Academy Awards 2011 winners list

Big surprises last night! I knew that there were strong possibilities of not seeing The Social Network winning the Best Picture Oscar instead of The King's Speech, but I never thought that the David Fincher won't take home the Best Director prize! I confess that I was a little bit shocked, most because of the fact that Fincher has an amazing body of work and he's has some legendary movies under his belt like Se7en, Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Social Network (in which he showed great Oscar-quality direction work). That just seemed wrong to me!
Black Swan gave a lot to Natalie Portman - lots of critical praise, a fiancé, a baby and an Oscar. And everybody knows she deserved the prize for such a magnifique performance.
Christian Bale won the Oscar! I knew the Academy would reward all his work (I think he has no professional acting formation).
Hailee Steinfeld didn't win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for True Grit (the Coen brothers' movie was the Biggest Looser of the Oscar's night), which goes in the wrong direction I predicted, but let's be fair: she didn't need it - she's already seen as a big promise. Now, Melissa Leo is thanking God for seeing her self-promotion "commercials" ebing rewarded alongside her performance in The Fighter (yes, she paid some things that said "for your consideration" with her name).
Just to say that I think Inception should be the most deservable winner of the Best Art Direction prize, but Alice In Wonderland was (only) visually strong, so why not reward a Tim Burton blockbuster?
Here's the complete list of the Oscar winners:

BEST PICTURE
The King's Speech

BEST DIRECTOR
Tom Hooper for The King's Speech

BEST LEADING ACTOR
Colin Firth for The King's Speech

BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Natalie Portman for Black Swan

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale for The Fighter

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melissa Leo for The Fighter

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
David Seidler for The King's Speech

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Inception, Wally Pfister

BEST ART DIRECTION
Alice in Wonderland, production design: Robert Stromberg; set decoration: Karen O'Hara

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood

BEST MAKEUP
The Wolfman, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Inception, Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb

BEST FILM EDITING
The Social Network, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3, music and lyrics by Randy Newman

BEST SOUND EDITING
Inception, Richard King

BEST SOUND MIXING
Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Toy Story 3

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
In a Better World (Denmark)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Inside Job

BEST SHORT SUBJECT DOCUMENTARY
Strangers No More

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Lost Thing

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
God of Love

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