Highlights From The 83rd Academy Awards

There weren’t too many surprises at last night Oscars. The 83rd annual Academy Awards were hosted by Anne Hathaway and James Franco, who gave us moments of laughter, but overall contributed to a rather dull and boring award show.

The big winner of the night was The King’s Speech as expected. The film picked up Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Colin Firth picked up Best Actor, and Tom Hooper picked up Best Director. Natalie Portman took the award for Best Actress for Black Swan. And favored flick The Social Network went home with less awards than expected taking only Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Film Editing.

Here’s the full list of winners:

BEST PICTURE:
‘The King’s Speech’

BEST ACTOR:
Colin Firth – ‘The King’s Speech’

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Melissa Leo – ‘The Fighter’

BEST ACTRESS:
Natalie Portman – ‘Black Swan’

BEST DIRECTOR:
Tom Hooper – ‘The King’s Speech’

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Christian Bale – ‘The Fighter’

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Aaron Sorkin – ‘The Social Network’

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
David Seidler – ‘The King’s Speech’

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Wally Pfister – ‘Inception’

BEST FILM EDITING:
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter – ‘The Social Network’

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM:
‘Strangers No More’

SHORT FILM:
Luke Matheny – ‘God Of Love’

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
‘Inside Job’

MAKE-UP:
‘The Wolfman’

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
‘We Belong Together’ – ‘Toy Story 3’

ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
‘The Lost Thing’

ANIMATED FILM:
‘Toy Story 3’

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – ‘The Social Network’

SOUND MIXING:
Gary A Rizzo & Ed Novick – ‘Inception’

SOUND EDITING:
Richard King – ‘Inception’

VISUAL EFFECTS:
Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips – ‘Alice in Wonderland’

COSTUME DESIGN:
Colleen Atwood – ‘Alice in Wonderland’

ART DIRECTION:
Robert Stromberg (production design); Karen O’Hara (set decoration) – ‘Alice in Wonderland’

FOREIGN FILM:
‘In a Better World’ (Denmark)

Other notable moments included Melissa Leo’s acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress, where she became the first person in Oscar history to use the f-word. Leo joked: “When I watched Kate Winslet two years ago it looked so f***ing easy.”

Also Kirk Douglas, who at 94 did a better job entertaining us than the hosts of the evening. Douglas presented the Best Supporting Actress award to Leo.

What did you think of last night’s Oscars? Did you find yourself thinking “this is painful” at multiple points? Did the right movies/actors/actresses win? Sound off in our comment section below?