2011 Academy Award Winners List

This year's hosts, Anne Hathaway and James Franco were all right (how many dresses did Hathaway HAVE?), but the nominations excited me the most.

I enjoyed seeing actor veteran, Kirk Douglas, crackin' a few jokes as he was on stage as he was truly brillant. "You know..."

Here's all the winners of the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony! Congratulations to all the winners!

Are you happy with the results? Who deserved it and who do you believe got snubbed?

Best Art Direction – ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Best Cinematography – INCEPTION

Best Supporting Actress – MELISSA LEO (THE FIGHTER)

Best Animated Short Film – THE LOST THING

Best Animated Feature – TOY STORY 3

Best Adapted Screenplay – AARON SORKIN (THE SOCIAL NETWORK)

Best Original Screenplay – THE KING’S SPEECH

Best Foreign Language Film – IN A BETTER WORLD

Best Supporting Actor – CHRISTIAN BALE (THE FIGHTER)

Best Original Score – THE SOCIAL NETWORK


Achievement in Sound – INCEPTION


Best Sound Editing – INCEPTION



Best Achievement in Makeup – THE WOLF MAN



Best Achievement in Costume Design – ALICE IN WONDERLAND



Best Documentary Short – STRANGERS NO MORE



Best Live Action Short – GOD OF LOVE



Best Documentary Feature Film – INSIDE JOB



Best Visual Effects – INCEPTION

Best Film Editing – THE SOCIAL NETWORK

Best Original Song – RANDY NEWMAN (TOY STORY 3)

Best Director – TOM HOOPER (THE KING’S SPEECH)

Best Actress – NATALIE PORTMAN (BLACK SWAN)

Best Actor – COLIN FIRTH (THE KING’S SPEECH)

Best Picture – THE KING’S SPEECH

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The Little Critic

83rd Academy Awards Nominations

Here's the nominations list in its entirety. I'm excited to see the outcomes of this year's ceremony! What are your personal favorites to win in whichever category?

Any films you feel like they ruled out unfairly or overlooked?

Either way, these are the official nominations of the 83rd Academy Awards:



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 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 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 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

Joel & Ethan Coen, True Grit

David Fincher, The Social Network

Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech

David O. Russell, The Fighter



BEST 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



BEST 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



BEST 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 and Atticus Ross



BEST SONG

“Coming Home,” Country Strong, Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey

“I See the Light,” Tangled, Alan Menken, Glenn Slater

“If I Rise,” 127 Hours, A.R. Rahman, Dido, Rollo Armstrong

“We Belong Together,” Toy Story 3, Randy Newman



BEST ANIMATED FILM

How to Train Your Dragon

The Illusionist

Toy Story 3



BEST 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

BEST ART DIRECTION

Alice in Wonderland, Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara

Happy Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan

Inception, Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat

The King’s Speech, Eve Stewart, Judy Farr

True Grit, Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh



BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Black Swan, Matthew Libatique

Inception, Wally Pfister

The King’s Speech, Danny Cohen

The Social Network, Jeff Cronenweth

True Grit, Roger Deakins



BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood

I Am Love, Antonella Cannarozzi

The King’s Speech, Jenny Beaven

The Tempest, Sandy Powell

True Grit, Mary Zophres



BEST DOCUMENTARY

Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz

Gasland, Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic

Inside Job, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

Restrepo, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger

Waste Land, Lucy Walker and Angus Aynley



BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Killing in the Name

Poster Girl

Strangers No More, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon

Sun Come Up, Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger

The Warriors of Qiugang, Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon



BEST EDITING

127 Hours, Jon Harris

Black Swan, Andrew Weisblum

The Fighter, Pamela Martin

The King’s Speech, Tariq Anwar

The Social Network, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter



BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) (Algeria)

Incendies (Canada)

In a Better World (Denmark)

Dogtooth (Greece)

Biutiful (Mexico)



BEST MAKEUP

Barney’s Version, Adrien Morot

The Way Back, Eduoard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk, Yolanda Toussieng

The Wolfman, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey



BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Day & Night, Teddy Newton

The Gruffalo, Jakob Schuh and Max Lang

Let’s Pollute, Geefwee Boedoe

The Lost Thing, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann

Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary), Bastien Dubois



BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

The Confession, Tanel Toom

The Crush, Michael Creagh

God of Love, Luke Matheny

Na Wewe, Ivan Goldschmidt

Wish 143, Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite



BEST 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



BEST 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


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The Little Critic

'Toy Story 3' and My Lack of A Witty Title

This little critic is reviewing a little known movie titled 'Toy Story 3.' Perhaps you've heard of it?
I know, I know. This came out almost a month ago. Why make a review now? Honestly, I hate crowds and avoid going to the theater the first few weeks when a movie comes out and I just started this blog the day before yesterday.

Right now, I'm trying to forget about the World Cup right now (sheer disappointment) to come and bring you what I thought of 'Toy Story 3.'

I don't feel the need to give a summary of the film as many of you have probably seen it or read about it by now.

Obviously, the third installment of the most famous Pixar franchise revolves around trustworthy Sheriff Woody and the rest of the old gang we all know and have come to love.

Since the first film came out in 1995, the generation of the 90's kids thought that it was "all that and a bag of chips," "the bomb," and we literally went "postal" just to see it. Okay, maybe we didn't go crazy, but I'm sure you can all agree it was one of the things that defined the mid-90's and our childhood.

What I loved about the film is that it finishes the journey of Andy's toys...in a sense, and leaves you feeling happy and bittersweet at the same time.

I watched this in 3D and while it was totally not worth it, I was happy I had the glasses to shield my tears from others. I knew no one would turn around to see my pitiful tears streaming down my face and call me "wuss!" but I was still happy those glasses were on my face.

My face behind the 3D glasses

All right, I didn't cry THAT much, but I couldn't help but tear up.

It's a great family film, but I think this really was geared more to the older audiences who watched the first 2 movies as children. By all means, if you have little children/siblings, bring them, but if they're under the age of 6, they may or may not get bored at some parts of the movie as they may not be able to understand the more serious parts of the film.

That was more of a precaution than a suggestion. I rather you would bring the kids to the theater to share the experience with you cause Toy Story is friggen awesome. :)

5/5

I'm not biased about my rating since I'm a Toy Story/90's kid.....ahhh, PSYCHE!

Totally biased, I don't care. Just watch it if you haven't. It's fun, sweet, and just plain great.

DVD/Blu-Ray worthy? Yes, to me. I could watch it again and I need to complete the Toy Story set, right?

Next review, 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' otherwise known as Heath Ledger's last movie before he died.

Keep on watchin'

The Little Critic