EARLY OSCAR PREDICTIONS

BEST PICTURE
*= saw it
*Black Swan (want to win)
*The Fighter
(will win)The Social Network
*The King's Speech
Toy Story 3
*Inception
True Grit
*The Kids Are All Right
127 Hours
*Winter's Bone

BEST ACTOR

(will win)Colin Firth, The King's Speech
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
James Franco, 127 Hours
Jeff Bridges, True Grit

BEST ACTRESS

(will win)Natalie Portman, Black Swan
(possible contender)Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right


BEST DIRECTION
David Fincher, The Social Network
The Coen Brothers, True Grit
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
David O. Russell, The Fighter(will win)Tom Hooper, The King's Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
(will win)Christian Bale, The Fighter
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
(will win) Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Another Year, Mike Leigh
(will win)The Fighter ;Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson;
Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception, Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
The King's Speech, David Seidler


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 Hours by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
The Social Network by Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini


BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Toy Story 3
How To Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Biutiful
DogTooth
In A Better World
Outside The Law
Incendies

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Exit through the Gift Shop
Gasland
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waste Land

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143


BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let's Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

BEST 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

BEST 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

BEST ART DIRECTION
(will win) Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
The King's Speech
True Grit
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Swan, Matthew Libatique
(will win) Inception, Wally Pfister
The King's Speech, Danny Cohen
The Social Network, Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit, Roger Deakins
BEST MAKEUP

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
(will win) Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood
I Am Love, Antonella Cannarozzi
The King's Speech, Jenny Beavan
The Tempest, Sandy Powell
True Grit, Mary Zophres


BEST FILM EDITING
Andrew Weisblum, Black Swan Pamela Martin, The Fighter (will win)Tariq Anwarr, The King's Speech Jon Harris, 127 Hours Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter, The Social Network

BEST 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