The King’s Speech was the big winner at tonight’s Academy Awards showing, taking home the prizes for Best Picture, Director, Lead Actor for Colin Firth and Original Screenplay. Christopher Nolan’s mindbending science-fiction adventure Inception also won four Oscars for Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Visual Effects. The Social Network, director David Fincher’s look at the rise of internet phenomenon Facebook took home three awards for Film Editing, Original Soundtrack and Adapted Screenplay.
The list of tonight’s winners are –
Best Picture – The King’s Speech, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
Performance by an actor in a leading role – Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
Performance by an actor in a supporting role – Christian Bale in The Fighter
Performance by an actress in a leading role – Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Performance by an actress in a supporting role – Melissa Leo in The Fighter
Best animated feature film of the year – Toy Story 3, director Lee Unkrich
Art Direction – Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney), Robert Stromberg (Production Design), Karen O’Hara (Set Decoration)
Achievement in Cinematography – Inception (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister
Achievement in costume design – Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood
Achievement in directing – The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper
Best Documentary Feature – Inside Job, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Best documentary short subject – Strangers No More, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Achievement in film editing – The Social Network, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Best foreign language film of the year – In a Better World, Denmark
Achievement in makeup – The Wolfman, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) – The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) – “We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3, Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Best animated short film – The Lost Thing (Nick Batzias for Madman Entertainment) A Passion Pictures Australia Production Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Best live action short film – God of Love , Luke Matheny
Achievement in sound editing – Inception, Richard King
Achievement in sound mixing – Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
Achievement in visual effects – Inception, Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Adapted screenplay – The Social Network Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Original screenplay – The King’s Speech Screenplay by David Seidler
