The show is over, the war is won, the fat lady has sung... check mate Hollywood. Last night the best of the best from a dazzling year in cinema took home golden Oscar statues to show to their proud parents and agents. If the night had an overall result it appears to have been match point to British cinema and a general triumph for predictability. Here are the results you’d already guessed....
Best Actor – Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
Best Actress – Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Best Picture – The King’s Speech
Best Director – Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)
Best Supporting Actor – Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Best Supporting Actress – Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Animated Feature – Toy Story 3
Art Direction – Alice In Wonderland
Cinematography – Inception
Costumes – Alice In Wonderland
Documentary – Inside Job
Film Editing – The Social Network
Foreign Language Film – In a Better World
Makeup – Wolfman
Music (Original Score) – The Social Network
Music (Original Song) – We Belong Together (Toy Story 3)
Sound Mixing – Inception
Sound Editing – Inception
Visual Effects – Inception
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – The Social Network
Writing (Original Screenplay) – The King’s Speech
Best Actress – Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Best Picture – The King’s Speech
Best Director – Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)
Best Supporting Actor – Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Best Supporting Actress – Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Animated Feature – Toy Story 3
Art Direction – Alice In Wonderland
Cinematography – Inception
Costumes – Alice In Wonderland
Documentary – Inside Job
Film Editing – The Social Network
Foreign Language Film – In a Better World
Makeup – Wolfman
Music (Original Score) – The Social Network
Music (Original Song) – We Belong Together (Toy Story 3)
Sound Mixing – Inception
Sound Editing – Inception
Visual Effects – Inception
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – The Social Network
Writing (Original Screenplay) – The King’s Speech
Colin Firth’s best actor win for The King’s Speech was as close as possible to being a sure thing. The film’s wins for Best Picture and Best Director were slightly less certain but arguably also well deserved. The Social Network must feel a little like it’s had a friend request rejected this morning despite taking home honours for best Music and adapted screenplay.
Inception (the actual best film of the year) was largely overlooked but took home a clutch of technical awards as shiny consolation prizes. At least the academy openly accepts that zero gravity fighting looks cool.
It was clearly a great night to be any casts member of The Fighter who isn’t Mark Walberg. Meanwhile Toy Story 3 won an award for making grown men reluctantly cry in public.
Natalie Portman’s win for best actress reaffirms the universally acknowledged truth that pretending to have aggressive lesbian sex with Mila Kunis really can only lead to good things. I’m sure someone is busy right now happily scribbling the words ‘Oscar Winner’ below her name on all the No Strings Attached posters.
As for me I'm off to watch a press screening for The Eagle and hoping for even better things this year...
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