The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 in the United States and took place on February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST (8:30 p.m. EST). During the ceremony, Academy Awards (commonly called the Oscars) were presented in 24 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, and produced by Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer, with Mischer also serving as director. Actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway co-hosted the ceremony, marking the first time for each.
In related events, the Academy held its second annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 13, 2010. On February 12, 2011, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Marisa Tomei.
The King's Speech won four awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included Inception with four awards, The Social Network with three, Alice in Wonderland, The Fighter, and Toy Story 3 with two, and Black Swan, God of Love, In a Better World, Inside Job, The Lost Thing, Strangers No More, and The Wolfman with one. The telecast garnered almost 38 million viewers in the United States.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced on January 25, 2011, at 5:38 a.m. PST at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California by Tom Sherak, president of the Academy, and actress Mo'Nique. The King's Speech led the nominations with twelve, followed by True Grit with ten.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 27, 2011. Toy Story 3 became the third animated film to be nominated for Best Picture. True Grit was the second film after 2002's Gangs of New York to lose all ten of its nominations. By virtue of his nomination for Best Actor in 127 Hours, host James Franco became the first person since Paul Hogan, who was a co-host and a Best Original Screenplay nominee during the 59th ceremony in 1987, to host the ceremony while receiving a nomination in the same year. He was also the first acting nominee since Michael Caine at the 45th ceremony in 1973 to achieve this distinction. With Christian Bale and Melissa Leo's respective wins in the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories, The Fighter became the first film since 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters to win both supporting acting categories.
Awards
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double-dagger ().
The King's Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, producers 127 Hours – Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, producers 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 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 | valign="top" |
Tom Hooper – The King's Speech Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan David O. Russell – The Fighter David Fincher – The Social Network Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – True Grit Colin Firth – The King's Speech as King George VI Javier Bardem – Biutiful as Uxbal Jeff Bridges – True Grit as Rooster Cogburn Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network as Mark Zuckerberg James Franco – 127 Hours as Aron Ralston Natalie Portman – Black Swan as Nina Sayers Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right as Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole as Becca Corbett Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone as Ree Dolly Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine as Cynthia "Cindy" Heller Christian Bale – The Fighter as Dicky Eklund John Hawkes – Winter's Bone as Teardrop Dolly Jeremy Renner – The Town as James "Jem" Coughlin Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right as Paul Hatfield Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech as Lionel Logue Melissa Leo – The Fighter as Alice Eklund-Ward Amy Adams – The Fighter as Charlene Fleming Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech as Queen Elizabeth Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit as Mattalyn "Mattie" Ross Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom as Janine "Smurf" Cody The King's Speech – David Seidler Another Year – Mike Leigh The Fighter – Screenplay by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson Inception – Christopher Nolan The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin; 127 Hours – Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy; Toy Story 3 – Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich; True Grit – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen; Winter's Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini; Toy Story 3 – Directed by Lee Unkrich How to Train Your Dragon – Directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois The Illusionist – Directed by Sylvain Chomet In a Better World (Denmark) in Danish – Susanne Bier Biutiful (Mexico) in Spanish – Alejandro González Iñárritu Dogtooth (Greece) in Greek – Yorgos Lanthimos Incendies (Canada) in French – Denis Villeneuve Outside the Law (Algeria) in Arabic – Rachid Bouchareb Inside Job – Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz Gasland – Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic Restrepo – Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger Waste Land – Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley Strangers No More – Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon Killing in the Name – Jed Rothstein Poster Girl – Sara Nesson and Mitchell W. Block Sun Come Up – Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger The Warriors of Qiugang – Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon God of Love – Luke Matheny The Confession – Tanel Toom The Crush – Michael Creagh Na Wewe – Ivan Goldschmidt Wish 143 – Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann Day & Night – Teddy Newton The Gruffalo – Jakob Schuh and Max Lang Let's Pollute – Geefwee Boedoe Madagascar, a Journey Diary – Bastien Dubois The Social Network – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross 127 Hours – A. R. Rahman How to Train Your Dragon – John Powell Inception – Hans Zimmer The King's Speech – Alexandre Desplat "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 – Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman "Coming Home" from Country Strong – Music and Lyrics by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey "I See the Light" from Tangled – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Glenn Slater "If I Rise" from 127 Hours – Music by A. R. Rahman; Lyrics by Dido and Rollo Armstrong 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 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 Kurland Alice in Wonderland – Art Direction: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 – Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan Inception – Art Direction: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat The King's Speech – Art Direction: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr True Grit – Art Direction: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh Inception – Wally Pfister Black Swan – Matthew Libatique The King's Speech – Danny Cohen The Social Network – Jeff Cronenweth True Grit – Roger Deakins The Wolfman – Rick Baker and Dave Elsey Barney's Version – Adrien Morot The Way Back – Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng Alice in Wonderland – Colleen Atwood I Am Love – Antonella Cannarozzi The King's Speech – Jenny Beavan The Tempest – Sandy Powell True Grit – Mary Zophres The Social Network – Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter 127 Hours – Jon Harris Black Swan – Andrew Weisblum The Fighter – Pamela Martin The King's Speech – Tariq Anwar Inception – Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb 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 Trojansky and Joe Farrell Iron Man 2 – Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Dan Sudick
Governors Awards The Academy held its Second Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 13, 2010, during which the following awards were presented:
Honorary Awards To Kevin Brownlow for the wise and devoted chronicling of the cinematic parade. To Jean-Luc Godard for passion. For confrontation. For a new kind of cinema. To Eli Wallach for a lifetime's worth of indelible screen characters.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Francis Ford Coppola
Films with multiple nominations and awards
The following 14 films received multiple nominations:
Nominations Film 12 The King's Speech 10 True Grit 8 Inception The Social Network 7 The Fighter 6 127 Hours 5 Black Swan Toy Story 3 4 The Kids Are All Right Winter's Bone 3 Alice in Wonderland 2 Biutiful Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 How to Train Your Dragon
The following six films received multiple awards: Awards Film 4 Inception The King's Speech 3 The Social Network 2 Alice in Wonderland The Fighter Toy Story 3
Presenters and performers The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.
Presenters Name(s) Role Announcer for the 83rd Academy Awards Presenter of the awards for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress Justin Timberlake Presenters of the awards for Best Animated Short Film and Best Animated Feature Film Josh Brolin Presenters of the awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay Helen Mirren Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor (AMPAS President)Anne Sweeney (Disney–ABC Television Group President) Presenters of a special presentation acknowledging the renewal of a television distribution contract between ABC and AMPAS Nicole Kidman Introducers of a medley of past film scores and presenters of the award for Best Original Score Matthew McConaughey Presenters of the awards for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing Presenter of the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement Presenter of the awards for Best Makeup and Best Costume Design Introducer of the performance of Best Original Song nominees "We Belong Together" and "I See the Light" Jake Gyllenhaal Presenters of the awards for Best Documentary (Short Subject) and Best Live Action Short Film Presenter of the award for Best Documentary Feature Introducer of a digital projection of previous host Bob Hope at the 25th Academy Awards (archive footage/digital projection) Introducer of presenters Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law Jude Law Presenters of the awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Film Editing Introducer of the performance of Best Original Song nominees "If I Rise" and "Coming Home" and presenter of the award for Best Original Song Presenter of the Lena Horne tribute Hilary Swank Presenters of the award for Best Director Presenter of the Academy Honorary Awards and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Presenter of the award for Best Actress Presenter of the award for Best Actor Presenter of the award for Best Picture
Performers