoeckinger

Best Costume Design

'Alice in Wonderland'

Colleen Atwood

'I Am Love'

Antonella Cannarozzi

'The King's Speech'

Jenny Beavan

'The Tempest'

Sandy Powell

'True Grit'

Mary Zophres

Best Art Direction

'Alice in Wonderland'

Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara

'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I'

Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan

'Inception'

Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat

'The King's Speech'

Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr

'True Grit'

Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

Best Makeup

'Barney's Version'

Adrien Morot

'The Way Back'

Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk; Yolanda Toussieng

'The Wolfman'

Rick Baker; Dave Elsey