Quick reactions:



The Good:

-Winter's Bone is in for Best Picture! And 127 Hours swapped in for the Town, which is fine.
-And even better yet, JOHN HAWKES IS IN FOR SUPPORTING ACTOR!!! WHOOOOOO!!!!
-Dogtooth is in for foreign film! Way to go Academy!
-Jacki Weaver stays in for supporting actress. Yay!
-Restrepo is in for Documentary! More importantly, Waiting for Superman is out! YES! (Both Waste Land and Gasland are in... I should have thought about the fact that the academy looks kindly on environmental docs.)
-Yay! A travel story about Madagascar is up for animated short! Whoo!
-Barney's Version proves that if you put all of your marketing money into one category (makeup), you can get recognized.


The Bad:

-No Christopher Nolan for Best Director.
-Bardem. Ugh.
-No Ryan Gosling for best actor.
-I'm sorry. You put Hereafter in for Visual Effects and not Scott Pilgrim? Low blow. (And why does visual effects get 5 nominees this year?)
-Wait, no TRON for visual effects? WHAT? (No tron for score, either. It was a longshot wish, but oh well.)
-I really was hoping for Bound to You for best song.
-No Mila Kunis for supporting actress.


The Ugly (or particularly shocking):

-WHERE IS MY CHER?! HOW DARE YOU NOT INVITE HER? You're still pissed about the whole Bob Mackie thing, aren't you?
-NO!!! JOHN HAWKES WAS SUPPOSED TO SUPPLANT MARK RUFFALO! NOT ANDREW GARFIELD!! NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo
-No Black Swan for Art Design? Are you kidding me? (That's actually the first of several shocking snubs for Black Swan in the tech categories. Here it was looking like it might come away with as many nominations as the King's Speech. (SERIOUSLY? NO BEST COSTUME? THE TUTUS WERE SO PRETTY!!!)
-No Inception for editing. Say what now?!

So the King's Speech, which did not get weirdly skunked in the tech categories, got 12 noms, which is going to make people think it has an edge. Psh. True Grit got 10 (yay!), Social Network and Inception got 8, The Fighter got 7, Winter's Bone got 4.

Black Swan got 5. 127 Hours got 6. Who saw that coming?