❤ loved ; ♕ should win ; ♛ won

Best motion picture of the year

• 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

Performance by an 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)

Performance by an 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) ♕/❤

Performance by an actress in a 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)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Amy Adams (The Fighter)
• Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
• Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
• Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
• Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)

Achievement in directing

• Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) ♕
• David O Russell (The Fighter)
• Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
• David Fincher (The Social Network)
• Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (True Grit)

Adapted screenplay

• 127 Hours - Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
• The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin ♕
• 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 & Anne Rosellini

Original screenplay

• Another Year - Mike Leigh
• The Fighter - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (screenplay); Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (story)
• Inception - Christopher Nolan
• The Kids Are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
• The King's Speech - David Seidler ♕

Best animated feature film of the year

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

Best foreign language film of the year

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

Art direction

• Alice in Wonderland - Robert Stromberg (production design), Karen O'Hara (set decoration)♕
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Stuart Craig (production design), 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), Judy Farr (set decoration)
• True Grit - Jess Gonchor (production design), Nancy Haigh (set decoration)

Achievement in cinematography

• Matthew Libatique (Black Swan) ♕
• Wally Pfister (Inception)
• Danny Cohen (The King's Speech)
• Jeff Cronenweth (The Social Network)
• Roger Deakins (True Grit)

Achievement in costume design

• Colleen Atwood (Alice in Wonderland)
• Antonella Cannarozzi (I Am Love)
• Jenny Beavan (The King's Speech)
• Sandy Powell (The Tempest)
• Mary Zophres (True Grit)

Best documentary feature

• Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz)
• Gasland (Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic)
• Inside Job (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
• Restrepo (Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger)
• Waste Land (Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley)

Best documentary short subject

• Killing in the Name (Nominees to be determined)
• Poster Girl (Nominees to be determined)
• Strangers No More (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon)
• Sun Come Up (Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger)
• The Warriors of Qiugang (Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon)

Achievement in film editing

• Andrew Weisblum (Black Swan)
• Pamela Martin (The Fighter)
• Tariq Anwar (The King's Speech)
• Jon Harris (127 Hours)
• Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (The Social Network)

Achievement in makeup

• Adrien Morot (Barney's Version)
• Edouard F Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng (The Way Back)
• Rick Baker and Dave Elsey (The Wolfman)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original score)

• John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon)
• Hans Zimmer (Inception)
• Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech)
• AR Rahman (127 Hours)
• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Social Network)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original song)

• Coming Home (from Country Strong, music and lyrics by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey)
• I See the Light (from Tangled, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater)
• If I Rise (from 127 Hours, music by AR Rahman, lyrics by Dido and Rollo Armstrong)
• We Belong Together (from Toy Story 3, music and lyrics by Randy Newman)♕

Best animated short film

• Day & Night (Teddy Newton)
• The Gruffalo (Jakob Schuh and Max Lang)
• Let's Pollute (Geefwee Boedoe)
• The Lost Thing (Nick Batzias, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)
• Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) (Bastien Dubois)

Best live action short film

• The Confession (Tanel Toom)
• The Crush (Michael Creagh)
• God of Love (Luke Matheny)
• Na Wewe (Ivan Goldschmidt)
• Wish 143 (Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite)

Achievement in 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)

Achievement in 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)

Achievement in visual effects

• 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 Trojanski and Joe Farrell)
• Inception (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb)
• Iron Man 2 (Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick)