I haven’t changed any of these (except for the few technical categories I hadn’t picked yet), and still haven’t posted my reviews of half of them lol (don’t worry, when I finally get to posting again there’ll be tons: a lot are 90% finished in Evernote)… but just for ease of reading, here’s my straight list. So many of them are obvious, which is probably why my few exceptions are so bold It’s all fun. I’ll be live tweeting the red carpet and show as per usual

Final Score: 11/24 (oh well, the usual 50/50… my usual 50%-ish, especially cool as I included the shorts, etc., and was more brutally hopeful than ever… till next year!)

Best Picture: Toy Story 3 (The King’s Speech)
Best Director: David Fincher, The Social Network (Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech)
Best Actor: Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
Best Actress: Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, The Fighter
Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Best Original Screenplay: Inception, Christopher Nolan (The King’s Speech)
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin
Best Editing: Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall, The Social Network
Best Cinematography: Danny Cohen, The King’s Speech (Inception)
Best Original Score: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, The Social Network
Best Original Song: Alan Menken, Glenn Slater, “I See the Light”, Tangled (“We Belong Together”, Toy Story 3)
Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 3
Best Art Direction: Netty Chapman, The King’s Speech (Alice in Wonderland)
Best Costume Design: Jenny Beavan, The King’s Speech (Alice in Wonderland)
Best Make-Up: Barney’s Version (The Wolfman)
Best Sound Editing: Inception
Best Sound Mixing: The Social Network (Inception)
Best Visual Effects: Inception
Best Documentary Feature: Exit Through the Gift Shop (Inside Job)
Best Documentary Short: Strangers No More
Best Live Action Short: Wish 143 (God of Love)
Best Animated Short: Day and Night (The Lost Thing)
Best Foreign Language Film: Biutiful

(those last 5, I don’t normally do, ‘cos I’ve hardly seen any of the nominees lol… but what the hell, like I said, it’s all fun, and with so many predictable categories this year, the more fun we can add the better…)

Tally: The Social Network: 5, The King’s Speech: 4, Inception: 3, Toy Story 3: 2, The Fighter: 2, Everything Else: 1

The rest of this post is just my old nomination predictions.

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As the comments attest, I haven’t updated this nearly as much as I’d‘ve liked to this year… hopefully I’ll do a better job of keeping track for next year’s. At this point, a lot of these seem fairly obvious, with the real fun coming when it comes to the winners. So with that in mind, I’m gonna go ahead and pick my winners before the nominations for all categories… y’know, just for fun. [NB. I’m bumping this to the front page ‘cos I haven’t done so in a while and I’ve changed a lot, but I might still change a few, especially the technical ones further down the page, some of which have me really stumped lol…]

63/97 … slightly squiffy ‘cos I put 5 down for Animated (they picked 3) and only 3 for Original Song (there were 4) … but way up on my usual 50%-ish, and all my win hopes are still in there, so all-in-all, very nice…

Best Picture

• Toy Story 3 [WIN]
• The Social Network
• Black Swan
• The King’s Speech
• 127 Hours
• Winter’s Bone
• Another Year
• The Fighter
• True Grit
• Inception

Best Director

• David Fincher, The Social Network [WIN]
• Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
• Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
• Debra Granik, Winter’s Bone
• Mike Leigh, Another Year

Best Actor

• Colin Firth, The King’s Speech [WIN]
• James Franco, 127 Hours
• Jake Gyllenhaal, Love and Other Drugs
• Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
• Jeff Bridges, True Grit

Best Actress

• Natalie Portman, Black Swan [WIN]
• Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
• Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
• Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs
• Leslie Manville, Another Year

Best Supporting Actor

• Christian Bale, The Fighter [WIN]
• Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech
• Matt Damon, True Grit
• Justin Timberlake, The Social Network
• Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right

Best Supporting Actress (NB. I am fully prepared to fall down on this category just for the sake of mentioning 3 of my favourite performances of the year, one of which isn’t even eligible LOL)

• Melissa Leo, The Fighter [WIN]
• Amy Adams, The Fighter
• Elle Fanning, Somewhere
• Chloe Moretz, Kick-Ass
• Emily Watson, Cemetery Junction

Best Original Screenplay

• Inception, Christopher Nolan [WIN]
• The King’s Speech, David Seidler
• Somewhere, Sofia Coppola
• The Fighter, Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
• Black Swan, Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John J. McLaughlin

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin [WIN]
• Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik, Anne Rosselini
• Toy Story 3, Michael Arndt
• How to Train Your Dragon, William Davies, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
• Never Let Me Go, Alex Garland

Best Editing

• The Social Network, Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall [WIN]
• Black Swan, Andrew Weisblum
• Inception, Lee Smith
• The King’s Speech, Tariq Anwar
• 127 Hours, Jon Harris

Best Cinematography

• Danny Cohen, The King’s Speech [WIN]
• Matthew Libatique, Black Swan
• Jeff Cronenweth, The Social Network
• Roger Deakins, True Grit
• Wally Pfister, Inception

Best Original Score

• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, The Social Network [WIN]
• Randy Newman, Toy Story 3
• A.R. Rahman, 127 Hours
• Alexandre Desplat, The King’s Speech
• Hans Zimmer, Inception

Best Original Song

• “I See the Light” – Alan Menken, Tangled [WIN]
• “We Belong Together” – Randy Newman, Toy Story 3
• “If I Rise” – AR Rahman, 127 Hours
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Best Animated Feature

• Toy Story 3 [WIN]
• Tangled
• How to Train Your Dragon
• The Illusionist
• Despicable Me

Best Art Direction

• The King’s Speech [WIN]
• The Social Network
• Inception
• Shutter Island
• Alice in Wonderland

Best Costume Design

• Jenny Beaven, The King’s Speech [WIN]
• Amy Westcott, Black Swan
• Lori DeLapp, True Grit
• Sandy Powell, Shutter Island
• Colleen Atwood, Alice in Wonderland

Best Make Up

• Barney’s Version
• The Fighter
• True Grit

Best Sound Mixing

• The Social Network [WIN]
• Inception
• 127 Hours
• Toy Story 3
• True Grit

Best Sound Effects Editing

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Inception
• 127 Hours
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Best Visual Effects

• Inception
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Alice in Wonderland
• Scott Pilgrim vs The World
• Tron: Legacy