Best Picture Winner
The King's Speech
Best Picture
Director: Tom Hooper
Studio: The Weinstein Company
The story of King George VI's struggle with a debilitating stammer and his relationship with an unconventional speech therapist.
All Categories (27)
Animated Feature Film
Toy Story 3— Lee Unkrich
Winner
How to Train Your Dragon— Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
The Illusionist— Sylvain Chomet
Best Picture
The King's Speech— Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
Winner
127 Hours— Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
Black Swan— Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
Inception— Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
The Fighter— David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
The Kids Are All Right— Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
The Social Network— Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
Toy Story 3— Darla K. Anderson, Producer
True Grit— Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
Winter's Bone— Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers
Actor In A Leading Role
James Franco— 127 Hours {"Aron Ralston"}
Javier Bardem— Biutiful {"Uxbal"}
Jeff Bridges— True Grit {"Rooster Cogburn"}
Jesse Eisenberg— The Social Network {"Mark Zuckerberg"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Geoffrey Rush— The King's Speech {"Lionel Logue"}
Jeremy Renner— The Town {"James Coughlin"}
John Hawkes— Winter's Bone {"Teardrop"}
Mark Ruffalo— The Kids Are All Right {"Paul"}
Actress In A Leading Role
Annette Bening— The Kids Are All Right {"Nic"}
Jennifer Lawrence— Winter's Bone {"Ree"}
Michelle Williams— Blue Valentine {"Cindy"}
Nicole Kidman— Rabbit Hole {"Becca"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Amy Adams— The Fighter {"Charlene Fleming"}
Hailee Steinfeld— True Grit {"Mattie Ross"}
Helena Bonham Carter— The King's Speech {"Queen Elizabeth"}
Jacki Weaver— Animal Kingdom {"Janine 'Smurf' Cody"}
Directing
Black Swan— Darren Aronofsky
The Fighter— David O. Russell
The Social Network— David Fincher
True Grit— Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Social Network— Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Winner
127 Hours— Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
Toy Story 3— Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit— Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone— Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The King's Speech— Screenplay by David Seidler
Winner
Another Year— Written by Mike Leigh
Inception— Written by Christopher Nolan
The Fighter— Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
The Kids Are All Right— Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
Cinematography
Inception— Wally Pfister
Winner
Black Swan— Matthew Libatique
The King's Speech— Danny Cohen
The Social Network— Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit— Roger Deakins
Music (Original Score)
The Social Network— Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Winner
127 Hours— A.R. Rahman
How to Train Your Dragon— John Powell
Inception— Hans Zimmer
The King's Speech— Alexandre Desplat
Music (Original Song)
"We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3— Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Winner
"Coming Home" from Country Strong— Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
"I See The Light" from Tangled— Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Glenn Slater
"If I Rise" from 127 Hours— Music by A.R. Rahman; Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland— Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara
Winner
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1— Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
Inception— Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
The King's Speech— Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr
True Grit— Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
Visual Effects
Inception— Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Winner
Alice in Wonderland— Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1— Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter— Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojansky and Joe Farrell
Iron Man 2— Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick
Film Editing
The Social Network— Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Winner
127 Hours— Jon Harris
Black Swan— Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter— Pamela Martin
The King's Speech— Tariq Anwar
Sound Editing
Inception— Richard King
Winner
Toy Story 3— Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
Tron: Legacy— Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit— Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable— Mark P. Stoeckinger
Sound Mixing
Inception— Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
Winner
Salt— Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
The King's Speech— Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
The Social Network— Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
True Grit— Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
Costume Design
Alice in Wonderland— Colleen Atwood
Winner
I Am Love— Antonella Cannarozzi
The King's Speech— Jenny Beavan
The Tempest— Sandy Powell
True Grit— Mary Zophres
Makeup
The Wolfman— Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
Winner
Barney's Version— Adrien Morot
The Way Back— Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
Documentary (Feature)
Inside Job— Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Winner
Exit through the Gift Shop— Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz
Gasland— Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
Restrepo— Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
Waste Land— Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley
Documentary (Short Subject)
Strangers No More— Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Winner
Killing in the Name— Jed Rothstein
Poster Girl— Sara Nesson and Mitchell W. Block
Sun Come Up— Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
The Warriors of Qiugang— Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
Short Film (Animated)
The Lost Thing— Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Winner
Day & Night— Teddy Newton
Let's Pollute— Geefwee Boedoe
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)— Bastien Dubois
The Gruffalo— Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Short Film (Live Action)
God of Love— Luke Matheny
Winner
Na Wewe— Ivan Goldschmidt
The Confession— Tanel Toom
The Crush— Michael Creagh
Wish 143— Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite
Foreign Language Film
In a Better World— Denmark
Winner
Biutiful— Mexico
Dogtooth— Greece
Incendies— Canada
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)— Algeria
Honorary Award
To Kevin Brownlow for the wise and devoted chronicling of the cinematic parade.
