Buzz: Academy Awards Nominations

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I'm so excited!! 

Oscar nominations are in... so the guess work begins. I'm not the first, and certainly won't be the last... but here are my choices for winners (in bold). What do you think?

Best Picture

Black Swan

The Fighter

Inception

The Kids Are All Right

The King's Speech

127 Hours

The Social Network

Toy Story 3

True Grit

Winter's Bone

Actress in Leading Role

Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right

Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole

Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone

Natalie Portman, Black Swan

Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

Actor in a Leading Role

Javier Bardem, Biutiful

Jeff Bridges, True Grit

Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network

Colin Firth, The King's Speech

James Franco, 127 Hours

Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams, The Fighter

Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech

Melissa Leo, The Fighter

ailee Steinfeld, True Grit

Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

Actor in a Supporting Role

Christian Bale, The Fighter

John Hawkes, Winter's Bone

Jeremy Renner, The Town

Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right

Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech

Directing

Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky

The Fighter, David. O. Russell

The King's Speech, Tom Hooper

The Social Network, David Fincher

True Grit, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Animated Feature Film

• How to Train Your Dragon
• The Illusionist
• Toy Story 3

Art Direction

• Alice In Wonderland
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
• Inception
• The King's Speech
• True Grit

Cinematography

• Black Swan
• Inception
• The King's Speech
• The Social Network
• True Grit

Costume Design

• Alice in Wonderland
• I Am Love
• The King's Speech
• The Tempest
• True Grit

Documentary (Feature) - ?

• Exit Through the Gift Shop
• Gasland
• Inside Job - ??
• Restrepo
• Waste Land

Documentary (Short Subject) - ?

• Killing in the Name
• Poster Girl
• Strangers No More
• Sun Come Up
• The Warriors of Qiugang

Film Editing

• Black Swan
• The Fighter
• The King's Speech
• 127 Hours
• The Social Network

Foreign Language Film

• Biutiful, Mexico
• Dogtooth, Greece
• In A Better World, Denmark
• Incendies, Canada
• Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi), Algeria

Makeup - ?

• Barney's Version
• The Way Back
• The Wolfman

Music (Original Score)

• How to Train Your Dragon
• Inception
• The King's Speech
• 127 Hours
• The Social Network

Music (Original Song)

• Coming Home from Country Strong
• I See the Light from Tangled
• If I Rise from 127 Hours
• We Belong Together from Toy Story 3

Short Film (Animated)

• Day & Night
• The Gruffalo
• Let's Pollute
• The Lost Thing
• Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary

Short Film (Live Action) - ?

• The Confession
• The Crush
• God of Love
• Na Wewe
• Wish 143

Sound Editing

• Inception
• Toy Story 3
• Tron: Legacy
• True Grit
• Unstoppable

Sound Mixing

• Inception
• The King's Speech
• Salt
• The Social Network
• True Grit

Visual Effects

• Alice In Wonderland
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
• Hereafter
• Inception
• Iron Man 2

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

• 127 Hours
• The Social Network
• Toy Story 3
• True Grit
• Winter's Bone

Writing (Original Screenplay)

• Another Year
• The Fighter
• Inception
• The Kids Are All Right
• The King's Speech