The 2011 Oscar nominations were announced a couple of hours ago. Going down through them I didn’t see any real big surprises among them. Here are the Best Picture nominees:
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winters Bone
I will post reviews for as many of these movies as I can prior to the Oscar telecast on February 27th. At this point I have seen five of the ten.
Click “Read more” for a complete list of the nominees, what got the most nominations, and some other things of interest.
Most nominations:
The King’s Speech – 12
True Grit – 10
The Social Network – 8
Inception – 8
The Fighter – 7
127 Hours – 6
Black Swan – 5
Toy Story 3 – 5
The Kids Are All Right – 4
Winter’s Bone – 4
Mainstream movies other than Inception and Toy Story 3 with nominations:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 – 2 (Art Direction, Visual Effects)
How to Train Your Dragon – 2 (Animated Picture, Original Score)
Country Strong – 1 (Original Song)
Iron Man 2 – 1 (Visual Effects)
Salt – 1 (Sound Mixing)
Tangled – 1 (Original Song)
Tron: Legacy – 1 (Sound Editing)
Unstoppable – 1 (Sound Editing)
Best Animated, Foreign Language, or Documentary nominees with any other nominations:
Toy Story 3 – 5 (Picture, Animated Picture, Sound Editing, Adapted Screenplay, Song)
How to Train Your Dragon – 2 (Animated Picture, Original Score)
Biutiful – 2 (Foreign Language Film, Best Actor for Javier Bardem)
Movies Nominated Only for Acting:
Animal Kingdom (Jacki Weaver – Best Supporting Actress)
Blue Valentine (Michelle Williams – Best Actress)
Blue Valentine (Michelle Williams – Best Actress)
Rabbit Hole (Nicole Kidman – Best Actress)
The Town (Jeremy Renner – Best Supporting Actor)
No Movie was nominated in all five major categories:
- True Grit should have been, but the studio campaigned to put Hailee Steinfeld in the Best Supporting Actress category, even though she had more screen time in the film than anyone else. They figured she would have a better chance of winning that way. It’s also the young actor/actress prejudice I mentioned in my Whale Rider post. Steinfeld was only thirteen when she made the film.
- The King’s Speech and The Social Network missed in the Best Actress category.
Other observations:
- Even though Inception got eight nominations, they were almost all in the minor categories. “Minor” means those categories where the nominees have spent just as many years and decades as the actors/actresses perfecting their craft, but which the general movie-watching populace knows little about.
- Black Swan was the only Best Picture nominee not nominated for Best Screenplay.
- Despite it getting seven nominations, including acting nominations for the three other key people in the film, the star of The Fighter, Mark Wahlberg, did not get nominated for Best Actor.
- Despite it getting ten nominations, including acting nominations for the two other key people in the film, Matt Damon did not get nominated for Best Supporting Actor in True Grit.
- All three Golden Globe winning films (Drama – The Social Network, Comedy – The Kids Are All Right, Animated – Toy Story 3) received Best Picture Oscar nominations. The Golden Globe foreign language film winner, In a Better World, was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
- Of the six different winners of Golden Globes for acting, only Paul Giamatti did not get an Oscar nomination. His movie, Barney’s Version, did get a nomination for Best Makeup, though.
Here is the complete list of nominations in all twenty-four categories. I will probably list my picks for all of them just prior to the Oscars:
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 Animated Picture
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3
Best Foreign Language Picture
Biutiful (from Mexico
Dogtooth (from Greece
In a Better World (from Denmark
Incendies (from Canada
Outside the Law (from Algeria
Best Documentary
Exit through the Gift Shop
Gasland
Inside Job
Restrepo
Best Actor
Javier Bardem (in Biutiful)
Jeff Bridges (in True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (in The Social Network)
Colin Firth (in The King’s Speech)
James Franco (in 127 Hours)
Best Actress
Annette Bening (in The Kids Are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (in Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (in Winter’s Bone)
Natalie Portman (in Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (in Blue Valentine)
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale (in The Fighter)
John Hawkes (in Winter’s Bone)
Jeremy Renner (in The Town)
Mark Ruffalo (in The Kids Are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (in The King’s Speech)
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams (in The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (in The King’s Speech)
Melissa Leo (in The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (in True Grit)
Jacki Weaver (in Animal Kingdom)
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky (for Black Swan)
Joel and Ethan Coen (for True Grit)
David Fincher (for The Social Network)
Tom Hooper (for The King’s Speech)
David O. Russell (for The Fighter)
Best Original Screenplay
Another Year
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
Best Adapted Screenplay
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
Best 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 Original Score
How to Train Your Dragon
Inception
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Best Cinematography
Black Swan
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
True Grit
Best Editing
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Best Art Direction
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
The King’s Speech
True Grit
Best Costumes
I Am Love
The King’s Speech
The Tempest
True Grit
Best Makeup
Barney’s Version
The Way Back
The Wolfman
Best Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2
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 Animated Short
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let’s Pollute
The Lost Thing
Best Documentary Short
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang
Best Live Action Short
The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143
The snub on Mark Wahlberg is getting some press. Have you seen the movie? Agree, disagree?
ReplyDelete@Paul - The Fighter is one of the five movies I have not seen yet. It's not unusual for a nominated movie to not have its key actor/actress also nominated, but when three other people in the movie get acting nominations it points the spotlight on it more. It's not like there should be this mass hatred for Wahlberg, either; they nominated him a few years ago for his work in The Departed. The last few years the Academy has seemed to nominate at least one foreign actor/actress and it looks like Javier Bardem pushed Wahlberg aside this year. Ultimately Colin Firth is pretty much a lock anyway.
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