Winner
Francis Ford Coppola
IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD
To Eli Wallach for a lifetime's worth of indelible screen characters.
To Jean-Luc Godard for passion. For confrontation. For a new kind of cinema.
Scientific And Technical Award (Scientific And Engineering Award)
To DR. MARK SAGAR for his early and continuing development of influential facial motion retargeting solutions. Dr. Sagar's work led to a method for transforming facial motion capture data into an expression-based, editable character animation system that has been used in motion pictures with a high volume of digital characters. [Digital Imaging Technology]
Winner
To JAMES RODNUNSKY, ALEX MacDONALD and MARK CHAPMAN for the development of the Cablecam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies. The evolution of the Cablecam technology has made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a three-dimensional space. [Camera Cranes]
To MARK NOEL for the design, engineering, and development, and to JOHN FRAZIER for his contributions to the design and safety features, of the NAC Servo Winch System. The NAC System allows full-size cars, aircraft and other heavy props to be flown on wires with unprecedented freedom of motion and a high degree of safety, on-set and in real time. The intuitive control system responds to the motion of the operator's hand, permitting the recording and playback of all axes of motion simultaneously, which may be edited and refined for playback in subsequent takes. [Stage Operations]
To TIM DRNEC, BEN BRITTEN SMITH and MATT DAVIS for the development of the Spydercam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies. The evolution of the Spydercam technology has made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a three-dimensional space. [Camera Cranes]
Scientific And Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award)
To GREG ERCOLANO for the design and engineering of a series of software systems culminating in the Rush render queue management system. Mr. Ercolano's work has been influential across the industry, and has enabled scalable render farms at numerous studios. [Digital Imaging Technology]
Winner
JOHN A. BONNER MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
To CHRIS ALLEN, GAUTHAM KRISHNAMURTI, MARK A. BROWN and LANCE KIMES for the development of Queue, a robust, scalable approach to render queue management. Queue was one of the first systems that allowed for statistical analysis and process introspection, providing a framework for the efficient use of render farms. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To DAVID M. LAUR for the development of the Alfred render queue management system. This system was the first robust, scalable, widely adopted commercial solution for queue management in the motion picture industry. Its user interface and support for multi-machine assignment influenced the design of modern day queue management tools. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To Denny Clairmont in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
To ERIC TABELLION and ARNAULD LAMORLETTE for the creation of a computer graphics bounce lighting methodology that is practical at feature film scale. This important step in the evolution of global illumination techniques, first used on the motion picture "Shrek 2," was shared with the industry in their technical paper "An Approximate Global Illumination System for Computer Generated Films." [Digital Imaging Technology]
To FLORIAN KAINZ for the design and development of the robust, highly scalable distributed architecture of the ObaQ render queue management system. ObaQ has scaled from managing a few hundred processors in 1997 to many thousands today, with minimal changes to the original design. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To TONY CLARK, ALAN ROGERS, NEIL WILSON and RORY McGREGOR for the software design and continued development of cineSync, a tool for remote collaboration and review of visual effects. Easy to use, cineSync has become a widely accepted solution for remote production collaboration. [Systems]