Hello to the 4 people that are going to read this blog. I just thought I'd participate in the tradition of putting my opinion on the internet. In this blog, I'm going to reveal my predictions for the Academy Awards.

The films that are bolded are the films I believe will win the award.

The films that are underlined are the films I would pick if I was giving out the awards.

These maybe be the same film in some catagories.

Let's get started!

BEST PICTURE

Black Swan
The Fighter
The Social Network
The King's Speech
Toy Story 3
Inception
True Grit
The Kids Are All Right
127 Hours
Winter's Bone


BEST ACTOR

Colin Firth, The King's Speech
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
James Franco, 127 Hours
Jeff Bridges, True Grit

BEST ACTRESS

Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right


BEST DIRECTION

David Fincher, The Social Network
The Coen Brothers, True Grit
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
David O. Russell, The Fighter
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

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

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Another Year, Mike Leigh
The Fighter Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson;
Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception, Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
The King's Speech, David Seidler


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

127 Hours by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
The Social Network by Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Toy Story 3
How To Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Biutiful
DogTooth
In A Better World
Outside The Law
Incendies

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Exit through the Gift Shop
Gasland
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waste Land

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143


BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let's Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)

BEST 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


BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Coming Home, from Country Strong Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
I See the Light, from Tangled Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
If I Rise, from 127 Hours Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
We Belong Together, from Toy Story 3 Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

BEST SOUND EDITING

Inception, Richard King
Toy Story 3, Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
Tron: Legacy, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit, Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable, Mark P. Stoeckinger


BEST SOUND MIXING

Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
The King's Speech, Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
Salt, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
The Social Network, Ren Klyce, David Parker Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
True Grit, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

BEST ART DIRECTION

Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
The King's Speech
True Grit

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Black Swan, Matthew Libatique
Inception, Wally Pfister
The King's Speech, Danny Cohen
The Social Network, Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit, Roger Deakins

BEST MAKEUP

Barney's Version, Adrien Morot
The Way Back, Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
The Wolfman, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

BEST 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

BEST FILM EDITING

Andrew Weisblum, Black Swan
Pamela Martin, The Fighter
Tariq Anwarr, The King's Speech
Jon Harris, 127 Hours
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter, The Social Network

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Alice in Wonderland Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter, Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
Inception, Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Iron Man 2, Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

So there they are. The categories without underline picks mean that I didn't see any of those movies.