❤ loved ; ♕ should win ; ♛ won

Best picture

• War Horse
• The Artist
• Moneyball
• The Descendants
• The Tree of Life
• Midnight in Paris
• The Help
• Hugo
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Best actress in a supporting role

• Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
• Jessica Chastain, The Help
• Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
• Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
• Octavia Spencer, The Help

Best actor in a supporting role

• Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
• Jonah Hill, Moneyball
• Nick Nolte, Warrior
• Christopher Plummer, Beginners
• Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Best actress in a leading role

• Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
• Viola Davis, The Help
• Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
• Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn

Best actor in a leading role

• Demián Bichir, A Better Life
• George Clooney, The Descendants
• Jean Dujardin, The Artist
• Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Brad Pitt, Moneyball

Best director

• Michel Hazavanicius, The Artist
• Alexander Payne, The Descendants
• Martin Scorsese, Hugo
• Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
• Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

Best original Screenplay

• The Artist
• Bridesmaids
• Margin Call
• Midnight in Paris
• A Separation

Best adapted screenplay

• The Descendants
• Hugo
• Ides of March
• Moneyball
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best foreign language film

• Bullhead
• Footnote
• In Darkness
• Monsieur Lazhar
• A Separation

Best animated film

• A Cat in Paris
• Chico And Rita
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Rango
• Puss in Boots

Art direction

• The Artist
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
• Hugo
• Midnight in Paris
• War Horse

Cinematography

• The Artist
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Hugo
• The Tree of Life
• War Horse

Costume design

• Anonymous
• The Artist
• Hugo
• Jane Eyre
• W.E.

Documentary feature

• Hell and Back Again
• If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
• Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
• Pina
• Undefeated

Documentary short subject

• The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
• God is the Bigger Elvis
• Incident in New Baghdad
• Saving Face
• The Tsumani and the Cherry Blossom

Film editing

• The Artist
• The Descendants
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Hugo
• Moneyball

Sound editing

• Drive
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Hugo
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• War Horse

Sound mixing

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Hugo
• Moneyball
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• War Horse

Visual effects

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
• Hugo
• Real Steel
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Make up

• Albert Nobbs
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
• The Iron Lady

Music (original score)

• The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
• The Artist
• Hugo
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• War Horse

Music (original song)

• The Muppets
• Rio

Short film (animated)

• Dimanche / Sunday
• The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore
• La Luna
• A Morning Stroll
• Wild Life

Short film (live action)

• Pentecost
• Raju
• The Shore
• Time Freak
• Tuba Atlantic