Oscar nominations 2011: live

I'll just leave you with the (slightly belated) news that, although everyone is getting very excited about the Oscar nominations, we shouldn't lose sight of the real story: that Jack Black, star (if that's the word) of Gulliver's Travels, has been nominated for the whatever-the-opposite-of-coveted-is Worst Actor award at the Golden Raspberries ("Razzies") 2011. "Almost unendurably bad", as one writer here at Telegraph Towers described it. Congratulations, Jack.

16:23 The Official Twitter Page for Paramount Pictures should be better than this. Fair enough to get excited about their nominations for The Fighter and Iron Man 2, but that is no excuse for using multiple exclamation marks. Twice:

"Congrats to The Fighter for their 7 #oscar noms including ones for Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo & Best Picture & Best Directing!!

"Iron Man 2 gets nominated for an #oscar for Achievement in visual effects!! Awesome!"

Sickening behaviour. One exclamation mark is the most you are ever allowed, people.

16:19 For those of you who've had enough of all this reading, here's our Oscar Nominations 2011 In Pictures, with slideshows for the eight biggest categories.

16:17 And Sky film reporter Robbie Collin says that Twitter is united in anger: "Looks like we're all thinking along similar lines. Nolan, Garfield and Gosling snubs rankle most."

16:12 While I'm quoting Twitterers, New York film blogger Joe Reid says: "1999 Joe is super happy to see Fincher and Helena Bonham Carter nominated together." For those of you who don't get the reference, David Fincher directed Helena Bonham Carter in the single greatest film in the history of the world, Fight Club, in 1999. Pictured below, although that's not actually Helena Bonham Carter.

16:09 A point which I've heard made in a few other places, but I'll quote Meagan from Texas, aka @Sarafina1977 on Twitter: "Still don't like that the Academy went back to 10 noms for Best Picture. It's like any movie can get that nom now." Yes, it does devalue the currency somewhat, doesn't it?

16:05 More reaction coming in: we've had a few quotes from Geoffrey Rush already, but here he is again, getting a bit carried away about the success of The King's Speech: "I've been texting people in between interviews and there's a lot of excitement going on across the globe from our team. It's really wonderful. It's sort of like 'Ben-Hur' proportions. It all seems a bit crazy, you know?"

16:03 I've included all the nominees below, but we've put together a convenient full list here in case you can't face scrolling down and so on.

15:51 The Telegraph's Andrew Lowry has blogged on the nominations: "Academy snubs lesbian sex machines, deranged mothers – and Christopher Nolan". On the Best Picture noms, he says:

"An altogether solid line-up this year, and it’s heartwarming to think that Toy Story 3 has some small chance of rounding off the trilogy with a victory lap award. But no, this year belongs to Mark Zuckerberg and Bertie Windsor; I’m calling a Best Picture/Director split between The King’s Speech and The Social Network, with Tom Hooper’s Britflick edging it due to its perfect storm of royalty, disability and World War Two. It’s a pleasure to see Winter’s Bone in there, too."

15:46 Sky Bet have pushed The King's Speech up to 9/4 second favourite for Best Picture, behind The Social Network at 1/3. They're also laying it at 25/1 to win all three acting gongs it's nominated for: Best Actor for Colin Firth, Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter and Best Supporting Actor for Geoffrey Rush. I would illustrate this point with a picture of the film, but I've already used so many pictures of Firth that one of my colleagues has asked me if I have a crush on him.

15:43 The geek shall inherit the earth - Jesse Eisenberg on his leading actor nomination for The Social Network: "To be nominated for this award, especially alongside these other actors, is truly astonishing and a great honour for me.

"I am so proud to have been part of this special movie."

The film's director David Fincher said he was "very grateful and humbled by the nominations" for The Social Network.

He said: "I'm incredibly proud of the work of my wildly talented collaborators in front of and behind the camera."

(If I'm allowed to make a comment, I never understand why people are always "humbled" by winning huge accolades like this. Why do they not say "My ego has swollen to four times its usual enormous size after being officially informed that I am brilliant"? I would.)

15:34 After last year's runaway success for Slumdog Millionaire, it's been another good Oscar day for Danny Boyle. John Smithson, a producer on 127 Hours [pictured below], tells The Independent: "Having spent six years trying to bring Aron [Ralston]'s incredible story to the big screen, it's a fantastic accolade for Danny Boyle's film to receive these Oscar nominations.

