Tuesday, March 1, 2011

All About The 83rd Annual Academy Award

The Oscar Awards mark the climax of the Hollywood movie calendar, and year after year,  movie enthusiasts wait with bated breath for the announcement of the nominees and winners of the prestigious Academy Awards. The 2011 edition of the Oscar Awards held last week saturaday, 27th February at The Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles. This year The King’s Speech was the overall winner of awards with twelve nominations and four big wins, including Best Picture. Sci-fi thriller Inception starring Leonardo Di Caprio also led the Oscar pack with four awards including Best Visual Effects, and the hugely popular The Social Network (also known as ‘The Facebook Movie’) garnered three awards, one of which was Best Original Score.  Colin Firth and Natalie Portman both went home with the most coveted awards of the night for their leading roles in The King’s Speech and Black Swan respectively. Here is the full list of winners at the 83rd Academy Awards:
Best Picture – “The King’s Speech” Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
Actor in a Leading Role – Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech”
Actor in a Supporting Role – Christian Bale in “The Fighter”
Actress in a Leading Role – Natalie Portman in “Black Swan”
Actress in a Supporting Role – Melissa Leo in “The Fighter”
Animated Feature Film – “Toy Story 3” Lee Unkrich
Art Direction – “Alice in Wonderland” Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
Cinematography – “Inception” Wally Pfister
Costume Design – “Alice in Wonderland” Colleen Atwood
Director – “The King’s Speech” Tom Hooper
Documentary (Feature) – “Inside Job” Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Documentary (Short Subject) – “Strangers No More” Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Film Editing – “The Social Network” Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Foreign Language Film – “In a Better World” Denmark
Makeup – “The Wolfman” Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
Music (Original Score) – “The Social Network” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Music (Original Song) – “We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3″ Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Short Film (Animated) – “The Lost Thing” Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Short Film (Live Action) – “God of Love” Luke Matheny
Sound Editing – “Inception” Richard King
Sound Mixing – “Inception” Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
Visual Effects – “Inception” Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Adapted Screenplay – “The Social Network” Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Original Screenplay – “The King’s Speech” Screenplay by David Seidler

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