Oscar 2011

BEST PICTURE:

THE KING'S SPEECH SYNOPSIS

 Plagued since childhood by a paralyzing stammer, the future King George VI of England has given up hope of finding a cure for his impediment. His concerned wife urges him to seek the help of an iconoclastic Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue, who insists on a level of familiarity with his new patient that the royal prince is loath to permit.

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Colin Firth

 Colin Firth plays King George VI, the British monarch who seeks help from a speech therapist for his severe stammer.

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:CHRISTIAN BALE 

 Christian Bale plays Dicky Eklund, a former fighter now managing the career of his younger brother Micky.

                       AcTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:NATALIE PORTMAN 

  

As Nina Sayers, Natalie Portman plays a young ballerina whose precarious mental state begins to disintegrate when she is cast in the role of the Swan Queen

 ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:MELISSA LEO

 

As Alice Ward, Melissa Leo plays a selfish and controlling woman who is harming her son's chance to become a successful  fighter.

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:TOY STORY 3 SYNOPSIS

 As Andy prepares to leave for college, his toys face an uncertain future now that the little boy who played with them is growing up. Their problems seem to be solved when they are donated to a local day care center, but the reality of their new life proves to be quite different from what they had expected.

ART DIRECTION:ALICE IN WONDERLAND SYNOPSIS

 

When Alice, now 19, flees the scene of her impending marriage to an obnoxious aristocrat, she follows a rabbit down a hole and finds herself once again in the Wonderland she remembers as a childhood dream. There, she reencounters the strange beings she met on her first visit and discovers that they have been awaiting her return.

CINEMATOGRAPHY: INCEPTION synopsis

 Dom Cobb is an expert at a particular type of corporate espionage known as extraction, in which he inserts himself into his targets' dreams, gains their trust, and learns their secrets. One final job may allow him to leave his dangerous profession, but it involves the seemingly impossible task of implanting ideas in his subject rather than extracting them.

COSTUME DESIGN:ALICE IN WONDERLAND SYNOPSIS

 When Alice, now 19, flees the scene of her impending marriage to an obnoxious aristocrat, she follows a rabbit down a hole and finds herself once again in the Wonderland she remembers as a childhood dream. There, she reencounters the strange beings she met on her first visit and discovers that they have been awaiting her return.

DIRECTING:THE KING'S SPEECH  by Tom Hooper

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:INSIDE JOB SYNOPSIS

 

The financial practices that laid the groundwork for the global economic crisis are traced to their sources in an examination that lays the blame for the collapse at the doorstep of many who are still in power. Predatory lending, credit default swaps, and financial deregulation are subjected to close scrutiny and criticism in a primer on the situation that affected the lives of millions.

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT:STRANGERS NO MORE SYNOPSIS

 At the Bialik-Rogozin School in Tel Aviv, children from 48 countries, many of them refugees from war and poverty, learn to deal with the diversity of their new environment.

FILM EDITING:THE SOCIAL NETWORK SYNOPSIS

 Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg develops a computer program that will eventually become the phenomenally successful social networking site, Facebook. Yet Zuckerberg's lack of social skills in the world outside of the virtual realm in which he excels, leaves him with a trail of broken relationships and questionable ethical choices.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:IN A BETTER WORLD SYNOPSIS

 When schoolboys Christian and Elias are involved in a violent incident, their fathers are initially unable to grasp the full implications of the boys' actions. Elias's father, Anton, an idealistic doctor often absent from home while he works in an African refugee camp, tries to communicate his own commitment to non-violence to the boys, but the troubled Christian continues to see Anton's beliefs as a sign of weakness

MAKEUP:THE WOLFMAN SYNOPSIS

 After returning to his family's estate following his older brother's mysterious death, Lawrence Talbot is attacked at night during a full moon. When his injuries heal with surprising speed, Lawrence soon realizes that he has become a werewolf and is transforming by moonlight into a savage killer.

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE):THE SOCIAL NETWORK  by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG):TOY STORY 3  by Randy Newman

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED):THE LOST THING SYNOPSIS

 A young boy finds a strange creature on the beach and decides to find it a home.

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION):GOD OF LOVE SYNOPSIS

 

A love triangle between two musicians and a young woman takes a surprising turn when one of them finds a collection of magical darts.

SOUND EDITING:INCEPTION   by Richard King

SOUND MIXING:INCEPTION   by Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick

VISUAL EFFECTS:INCEPTION  by Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY):THE SOCIAL NETWORK by Aaron Sorkin

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY):THE KING'S SPEECH by David Seidler