83rd Annual Academy Awards

Winners to be announced Sunday, February 27th. My predictions will be in bold, and my personal picks will have asterisks after them.

Best Picture:
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
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 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)

Best Director:
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (True Grit)
David Fincher (The Social Network)*
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
David O. Russell (The Fighter)

Best Original Screenplay:
Another Year (Mike Leigh)
The Fighter (Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)*
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg)
The King's Speech (David Seidler)

Best Adapted Screenplay:
127 Hours (Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy)
The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)*
Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
True Grit (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini

Best Animated Film:
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3*

Best Foreign Film:
Biutiful
Dogtooth*
In a Better World
Incendies
Outside the Law

Best Cinematography:
Black Swan*
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network
True Grit

Best Editing:
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King's Speech
The Social Network*

Best Art Direction:
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Inception*
The King's Speech
True Grit

Best Costume Design:
Alice in Wonderland
I Am Love
The King's Speech
The Tempest
True Grit*

Best Makeup:
Barney's Version
The Way Back*
The Wolfman

Best Original Score:
127 Hours (A.R. Rahman)
How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
Inception (Hans Zimmer)*
The King's Speech (Alexandre Desplat)
The Social Network (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross)

Best Sound Mixing:
Inception*
The King's Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit

Best Sound Editing:
Inception*
Toy Story 3
TRON: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable

Best Visual Effects:
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Hereafter
Inception*
Iron Man 2

Best Documentary:
Exit Through the Gift Shop*
GasLand
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waste Land

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