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Tonight’s the night! You find out if you will take top prize in your office pool, and, you know, you’ll get to see which fantastic films are most celebrated with little naked statues of gold.
If you love the Oscars, hate them, or pretend to hate them while sitting riveted to the broadcast, one thing is clear: tonight is a night to celebrate the best in filmmaking. We love movies. So do you. Tonight we can all celebrate our favorites of 2010 even if they don’t win and even if they weren’t nominated.
As for those in the running, they are all beautiful works of art, they’re all winners tonight, they went out on the field and gave 110%…and…yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let’s get to the winning, right?
And the Oscar goes to…
BEST PICTURE
127 HOURS (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
BLACK SWAN (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
INCEPTION (Warner Bros Pictures)
THE FIGHTER (Relativity Media/Paramount Pictures)
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (Focus Features)
THE KING’S SPEECH (The Weinstein Co)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (Sony Pictures)
TOY STORY 3 (Pixar/Walt Disney Studios)
TRUE GRIT (Paramount Pictures)
WINTER’S BONE (Roadside Attractions)
BEST ACTOR
JEFF BRIDGES – TRUE GRIT
JAVIER BARDEM – BIUTIFUL
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 ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
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 ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
AMY ADAMS – THE FIGHTER
HELENA BONHAM CARTER – THE KING’S SPEECH
MELISSA LEO – THE FIGHTER
HAILEE STEINFELD – TRUE GRIT
JACKIE WEAVER – ANIMAL KINGDOM
BEST ANIMATED PICTURE
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
TOY STORY 3
THE ILLUSIONIST
BEST DIRECTOR
DARREN ARONOFSKY – BLACK SWAN
DAVID FINCHER – THE SOCIAL NETWORK
TOM HOOPER – THE KING’S SPEECH
JOEL AND ETHAN COEN – TRUE GRIT
DAVID O. RUSSELL – THE FIGHTER
ART DIRECTION
ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Robert Stromberg, Karen O’hara
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1, Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
INCEPTION, Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
THE KING’S SPEECH, Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
TRUE GRIT, Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
BLACK SWAN, Matthew Libatique
INCEPTION, Wally Pfister
THE KING’S SPEECH, Danny Cohen
THE SOCIAL NETWORK, Jeff Cronenweth
TRUE GRIT, Roger Deakins
ACHIEVEMENT IN 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 DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP, Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz, A Paranoid Pictures Production
GASLAND, Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic, A Gasland Production
INSIDE JOB, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs, A Representational Pictures Production
RESTREPO, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, An Outpost Films Production
WASTE LAND, Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley, An Almega Projects Production
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
KILLING IN THE NAME, A Moxie Firecracker Films Production
POSTER GIRL, A Portrayal Films Production
STRANGERS NO MORE, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
SUN COME UP, Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger, A Sun Come Up Production
THE WARRIORS OF QIUGANG, Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon, A Thomas Lennon Films Production
ACHIEVEMENT IN 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 and Kirk Baxter
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BIUTIFUL, Mexico
DOGTOOTH, Greece
IN A BETTER WORLD, Denmark
INCENDIES, Canada
OUTSIDE THE LAW, Algeria
ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
BARNEY’S VERSION, Adrien Morot
THE WAY BACK, Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
THE WOLFMAN, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
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 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 ANIMATED SHORT FILM
DAY & NIGHT, A Pixar Animation Studios Production, Teddy Newton
THE GRUFFALO, A Magic Light Pictures Production, Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
LET’S POLLUTE, A Geefwee Boedoe Production, Geefwee Boedoe
THE LOST THING, A Passion Pictures Australia Production, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
MADAGASCAR, A JOURNEY DIARY, A Sacrebleu Production, Bastien Dubois
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
THE CONFESSION, A National Film and Television School Production, Tanel Toom
THE CRUSH, A Purdy Pictures Production, Michael Creagh
GOD OF LOVE, A Luke Matheny Production, Luke Matheny
NA WEWE, A CUT! Production, Ivan Goldschmidt
WISH 143, A Swing and Shift Films/Union Pictures Production, Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
INCEPTION, Richard King
TOY STORY 3, Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
TRON: LEGACY, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
TRUE GRIT, Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
UNSTOPPABLE, Mark P. Stoeckinger
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
INCEPTION, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
THE KING’S SPEECH, Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
SALT, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
THE SOCIAL NETWORK, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
TRUE GRIT, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1, Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
HEREAFTER, Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
INCEPTION, Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
IRON MAN 2, Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 HOURS, Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
THE SOCIAL NETWORK, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
TOY STORY 3, Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
TRUE GRIT, Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
WINTER’S BONE, Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
ANOTHER YEAR, Written by Mike Leigh
THE FIGHTER, Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
INCEPTION, Written by Christopher Nolan
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
THE KING’S SPEECH, Screenplay by David Seidler
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Francis Ford Coppola
Jean-Luc Godard
Eli Wallach
Kevin Brownlow
