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masterofmystery · 01-25-2011, 01:55 PM

Nominations for the 83rd annual Academy Awards have been announced this morning, where Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I was recognised in the Art Direction and achievement in visual effects categories. Additionally, Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter films), received an Actress in a Supporting Role nomination for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech. Alexandre Desplat, who composed the scores for the final two Deathly Hallows films, got a nomination for The King's Speech original motion picture score.

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Art Direction

• Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney), Robert Stromberg (Production Design), Karen O'Hara (Set Decoration)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.), Stuart Craig (Production Design), Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration)
• Inception (Warner Bros.), Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration)/span>
• The King's Speech (Paramount), Eve Stewart (Production Design), Judy Farr (Set Decoration)
• True Grit (Paramount), Jess Gonchor (Production Design), Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration)

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Achievement in visual effects

• Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.) Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
• Hereafter (Warner Bros.) Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
• Inception (Warner Bros.) Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
• Iron Man 2 (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment, Distributed by Paramount) Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

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Actress in a Supporting Role
• Amy Adams - The Fighter
• Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech
• Melissa Leo - The Fighter
• Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit
• Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom

The 2011 Academy Awards will be broadcast live on ABC Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 8pm EST/5pm PST. We will have updates on the Oscar nominees and winners that evening. The full list of nominees can be found here.

Congratulations to all those nominated!

Ginny GL · 01-26-2011, 12:54 AM

Haven't seen any of the films, but Helena is a remarcable actress, so she really stands a chance.

As for the nominations for DH, competition is really tough, but I'll root for DH.

*LYNN* · 01-26-2011, 01:11 AM

awesome! hope she wins!
the lists are quite impressive, it's going to be very competitive!

Butterbeer7 · 01-26-2011, 01:12 AM

nice..

Looneybird · 01-26-2011, 01:28 AM

Congrats to Deathly Hallows, but that's some tough competition, especially from Alice in Wonderland and Inception. I think the competition was between those two films to begin with so any other film is surely going to lose out, which is bad.

I’d like Deathly Hallows to just win one Oscar for once. It's technical side has always been amazing. And congrats to Helena Bonham Carter!

I haven't watched the King's Speech yet but I’m most definitely sure she deserved it because she's been amazing in all the films I've seen her in. One of my favorite actresses.

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Originally Posted by mr_bellamy

I don't think "DH: Part II" will be recognized in any of the major categories next year, like Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor etc., but honestly, I don't think it really deserves to. All of the movies, including the Chris Columbus ones but even more once he left, have been very very flawed in terms of overall storytelling and complexity in characterization, especially when you compare them to the AMAZINGLY well-told stories and fleshed-out characters in the original books.
But I definitely think that the the series should have gotten WAYYYYY more than just one or two technical categories each. I think every single Harry Potter film actually deserved to be nominated in ALL of the "techies". Especially cinematography, visual effects, and art direction, but also score, film editing, and the sound categories. Hopefully we'll see "DH: Part II" pop up in all of those

I don't think anyone really expects any of the HP films to be recognized in the major categories like "Best Picture," etc. because that would make the Oscars look like a joke. When WB sent HBP in for "Best Picture" consideration, I definitely raised my eyebrows 'cos that was just a silly move on their part. While the films are fun to watch, they most certainly aren't masterpieces like some of the other nominations in those categories.

But I do agree that the series should have gotten nominations for most of the technical categories. It irritates me greatly because the films have done a great job there time and time again and have been getting better and better visually; however, they've never won a single prestigious award for what it has achieved in the technical categories or the score; especially the score during John Williams' time in Prisoner of Azkaban.

#1_harry_potter_fan_22 · 01-26-2011, 01:49 AM

I'm so so happy for them!

I will definitely be watching that night!

bonnieginnyfan1 · 01-26-2011, 03:20 AM

I really want anything HP related to win! I just thing they deserve it so much!

Brithla · 01-26-2011, 03:57 AM

I'm so excited HP was nominated for something!

But not feeling very optimistic, unfortunately. I hope Part II will be nominated for some more awards... I think they really deserve it.

brislunatica · 01-26-2011, 04:35 AM

this is amazing

I hope Helena win

I love her

and congrats to DH

good luck

Enrico_Dc · 01-26-2011, 08:19 PM

i just recently finished watching The King's Speech and i can say that Alexandre Desplat's music for Deathly Hallows Part 1 was much better than the King's speech, but i wish he could win the award.

I also wish for Helena and ofcourse, anything related to Harry Potter films...