Keeping Score at the Oscars

Many of you have taken our reader poll on the Academy Awards: as you watch the Oscar broadcast this evening (or not), here are the nominations and the results, with links to our reviews of the major contenders. The winner of the reader poll is listed in bold, and our pick is marked with our eye image.

Best Achievement in Art Direction

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1: Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
  
• Inception: Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Douglas A. Mowat
  
• The King's Speech: Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
  
• True Grit: Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
  
• Alice in Wonderland: Robert Stromberg, Karen O'Hara (OSCAR)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• The King's Speech: Danny Cohen
  
• The Social Network: Jeff Cronenweth
  
• True Grit: Roger Deakins
  
• Black Swan: Matthew Libatique
  
• Inception: Wally Pfister (OSCAR)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (the first big surprise of the evening!)

• Amy Adams for The Fighter
  
• Helena Bonham Carter for The King's Speech
  
• Melissa Leo for The Fighter (OSCAR)
  
• Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit
  
• Jacki Weaver for Animal Kingdom

Best Short Film, Animated

• Day & Night: Teddy Newton
  
• The Gruffalo: Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
  
• Let's Pollute: Geefwee Boedoe
  
• The Lost Thing: Shaun Tan, Andrew Ruhemann (OSCAR)
  
• Madagascar, a Journey Diary: Bastien Dubois

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

• The Illusionist: Sylvain Chomet
  
• How to Train Your Dragon: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
  
• Toy Story 3: Lee Unkrich (OSCAR)

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

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

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• 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 (OSCAR)

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year (another surprise!)

• Dogtooth: Giorgos Lanthimos (Greece)
  
• In a Better World: Susanne Bier (Denmark) (OSCAR)
  
• Incendies: Denis Villeneuve (Canada)
  
• Outside the Law: Rachid Bouchareb (Algeria)
  
• Biutiful: Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (big surprise!)

• Christian Bale for The Fighter (OSCAR)
  
• John Hawkes for Winter's Bone
  
• Jeremy Renner for The Town (2010)
  
• Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right
  
• Geoffrey Rush for The King's Speech

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, 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 (OSCAR)

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

• The King's Speech: Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen, John Midgley
  
• Salt: Jeffrey J. Haboush, William Sarokin, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell
  
• The Social Network: Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Mark Weingarten
  
• True Grit: Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland
  
• Inception: Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick (OSCAR)

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

• Toy Story 3 (2010): Tom Myers, Michael Silvers
  
• TRON: Legacy (2010): Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Addison Teague
  
• True Grit (2010): Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey
  
• Unstoppable (2010): Mark P. Stoeckinger
  
• Inception: Richard King (OSCAR)

Best Achievement in Makeup

• Barney's Version: Adrien Morot
  
• The Way Back: Edouard F. Henriques, Greg Funk, Yolanda Toussieng
  
• The Wolfman: Rick Baker, Dave Elsey (OSCAR)

Best Achievement in Costume Design

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

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

• Killing in the Name: Jed Rothstein
  
• Poster Girl: Sara Nesson, Mitchell Block
  
• Strangers No More: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon (OSCAR)
  
• Sun Come Up: Jennifer Redfearn, Tim Metzger
  
• The Warriors of Qiugang: Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon

Best Short Film, Live Action

• The Confession: Tanel Toom
  
• The Crush: Michael Creagh
  
• God of Love: Luke Matheny (OSCAR)
  
• Na Wewe: Ivan Goldschmidt
  
• Wish 143: Ian Barnes, Samantha Waite

Best Documentary, Features

• Exit Through the Gift Shop: Banksy, Jaimie D'Cruz
  
• GasLand: Josh Fox, Trish Adlesic
  
• Inside Job: Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs (OSCAR)
  
• Restrepo: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
  
• Waste Land: Lucy Walker, Angus Aynsley

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

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

Best Achievement in Editing

• 127 Hours: Jon Harris
  
• The Fighter: Pamela Martin
  
• The King's Speech: Tariq Anwar
  
• The Social Network: Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall (OSCAR)
  
• Black Swan: Andrew Weisblum

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

• Country Strong: Tom Douglas, Hillary Lindsey, Troy Verges ("Coming Home")
  
• Tangled: Alan Menken, Glenn Slater ("I See the Light")
  
• Toy Story 3: Randy Newman ("We Belong Together") (OSCAR -- this only makes me think more of this episode of Family Guy)
  
• 127 Hours: A.R. Rahman, Dido ("If I Rise")

Best Achievement in Directing

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

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right
  
• Jennifer Lawrence for Winter's Bone
  
• Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine
  
• Natalie Portman for Black Swan (OSCAR)
  
• Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Javier Bardem for Biutiful
  
• Jeff Bridges for True Grit
  
• Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network
  
• James Franco for 127 Hours
  
• Colin Firth for The King's Speech (OSCAR)

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• 127 Hours: Christian Colson, Danny Boyle, John Smithson
  
• Black Swan: Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
  
• The Fighter: David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Mark Wahlberg
  
• Inception: Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
  
• The Kids Are All Right: Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Celine Rattray
  
• The Social Network: Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ceán Chaffin
  
• Toy Story 3: Darla K. Anderson
  
• True Grit: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin
  
• Winter's Bone: Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan
  
• The King's Speech: Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin (OSCAR)