Feb 27, 2011
"The King's Speech" was named Best Picture at the 83rd Academy Awards and won four of the top prizes including Best Actor for Colin Firth and Best Director for Tom Hooper.
Christian Bale and Melissa Leo from "The Fighter" took both Supporting Actor Oscars, while "Inception" took four Oscars for Cinematography, Sound and Visual Effects.
The ceremony was hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway.
83rd Academy Award Winners
| Best Picture | |
| The King's Speech | |
| Other Nominees: Black Swan; The Fighter; Inception; The Kids Are All Right; 127 Hours; The Social Network; Toy Story 3; True Grit; Winter's Bone | |
| Best Actor | |
| Colin Firth (The King's Speech) | |
| Other Nominees: Javier Bardem (Biutiful); Jeff Bridges (True Grit); Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network); James Franco (127 Hours) | |
| Best Actress | |
| Natalie Portman (Black Swan) | |
| Other Nominees: Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right); Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole); Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone); Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) | |
| Best Director | |
| Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) | |
| Other Nominees: Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan); David O Russell (The Fighter); David Fincher (The Social Network); True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen) | |
| Best Supporting Actor | |
| Christian Bale (The Fighter) | |
| Other Nominees: John Hawkes (Winter's Bone); Jeremy Renner (The Town); Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right); Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech) | |
| Best Supporting Actress | |
| Melissa Leo (The Fighter) | |
| Other Nominees: Amy Adams (The Fighter); Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech); Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit); Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom) | |
| Writing | |
| The Social Network | |
| Aaron Sorkin | |
| Other Nominees: 127 Hours; Toy Story 3; True Grit; Winter's Bone | |
| Writing | |
| The King's Speech | |
| David Seidler | |
| Other Nominees: Another Year; The Fighter; Inception; The Kids Are All Right | |
| Art Direction | |
| Alice In Wonderland | |
| Robert Stromberg; Karen O'Hara | |
| Other Nominees: Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1; Inception; The King's Speech; True Grit | |
| Cinematography | |
| Inception | |
| Wally Pfister | |
| Other Nominees: Black Swan; The King's Speech; The Social Network; True Grit | |
| Film Editing | |
| The Social Network | |
| Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter | |
| Other Nominees: Black Swan; The Fighter; The King's Speech; 127 Hours | |
| Animated Feature Film | |
| Toy Story 3 | |
| Other Nominees: How To Train Your Dragon; The Illusionist | |
| Documentary Feature | |
| Inside Job | |
| Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs | |
| Other Nominees: Exit Through The Gift Shop; Gasland; Restrepo; Waste Land | |
| Documentary Short | |
| Strangers No More | |
| Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon | |
| Other Nominees: Killing In The Name; Poster Girl; Sun Come Up; The Warriors Of Qiugang | |
| Foreign Language Film | |
| In A Better World | |
| Denmark | |
| Other Nominees: Biutiful; Dogtooth; Incendies; Outside The Law | |
| Short Subject Animated | |
| The Lost Thing | |
| Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann | |
| Other Nominees: Day & Night; The Gruffalo; Let's Pollute; Madagascar A Day's Journey | |
| Short Subject Live Action | |
| God Of Love | |
| Luke Matheny | |
| Other Nominees: The Confession; The Crush; Na Wewe; Wish 143 | |
| Costume Design | |
| Alice In Wonderland | |
| Colleen Atwood | |
| Other Nominees: I Am Love; The King's Speech; The Tempest; True Grit | |
| Makeup | |
| The Wolfman | |
| Rick Baker and Dave Elsey | |
| Other Nominees: Barney's Version; The Way Back | |
| Sound Editing | |
| Inception | |
| Richard King | |
| Other Nominees: Toy Story 3; Tron: Legacy; True Grit; Unstoppable | |
| Sound Mixing | |
| Inception | |
| Lora Hirschberg; Gary A. Rizzo; Ed Novick | |
| Other Nominees: The King's Speech; Salt; The Social Network; True Grit | |
| Visual Effects | |
| Inception | |
| Paul Franklin; Chris Corbould; Andrew Lockley; Peter Bebb | |
| Other Nominees: Alice In Wonderland; Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1; Hereafter; Iron Man 2 | |
| Original Score | |
| The Social Network | |
| Trent Reznor; Atticus Ross | |
| Other Nominees: How To Train Your Dragon; Inception; The King's Speech; 127 Hours | |
| Original Song | |
| We Belong Together (Toy Story 3) | |
| Randy Newman | |
| Other Nominees: Coming Home (Country Strong); I See The Light (Tangled); If I Rise (127 Hours) | |
Every attempt is made to insure the accuracy of the above information, however accuracy is not guaranteed.
