The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out their 83rd annual Academy Awards (the “Oscars”) tonight. The big winner was The Hurt Locker, with six wins out of nine nominations. [Editor’s note: sorry for the editing mistake.] There was no big winner this year: The King’s Speech and Inception each took home four awards, The Social Network won three, and several others won two each.
Last year, three sf/f/h films won a total of six awards (12 films were nominated for a total of 35 awards). This year, 13 sf/f/h films earned a total of 32 nominations (see this article). This year, six different genre films won 11 of the 24 awards on the block.
The winners this year are:
Best Picture: The King’s Speech
Leading Actor: Colin Firth in The King’s Speech
Leading Actress: Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Supporting Actor: Christian Bale in The Fighter
Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo in The Fighter
Animated Feature: Toy Story 3
Art Direction: Robert Stromberg and Karen O’Hara for Alice in Wonderland
Cinematography: Wally Pfister for Inception
Costume Design: Colleen Atwood for Alice in Wonderland
Directing: Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech
Documentary Feature: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs for Inside Job
Documentary—Short Subject: Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon for Strangers No More
Film Editing: Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter for The Social Network
Foreign Language Film: In a Better World
Makeup: Rick Baker and Dave Elsey for The Wolfman
Music (Original Score): Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Social Network
Music (Original Song): Randy Newman for “We Belong Together” (from Toy Story 3)
Short Film (Animated): The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Short Film (Live Action): God of Love by Luke Matheny
Sound Editing: Richard King for Inception
Sound Mixing: Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick for Inception
Visual Effects: Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb for Inception
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): The Social Network by Aaron Sorkin
Writing (Original Screenplay): The King’s Speech by David Seidler
Sigh. Thee only film I saw was “The Lost Thing.” I am sooooooo out of it.
Double check your first paragraph. You forgot to make a change when you copied from last year’s introductory text.