"Danny and his team have done a tremendous job in creating an engaging film about one man's near-death experience. Congratulations to all who worked on the project."

15:27 The King's Speech's success has thrown the cat among the pigeons in the race for Best Picture, writes the Telegraph's David Gritten: "Less than a month ago, the zeitgeisty Facebook saga The Social Network [pictured below, with Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg] was an odds-on favourite to win Best Film at the Oscar ceremonies, to be held at the end of next month. Now, things aren’t quite as clear. It faces clear opposition, primarily Britain’s The King’s Speech, which received a regal 12 nominations – the most on the day, and only two short of the all-time record." Read the rest of his verdict here.

15:22 The UK Film Council is in justifiably self-congratulatory mood following The King's Speech's sterling performance in the nominations. Tanya Seghatchian, Head of the UK Film Council’s Film Fund, says:

“With almost £20 million in 17 days, The King’s Speech is now the UK Film Council’s highest grossing film at the UK box office – another clear example of Lottery money supporting a great British film which, in turn, has captured the imagination of British audiences and further strengthened the global reputation of our home-grown film talent."

“Alongside its 14 BAFTA nominations, five British Independent Film Awards, Golden Globe win for Colin Firth and best film accolade at the Producers Guild of America Awards last week-end, today’s 12 Oscar® nominations for The King’s Speech plus nominations for Mike Leigh, Danny Boyle, Lucy Walker, Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Christian Bale, Sandy Powell, Stuart Craig amongst others, are further testament to the extraordinary achievements of the British film industry.”

15:18 Actor Christos Stergioglou, who plays the father in Dogtooth (pictured, nominated for Best Foreign Language Film) said he was "in a state of shock" at the nomination.

He said the film "shows what stupidity can lead to — when you want to control everything, even under the pretext of love and protection."

"It is both a very serious and ridiculous subject."

15:05 New York magazine goes right in there with the Snubs of the Day, saying that there were a few welcome surprises like Javier Bardem and the Banksy documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, but "for some surprises to get nominated, others had to fall by the wayside, and so Vulture has assembled a list of this year's most striking snubs." They suggest:

The Town for Best Picture

Robert Duvall and Ryan Gosling for Best Actor

Lesley Manville, Julianne Moore, and Hilary Swank for Best Actress

Andrew Garfield for Best Supporting Actor

Mila Kunis for Best Supporting Actress

Christopher Nolan for Best Director

Despicable Me for Best Animated Feature

...and some other ones, but that's enough for you.

15:00 Film writer and blogger Guy Lodge isn't impressed with the Academy's taste in music, fuming on Twitter: "Congrats to the Academy for assembling the dullest Best Song lineup in Oscar history. If not sure 'If I Rise' even qualifies as a song."

14:58 Aaron Sorkin, nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Social Network, tells ABC's Good Morning America: "My recommendation to anybody who wants to get an Oscar nomination is: work with David Fincher. It was just a triumph of teamwork."

14:57 Another snub, apparently: there's some surprise that the Cannes Film Festival prize-winner, "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives," from Thailand, missed out on Foreign Language Film Of The Year.

14:54 Geoffrey Rush [pictured below right, with Helena Bonham Carter and Colin Firth], who has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his turn as Lionel Logue, the speech therapist in The King's Speech, said: "This story has struck such a rich resonant chord with audiences of all ages, which is very exciting - to have your work honoured by your industry peers is even better.

"I'm as excited to be recognized and honored by the Academy as my character must have been when his London speech therapy business flourished when the future King Of England happened to pop by one day."

14:52: Controversy? "Whoops! They've nominated Hailee Steinfeld [pictured below with Jeff Bridges], the brilliant star of True Grit, for the wrong Oscar", writes our very own Lucy Jones on her blog. She should be up for the Best Actress gong, not Best Supporting, says Lucy.

14:46 British director Mike Leigh is "thrilled to bits" with the Best Original Screenplay nomination for Another Year. It's his fifth nomination in the category, after being recognised for Vera Drake, Topsy-Turvy, Secrets And Lies and Happy-Go-Lucky. He's also had two nominations as best director in the past.

