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Nominees for the 84th Academy Awards
Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir in "A Better Life"
George Clooney in "The Descendants"
Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh in "My Week with Marilyn"
Jonah Hill in "Moneyball"
Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close in "Albert Nobbs"
Viola Davis in "The Help"
Actress in a Supporting Role
Bérénice Bejo in "The Artist"
Jessica Chastain in "The Help"
Animated Feature Film
"A Cat in Paris" Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
"Chico & Rita" Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
Art Direction
"The Artist"
Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
"Hugo"
Cinematography
"The Artist" Guillaume Schiffman
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Jeff Cronenweth
Directing
"The Artist" Michel Hazanavicius
"The Descendants" Alexander Payne
Documentary (Feature)
"Hell and Back Again"
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
Documentary (Short Subject)
"The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement"
Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
Film Editing
"The Artist" Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
"The Descendants" Kevin Tent
Foreign Language Film
"Bullhead" Belgium
"Footnote" Israel
Makeup
"Albert Nobbs"
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
Music (Original Score)
"The Adventures of Tintin" John Williams
"The Artist" Ludovic Bource
Music (Original Song)
"Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets"
Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Best Picture
"The Artist" Thomas Langmann, Producer
"The Descendants" Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
Short Film (Animated)
"Dimanche/Sunday" Patrick Doyon
"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Short Film (Live Action)
"Pentecost" Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane
"Raju" Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
Sound Editing
"Drive" Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Ren Klyce
Sound Mixing
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
Visual Effects
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
"The Descendants" Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
"Hugo" Screenplay by John Logan
Writing (Original Screenplay)
"The Artist" Written by Michel Hazanavicius
"Bridesmaids" Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
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Oscar Awards Winners- 2011
Thunderous Oscar applause for ‘The King’s Speech’
* Firth named best actor & Hooper best director
* Portman wins best actress for ‘Black Swan’
* Leo and Bale claim supporting honours
British drama ‘The King’s Speech’, about George VI’s struggle to overcome his stammer, walked away with four major Oscars, including the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor at the 83rd Academy Awards.
On a night, which had no big surprises, the period drama beat out competition from nine other films to be crowned the Best Picture, also won an Oscar for David Seidler in the Best Original Screenplay category.
Directed by Tom Hooper, the Colin Firth starrer is about the British Monarch, who overcame his stuttering problem with the help of an unorthodox Australian speech therapist, to rally the nation through World War II.
Hooper thanked his mother for finding him the script for the movie after she was invited to a play reading. “She’s never been invited to a play reading her entire life before. She almost didn’t go because it didn’t sound exactly promising, but thank God she did. She rang me up after, said, Tom, I think I found your next film,” said the director.
Firth, popularly known as Mr Darcy since his ‘Pride & Prejudice’ days, started his acceptance speech by joking about how the award will help his career. “I have a feeling that my career just peaked,” the 50-year-old actor said.
Firth said that he feared that he may make a fool of himself by dancing onstage. “I’m afraid I have to warn you that I’m experiencing stirrings, somewhere in the upper abdominals, what are threatening to form themselves into dance moves,” he said.
“These urges joyous as they may be for me... would be extremely problematic if they make it to my legs before I get off stage,” he added.
The movie’s screenwriter, David Seidler, used his acceptance speech to jokingly thank Queen Elizabeth II, among others, as well as stutterers everywhere.
“...I accept this on behalf of all the stutterers throughout the world. We have a voice, we have been heard,” he said, repeating the key phrase from the movie.
Nominated in 12 categories, the film was pitted against Facebook movie ‘The Social Network’, which was in the race with seven nominations. The David Fincher movie, however, managed to win trophies in three categories-Best Adapted Screenplay, Original Score and Editing.
Christopher Nolan’s hi-tech thriller ‘Inception’ matched ‘The King’s Speech’ in the number count by bagging four Oscars in technical categories like Best Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Visual Effects.
Natalie Portman won best actress for her role in disturbed ballerina in Darren Aronofsky’s dark thriller ‘Black Swan’.
An emotional Portman thanked everyone from her family, friends and fiance Bennjamin Milleipied to the make-up and cameraman of her film.
Boxing drama ‘The Fighter’ won two Oscars-best supporting actor for Christian Bale, and best supporting actress for Melissa Leo, who had both been frontrunners in their category. Leo and Bale, who played mother-son in the movie, were the first to win the golden statue for their supporting roles.
