LOS ANGELES: 'The King's Speech’ and ‘Inception’ tied at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards here Sunday night with four Oscars each, with the British royal drama bagging the big four of best picture, best direction, best actor and best writing while the sci-fi dominated the technical categories.
‘The King's Speech’, which was leading the Oscar nomination list with a presence in 12 categories, however, picked up the golden statuette in best picture as well as best direction (Tom Hooper), best actor (Colin Firth) and best original screenplay (David Seidler).
Natalie Portman bagged the best actress Oscar for her role in ‘Black Swan’ at the ceremony in Hollywood's Kodak Theatre Sunday night.
Christopher Nolan's ‘Inception’, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, won the awards for best cinematography, best sound editing, best sound mixing and best visual effects.
David Fincher's immensely popular ‘The Social Network’ came close on the heels of the two films as it was awarded in three categories - best film editing, best music (original score) and best writing (adapted screenplay). The movie is based on the founding of the social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits, and is inspired from the 2009 non-fiction book ‘The Accidental Billionaires’.
‘In a Better World’ from Denmark took the best foreign language film award.
‘True Grit’, which had 10 nominations at this year's Oscars, went empty handed.
However, films like ‘Toy Story 3’, ‘Alice In Wonderland’ and ‘The Fighter’ won two honours each.
‘Toy Story 3’, which amassed $1.1 billion at the box office in 2010, won the Oscar in best animated feature film. It also picked the award for best music (original score) category, beating Indian music composer A.R. Rahman, who was nominated for Danny Boyle's ‘127 Hours’.
Rahman was also nominated for best song ‘If I Can Rise’ as well, but he missed the Oscar in that too.
‘Alice In Wonderland’ was given the Oscar for best art direction and best costume design, while ‘The Fighter’ won the honours for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo for best supporting actor male and female respectively.
‘Inside Job’, which takes a closer look at what brought about the financial meltdown, won Oscar for the best documentary, features at the 83rd Academy Award. The golden statuette was given to Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs for the film.
Director Luke Matheny's ‘God of Love’ was declared the best short film, (Live Action). It is about a lovestruck, lounge-singing darts champion who finds his prayers are answered when he mysteriously receives a box of love-inducing darts.
Oscar for the best documentary, short subjects went to ‘Strangers No More’ by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon.
Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Pete Bebb and Paul J. Franklin walked away with the Oscar for best visual effects for their work in the much appreciated sci-fi movie ‘Inception’, while Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall got the award for best editing for ‘The Social Network’.
India-born film editor Tariq Anwar was also among the nominees for best editing.
List of Oscar winnners 2011
Best Picture: ‘The King's Speech’ - Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
Best Director: Tom Hooper for ‘The King's Speech’
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Colin Firth for ‘The King's Speech’
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Natalie Portman for ‘Black Swan’
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Christian Bale for ‘The Fighter’
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Melissa Leo for ‘The Fighter’
Best Animated Feature Film: ‘Toy Story 3’ - Lee Unkrich
Best Art Direction: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ - Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara
Best Cinematography: Wally Pfister for ‘Inception’
Best Costume Design: Colleen Atwood for ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Best Documentary (Feature): ‘Inside Job’ by Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Best Documentary (Short Subject): ‘Strangers No More’ by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Best Film Editing: Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter for ‘The Social Network’
Best Foreign Language Film: ‘In a Better World’ (Denmark)
Best Makeup: Rick Baker and Dave Elsey for ‘The Wolfman’
Best Music (Original Score): Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for ‘The Social Network’
Best Music (Original Song): Randy Newman for the song ‘We Belong Together’ for ‘Toy Story 3’
Best Short Film (Animated): ‘The Lost Thing’ by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Best Short Film (Live Action): ‘God of Love’ by Luke Matheny
Best Sound Editing: Richard King for ‘Inception’
Best Sound Mixing: Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick for ‘Inception’
Best Visual Effects: Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb for ‘Inception’
Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin for ‘The Social Network’
Best Original Screenplay: David Seidler for ‘The King's Speech’
