Academy Awards Winners List & Report

The 2011 Academy Awards were not only one of the worst Oscar shows in history based on their decision making process of giving out rewards but also as entertaining awards show. It was boring, celebs/Hollywood too full of themselves and most importantly the Oscars are loosing a bigger gripe on what it is that progress cinema and what stimulates the minds of young and old cinema-goers today.



As a simple awards show it was the worst I have ever seen. The mediocre Whoopi Goldberg hosted shows were nothing compared to Anne Hathaway and James Franco abilities at losing not only Hollywood's elite but TV audiences as well. To host a awards show you need to be funny, confident, graceful, respected, even appalled by few (Ricky Gervais) and maybe most importantly a showman. Hugh Jackman was a risk when he was hired but he played it to the best of his abilities and was well liked. The Golden Globes knew the risk of Ricky Gervais roasting all of Hollywood and the award givers themselves but he created buzz, was funny and  ultimately a hit. Both Franco and Hathaway are great actors but shouldn't be ever hired again as host for a awards show. Being distant, cold, delivering flat jokes and pressuring yourself for people to like you and think your funny our  un-admirable characteristics for a awards show host to posses.



Compared to hosts the award giving was to no surprise once again mess as we had been used to for so many years. The predictions this year were as with last year spot on. Last year they said The Hurt Locker would get it and it did. And this year The Kings Speech was said to be the late front runner and they got it. Same thing with the acting categories. Everyone was predicted and has already been praised to death before they even got the award. And right there is the issue. The Oscars predictability at choosing films that are out of place with the public, critics and films that most certainly will not be remembered by most for many years to come. Kings Speech was a good film but it no way will it be remembered in 50 years as one those films that touched us in any true sort of way. Awards should be given to films that define cinema and take it forward. Not that the Social Network in my opinion deserved it. I was Inception all the way. But films that are remembered, praised, hailed, loved and seen over and over again most of times are the ones that never even got close to a award. People go crazy over the Social Network as if it is a ground breaking film. But when you've already seen David Fincher's Seven and Fight Club then there isn't really that much ground breaking about the Facebook movie.



Overall the show was a failure. Franco and Hathaway were terrible as hosts. The Academy were predictable in there choices of who won, and were tragic in many of there creative choices for the show throughout the night. When the show is supposed to glorify cinema and praise the films of last year whats the relevance of announcing a business deal with the channel showing the awards show. I end on that note and saying the Oscars are on slippery slope and it will be very difficult for them to turn it around and once again get the respect and recognition of fans and many people in the movie business.

Here are the nominees and winners for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards:

Best Motion Picture of the Year:

• 127 Hours


• Black Swan


• The Fighter


• Inception


• The Kids Are All Right


• The King's Speech - WINNER


• The Social Network


• Toy Story 3


• True Grit


• Winter's Bone

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:

• Javier Bardem - Biutiful


• Jeff Bridges - True Grit


• Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network


• Colin Firth - The King's Speech - WINNER


• James Franco - 127 Hours

Best Performance by an 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 - WINNER


• Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:

• Christian Bale - The Fighter -WINNER


• John Hawkes  - Winter's Bone


• Jeremy Renner - The Town


• Mark Ruffalo - The Kids Are All Right


• Geoffry Rush - The King's Speech

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:

• Amy Adams - The Fighter


• Helena Bohnam Carter - The King's Speech


• Melissa Leo - The Fighter - WINNER


• Hailee Steinfield - True Grit


• Jacki Weaver - Winter's Bone

Best Achievement in Directing:

• Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan


• Ethan & Joel Coen - True Grit


• David Fincher - The Social Network


• Tom Hooper - The King's Speech - WINNER


• David O. Russel - The Fighter

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen:

• Another Year - Mike Leigh


• The Fighter - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrignton


• Inception - Christopher Nolan


• The Kids Are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg


• The King's Speech - David Seidler - WINNER

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

• 127 Hours - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy


• The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin - WINNER


• Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkirch


• True Grit - Joel & Ethan Coen


• Winter's Bone - Debra Granik, Anna Rosselini

Best Animated Film of the Year

• How to Train Your Dragon - Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders


• L'llousionist - Sylvain Chomet


• Toy Story 3 - Lee Unrich - WINNER

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

• Biutiful - Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu (Mexico)


• Kunodontas - Giorgos Lanthimos (Greece)


• Heaven - Susanne Bier (Denmark) - WINNER


• Incedies - Denis Villeneuve (Canada)


• Hors-la-loi - Rachid Bouchareb (Algeria)

The rest of the winners and other nominees can be seen here: http://www.imdb.com/features/oscars/2011/nominations