The 83rd Academy Award nominations!

This morning at 8:30am EST/5:30am PST, the nominations for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be announced in Hollywood. Last year’s Best Supporting Actress, Mo’Nique will join Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to announce the winners and we’ve got a live feed from the event that you can watch below. Once the nominees are announced in full, we’ll update with a complete list plus reactions. It looks like THE SOCIAL NETWORK and THE KING’S SPEECH will be among the big winners but who and what do you think will be the big surprises?

As expected, and mentioned above, THE KING’S SPEECH and THE SOCIAL NETWORK were big winners this morning with the former bringing in a top 12 nominations and the latter a total of 8 nominations (TRUE GRIT had the second most nominations with 10). There weren’t many surprises as far as the Best Picture nominees (I put together a mock-up last night and my preliminary list is exactly what they announced this morning) but that’s not to say there weren’t a few surprises.

Almost every year, there’s a shake-up in the Best Director category and this year was no different. Joel and Ethan Coen, who had been shut out of many of the early awards, snuck in while Christopher Nolan was snubbed for his work on INCEPTION (to Nolan’s credit, he did score a Best Original Screenplay nod for that film).

Javier Bardem made it into the Best Actor race (likely at the expense of Robert Duvall’s GET LOW performance) and John Hawkes bumped Andrew Garfield (THE SOCIAL NETWORK) out of the Best Supporting Actor category. Two FIGHTER actresses were nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Melissa Leo, Amy Adams) and Jacki Weaver was a pleasant surprise for JoBlo.com fave ANIMAL KINGDOM.

TOY STORY 3 got a surprise Adapted Screenplay nomination, edging out other hopefuls like THE RABBIT HOLE. TOY STORY also made the Best Animated Feature category, which was trimmed to three nominees this year. While HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON and THE ILLUSIONIST were nominated, DESPICABLE ME and TANGLED were left high and dry. (Other good news for Pixar, their short film “Day & Night” was nominated for Best Animated Short.)

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD was shut out of the Visual Effects category (in favor of HEREAFTER??) and the Sound Mixing/Editing categories where it was expected to get nominated.

The nominees are listed in full below and once you take a look, let us know what makes you the happiest and most disappointed when you peruse the potential winners (I have a feeling the lack of a Chris Nolan nomination for Best Director will get folks talking….)

BEST PICTURE
127 HOURS
BLACK SWAN
THE FIGHTER
INCEPTION
THE KING’S SPEECH
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
TOY STORY 3
TRUE GRIT
WINTER’S BONE

BEST ACTOR
Colin Firth – THE KING’S SPEECH
Jesse Eisenberg – THE SOCIAL NETWORK
James Franco – 127 HOURS
Jeff Bridges – TRUE GRIT
Javier Bardem – BIUTIFUL

BEST ACTRESS
Natalie Portman, BLACK SWAN
Annette Bening, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
Michelle Williams – BLUE VALENTINE
Nicole Kidman – THE RABBIT HOLE
Jennifer Lawrence – WINTER’S BONE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale – THE FIGHTER
Geoffrey Rush, THE KING’S SPEECH
Jeremy Renner, THE TOWN
John Hawkes – WINTER’S BONE
Mark Ruffalo, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melissa Leo – THE FIGHTER
Hailee Steinfeld – TRUE GRIT
Helena Bonham Carter – THE KING’S SPEECH
Amy Adams – THE FIGHTER
Jacki Weaver – ANIMAL KINGDOM

BEST ANIMATED FILM
TOY STORY 3
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
THE ILLUSIONIST

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky – BLACK SWAN
David Fincher – THE SOCIAL NETWORK
David O. Russell – THE FIGHTER
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – TRUE GRIT
Tom Hooper – THE KING’S SPEECH

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy – 127 HOURS
Aaron Sorkin – THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Michael Arndt – TOY STORY 3
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – TRUE GRIT
Debra Granik and Anne Rosselini – WINTER’S BONE

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mike Leigh – ANOTHER YEAR
Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson – THE FIGHTER
Christopher Nolan, INCEPTION
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg – THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
David Seidler, THE KING’S SPEECH

BEST ART DIRECTION
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1
INCEPTION
THE KING’S SPEECH
TRUE GRIT

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BLACK SWAN
INCEPTION
THE KING’S SPEECH
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
TRUE GRIT

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
I AM LOVE
THE KING’S SPEECH
THE TEMPEST
TRUE GRIT

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
GASLAND

INSIDE JOB
RESTREPO
WASTE LAND

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“Killing in the Name”
“Poster Girl”
“Strangers No More”
“Sun Come Up”
“The Warriors of Quigang”

BEST EDITING
BLACK SWAN
THE FIGHTER
THE KING’S SPEECH
127 HOURS
THE SOCIAL NETWORK

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BIUTIFUL
DOGTOOTH
IN A BETTER WORLD
INCENDIES
OUTSIDE THE LAW

BEST MAKEUP
THE WAY BACK
THE WOLFMAN

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
INCEPTION
THE KING’S SPEECH
127 HOURS
THE SOCIAL NETWORK

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Coming Home” – COUNTRY STRONG
“I See The Light” – TANGLED
“If I Rise” – 127 HOURS
“We Belong Together” – TOY STORY 3

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
“Day & Night”
“The Gruffalo”
“Let’s Pollute”
“The Lost Thing”>
“Madagascar, A Journey Diary”

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
“The Confession”
“The Crush”
“God of Love”
“Na Wewe”
“Wish 143”

BEST SOUND EDITING
INCEPTION
TOY STORY 3
TRON: LEGACY
TRUE GRIT
UNSTOPPABLE

BEST SOUND MIXING
INCEPTION
THE KING’S SPEECH
SALT
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
TRUE GRIT

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1
HEREAFTER
INCEPTION
IRON MAN 2