2011 Oscar Winners

There were very few surprises at the Academy Awards, but one was Melissa Leo not losing the Best Supporting Actress award in spite of predictions that she would because she took out that full page ad, and another was her dropping the f-bomb in her acceptance speech.

Legendary 94 year-old-actor, Kirk Douglas (“Spartacus.” “Lust for Life” and too many others to name) said that he would never forget his stint as a presenter this year, and neither will we. We’ve got another post about that, too, on how it made us doubly sad that “Spartacus” co-star, Tony Curtis, passed away last year.

We know the order we really like to see the Oscar winners in, and seriously, we filled in the answers before they were even announced for the top four (except the presenters) and we didn’t have to change any! Here they are:

Presenter: Steven Spielberg
Best Motion Picture
“The King’s Speech” (Producers: Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin)

Presenter: Sandra Bullock
Best Actor
Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”)

Presenter: Jeff Bridges
Best Actress
Natalie Portman in “Black Swan”

Presenter: Reese Witherspoon
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, “The Fighter”

Presenters: Kirk Douglas and Hugh Jackman
Best Supporting Actress
Melissa Leo in “The Fighter”

Presenters: Hilary Swank and Katheryn Bigelow
Best Director
Tom Hooper in “The King’s Speech”

Celine Dion came out and sang “Smile Though You’re Heart is Breaking” while the In Memoriam sequence was shown in this order:

Jon Barry, Grant McCune, Tony Curtis, Edward Limato, Tom Mankewicz, Gloria Stuart, William Fraker, Joseph Strick, Lionel Jeffries, Sally Menke, Ronni Chasen, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Radnitz, Claude Chabrol, Pete Postlethwaite, Bill Littlejohn, Pierre Guffroy, Patricia Neal, George Hickenlooper, Irving Ravetch, Robert Culp, Bob Boyle, Mario Monicelli, Lynn Redgrave, Elliot Kastner, Dede Allen, Peter Yates, Anne Francis, Arthur Penn, Theoni Aldredge, Susannah York, Ronald Neame, David Wolper, Jill Clayburgh, Alan Hume, Irvin Kershner, Dennis Hopper, Dnio de Laurentiis, Blake Edwards, Kevin McCarthy, Lena Horne

Halle Berry then gave a tribute to Lena Horne and a clip was played of the legendary singer performing “Stormy Weather.”

And here are the rest:

Presenters: Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Hudson appeared at different times
to introduce the songs nominated for
Best Original Song
Randy Newman for “We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3″
Other Performances:
(“I See the Light” from “Tangled”)
Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine (“If I Rise” from “127 Hours”)
and you-know who: Gwyneth Paltrow (I’m Coming Home” from “Country Strong”)

Presenter: Tom Hanks
Achievement in Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland (Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara)
Cinematography
Inception (Wally Fister)

Presenters: Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake
Best Animated Short
“The Lost Thing” (Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)
Best Animated Feature
“Toy Story 3″ (Lee Unkrich, Director)

Presenters: Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem
Best Screenplay
“The Social Network” Aaron Sorkin
Best Original Screenplay
“The King’s Speech” (David Seidler)

Presenters: Russell Brand and Helen Mirren
Best Foreign Language Film
“In a Better World” (Denmark, Susanne Bier, Director)

Presenter: Reese Witherspoon
Best Original Score
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (“The Social Network”)

Presenters: Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman
Best Original Score
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (“The Social Network”)

Presenters: Scarlett Johannsen and Matthew McConaughey
Achievement in Sound Mixing
Laura Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, Ed Novick (“Inception”)
Achievement in Sound Editing
Richard King (“Inception”)

Presenters: Josh and Javier Bardem
Best Adapted Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin (“The Social Network”)
Best Original Screenplay
David Seidler (“The King’s Speech”)

Presenters: Russell Brand and Javier Bardem
Best Adapted Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin (“The Social Network”)
Best Original Screenplay
David Seidler (“The King’s Speech”)

Presenter: Kate Blanchett
Best Makeup
Rick Baker and Dave Elsey (“The Wolfman”)
Best Costume Design
Collen Atwood (“Alice in Wonderland”)

Presenters: Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal
Documentary: Short Subject
Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon (“Strangers No More”)
Best Live Action Short Film
Luke Matheny (“God of Love”)

Presenter: Oprah Winfrey
Best Documentary Feature
Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs (“Inside Job”)

Presenters: Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law
Visual Effects
Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb (“Inception”),
Film Editing
Angus Wall and Curt Baxter (“The Social Network”)

Special Awards went to:
Jean Luc Goddard, Kevin Brownlow, Eli Wallach and
Francis Ford Coppola, who won the Irving Thalberg Award

You can see who the winners were up against, anything we missed and a lot more on the Academy Award website

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