14:37 Time Magazine thinks that, despite Christopher Nolan being personally snubbed for best director, it could be a good year for him and Inception (pictured below) after they were snubbed for Best Picture in 2009:

"It was after Christopher Nolan's popular (and critically lauded) The Dark Knight was snubbed for an Oscar in 2009 that the Academy announced it would be expanding the best picture category to include 10 nominees in 2010. Now a year later, Nolan gets his due.

"Much of the buzz Tuesday morning is surrounding best picture nominees Winter's Bone, the little indie that could, and The King's Speech, the foreign film that ran away with nominations in almost every major category.

"But matching both titles almost step for step was Inception, which was singled out in eight different categories: Best picture, director, screenplay music, art design, cinematography, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects."

14:32 Okay, that's the lot. Reaction's coming in now.

14:32 BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Another Year
The Fighter
Inception}
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech

14:31 BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone

14:30 VISUAL EFFECTS
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly etc etc
Hereafter
Inception
Iron Man 2

14:29 SOUND MIXING
Inception
The King's Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit

14:27 SOUND EDITING
Inception
Toy Story 3
Tron: Legacy
True Grit
Unstoppable

14:25 BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
The Confession
The Crush
God of Love
Na Wewe
Wish 143

14:24 BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let's Pollute
The Lost Thing
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)

14:22 BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Coming Home, from Country Strong
I See the Light, from Tangled
If I Rise, from 127 Hours
We Belong Together, from Toy Story 3

14:21: Nearly done with these, and I'll get back to giving you some of the reaction. But for completeness I want to get the whole list.

14:20 BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
How to Train your Dragon
Inception
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network

14:18 BEST MAKEUP
Er, apparently "Achievement in Makeup" is nominated for Achievement in Makeup. Might have been a copy-and-paste error there, Oscar chaps. (They've fixed it now.)

Barney's Version
The Way Back
The Wolfman

14:17 BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Outside the Law - Hors-la-loi (Algeria

14:16 BEST FILM EDITING
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network

14:15 BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang

14:14 BEST DOCUMENTARY
Exit through the Gift Shop
Gasland
Inside Job
Restrepo
Waste Land

14:13 BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Alice in Wonderland
I Am Love
The King's Speech
The Tempest
True Grit

14:12 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Swan
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network
True Grit

14:10 BEST ART DIRECTION:
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 1
Inception
The King's Speech
True Grit

14:09: Right, time to start going through some of the other categories. BEST ANIMATED FILM:
How to Train your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3

14:05 A lot of surprise, and some anger, on Twitter at the lack of a nomination for Christopher Nolan. Inception (pictured below) got eight nominations, including Best Picture, but nothing in the Best Director category.

14:03 I am informed by Martin Chilton, our arts and film writer, that this is only the third time an animated film has been nominated for Best Film - the previous being Beauty and the Beast, and - last year - Up.

13:51 Roger Ebert expresses surprise at a few nominations: "'Illusionist,' Jackie Weaver, 'Winter's Bone,' Javier Bardem. John Hawkes, 'Dogtooth'" I'm both surprised and pleased to see Toy Story 3 get a look-in for Best Picture, as well as just Best Animated.

13:48 I'll catch up with some of the smaller awards in a moment: I can't type this fast. But The King's Speech has received a hefty 12 nominations, so it's a good day for them. Unexpected snub to Christopher Nolan - no Best Director nomination for him for Inception. 10 nominations for True Grit, so a fantastic showing for the Coen Brothers as well - and Jeff Bridges is up for a second Best Actor gong in a row.

13:46 BEST DIRECTOR:
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
David O. Russell, The Fighter
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
David Fincher, The Social Network
Joel & Ethan Coen , True Grit

13:45 BEST PICTURE (10 nominations):
Black Swan
127 Hours
The Fighter
The Kids Are All Right
Toy Story 3
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
True Grit
Winter's Bone

13:44 BEST ACTRESS:

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

13: 43 BEST ACTOR:
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
James Franco, 127 Hours
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit

13:42 BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
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

13:41 BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham-Carter, The King's Speech
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver , Animal Kingdom

13:38 the president of the Academy, Tom Sherk (I have absolutely definitely spelled his name wrong), is on stage now with Mo'nique. They're speaking pretty quickly, but here we go...

