A CROSSOVER REVEL IN MUSIC KAJOL, TABU, OF CROSSOVER THE OLD PEDLARS IRRFAN GET WHILE BRACE FOR PADMA SHRI EATING IN ANOTHER ATHENS TOUGH YEAR PAGE 34 | WHEELS PAGE 38 | TRAVEL PAGE 39 | HOLLYWOOD PAGE 40 | BOLLYWOOD Detailed movie timing on Did you know? Now showing Page 40 Celebs who are really huge fans of 4 The Mechanic English (Action) 4 The King’s Speech English (Drama) motorcycles include Brad Pitt, George 4 Spread English (Comedy) Clooney, Taylor Laughtner, Orlando 4 Dhobi Ghat Hindi (Comedy) Bloom, Ewan McGregor and Matthew 4 Yamla Pagla Deewanna Hindi (Comedy) McConaughey. 4 Waiting for Superman English (Documentary) 4 Zheimer Arabic (Comedy) 4 The Dilemma English (Comedy) 4 The Green Hornet English (Action) Thursday, January 27, 2011 The King’s Speech leads Oscar nominations DAVID GERMAIN favourite for The Social Network AP after winning that prize at the Globes. HE British monarchy Along with Firth and Eisenberg, saga The King’s Speech best-actor contenders are Javier leads the Academy Bardem as a dying father in the Awards with 12 nomina- Spanish-language drama Biutiful, tions, including best pic- which also is up for best foreign-lan- Tture and acting honours for Colin guage film; Bridges as boozy lawman Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, a role Geoffrey Rush. that earned John Wayne an Oscar for Also nominated for best picture on the 1969 adaptation of the Western Natalie Tuesday were the psychosexual novel; and James Franco in the real- Portman thriller Black Swan; the boxing life tale of a climber trapped in a cre- drama The Fighter; the sci-fi block- vasse after a boulder crushes his arm buster Inception; the lesbian-family in 127 Hours. tale The Kids Are All Right; the sur- Bening was nominated for best vival story 127 Hours; the Facebook actress as a lesbian mom whose chronicle The Social Network; the family is thrown into turmoil after animated smash Toy Story 3; the her teenage children seek out their Western True Grit; and the Ozarks sperm-donor father in The Kids crime thriller Winter’s Bone. Are All Right. Portman was Annette True Grit ran second with 10 nom- nominated as a ballerina los- Bening inations, including acting honours ing her grip on reality in Black for Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld. Swan. The February 27 Oscars set up a Other best-actress nominees are best-picture showdown between two Nicole Kidman as a grieving mother favourites, The King’s Speech and in Rabbit Hole; Jennifer Lawrence as Nicole The Social Network. a teen trying to find her missing Kidman The Social Network won best father amid the Ozark Mountains’ drama at the Golden Globes and was criminal underbelly in Winter’s picked as the year’s best by key critics Bone; and Michelle Williams as a groups, while The King’s Speech wife in a failing marriage in Blue pulled an upset last weekend by win- Valentine. ning the Producers Guild of America Joining Fincher among best- Awards top prize, whose recipient director picks are Darren Aronofsky often goes to claim best picture at the for Black Swan; Joel and Ethan Michelle Oscars. Coen for True Grit; Tom Hooper The favourites in the male-acting for The King’s Speech; and Williams categories both were nominated, David O Russell for The Globe winners Firth as best actor for Fighter. The King’s Speech and Christian Bale One notable snub was the omission as supporting actor for The Fighter. of director Christopher Nolan for The best-actress field shapes up as Inception, though he got a nod for a two-woman race between Annette original screenplay. Nolan also Colin Bening for The Kids Are All Right, missed out on a directing Oscar nom- Firth who won the Globe for actress in a ination for The Dark Knight, which musical or comedy, and Natalie was famously not nominated Portman for Black Swan, who for best picture. received the Globe for dramatic The directing category is actress. back to an all-male lineup after The supporting-actress Oscar Kathryn Bigelow became the could prove the most competitive first woman to win that prize among acting prizes. Melissa Leo last year for The Hurt James won the Globe for The Fighter, but Locker, which also Blanco she faces strong challenges from that claimed best picture. film’s co-star Amy Adams and 14- Bale, the star of Nolan’s year-old newcomer Steinfeld for Batman franchise, is a strong True Grit. favourite to win supporting actor as The King’s Speech nominations former boxer Dicky Eklund, who Jeff also include best director for Tom helps his half-brother to a title shot Bridges Hooper and supporting-acting slots after his own career unraveled amid for Bonham Carter as the king’s drugs and crime in The Fighter. The devoted wife and Rush as his wily film’s star, Mark Wahlberg, missed speech therapist. out on a nomination as Eklund’s half- David Fincher is the best-directing brother, boxer Micky Ward. Javier Bardem BEST PICTURE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE THE 83RD ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Aaron Sorkin Black Swan, Christian Bale (The Fighter) And the nominees are... Biutiful, Mexico Toy Story 3, Screenplay by Michael Arndt; The Fighter John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone) Dogtooth, Greece Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton Inception, Jeremy Renner (The Town) In a Better World, Denmark and Lee Unkrich The Kids Are All Right Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right) Incendies, Canada True Grit, Written for the screen by Joel Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom) The King’s Speech Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech) DIRECTING Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi), Algeria Coen & Ethan Coen 127 Hours Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) Winter’s Bone, Adapted for the screen by ANIMATED FEATURE FILM The Social Network ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE David O. Russell (The Fighter) MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini How to Train Your Dragon Toy Story 3 Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right) Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) How to Train Your Dragon, John Powell The Illusionist True Grit Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole) David Fincher (The Social Network) Inception, Hans Zimmer WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) Toy Story 3 Winter’s Bone Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen The King’s Speech, Alexandre Desplat Another Year, Written by Mike Leigh Natalie Portman (Black Swan) (True Grit) 127 Hours, A.R. Rahman The Fighter, Screenplay by Scott Silver and CINEMATOGRAPHY ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Matthew Libatique (Black Swan) Javier Bardem (Biutiful) FILM EDITING Atticus Ross Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson Wally Pfister (Inception) Jeff Bridges (True Grit) ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Black Swan Inception, Written by Christopher Nolan Danny Cohen (The King’s Speech) Jesse Eisenberg Amy Adams (The Fighter) The Fighter WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) The Kids Are All Right, Written by Lisa Jeff Cronenweth (The Social Network) Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech) The King’s Speech 127 Hours, Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg (The Social Network) Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) Melissa Leo (The Fighter) 127 Hours Simon Beaufoy The King’s Speech, Screenplay by Roger Deakins (True Grit) James Franco (127 Hours) Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) The Social Network The Social Network, Screenplay by David Seidler.