The King’s Speech Earns 12 Oscar Nods; Complete List of 2011 Oscar Nominations

The King’s Speech has been nominated for 12 Oscars.

The nominations were announced by president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – which organises the awards – Tom Sherak and Mo’Nique, who was named best support actress at last year’s ceremony for her role in Precious, in Los Angeles this morning.

Among the prizes The King’s Speech is up for include the prestigious best picture, where it will vie against Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, 127 Hours, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit and Winter’s Bone.

As expected, Colin Firth is nominated in the best actor category. He has already won the equivalent Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Britain’s King George VI and his efforts to overcome a stutter. The accolade will go to either Colin or Javier Bardem for Biutiful, Jeff Bridges for True Grit, Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network, and James Franco for 127 Hours.

Natalie Portman’s portrayal of troubled ballerina Nina Sayers in Black Swan has seen her win a place in the best actress category. She faces stiff competition from Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right, Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole, Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone and Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine.

The King’s Speech also triumphed in the supporting actor and actress categories, with its stars Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush both getting mentions.

Competing against Helena are Amy Adams and Melissa Leo both for The Fighter, Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit and Jacki Weaver for Animal Kingdom.

Director of The King’s Speech Tom Hooper is in the running for the best director prize, alongside Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan, Joel & Ethan Coen for True Grit, David O. Russell for The Fighter and David Fincher’s The Social Network.

Although The King’s Speech leads the way with 12 nominations, True Grit is hot on its heels with ten. Inception and The Social Network both garnered eight nods, while The Fighter and 127 Hours are up for six. Black Swan, Winter’s Bone and Toy Story 3 are all in with a chance of winning five awards.

The 83rd annual Academy Awards will be hosted by Anne Hathaway and James Franco. The ceremony will be held at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on February 27, and will be televised in over 200 countries.

Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Marisa Tomei and Oprah Winfrey will all be presenting awards on the night.

2011 Academy Awards nominees full list:

Actor in a Leading Role

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

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Christian Bale in The Fighter
• John Hawkes in Winter’s Bone
• Jeremy Renner in The Town
• Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right
• Geoffrey Rush in The King’s Speech

Actress in a Leading Role

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

Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Animated Feature Film

• How to Train Your Dragon Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
• The Illusionist Sylvain Chomet
• Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich

Art Direction

• Alice in Wonderland – Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 – Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
• Inception – Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
• The King’s Speech – Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr
• True Grit – Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

Cinematography

• Black Swan Matthew Libatique
• InceptionWally Pfister
• The King’s Speech Danny Cohen
• The Social Network Jeff Cronenweth
• True Grit Roger Deakins

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

Directing

• Black Swan Darren Aronofsky
• The Fighter David O. Russell
• The King’s Speech Tom Hooper
• The Social Network David Fincher
• True Grit Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Documentary (Feature)

• Exit through the Gift Shop Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz
• Gasland Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
• Inside Job Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
• Restrepo Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
• Waste Land Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley

Documentary (Short Subject)

• Killing in the Name Nominees to be determined
• Poster Girl Nominees to be determined
• Strangers No More Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
• Sun Come Up Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
• The Warriors of Qiugang Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon

Film Editing

• Black Swan Andrew Weisblum
• The Fighter Pamela Martin
• The King’s Speech Tariq Anwar
• 127 Hours Jon Harris
• The Social Network Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Foreign Language Film

• Biutiful Mexico
• Dogtooth Greece
• In a Better World Denmark
• Incendies Canada
• Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) Algeria

Makeup

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

Music (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

Music (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 Picture

• Black Swan Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
• The Fighter David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
• Inception Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
• The Kids Are All Right Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
• The King’s Speech Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
• 127 Hours Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
• The Social Network Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin,

Producers

• Toy Story 3 Darla K. Anderson, Producer
• True Grit Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
• Winter’s Bone Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers

Short Film (Animated)

• Day & Night Teddy Newton
• The Gruffalo Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
• Let’s Pollute Geefwee Boedoe
• The Lost Thing Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
• Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) Bastien Dubois

Short Film (Live Action)

• The Confession Tanel Toom
• The Crush Michael Creagh
• God of Love Luke Matheny
• Na Wewe Ivan Goldschmidt
• Wish 143 Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

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

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

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

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

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

Writing (Original Screenplay)

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

(Check out the complete list of Razzie nominees here.)