The 83rd Annual Academy Awards

[RealBronco]

Well, looks the like the nominations have been announced. Went to IMDb and checked out the list.

One thing I've noticed over the years is that whatever ends up getting nominated for (and/or winning) a Golden Globe usually ends up getting nominated for (and/or winning) an Academy Award.

So Here's the list:

seems like there are more Best Picture Nods than normal. Not sure if they'll cut those down or not.

But here are my early predictions. Keep in mind I'm basing some of this off of hype, media attention and how well they did at the Globes, as I've not yet seen all of them. And some of them I picked just because I want to see if something I like will win or my pick gets an upset win:

Picture: The Social Network
Actor: Colin Firth
Actress: Natalie Portman
Supporting Actor: Christian Bale
Supporting Acctress: Haliee Steinfeld
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Screenplay: The Kids Are Alright
Screenplay Based: The Social Network
Animated Feature: Toy Story 3
Foreign: Biutiful
Cinematography: Inception
Editing: 127 Hours
Art Direction: Inception
Costume Design: Alice in Wonderland
Make-up: The Wolfman
Score: Inception
Original Song: Country Strong
Sound Mixing: True Grit
Sound Editing: TRON: Legacy
Visual Effects: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part I
Documentary: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Documentary Short: Strangers No More
Animated Short: Day and Night
Short: The Confession

[The Experience]

I think this is the year Colin Firth finally gets it.

[milehighireland]

imo if inception was released more recently instead of the summer, it would be in the running for more.

That's the drawback to putting a summer blockbuster out, if it's really good it may be too far removed from the oscars to win much...

[aberdien]

I find it hard to see any but Social Network or King's Speech getting the Best Picture. Colin Firth should get best actor. Natalie Portman will win best actress probably. I'm pretty disappointed Scott Pilgrim didn't get a visual or music award of some sort.

[Skywalker]

I'm kind of surprised The Town wasn't nominated for more. Wasn't there a lot of hype when it came out about it being in the running for Best Picture and such?

I hope Natalie wins, same with Colin Firth. HTTYD won't upset Toy Story but I wish it would, I loved both but liked HTTYD a bit more. And I hope you are correct RB with Harry Potter winning Visual Effects