The 2011 Academy Award nominations were just announced. The King’s Speech received the most nominations, with twelve, followed by True Grit, with ten. The Social Network had eight nominations. It is not surprising that those three received the most nominations, as the battle for Best Picture is most likely between The Social Network and The King’s Speech.
The ten movies nominated for Best Picture are:
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
The Academy switched to having ten Best Picture nominations instead of five last year. Under the old format, which five would have been nominated? The King’s Speech, The Social Network, and True Grit would have been nominated for sure. The other two probably would have been The Fighter and Black Swan (based on the hype about the movie), but one could replace Black Swan with The Kids Are All Right (or even Toy Story 3 or Winter’s Bone).
For some news about the nominations, here are some links:
The full list of nominations is here (link no longer available).
Entertainment Weekly has a list of the five biggest surprises of the nominations.
NPR also discusses the few surprises in the nominations.
Zap2It also discusses the surprises, such as that there was no Best Director nomination for Christopher Nolan’s work on Inception.
The Week has a pre-nomination article about five important facts to know about the nomination process.
For those concerned about money, the San Francisco Chronicle has the dollars for the top nominees (link no longer available).
Play the Slate Oscar winners prediction game here.
Which 2010 movies were your favorites? Were you surprised by the nominations? Leave a comment.
