Javier Bardem – Biutiful
Jeff Bridges – True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
Colin Firth – The King's Speech
James Franco – 127 Hours
Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Noomi Rapace – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Naomi Watts – Fair Game
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Tangled
Toy Story 3
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
David Fincher – The Social Network
Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan – Inception
A Film Unfinished
Restrepo
The Tillman Story
Waiting for "Superman"
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network
Easy A
I Love You Phillip Morris
Jackass 3D
Micmacs
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Biutiful • Mexico
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) • Sweden
Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) • France
North Face (Nordwand) • Germany
A Prophet (Un prophète) • France
Black Swan
Burlesque
The Fighter
Inception
The Social Network
Biutiful – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone
Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin
The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson
Inception – Christopher Nolan
The King's Speech – David Seidler
127 Hours – Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall
The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
True Grit – Joel and Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
Christian Bale – The Fighter
John Hawkes – Winter's Bone
Jeremy Renner – The Town
Sam Rockwell – Conviction
Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech
Barbara Hershey – Black Swan
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
Inception
Kick-Ass
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Tron: Legacy
(for technical/artistic innovative that advances the medium)
127 Hours
Inception
Kick-Ass
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Toy Story 3
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
(for excellence in art-house cinema)
The King's Speech
Micmacs
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Trash Humpers
Winter's Bone
(for best scene, cinematic technique or other memorable aspect or moment)
127 Hours: the zoom-up scene which begins with a tight shot on Aron (James Franco) as he is screaming and pulls out to a wide shot of a large land area, showing how isolated he was from other humans.
Easy A: the John Hughes tribute near the beginning.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I: the “obliviate” scene in which Hermione erases her parents’ memories of her.
Inception: the zero-gravity hotel fight in the tumbling hallway scene with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Kick-Ass: the Hit-Girl kill spree.
