Up–to–the–minute Oscar news and wrap-up on vulture.com 2011 OSCAR POOL BALLOT BEST PICTURE FOreiGN LANGuaGE FilM DOcuMENtarY Feature Black Swan Biutiful Exit Through the Gift Shop Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz The Fighter Mexico | Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu Gasland Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic Inception Dogtooth (Kynodontas) Inside Job Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs Greece | Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos The Kids Are All Right Restrepo Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger In a Better World (Hævnen) The King’s Speech Waste Land Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley Denmark | Directed by Susanne Bier 127 Hours Incendies DOcuMENtarY SHOrt SUBJect The Social Network Canada | Directed by Denis Villeneuve Killing in the Name Nominees to be determined Toy Story 3 Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) Poster Girl Nominees to be determined True Grit Algeria | Directed by Rachid Bouchareb Strangers No More Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon Winter’s Bone OriGINal SCOre Sun Come Up Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger DirectOR How to Train Your Dragon John Powell The Warriors of Qiugang Ruby Yang and Darren Aronofsky Black Swan Inception Hans Zimmer Thomas Lennon David O. Russell The Fighter The King’s Speech Alexandre Desplat ANIMated SHOrt FilM Tom Hooper The King’s Speech 127 Hours A.R. Rahman Day & Night Teddy Newton David Fincher The Social Network The Social Network Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Gruffalo Jakob Schuh and Max Lang Joel Coen and Ethan Coen True Grit OriGINal SONG Let’s Pollute Geefwee Boedoe ActOR IN A LeadiNG ROle Country Strong “Coming Home” The Lost Thing Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann Javier Bardem Biutiful Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges, Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a and Hillary Lindsey Journey Diary) Bastien Dubois Jeff Bridges True Grit Tangled “I See the Light” Jesse Eisenberg The Social Network Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Glenn Slater LIVE ActiON SHOrt FilM Colin Firth The King’s Speech 127 Hours “If I Rise” The Confession Tanel Toom James Franco 127 Hours Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Dido and The Crush Michael Creagh Rollo Armstrong Actress IN A LeadiNG ROle God of Love Luke Matheny Toy Story 3 “We Belong Together” Na Wewe Ivan Goldschmidt Annette Bening The Kids Are All Right Music and Lyric by Randy Newman Wish 143 Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite Nicole Kidman Rabbit Hole Jennifer Lawrence Winter’s Bone Art DirectiON SOUND EditiNG Alice in Wonderland Robert Stromberg (Production Natalie Portman Black Swan Inception Richard King Design); Karen O’Hara (Set Decoration) Michelle Williams Blue Valentine Toy Story 3 Tom Myers and Michael Silvers Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 ActOR IN A SuppOrtiNG ROle Stuart Craig (Production Design); Tron: Legacy Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration) Addison Teague Christian Bale The Fighter Inception Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design); True Grit Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey John Hawkes Winter’s Bone Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration) Unstoppable Mark P. Stoeckinger Jeremy Renner The Town The King’s Speech Eve Stewart (Production Design); Mark Ruffalo The Kids Are All Right Judy Farr (Set Decoration) SOUND MiXING Geoffrey Rush The King’s Speech True Grit Jess Gonchor (Production Design); Inception Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) and Ed Novick Actress IN A SuppOrtiNG ROle The King’s Speech Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen, Amy Adams The Fighter CINEMatOGrapHY and John Midgley Helena Bonham Carter The King’s Speech Black Swan Matthew Libatique Salt Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan, Melissa Leo The Fighter Inception Wally Pfister and William Sarokin Hailee Steinfeld True Grit The King’s Speech Danny Cohen The Social Network Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, and Mark Weingarten Jacki Weaver Animal Kingdom The Social Network Jeff Cronenweth True Grit Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and True Grit Roger Deakins OriGINal ScreeNplaY Peter F. Kurland Another Year Written by Mike Leigh COstuME DesiGN Visual Effects The Fighter Screenplay by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Alice in Wonderland Colleen Atwood Alice in Wonderland Ken Ralston, David Schaub, and Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington, I Am Love Antonella Cannarozzi Carey Villegas, and Sean Phillips Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson The King’s Speech Jenny Beavan Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Inception Written by Christopher Nolan The Tempest Sandy Powell Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz, and The Kids Are All Right Written by Lisa Cholodenko True Grit Mary Zophres Nicolas Aithadi and Stuart Blumberg Hereafter Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, The King’s Speech Screenplay by David Seidler MAKeup Stephan Trojanski, and Joe Farrell Adapted ScreeNplaY Barney’s Version Adrien Morot Inception Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, The Way Back Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk, Andrew Lockley, and Peter Bebb 127 Hours Screenplay by Danny Boyle and and Yolanda Toussieng Iron Man 2 Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright, and Simon Beaufoy The Wolfman Rick Baker and Dave Elsey Daniel Sudick The Social Network Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin Toy Story 3 Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by FILM EditiNG John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich Black Swan Andrew Weisblum tie-breaKer QuestiONS True Grit Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen How many jokes will be made about James The Fighter Pamela Martin Winter’s Bone Adapted by Debra Granik and Franco’s soap-opera career? The King’s Speech Tariq Anwar Anne Rosellini 127 Hours Jon Harris TIE-BREAKER TIE-BREAKER ANIMated Feature FilM The Social Network Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter How many references, including sight gags, will How to Train Your Dragon Chris Sanders and there be to amputated arms? Dean DeBlois The Illusionist Sylvain Chomet Official tiebreaker tallies will be posted on Vulture Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich immediately following the broadcast..