The Oscars 2011: List of Winners

Here are the winners of this year’s Oscars – The King’s Speech cleaned up once more after clearing out the BAFTAs. Blockbusters The Social Network and Inception also picked up awards:

Best Picture – The King’s Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin

Actor in a leading role – Colin Firth – The King’s Speech

Actor in a Supporting Role – Christian Bale – The Fighter

Actress in a leading role – Natalie Portman – Black Swan

Actress in a supporting role – Melissa Leo – The Fighter

Animated feature film – Toy Story 3

Art Direction – Alice in Wonderland – Robert Stromberg (Production Design); Karen O’Hara (Set Decoration)

Cinematography – Inception – Wally Pfister

Costume Design – Alice in Wonderland – Colleen Atwood

Directing – 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) – Toy Story 3 – “We Belong Together” 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

Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – The Social Network – Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin

Writing (Original Screenplay) – The King’s Speech – Screenplay by David Seidler


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