OSCAR WATCH: OSCAR Nominations

Here they are folks. Mostly according to plan, although it seems the tide may be shifting towards a "King's Speech" win. The nominees for the Academy Awards are...

Best Picture
Black Swan
The Social Network
True Grit
The Fighter
The King's Speech
Inception
Winter's Bone
The Kids Are All Right
Toy Story 3
127 Hours

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
James Franco, 127 Hours
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network

Best Actress
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole

Best Supporting Actor
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech
Christian Bale, The Fighter
John Hawkes, Winter's Bone
Jeremy Renner, The Town

Best Supporting Actress
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech

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

Best Orginal Screenplay
Mike Leigh, Another Year
"Everyone and their mother", The Fighter
Christopher Nolan, Inception
Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right
David Seidler, The King's Speech

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

Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful
Dogtooth
In A Better World
Incendies
Outside the Law

Best Animated Feature
Toy Story 3
How To Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist

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

Best Original Song
“Coming Home”, Country Strong - Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
“I See the Light”, Tangled - Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Glenn Slater
“If I Rise”, 127 Hours - Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
“We Belong Together”, Toy Story 3 - Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

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

Best Editing
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King's Speech
127 Hours
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 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
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2
Alice in Wonderland

Best Makeup
Barney's Version
The Way Back
The Wolfman

Best Animated Short
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let's Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, a Journey Diary

Best Short Film
The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143

Best Documentary Feature
Exit Through The Gift Shop
GasLand
Inside Job
Waste Land
Restrepo

Best Documentary Short
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang

Biggest Shock - Christopher Nolan snubbed AGAIN for Inception! I don't even know what to say about that, I'm speechless. I'm also devastated that Andrew Garfield got left out for Best Supporting Actor.