The stage is being set in Hollywood for the Oscar Awards 2011, that are to be announced in Academy Awards Ceremony on Sunday, February 27, 2011. This Oscar season, like others, is bound to be a mixture of glamor, glitz and politics. Almost all major nominations and awards are strong contenders for being the winners in this world's biggest film awards. Nonetheless, just like the Oscar winners 2010, wherein the most predicted
Avatar was defeated thoroughly by
The Hurt Locker, it seems even this Oscar may bring a hosts of surprises. In this context, the Oscar predictions for this year are interesting to note. While it has been formally announced in late November that Anne Hathaway and James Franco are to be the co - hosts of the awards ceremony of 2011, the announcements for Oscar nominations 2011 will be done on Tuesday; January 25, 2011.
Academy Awards Predictions 2011
There are 24 categories in the Academy Awards Ceremony however, here, we have predicted nominations from 7 categories that are most likely to receive entry into the Oscar official nominations. Instead of predicting a single winner from each category, we have highlighted
two best bets from each of the categories mentioned below.
| Nominations for Best Actress |
| Actress |
Movie |
| Natalie Portman |
Black Swan |
| Anne Hathaway |
Love and Other Drugs |
| Jennifer Lawrence |
Winter's Bone |
| Lesley Manville |
Another Year |
| Annette Bening |
The Kids Are All Right |
| Nicole Kidman |
Rabbit Hole |
| Michelle Williams |
Blue Valentine |
| Nominations for Best Actor |
| Actor |
Movie |
| Colin Farrell |
The Way Back |
| Matt Damon |
Hereafter |
| Stephen Dorff |
Somewhere |
| Colin Firth |
The King's Speech |
| Ryan Gosling |
Blue Valentine |
| James Franco |
127 Hours |
| Robert Duvall |
Get Low |
| Javier Bardem |
Biutiful |
| Jeff Bridges |
True Grit |
| Nominations for Best Director |
| Director |
Movie |
| Sofia Coppola |
Somewhere |
| Christopher Nolan |
Inception |
| Terrance Malick |
The Tree of Life |
| Julian Schabel |
Miral |
| Peter Weir |
The Way Back |
| David Fincher |
The Social Network |
| Clint Eastwood |
Hereafter |
| Danny Boyle |
127 Hours |
| Joel and Ethan Coen |
True Grit |
| Tom Hooper |
The King's Speech |
| Darren Aronofsky |
Black Swan |
| Nominations for Best Movie |
| Movie |
| The Kids Are All Right |
| The King's Speech |
| The Social Network |
| True Grit |
| Love and Other Drugs |
| The Fighter |
| Never Let Me Go |
| Toy Story 3 |
| Inception |
| 127 Hours |
| Inception |
| Black Swan |
| Winter's Bone |
| Nominations for Best Supporting Actor |
| Actor |
Movie |
| Christian Bale |
The Fighter |
| Matt Damon |
True Grit |
| Andrew Garfield |
The Social Network |
| Bill Murray |
Get Low |
| Geoffrey Rush |
The King's Speech |
| Nominations for Best Supporting Actress |
| Actress |
Movie |
| Helena Bonham Carter |
The King's Speech |
| Barbara Hershey |
Black Swan |
| Melissa Leo |
The Fighter |
| Miranda Richardson |
Made in Dagenham |
| Hailee Steinfeld |
True Grit |
| Nominations for Best Documentary |
| Movie |
| Casino Jack |
| Exit Through the Gift Shop |
| A Film Unfinished |
| Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work |
| Waiting for Superman |
| Nominations for Animated Movie |
| Movie |
| Despicable Me |
| Toy Story 3 |
| How to Train Your Dragon |
These were some of our predictions of Oscar for 2011. As each one us have our own preferences, this list may not be so pleasing for someone whose favorite movies haven't been included in the list. Nevertheless, readers must understand that these are just guesses, and the final result may be different. What are your predictions for this year's Oscar? Share your valuable predictions and let us see how many of us, get it correct. Most of these nominations are surely going to be appear in the official nominees list that will be unveiled on January 25th, however for the result, let's keep our fingers crossed till the evening of February 27, 2011.