Academy Awards 2011 winners predictions

In spite of seeing the Oscar buzz increasing around The King's Speech, I put my money in The Social Network as the biggest winner of the Oscar night, because I've faith that the Academy voters will use their brains and vote in a much more important and socially relevant movie instead of their hearts (The King's Speech is a much more "warming" movie). The Facebook movie deserves the Oscar of Best Picture better than the movie about a king with a speech problem. So, here's my winners predictions list for the Oscar night:

BEST PICTURE
The Social Network

BEST DIRECTOR
David Fincher for The Social Network

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
Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
David Seidler for The King's Speech

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
True Grit, Roger Deakins

BEST ART DIRECTION
Inception, production design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; set decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood

BEST MAKEUP
The Way Back, Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng

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
"If I Rise" from 127 Hours, music by A.R. Rahman and lyrics by Dido and Rollo Armstrong

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
Biutiful (Mexico)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Inside Job, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

BEST SHORT SUBJECT DOCUMENTARY
Poster Girl, nominees to be determined

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Day & Night, Teddy Newton

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Wish 143, Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

Just to mention the 5 biggest snubs of this year's Oscar nominations:
1 - Christopher Nolan (Inception) in the Best Director category
2 - Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine) in the Best Leading Actor category
3 - Lee Smith (Inception) in the Best Editing category (the 0 gravity fight in the hotel was just amazing!)
4 - Danny Elfman (Alice In Wonderland) in the Best Original Score category
5 - Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) in the Best Supporting Actor category

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