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Academy Awards: winners

Jacki, Nicole and Geoffrey missed out but Australia wins in Best Animated Short, Editing and Best Picture.

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Jacki Weaver has missed out on the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Academy Awards, after Melissa Leo won. Leo, who was presented the award by an ageing Kirk Douglas, managed to drop the “F” bomb during her acceptance speech.

Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush lucked out while Ben Snow and Joe Farrell both missed out on Visual Effects.

But Australian producer Emile Sherman shared the Best Picture award for, The King’s Speech.

There were also Aussie wins in Best Animated Short for The Lost Thing, directed by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann. Australia’s Kirk Baxter also shared the Best Editing award for The Social Network. Dave Elsey also won Best Make Up for The Wolfman.

Best Picture: The King’s Speech.
Actor: Colin Firth for The King’s Speech
Actress: Natalie Portmann for Black Swan
Directing: The King’s Speech
Best Song: Randy Newman
Visual Effects: Inception
Documentary Feature: Inside Job
Live Action Short: God of Love
Documentary short: Strangers No More
Costume: Alice in Wonderland
Sound Editing: Inception
Sound: Inception
Original Score: The Social Network
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale for The Fighter
Foreign Language: In a Better World (Denmark)
Original screenplay: David Seidler’s The King’s Speech
Adapted screenplay: Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network
Animated feature: Toy Story 3
Supporting actress: Melissa Leo for The Fighter
Cinematography: Inception
Art Direction: Alice in Wonderland

And yes, so far those Spoilers are proving accurate.

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  1. We taped it during the day and watched it last night (good to get to bed before 10:30). No real highlights although I loved Randy Newman’s acceptance speech as well as the bloke who wrote the screenplay for King’s Speech. Don’t think Hathaway and Franco would have dragged in a younger demographic, if they did, they would have lost a few when Billy Crystal did the Bob Hope segment lost the rest during the embarrassingly lame tribute to Wallach, Coppala, Brownlow. I liked the montage of highlights of each of the 10 best films but did they have to make it that obvious that King’s Speech was going to win by having Colin Firth’s finale speech over the footage? Missed not seeing Jack Nicholson but I’m not the demographic they’re after.

  2. I was home so I half watched them live this year…. the ceremony was one of the worst I remember. Really flat and dull but also … weird.

    In terms of locals, Shaun Tan lives and works in Perth and Emile Sherman lives and works in Sydney. The other two Aussie winners – Baxter and Elsey – are based in LA. It’s a tough business so well done to them all.

  10. Had to laugh that Alicia Malone was one of the few Australian media identities to (correctly) write off the Australian nominees in the acting categories. Bit of Australian media bias, by saying (even in hope) that Kidman, Weaver or Rush would win. When the 2011 award season was largely about Bale, Portman and Firth.

  12. Did anyone else feel that Melissa Leo’s acceptance performance was insincere and embarassing to watch?
    My highlight was seeing Eli Wallach. What a great actor.

  13. David, you forgot to mention WA’s own Shaun Tan’s win for best animated short for The Lost Thing. He’s an amazing talent and an incredibly modest and unassuming person.

  15. Yes, those Spoilers are very acurate… especially the “snorefest” revelation.
    Shouldn’t those “Social Network” winners facebook or twitter their speeches…?

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