Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Oscar Awards Winners 2011

Oscar Awards Winners 2011:

Curtains down to the 83rd Academy Awards, and the big winner this year is 'The King's Speech' which bagged the Oscar for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and the Best original Screenplay. Colin Firth and Natalie Portman were named the Best Actor and Actress Award respectively. Firth won the award for portraying King George VI in Tom Hooper's 'The King's Speech' while Natalie bagged the award for her portrayal of the 'psychotic' ballerina Nina Sayers in Darren Aronofsky's 'Black Swan'. The Best Director Award went to Tom Hooper for 'The King's Speech'.


Cristopher Nolan's 'dream-stealing' drama 'Inception', one of the clear favourites, has bagged 4 Oscar Awards: Best Visual Effect, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Cinematography. However 'The Social Network' got only 3 Oscar Awards: Best Film Editing,Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score.


Christian Bale and Melissa Leo won their first Academy Awards for their respective supporting roles in the movie "The Fighter". Leo was so overcome by her win that she dropped the F bomb during her acceptance speech. Bale, later while accepting his award said, " Bloody hell, its such an honour,I am hoping not to drop the 'f' bomb like Melissa had done before. " Check out the other Oscar winners...
Best Picture
The King's Speech
Best Actor
Colin Firth for 'The King's Speech'
Best Actress
Natalie Portman for 'Black Swan'
Best Director
Tom Hooper 'The King's Speech'
Best Original Song
Randy Newman for "We belong together" in 'Toy Story 3'

Best Film Editing
Angus Wall Kirk Baxter for 'The Social Network'
Best Visual Effect
Paul Franklin,Chris Corbould and Andrew Lockley for 'Inception'
Best Documentary of the Year
Inside Job by Charles Fergusson and Audrey Marrs
Best Live Action Short Film
Luke Matheny for 'God of Love'
Best Short Documentary
Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon for 'Strangers No More'
Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood for 'Alice in Wonderland'
Best Makeup
Rick Baker Dave Elsley for 'The Wolfman'
Best Sound Editing
Richard King for Inception
Best Sound Mixing
Lora Hirshberg and Gary A Rizzo for Inception
Best Original Score
Trent Reznor Atticus Ross for 'The Social Network'
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale
Best Foreign Language Film
In A better World (Denmark)

Best original Screenplay
David Seidler for 'The King's Speech'
Best Adapted Screenplay
Aron Sorkin for 'The Social Network'
Best Animated Feature Film
Toy Story 3: Directed by Lee Unkrich
Best Animated Short Film
The Lost Thing Directed by Andrew Ruhemann
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Melissa Leo for 'The Fighter'
Best Cinematography
Movie: Inception
Winner: Wally Pfister
Best Art direction
Movie: Alice in Wonderland

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