My 83rd Oscar Awards Predictions

1. Best Picture: The King's Speech
2. Best Director: Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
3. Best Actor: Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
4. Best Actress: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
5. Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale (The Fighter)
6. Best Supporting Actress: Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
7. Best Original Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)
8. Best Adapted Screenplay: David Seidler (The King's Speech)
9. Best Animated Film: Toy Story 3
10. Best Foreign Language Film: Incendies (Canada)
11. Best Documentary – Feature: Inside Job
12. Best Animated Short Film: Day and Night
13. Best Film Editing: The Social Network
14. Best Original Song: "If I Rise" (127 Hours)
15. Best Make Up: "The Way Back"
16. Best Original Score: Inception
17. Best Sound Editing: Inception
18. Best Sound Mixing: The King's Speech
19. Best Art Direction: The King's Speech
20. Best Cinematography: True Grit
21. Best Costume Design: Alice in Wonderland
22. Best Visual Effects: Inception
23. Best Documentary – Short Subject: Killing In The Name
24. Best Live Action Short Film: God of Love

83rd Oscar Awards Original Song Nominees

This is my favorite category because well I love music :) We only 4 nominees this year instead of the usual 5 which means the music division of the Academy didn't like a lot of the songs that were qualified because only 4 songs had a passing "grade" to be nominated. Anyway, listen to the four nominated songs below. I personally like "I See The Light" because it's such a Disney classic tune, reminds me of my childhood haha. The other 3 songs are good too and I think AR Rahman and Dido's "If I Rise" from "127 Hours" will win this one.

“Coming Home” from "Country Strong"
Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
Performed by Gwyneth Paltrow




“I See the Light” from "Tangled"
Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Glenn Slater
Performed by Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi



“If I Rise” from "127 Hours"
Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
Performed by Dido & A.R Rahman



“We Belong Together” from "Toy Story 3"
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

83rd Oscar Awards Nominations Predictions

The nominees for the 83rd Oscar Awards will be handed out on Tuesday morning in the US which here in the Philippines will be tonight! In line with that, I'll share my predictions on what films/actors will be nominated. I haven't seen a lot of this films I admit so I just based my predictions on critic awards, guild nominations and buzz on forums and blog and threw in some wildcard predictions along the way. The 83rd Academy Awards will be televised here in Philippines on ABS-CBN Channel 2 and Velvet cable channel on February 28,2011

Best Picture

1. Inception
2. The Social Network
3. The King's Speech
4. The Fighter
5. Black Swan
6. Toy Story 3
7. The Kids Are All Right
8. True Grit
9. Shutter Island
   
10. 127 Hours

Best Director

1. Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
2. David Fincher (The Social Network)
3. Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
4. Christopher Nolan (Inception)
5. David O. Russell (The Fighter)

Best Actress

1. Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
2. Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
3. Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
4. Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)
5. Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)

Best Actor

1. Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
2. James Franco (127 Hours)
3. Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
4. Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
5. Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
2. Amy Adams (The Fighter)
3. Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
4. Mila Kunis (Black Swan)
5. Barbara Hershey (Black Swan)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Christian Bale (The Fighter)
2. Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)
3. Andrew Garfield (The Social Network)
4. Matt Damon (True Grit)
   
5. Jeremy Renner (The Town)

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. 127 Hours
2. The Social Network
3. Toy Story 3
4. True Grit
5. Winter’s Bone

Best Original Screenplay

1. Black Swan
2. The Fighter
3. Inception
4. The Kids Are All Right
5. The King’s Speech

Best Animated Film

1. Toy Story 3
2. Tangled
3. How To Train Your Dragon

Best Original Song

1. "I See the Light" (Tangled)
2. "If I Rise" (127 Hours)
3. "Shine" (Waiting For Superman)
4. "You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me" (Burlesque)
5. "We Belong Together" (Toy Story 3)

Editing

1. The Social Network
2. Inception
3. Black Swan
4. The Fighter
5. The King's Speech

Cinematography

1. The King's Speech
2. Inception
3. True Grit
4. Black Swan
5. The Social Network

Art Direction

1. Black Swan
2. The King's Speech
3. Inception
4. Alice in Wonderland
5. Shutter Island

Costume Design

1. Black Swan
2. True Grit
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. The King's Speech
5. The Tempest

Makeup

1. The Fighter
   
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. True Grit
   

Original Score

1. Inception
2. The Social Network
3. The King's Speech
4. Black Swan
5. Alice In Wonderland

Sound Editing

1. Black Swan
2. Inception
3. Toy Story 3
4. The Social Network
5. Tron Legacy

Sound Mixing

1. Black Swan
2. Inception
3. Toy Story 3
4. The Social Network
5. True Grit

Visual Effects

1. Alice in Wonderland
2. Inception
3. Iron Man 2
4. Tron: Legacy
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

Foreign Language Film

1. Biutiful (Mexico)
2. In A Better World (Denmark)
3. Outside the Law (Algeria)
4. Incendies (Canada)
5. Confessions (Japan)