The Oscars - also known as the Academy Awards - are meant to be the film industry's main awards, although they come after all the other ceremonies, and pretty much imitate them in every way. This year seems to be no exception, with Natalie Portman, Colin Firth, Black Swan and The King's Speech all up for prizes... And no mention of 3D Piranha.

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be held on 27 February 27, with James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosting. The former has got a nomination too, good for him! We're still waiting for all the categories to come in (best catering crew etc), but here are the main ones in the meantime (edit: yep, all here now):

 

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Black Swan

The Fighter

Inception

The Kids are All Right

The King's Speech

The Social Network

The Town

Toy Story 3

True Grit

Winter's Bone

 

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right)

Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)

Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)

Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)

 

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Javier Bardem (Biutiful)

Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)

Colin Firth (The King's Speech)

James Franco (127 Hours)

Jeff Bridges (True Grit)

 

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

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)

 

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams (The Fighter)

Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)

Melissa Leo (The Fighter)

Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)

Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)

 

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

How to Train Your Dragon

The Illusionist

Toy Story 3

 

Best Documentary Short Subject

Killing in the Name

Poster Girl

Strangers No More

Sun Come Up

The Warriors of Qiugang

 

Best Short Film (Animated)

Day & Night Teddy Newton

The Gruffalo Jakob Schuh and Max Lang

Let's Pollute Geefwee Boedoe

The Lost Thing Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann

Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) Bastien Dubois

 

Best Short Film (Live Action)

The Confession Tanel Toom

The Crush Michael Creagh

God of Love Luke Matheny

Na Wewe Ivan Goldschmidt

Wish 143 Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

 

Achievement in Art Direction

Alice in Wonderland

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

Inception

The King's Speech

True Grit

 

Achievement in Cinematography

Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)

Inception (Wally Pfister)

The King's Speech (Danny Cohen)

The Social Network (Jeff Cronenweth)

True Grit (Roger Deakins)

 

Achievement in Costume Design

Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)

I Am Love (Antonella Cannarozzi)

The King's Speech (Jenny Beaven)

The Tempest (Sandy Powell)

True Grit (Mary Zophres)

 

Achievement in Directing

Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)

David O. Russell (The Fighter)

Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)

David Fincher (The Social Network)

Joel and Ethan Coen (True Grit)

 

Best Documentary Feature

Exit through the Gift Shop Banksy, director (Paranoid Pictures)

Gasland Josh Fox, director (Gasland Productions, LLC)

Inside Job Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures)

Restrepo Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, directors (Outpost Films)

Waste Land Lucy Walker, director (Almega Projects)

 

Achievement in Makeup

Barney's Version

The Way Back

The Wolfman

 

Achievement in Film Editing

Black Swan (Andrew Weisblum)

The Fighter (Pamela Martin)

The King's Speech (Tariq Anwar)

127 Hours (Jon Harris)

The Social Network (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall)

 

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

Biutiful (Mexico)

Dogtooth (Greece)

In a Better World (Denmark)

Incendies (Canada)

Hors la Loi (Algeria)

 

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)

Inception (Hans Zimmer)

The King's Speech (Alexandre Desplat)

127 Hours (A.R. Rahman)

The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)

 

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

"Coming Home" from Country Strong Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey

"I See the Light" from Tangled Music and Lyric by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater

"If I Rise" from 127 Hours Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong

"We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

 

Achievement in Sound Editing

Inception

Toy Story 3

TRON: Legacy

True Grit

Unstoppable

 

Achievement in Sound Mixing

Inception

The King's Speech

Salt

The Social Network

True Grit

 

Achievement in Visual Effects

Alice in Wonderland

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Hereafter

Inception

Iron Man 2

 

Adapted Screenplay

127 Hours (Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle)

The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)

Toy Story 3 (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 Rossellini)

 

Original Screenplay

Another Year (Mike Leigh)

The Fighter (Paul Attanasio, Lewis Colich, Eric Johnson, Scott Silverand Paul Tamasy)

Inception (Christopher Nolan)

The Kids are All Right (Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko)

The King's Speech (David Seidler)