AAN: My predictions for the Oscar nominations.

I know that everyone is doing them, and everyone's nominations are probably all the same, but I really need to get these predictions down in writing. And then I am going to con someone into paying me for every nomination I get right. Mwahahahahahahahahahaha...

BEST PICTURE: 127 Hours / Black Swan / Inception / The Fighter / The Kids Are All Right / The King's Speech / The Social Network / Toy Story 3 / True Grit / Winter's Bone

BEST ACTOR: Robert Duvall for Get Low / Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network / Colin Firth for The King's Speech / James Franco for 127 Hours / Ryan Gosling for Blue Valentine

BEST ACTRESS: Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right / Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole / Jennifer Lawrence for Winter's Bone / Natalie Portman for Black Swan / Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christian Bale for The Fighter / Andrew Garfield for The Social Network / Jeremy Renner for The Town / Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right / Geoffrey Rush for The King's Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Adams for The Fighter / Helena Bohnam Carter for The King's Speech / Mila Kunis for Black Swan / Melissa Leo for The Fighter / Jacki Weaver for Animal Kingdom

BEST DIRECTOR: Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan / Danny Boyle for 127 Hours / David Fincher for The Social Network / Tom Hooper for The King's Speech / Christopher Nolan for Inception

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy for 127 Hours / Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network / Peter Craig, Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard for The Town / Joel and Ethan Coen for True Grit / Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Winter's Bone

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Max Heyman, Andres Heinz and John J. McLaughlin for Black Swan / Christopher Nolan for Inception / Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson for The Fighter / Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg for The Kids Are All Right / David Seidler for The King's Speech

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: 127 Hours / Black Swan / Inception / The Social Network / True Grit

BEST ART DIRECTION: Alice in Wonderland / Black Swan / Inception / The King's Speech / True Grit

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Alice in Wonderland / Black Swan / The King's Speech / The Social Network / True Grit

BEST SOUND: 127 Hours / Black Swan / Inception / The Social Network / True Grit

BEST EDITING: 127 Hours / Black Swan / Inception / The King's Speech / The Social Network

BEST SOUND EDITING: 127 Hours / Black Swan / Inception / TRON: Legacy / True Grit

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Harry Potter 7 / Inception / TRON: Legacy

BEST MAKEUP: Alice in Wonderland / Black Swan / Harry Potter 7

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: "If I Rise" 127 Hours / "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" Burlesque / "Coming Home" Country Strong / "I See the Light" Tangled / "We Belong Together" Toy Story 3

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: A.R. Rahman for 127 Hours / Clint Mansell for Black Swan / Hans Zimmer for Inception / Alexandre Desplat for The King's Speech / Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Social Network

Best Animated Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Short Film, Best Documentary and Best Foreign Film I have literally no clue about.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Despicable Me / How to Train Your Dragon / The Illusionist / Tangled / Toy Story 3