The much glitzed and glamoured celebrity life had come under the axe as the best and fittest winners for the Oscar had finally been revealed. Filipino fans had been anticipating an award for their preferred foreign films and they had not waited in vain as the results inclined on the favoured and predicted favourites. Even Filipino producers had also bagged the award. Our featured God of Love produced by a Filipino has been put in pedestal as it was Oscar’s live action short film award. The rest of the awards are as iterated.
- Best Picture: The King’s Speech
- Best Actor: Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”)
- Best Actress: Natalie Portman (“Black Swan)
- Best director – “The King’s Speech” (Tom Hooper)
- Supporting actress – Melissa Leo (“The Fighter”)
- Supporting actor – Christian Bale (“The Fighter”)
- Adapted screenplay – “The Social Network” (Aaron Sorkin)
- Original screenplay – “The King’s Speech” (David Seidler)
- Foreign language film – “In a Better World” (Denmark)
- Animated feature – “Toy Story 3″
- Original song – “We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3″ (Randy Newman)
- Original score – “The Social Network” (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross)
- Film editing – “The Social Network” (Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter)
- Cinematography – “Inception” (Wally Pfister)
- Sound Mixing – “Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, Ed Novick)
- Sound editing – “Inception” (Richard King)
- Visual effects – “Inception” (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb)
- Art direction – “Alice in Wonderland” (Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara)
- Costume design – “Alice in Wonderland” (Colleen Atwood)
- Makeup – “The Wolfman” (Rick Baker, Dave Elsey)
- Documentary feature – “Inside Job”
- Documentary short subject – “Strangers No More”
- Live action short film – “God of Love”
- Animated short film – “The Lost Thing”
Hopefully, Filipino cinemas would continue bench marking and learn valuable ideas from Hollywood movie making. Our local cinema needs a fresh ideas and concept and the Oscar’s had set the standard for the local cinema to emulate.
