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Best Adapted Screenplay

  • 127 Hours
    Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy

  • The Social Network
    Aaron Sorkin

  • Toy Story 3
    M. Arndt, J. Lasseter, A. Stanton, L. Unkrich

  • True Grit
    Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

  • Winter's Bone
    Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini

Best Original Screenplay

  • Another Year
    Mike Leigh

  • The Fighter
    S. Silver, P. Tamasy, E. Johnson, K. Dorrington, E. Johnson

  • Inception
    Christopher Nolan

  • The Kids Are All Right
    Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg

  • The King's Speech
    David Seidler

Best Animated Feature Film

  • How to Train Your Dragon

  • The Illusionist

  • Toy Story 3

Best Foreign Film

  • Biutiful
    Mexico

  • Dogtooth
    Greece

  • In a Better World
    Denmark

  • Incendies
    Canada

  • Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)
    Algeria

Best Documentary Feature

  • Exit through the Gift Shop

  • Gasland

  • Inside Job

  • Restrepo

  • Waste Land

Best Original Song

  • Coming Home Country Strong

    T. Douglas, T. Verges, H. Lindsey

  • I See the Light Tangled

    Alan Menken and Glenn Slater

  • If I Rise 127 Hours

    A.R. Rahman, Dido, R. Armstrong

  • We Belong Together Toy Story 3

    Randy Newman

Best Original Score

  • 127 Hours
    A.R. Rahman

  • How to Train Your Dragon
    John Powell

  • Inception
    Hans Zimmer

  • The King's Speech
    Alexandre Desplat

  • The Social Network
    Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Best Film Editing

  • 127 Hours

  • Black Swan

  • The Fighter

  • The King's Speech

  • The Social Network

Best Cinematography

  • Black Swan
    Matthew Libatique

  • Inception
    Wally Pfister

  • The King's Speech
    Danny Cohen

  • The Social Network
    Jeff Cronenweth

  • True Grit
    Roger Deakins

Best Makeup

  • Barney's Version

  • The Way Back

  • The Wolfman

Best Art Direction

  • Alice in Wonderland

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

  • Inception

  • The King's Speech

  • True Grit

Best Costume Design

  • Alice in Wonderland

  • I Am Love

  • The King's Speech

  • The Tempest

  • True Grit

Best Animated Short Film

  • Day & Night

  • The Gruffalo

  • Let's Pollute

  • The Lost Thing

  • Madagascar, carnet de voyage
    (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)

Best Live Action Short Film

  • The Confession

  • The Crush

  • God of Love

  • Na Wewe

  • Wish 143

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • Killing in the Name

  • Poster Girl

  • Strangers No More

  • Sun Come Up

  • The Warriors of Qiugang

Best Sound Mixing

  • Inception

  • The King's Speech

  • Salt

  • The Social Network

  • True Grit

Best Sound Editing

  • Inception

  • Toy Story 3

  • Tron: Legacy

  • True Grit

  • Unstoppable

Best Visual Effects

  • Alice in Wonderland

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

  • Hereafter

  • Inception

  • Iron Man 2