List of key Oscar nominees

A list of key Oscar nominees announced on Tuesday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

A list of key Oscar nominees announced on Tuesday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Winners of the 83rd annual Academy Awards will be revealed in Hollywood on February 27th.

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 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 Director

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

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"

Animated Film

"How to Train Your Dragon"
"The Illusionist"
"Toy Story 3"

Short Film (Live Action)

"The Confession" Tanel Toom
"The Crush" Michael Creagh
"God of Love" Luke Matheny
"Na Wewe"Ivan Goldschmidt
"Wish 143" Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite


Foreign Film


"Biutiful" (Mexico)
"Dogtooth" (Greece)
"In a Better World" (Denmark)
"Incendies" (Canada)
"Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)" (Algeria)

Original Screenplay

Mike Leigh "Another Year"
Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (screenplay); Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (story)
"The Fighter"
Christopher Nolan "Inception"
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg "The Kids Are All Right"
David Seidler "The King's Speech"

Adapted Screenplay

Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy "127 Hours"
Aaron Sorkin "The Social Network"
Michael Arndt (screenplay); John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (story) "Toy Story 3"
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen "True Grit"
Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini "Winter's Bone"

Art Direction

Robert Stromberg (production design) and Karen O'Hara (set decoration) "Alice in Wonderland"
Stuart Craig (production design) and Stephenie McMillan (set decoration) "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1"
Guy Hendrix Dyas (production design) and Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (set decoration) "Inception"
Eve Stewart (production design) and Judy Farr (set decoration) "The King's Speech"
Jess Gonchor (production design) and Nancy Haigh (set decoration) "True Grit"

Cinematography

Matthew Libatique "Black Swan"
Wally Pfister "Inception"
Danny Cohen "The King's Speech"
Jeff Cronenweth "The Social Network"
Roger Deakins "True Grit"

Costume Design

Colleen Atwood "Alice in Wonderland"
Antonella Cannarozzi "I Am Love"
Jenny Beavan "The King's Speech"
Sandy Powell "The Tempest"
Mary Zophres "True Grit"

Documentary Feature

Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz "Exit through the Gift Shop"
Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic "Gasland"
Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs "Inside Job"
Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger "Restrepo"
Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley "Waste Land"

Editing

Andrew Weisblum "Black Swan"
Pamela Martin "The Fighter"
Tariq Anwar "The King's Speech"
Jon Harris "127 Hours"
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter "The Social Network"

Original Score

John Powell "How to Train Your Dragon"
Hans Zimmer "Inception"
Alexandre Desplat "The King's Speech"
A.R. Rahman "127 Hours"
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross "The Social Network"

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

Visual Effects

Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips "Alice in Wonderland"
Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1"
Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell "Hereafter"
Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb "Inception"
Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick "Iron Man 2"