2011 Academy Award Nominations For The Main Categories

The nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced on January 25, 2011.The following are the nominations for some of the main categories:

Best Picture:
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

Best Actor In A Leading Role :
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
James France (127 Hours)

Best Actress In A Leading Role :
Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)

Best Direction:
Darren Aronofsky - (Black Swan)
David O. Russell - (The Fighter)
Tom Hooper - (The King's Speech)
David Fincher - (The Social Network)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - (True Grit)

Golden Globe Vs Oscars

The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards was held on January 16, 2011 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills,California. With the results of the Golden Globe Awards it is quite clear that the movie “The Social Network” is in the limelight, and people across the globe are awaiting the 83rd Academy Awards.

Here’s a comparison of the results between the Golden Globe and the Oscars for a few categories:
Best Actor: 16 of the last 26 Globe winners won the Oscar
Best Actress: 20 of the last 26 Globe winners won the Oscar
Best Supporting Actor: 15 of the last 26 Globe winners won the Oscar
Best Supporting Actress: 13 of the last 26 Globe winners won the Oscar
Best Director : 17 of the last 26 Globe winners won the Oscar
Best Picture : 18 of the last 26 Globe winners won the Oscar

Oscars Presenters for 2011 Awards

The stars who will present the 83rd annual Academy Awards this year in February include Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Marisa Tomei, Oprah Winfrey producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer.

The presenters announced for the ceremony have plenty of Oscar history between them.

Halle Berry won Best Actress in 2001 for 'Monster's Ball'.

Jeff Bridges won Best Actor for 'Crazy Heart' and Sandra Bullock won Best Actress for 'The Blind Side' in 2010.

Marisa Tomei won the award for Best Supporting Actress for 'My Cousin Vinny' in 1992.

Oprah Winfrey was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 'The Color Purple' in 1985, and was an executive producer on 2009 Best Picture nominee 'Precious'.

As the 83rd Academy Awards Approaches…

The Academy Awards anxiety is building as 5755 nomination ballots for the 83rd Oscar ceremony were mailed. The ballots were sent to voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(AMPAS).

Ensuring that the ballots are prepared is quite a process. Prior to mailing, the PricewaterhouseCoopers's staff administers a methodical confirmation process to be sure that there are no duplicates and that nothing is missing. In addition to being counted and sorted, the ballots are numbered to assure that each one is addressed to the suitable voter.The completed ballots must be returned to PricewaterhouseCoopers by 5 p.m. PT on Friday, January 14, 2011.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is considered the world's paramount

movie-related organization. Its members are more than 6,000 of the most proficient men and women working in cinema.

The 83rd Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 5:30 a.m. PST in the academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.The awards for marvelous film achievements of 2010 will be presented on February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.The presentation will be telecast live in more than 200 countries.

Kevin To Cheer For The Amazing Movie 'The Social Network'

"Superman Returns" star Kevin Spacey will be encouraging David Fincher's "The Social Network" at the Academy Awards as his former assistant Dana Brunetti is one of the film's producer.

The Oscar winner's producing partner Dana Brunetti went to the Oscars with Kevin Spacey a decade ago and the forthcoming year he could well be up onstage collecting gold as his Facebook film is sure to be amongst the 10 Best Picture Oscar nominees and many critics have tipped it for victory.

The Social Network is a 2010 drama film about the founder of the social networking website Facebook and its resulting lawsuits. The film was directed by David Fincher and features an all together cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Brenda Song, Max Minghella as well as Rooney Mara.