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2011 Oscar Pool Ballot
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
Director
™ 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
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 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 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
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
Original Screenplay
™ Another Year Written by Mike Leigh
™ The Fighter Screenplay by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy,
and Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington,
Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson
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Inception Written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right Written by Lisa Cholodenko
and Stuart Blumberg
The King’s Speech Screenplay by David Seidler
Adapted Screenplay
™ 127 Hours Screenplay by Danny Boyle and
Simon Beaufoy
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The Social Network Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
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True Grit Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Toy Story 3 Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by
John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich
Winter’s Bone Adapted by Debra Granik and
Anne Rosellini
Animated Feature Film
™ How to Train Your Dragon Chris Sanders and
Foreign Language Film
™ Biutiful
Mexico | Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
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Dogtooth (Kynodontas)
Greece | Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos
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In a Better World (Hævnen)
Denmark | Directed by Susanne Bier
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Incendies
Canada | Directed by Denis Villeneuve
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Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)
Algeria | Directed by Rachid Bouchareb
Original Score
™ How to Train Your Dragon John Powell
™ Inception Hans Zimmer
™ The King’s Speech Alexandre Desplat
™ 127 Hours A.R. Rahman
™ The Social Network Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Original Song
™ Country Strong “Coming Home”
Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges,
and Hillary Lindsey
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Tangled “I See the Light”
Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Glenn Slater
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127 Hours “If I Rise”
Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Dido and
Rollo Armstrong
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Toy Story 3 “We Belong Together”
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Art Direction
™ Alice in Wonderland Robert Stromberg (Production
Design); Karen O’Hara (Set Decoration)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Stuart Craig (Production Design);
Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration)
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Inception Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design);
Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration)
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The King’s Speech Eve Stewart (Production Design);
Judy Farr (Set Decoration)
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True Grit Jess Gonchor (Production Design);
Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration)
Cinematography
™ Black Swan Matthew Libatique
™ Inception Wally Pfister
™ The King’s Speech Danny Cohen
™ The Social Network Jeff Cronenweth
™ True Grit Roger Deakins
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
Makeup
™ Barney’s Version Adrien Morot
™ The Way Back Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk,
and Yolanda Toussieng
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The Wolfman Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
Film Editing
™ Black Swan Andrew Weisblum
™ The Fighter Pamela Martin
™ The King’s Speech Tariq Anwar
™ 127 Hours Jon Harris
™ The Social Network Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
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
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
Animated Short Film
™ Day & Night Teddy Newton
™ The Gruffalo Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
™ Let’s Pollute Geefwee Boedoe
™ The Lost Thing Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
™ Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a
Journey Diary) Bastien Dubois
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
Sound Editing
™ Inception Richard King
™ Toy Story 3 Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
™ Tron: Legacy Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and
Addison Teague
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True Grit Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable Mark P. Stoeckinger
Sound Mixing
™ Inception Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo,
and Ed Novick
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The King’s Speech Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen,
and John Midgley
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Salt Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan,
and William Sarokin
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The Social Network Ren Klyce, David Parker,
Michael Semanick, and Mark Weingarten
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True Grit Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and
Peter F. Kurland
Visual Effects
™ Alice in Wonderland Ken Ralston, David Schaub,
Carey Villegas, and Sean Phillips
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz, and
Nicolas Aithadi
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Hereafter Michael Owens, Bryan Grill,
Stephan Trojanski, and Joe Farrell
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Inception Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould,
Andrew Lockley, and Peter Bebb
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Iron Man 2 Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright, and
Daniel Sudick
tie-breaker questions
How many jokes will be made about James
Franco’s soap-opera career?
TIE-BREAKER TIE-BREAKER
How many references, including sight gags, will
there be to amputated arms?
Dean DeBlois
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The Illusionist Sylvain Chomet
Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich
Official tiebreaker tallies will be posted on Vulture
immediately following the broadcast.