After all the speculation, we finally have our nominees! The King’s Speech lead the nominations with twelve, with The Social Network also doing pretty darn good. The nominations are below, along with our suggestions of who was snubbed in the major categories. We’ll have some more insightful predictions to share before the February 27 ceremony.
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
Who Was Snubbed: Blue Valentine. One of the most heartwrenchingly good films I saw all year, the movie was repeatedly snubbed in all the earlier award shows and ceremonies, so it’s lack of nom
Best Actor
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
Who Was Snubbed: Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine. It was good to see his co-star get a nomination for Best Actress, but Gosling delivered the best performance of his career this year. The question though, of course, is who would you swap out in a tight category.
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
Who Was Snubbed: Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right. Annette Bening won the Globe, and there were of course limited slots, but Moore added so much humor and warmth to the film, and is the only glaring omission in this category.
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
Who Was Snubbed: Andrew Garfield, The Social Network. It was a breakout year for Garfield, but apparently the Academy isn’t ready to extend an invitation to their club just yet. This is another packed category though, so it’s not a huge stretch to see why he was left out.
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
Who Was Snubbed: Leslie Manville, Another Year. You want to see one of the best simultaneously funny and heartbreaking performances of the year, check out Ms. Manville’s. Easily my favorite not to be nominated.
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Joel and Ethan Coen, True Grit
David Fincher, The Social Network
Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
David O. Russell, The Fighter
Who Was Snubbed: Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine. The first time director was going to get snubbed no matter what, but his film is among the most overlooked of the year.
Best Original Screenplay
Another Year
The Fighter
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Kids Are All Right
Best Adapted Screenplay
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
Best Foreign Film
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) (Algeria)
Incendies (Canada)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Best Animated Film
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3
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
Best Cinematography
Black Swan
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
True Grit
Sound Editing
Inception
Toy Story 3
Tron: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable
Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
The King’s Speech
True Grit
Costume Design
Alice in Wonderland
I Am Love
The King’s Speech
The Tempest
True Grit
Film Editing
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Makeup
Barney’s Version
The Way Back
The Wolfman
Music (Original Score)
How to Train Your Dragon
Inception
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
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
Short Film (Animated)
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let’s Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)
Short Film (Live Action)
The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143d
It’s that magic time of year again where the Golden Globe nominations come out and get us excited for the Oscar race, and remind us of all that good TV we’ve been watching. The big guns movie wise got a plethora of nods in the categories that mattered, though True Grit was shut out, perhaps because no one has seen it yet, though it hasn’t stopped some other awards. Thanks to the odd Musical or Comedy category at the Globes, we get a nomination for The Tourist, the “thriller” that got nearly universal critical scorn which made nothing at the box office. Boy, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association sure are tastemakers! The TV nominations are also fairly predictable, but the results should be interesting. Ricky Gervais will host the ceremony January 16. The nominations:
As we inch closer and closer to movie awards season, and on the heels of the Independent Spirit Awards, the National Board of Review announced its annual list of winners, and this year, it was dominated by The Social Network. The David Fincher film grabbed awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor for Jesse Eisenberg, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The National Board of Review is generally the first measuring stick for Oscar success, and it’s the second year in a row they’ve given the award to a film making a statement on our generation (last year’s winner, Up in the Air focused on the recession). Other notable winners include Best Actress to Leslie Manville for her terrific performance in Another Year, and Best Supporting Actor to Christian Bale for The Fighter. Toy Story 3 was an obvious winner for Best Animated Film, and Of Gods and Men took the award for Best Foreign Film. See the complete list of winners below.
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