2010 (83rd Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2010 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

The King’s Speech, See-Saw Films and Bedlam Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, USA, Australia) Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Colin Firth in The King’s Speech, See-Saw Films and Bedlam Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, USA, Australia)

Actress in a Leading Role

Natalie Portman in Black Swan, Protozoa and Phoenix Pictures Production; Fox Searchlight.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Christian Bale in The Fighter, Relativity Media Production; Paramount.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Melissa Leo in The Fighter, Relativity Media Production; Paramount.

Directing

The King’s Speech, See-Saw Films and Bedlam Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, USA, Australia) Tom Hooper.

Animated Feature Film

Toy Story 3, Pixar Production; Walt Disney. Lee Unkrich.

Art Direction

Alice in Wonderland, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Walt Disney. Production design by Robert Stromberg; set decoration by Karen O’Hara.

Cinematography

Inception, Warner Bros. UK Services Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Wally Pfister.

Costume Design

Alice in Wonderland, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Walt Disney. Colleen Atwood.

Documentary

(Feature)

Inside Job, Representational Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Classics. Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs.

(Short Subject)

Strangers No More, Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production. (USA, Israel) Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon.

Film Editing

The Social Network, Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter.

Foreign Language Film

In a Better World, Zentropa Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Denmark, Sweden) Denmark.

Makeup

The Wolfman, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Rick Baker and Dave Elsey.

Music

(Original Score)

The Social Network, Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

(Original Song)

We Belong Together from Toy Story 3, Pixar Production; Walt Disney. Music and lyric by Randy Newman.

Short Films

(Animated)

The Lost Thing, Passion Pictures Australia Production; Nick Batzias for Madman Entertainment. (Australia, UK) Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann.

(Live Action)

God of Love, Luke Matheny Production. Luke Matheny.

Sound Editing

Inception, Warner Bros. UK Services Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Richard King.

Sound Mixing

Inception, Warner Bros. UK Services Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick.

Visual Effects

Inception, Warner Bros. UK Services Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb.

Writing

(Adapted Screenplay)

The Social Network, Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.

(Original Screenplay)

The King’s Speech, See-Saw Films and Bedlam Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, USA, Australia) Screenplay by David Seidler.

Honorary Award

To Kevin Brownlow for the wise and devoted chronicling of the cinematic parade. [ [Statuette]]

To Jean-Luc Godard for passion. For confrontation. For a new kind of cinema. [ [Statuette]]

To Eli Wallach for a lifetime’s worth of indelible screen characters. [ [Statuette]]

To Denny Clairmont in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Francis Ford Coppola

Scientific and Technical Award

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Dr. Mark Sagar for his early and continuing development of influential facial motion retargeting solutions. Dr. Sagar’s work led to a method for transforming facial motion capture data into an expression-based, editable character animation system that has been used in motion pictures with a high volume of digital characters.

To Mark Noel for the design, engineering, and development, and to John Frazier for his contributions to the design and safety features, of the NAC Servo Winch System. The NAC System allows full-sized cars, aircraft and other heavy props to be flown on wires with unprecedented freedom of motion and a high degree of safety, on-set and in real time. The intuitive control system responds to the motion of the operator’s hand, permitting the recording and playback of all axes of motion simultaneously, which may be edited and refined for playback in subsequent takes.

To James Rodnunsky, Alex MacDonald and Mark Chapman for the development of the Cablecam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies. The evolution of the Cablecam technology has made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a three-dimensional space.

To Tim Drnec, Ben Britten Smith and Matt Davis for the development of the Spydercam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies. The evolution of the Spydercam technology has made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a three-dimensional space.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Greg Ercolano for the design and engineering of a series of software systems culminating in the Rush render queue management system. Mr. Ercolano’s work has been influential across the industry, and has enabled scalable render farms at numerous studios.

To David M. Laur for the development of the Alfred render queue management system. This system was the first robust, scalable, widely adopted commercial solution for queue management in the motion picture industry. Its user interface and support for multi-machine assignment influenced the design of modern day queue management tools.

To Chris Allen, Gautham Krishnamurti, Mark A. Brown and Lance Kimes for the development of Queue, a robust, scalable approach to render queue management. Queue was one of the first systems that allowed for statistical analysis and process introspection, providing a framework for the efficient use of render farms.

To Florian Kainz for the design and development of the robust, highly scalable distributed architecture of the QbaQ render queue management system. QbaQ has scaled from managing a few hundred processors in 1997 to many thousands today, with minimal changes to the original design.

To Eric Tabellion and Arnauld Lamorlette for the creation of a computer graphics bounce lighting methodology that is practical at feature film scale. This important step in the evolution of global illumination techniques, first used on the motion picture “Shrek 2,” was shared with the industry in their technical paper “An Approximate Global Illumination System for Computer Generated Films.”

To Tony Clark, Alan Rogers, Neil Wilson and Rory McGregor for the software design and continued development of cineSync, a tool for remote collaboration and review of visual effects. Easy to use, cineSync has become a widely accepted solution for remote production collaboration.