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Beverley Hills - The British monarchy saga The King's Speech leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture and acting honours for Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush.
Also nominated for best picture on Tuesday were the psychosexual thriller Black Swan; the boxing drama The Fighter; the sci-fi blockbuster Inception; the lesbian-family tale The Kids Are All Right; the survival story 127 Hours; the Facebook chronicle The Social Network; the animated smash Toy Story 3; the Western True Grit; and the Ozarks crime thriller Winter's Bone.
True Grit ran second with 10 nominations, including acting honours for Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld.
The favourites in the male-acting categories both were nominated, Globe winners Firth as best actor for The King's Speech and Christian Bale as supporting actor for The Fighter.
Along with Firth and Eisenberg, best-actor contenders are Javier Bardem as a dying father in the Spanish-language drama Biutiful, which also is up for best foreign-language film; Bridges as boozy lawman Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, a role that earned John Wayne an Oscar for the 1969 adaptation of the Western novel; and James Franco in the real-life tale of a climber trapped in a crevasse after a boulder crushes his arm in 127 Hours.
The best-actress field shapes up as a two-woman race between Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right, who won the Globe for actress in a musical or comedy, and Natalie Portman for Black Swan, who received the Globe for dramatic actress.
Other best-actress nominees are Nicole Kidman as a grieving mother in Rabbit Hole; Jennifer Lawrence as a teen trying to find her missing father amid the Ozark Mountains' criminal underbelly in Winter's Bone; and Michelle Williams as a wife in a failing marriage in Blue Valentine.
The supporting-actress Oscar could prove the most competitive among acting prizes. Melissa Leo won the Globe for The Fighter, but she faces strong challenges from that film's co-star Amy Adams and 14-year-old newcomer Steinfeld, who missed out on a Globe nomination for True Grit but made the cut for supporting actress at the Oscars.
David Fincher is the best-directing favourite for The Social Network after winning that prize at the Globes. Joining Fincher among best-director picks are Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan; Joel and Ethan Coen for True Grit; Tom Hooper for The King's Speech; Christopher Nolan for Inception; and David O Russell for The Fighter.
The February 27 Oscar ceremony will be televised live on ABC from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
Also nominated for best picture on Tuesday were the psychosexual thriller Black Swan; the boxing drama The Fighter; the sci-fi blockbuster Inception; the lesbian-family tale The Kids Are All Right; the survival story 127 Hours; the Facebook chronicle The Social Network; the animated smash Toy Story 3; the Western True Grit; and the Ozarks crime thriller Winter's Bone.
True Grit ran second with 10 nominations, including acting honours for Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld.
The favourites in the male-acting categories both were nominated, Globe winners Firth as best actor for The King's Speech and Christian Bale as supporting actor for The Fighter.
Along with Firth and Eisenberg, best-actor contenders are Javier Bardem as a dying father in the Spanish-language drama Biutiful, which also is up for best foreign-language film; Bridges as boozy lawman Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, a role that earned John Wayne an Oscar for the 1969 adaptation of the Western novel; and James Franco in the real-life tale of a climber trapped in a crevasse after a boulder crushes his arm in 127 Hours.
The best-actress field shapes up as a two-woman race between Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right, who won the Globe for actress in a musical or comedy, and Natalie Portman for Black Swan, who received the Globe for dramatic actress.
Other best-actress nominees are Nicole Kidman as a grieving mother in Rabbit Hole; Jennifer Lawrence as a teen trying to find her missing father amid the Ozark Mountains' criminal underbelly in Winter's Bone; and Michelle Williams as a wife in a failing marriage in Blue Valentine.
The supporting-actress Oscar could prove the most competitive among acting prizes. Melissa Leo won the Globe for The Fighter, but she faces strong challenges from that film's co-star Amy Adams and 14-year-old newcomer Steinfeld, who missed out on a Globe nomination for True Grit but made the cut for supporting actress at the Oscars.
David Fincher is the best-directing favourite for The Social Network after winning that prize at the Globes. Joining Fincher among best-director picks are Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan; Joel and Ethan Coen for True Grit; Tom Hooper for The King's Speech; Christopher Nolan for Inception; and David O Russell for The Fighter.
The February 27 Oscar ceremony will be televised live on ABC from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
