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Best Picture Nominees 2011

• “Black Swan” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “The Fighter” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “Inception” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “The Kids Are All Right”
• “The King’s Speech” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “127 Hours”
• “The Social Network” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “Toy Story 3″
• “True Grit”
• “Winter’s Bone”

Best Actor Nominees 2011

• Javier Bardem, “Biutiful”
• Robert Duvall, “Get Low”
• Ryan Gosling, “Blue Valentine” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• James Franco, “127 Hours” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Jesse Eisenberg, “The Social Network” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Mark Wahlberg, “The Fighter” (Golden Globe Nominee)

Best Actress Nominees 2011

• Annette Bening, “The Kids Are All Right”
• Sally Hawkins, “Made in Dagenham”
• Jennifer Lawrence, “Winter’s Bone” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Lesley Manville, “Another Year”
• Natalie Portman, “Black Swan” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Halle Berry, “Frankie and Alice” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Michelle Williams, “Blue Valentine” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Nicole Kidman, “Rabbit Hole” (Golden Globe Nominee)

Best Supporting Actor Nominees 2011

• Christian Bale, “The Fighter” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Matt Damon, “True Grit”
• Andrew Garfield, “The Social Network” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Bill Murray, “Get Low”
• Geoffrey Rush, “The King’s Speech” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Jeremy Renner, “The Town” (Golden Globe Nominee)

Best Supporting Actress Nominees 2011

• Helena Bonham Carter, “The King’s Speech” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Barbara Hershey, “Black Swan”
• Mila Kunis, “Black Swan” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Amy Adams, “The Fighter” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Melissa Leo, “The Fighter” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Miranda Richardson, “Made in Dagenham”
• Hailee Steinfeld, “True Grit”
• Jackie Weaver, “Animal Kingdom” (Golden Globe Nominee)

Best Director Nominees 2011

• Darren Aronofsky, ‘Black Swan’ (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Danny Boyle, ’127 Hours’
• David Fincher, ‘The Social Network’ (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Tom Hooper, ‘The King’s Speech’ (Golden Globe Nominee)
• Christopher Nolan, ‘Inception’ (Golden Globe Nominee)
• David O. Russell, “The Fighter” (Golden Globe Nominee)

Bonus Oscar Nominee Coverage

Even though the question is “Who will get Oscar nominations in 2011″, I’ll give you a list of the best documentary and best animated feature nominee hopefuls for 2011, as bonus coverage.

Best Documentary Nominees 2011

• “A Film Unfinished”
• “Casino Jack”
• “Exit Through the Gift Shop”
• “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work”
• “Waiting for “‘Superman’”

Best Animated Feature Nominees 2011

• “How to Train Your Dragon” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “Despicable Me” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “Toy Story 3″ (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “The Illusionist” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “Tangled” (Golden Globe Nominee)

Best Screenplay Nominations – Motion Picture 2011

• “127 Hours” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “The Kids Are All Right” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “The King’s Speech” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “The Social Network” (Golden Globe Nominee)
• “Inception” (Golden Globe Nominee)

Who Will Get Academy Award Nominations in 2011?

• The King’s Speech – Who would think a movie about a man getting a speech therapist to overcome a stammering problem could be so good? When the man is King George VI of England and the actors are Colin Firth, Guy Pierce, and Geoffrey Rush, the film can be pretty darned compelling.
• Inception – Inspired by such concepts as dream incubation and lucid dreaming, and such psychological phenomena as introspection illusion and false memories, this Leonardo Di Caprio vehicle written and directed by Christopher Nolan is a mind trip about people who commit commercial espionage through people’s dreams.
• The Social Network – Biopic about the founders of Facebook. Word has it the producers took huge liberties with these guys stories, as one of the guys says they most sat around in front of computers and worked long hours, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a good story, anyway. Jesse Eisenberg finally does something besides moping throughout a whole movie.
• 127 Hours – A completely different biographical film than The Social Network. This is an intense drama which shows the limits of human endurance, and the limits of the human will to live. James Franco stars as Aron Alston, a mountain climber who got trapped by a boulder during a climb out in Utah. Glad to see James Franco get one of these roles.
• Black Swan – Director Darren Aronofsky considers this film to be a companion piece to his 2008 Oscar darling, The Wrestler. This one is about two rival ballet dancers in a production of Swan Lake. Natalie Portman is best suited to play the White Swan (innocence), while Mila Kunis is best suited to play the Black Swan (guile). The excellent Vincent Cassel plays the director of the production.