13:36 Mo'nique, the winner of last year's Best Supporting Actress Award for Precious, will be on stage with an Academy bigwig any minute now to present the nominations. I'd like her a lot more if she didn't have that damn unnecessary apostrophe in her name.

13:34 Anne Hathaway and James Franco - the star of 127 Hours - are to present the actual Oscars ceremony on 27 February, apparently.

13:31 Ah, some vox pops - people on Hollywood Boulevard are asked their picks for Best Pic. Inception gets a few calls, and - oh good Lord - some guy dressed as Elvis says Shrek 4. Okay, mate. And there seem to be a lot of Australians on Hollywood Boulevard. Some people saying The Tourist, which I heard was appalling. And Tron.

13:30 IT HAS BEGUN and some chap whose name I didn't catch (yes, we're all about the professionalism here) and Dave Karger from Entertainment Weekly have started the party. They're saying that there's been a lot more 3D films this year than there were before. Which is the sort of cutting-edge insight we pay them for, I suppose.

13:24 The great Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun Times and the American Barry Norman, has given his predictions for nominees. He's always worth a read. On Twitter, he also backs Jeff Bridges for Best Oscar: "Will the race be entirely between 'The Social Network' and 'The King's Speech?' Don't rule out the man with the patch."

13:15 Would you like to know how tall the Oscar statuette is? Or when the first Academy Awards were held? Maybe you do. If so, there are lots of other fun facts (or needless demands on valuable brain space, depending on your perspective) in our Oscar records and trivia piece.

13:12 Take a look at some of our writers' predictions. Marc Lee writes that The King's Speech's success in the British Independent Film Awards could bode well:

"This week, at the Bifas (the British Independent Film Awards), The King’s Speech was crowned in five categories – Best Film, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Supporting Actor (Geoffrey Rush), Best Supporting Actress (Helena Bonham Carter) and Best Screenplay (written by David Seidler).

"Though the Bifas may give a hint of what to expect in the Baftas, they are not regarded as an indicator of likely Oscar success. But then Slumdog Millionaire was a big winner two years ago, ahead of its remarkable Oscar-night glory, and, if The King’s Speech had flunked badly, it might have set alarm bells ringing."

13:08 The official Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feed - @TheAcademy - on Twitter is getting in the mood: "Rise and shine #Oscars fans - Nominations announced LIVE on Oscar.com in just over 30 min!" Of course, they said that 15 minutes ago. And it's not hugely exciting. But, still, it's happening soon.

13:04 Can you feel the excitement in the air? At 1:30pm, some poor sleep-deprived chap in Los Angeles (it'll only be 5:30am over there) will tell us who has been nominated for Oscars in the 83rd Academy Awards. Yes, you are less than 30 minutes away from finding out whose names are down to win the coveted Best Animated Short and Best Sound Mixing awards. Also, there's all that stuff about the best actors and best films and so on.

We'll be putting out the best of the buildup from the Telegraph and elsewhere, then the nominees as they happen, and then all the reaction from Twitter, our blogs and the rest of the internet. Stick around.

While we're waiting, I'll let you know a few of the hot favourites for nominations in the main categories.

Best Actor

Colin Firth is a shoo-in, according to the bookies - he's at 1/100 to be nominated for his role as King George VI in The King's Speech. Other likely nominees include Jesse Eisenberg, as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network; James Franco, in 127 Hours; Jeff Bridges - last year's winner for Crazy Heart - for the Coen Brothers western True Grit; Robert Duvall for Get Low; and Mark Wahlberg, for The Fighter.

Best Actress

Natalie Portman's apparently spectacular performance in Black Swan (she "deserves two Oscars", according to Simon Pegg on Twitter) makes her a near certainty for nomination at 2/5; also expected to make the cut are Annette Benning, for her role as a lesbian mother in The Kids Are All Right. Jennifer Lawrence is a good shout for Winter's Bone, as well.

Best Picture

For best picture, The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin's semi-fictionalised account of the founding of Facebook, is a prohibitive favourite at 8/11, with The King's Speech at 4/1 and The Fighter at 33/1. Black Swan is not out of the picture at 28/1.

Best Director

David Fincher, the director of The Social Network, is expected to be nominated, at 1/100. The King's Speech director Tom Hooper, Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan, and Christopher Nolan for Inception are other likely nominees.