Oscar Nominee Picks: Or, "What I'll be trying to see in the next month"

Actually, thanks to my wonderful girlfriend's wonderful taste, I've been to the movie theater for actual good movies more often than in years past and thus will have probably seen a majority of the Best Picture nominees when they are announced tomorrow morning. Still, I'm almost certain that there's going to be a few movies nominated that I will either have to go way out of my way to catch before the broadcast or already have been in theaters and won't be out on DVD until afterward.

With football season now only being one game away from over, it's about time to transition over to something new to plaster this blog with, so get set for the movie reviews, folks. What gets nominated and I've already seen will probably go up first, but before we get to that stuff, here's who and what I'm guessing gets nominated tomorrow morning—with thoughts and commentary on the individual categories to probably follow in a later post:

BEST PICTURE

127 Hours

Black Swan

The Fighter

Inception

The Kids Are All Right

The King's Speech

The Social Network

Toy Story 3

True Grit

Winter's Bone

BEST DIRECTOR

Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan

David O. Russell, The Fighter
Christopher Nolan, Inception 
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech

David Fincher, The Social Network

BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Robert Duvall, Get Low
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network

Colin Firth, The King's Speech

James Franco, 127 Hours

BEST ACTRESS

Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right

Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole

Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Lesley Manville, Another Year
Natalie Portman, Black Swan

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christian Bale, The Fighter
Andrew Garfield, The Social Network 
Jeremy Renner, The Town

Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right

Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams, The Fighter

Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Mila Kunis, Black Swan 
Melissa Leo, The Fighter

Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

 Mark Heyman and Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin, Black Swan

Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson, The Fighter

Christopher Nolan, Inception

Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right

David Seidler, The King's Speech

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

 Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy, 127 Hours

Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network

Michael Arndt, Toy Story 3

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, True Grit

Debra Granik & Anne Rosselini, Winter's Bone