The odds-on favorite won Best Picture and dominated Sunday night's Oscars ? but the telecast itself suffered from lackluster hosting, odd musical numbers and disjointed production. By NPR
And The Oscars Go To ...
Best Art Direction
- Alice in Wonderland - Robert Stromberg (Production Design) and Karen O'Hara (Set Decoration)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Stuart Craig (Production Design) and Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration)
- Inception - Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration)
- The King's Speech - Eve Stewart (Production Design) and Judy Farr (Set Decoration)
- True Grit - Jess Gonchor (Production Design) and Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration)
Best Cinematography
- Inception - Wally Pfister
- Black Swan - Matthew Libatique
- The King's Speech - Danny Cohen
- The Social Network - Jeff Cronenweth
- True Grit - Roger Deakins
Best Supporting Actress
- Melissa Leo - The Fighter
- Amy Adams - The Fighter
- Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech
- Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit
- Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom
Best Animated Short Film
- "The Lost Thing" - Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
- "Day and Night" - Teddy Newton
- "The Gruffalo" - Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
- "Let's Pollute"- Geefwee Boedoe
- "Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)" - Bastien Dubois
Best Animated Film
- Toy Story 3 - Lee Unkrich
- How to Train Your Dragon - Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
- The Illusionist - Sylvain Chomet
Best Adapted Screenplay
- The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin
- 127 Hours - Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy
- Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt (screenplay); John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (story)
- True Grit - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- Winter's Bone - Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
Best Original Screenplay
- The King's Speech - David Seidler
- Another Year - Mike Leigh
- The Fighter - Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (Screenplay); Keith Dorrington and Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (story)
- Inception - Christopher Nolan
- The Kids Are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
Best Foreign Language Film
- In A Better World from Denmark
- Biutiful from Mexico
- Dogtooth from Greece
- Incendies from Canada
- Outside the Law (Hors-La-Loi) from Algeria
Best Supporting Actor
- 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
Best Original Score
- The Social Network - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
- How To Train Your Dragon - John Powell
- Inception - Hans Zimmer
- The King's Speech - Alexandre Desplat
- 127 Hours - A.R. Rahman
Best Sound Mixing
- Inception - Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
- The King's Speech - Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
- Salt - Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
- The Social Network - Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
- True Grit - Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
Best Sound Editing
- Inception - Richard King
- 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
Best Makeup
- The Wolfman - Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
- Barney's Version - Adrien Morot
- The Way Back - Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
Best Costume Design
- Alice in Wonderland - Colleen Atwood
- I Am Love - Antonella Cannarozzi
- The King's Speech - Jenny Beavan
- The Tempest - Sandy Powell
- True Grit - Mary Zophres
Best Short Documentary
- "Strangers No More" - Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
- "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
Best Short Film
- "God of Love" - Luke Matheny
- "The Confession" - Tanel Toom
- "The Crush" - Michael Creagh
- "Na Wewe" - Ivan Goldschmidt
- "Wish 143" - Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite
Best Documentary
- Inside Job - Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
- 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
Best Visual Effects
- Inception - Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
- 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
Best Film Editing
- The Social Network - Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
- Black Swan - Andrew Weisblum
- The Fighter - Pamela Martin
- The King's Speech - Tariq Anwar
- 127 Hours - Jon Harris
Best Original Song
- "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 - Randy Newman (Music and Lyric)
- "Coming Home" from Country Strong - Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey (Music and Lyric)
- "I See The Light" from Tangled - Alan Menken (Music) and Glenn Slater (Lyric)
- "If I Rise" from 127 Hours - A.R. Rahman (Music), Dido and Rollo Armstrong (Lyric)
Best Director
- The King's Speech - Tom Hooper
- Black Swan - Darren Aronofsky
- The Fighter - David O. Russell
- The Social Network - David Fincher
- True Grit - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Best Actress
- Natalie Portman - Black Swan
- Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right
- Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole
- Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone
- Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine
Best Actor
- Colin Firth - The King's Speech
- Javier Bardem - Biutiful
- Jeff Bridges - True Grit
- Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
- James Franco - 127 Hours
Best Picture
- The King's Speech
- Black Swan
- The Fighter
- Inception
- The Kids Are All Right
- 127 Hours
- The Social Network
- Toy Story 3
- True Grit
- Winter's Bone