Movie Holic

The Artist – Thomas Langmann

• The Descendants – Jim Burke, Jim Taylor, and Alexander Payne
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Scott Rudin
• The Help – Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, and Michael Barnathan
• Hugo – Graham King and Martin Scorsese
• Midnight in Paris – Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum
• Moneyball – Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, and Brad Pitt
• The Tree of Life – Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, and Bill Pohlad
• War Horse – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy

Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist

• Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris
• Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
• Alexander Payne – The Descendants
• Martin Scorsese – Hugo

Jean Dujardin – The Artist as George Valentin

• Demián Bichir – A Better Life as Carlos Galindo
• George Clooney – The Descendants as Matt King
• Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley
• Brad Pitt – Moneyball as Billy Beane

Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher

• Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs as Albert Nobbs
• Viola Davis – The Help as Aibileen Clark
• Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Lisbeth Salander
• Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe

Christopher Plummer – Beginners as Hal Fields

• Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn as Laurence Olivier
• Jonah Hill – Moneyball as Peter Brand
• Nick Nolte – Warrior as Paddy Conlon
• Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as The Renter

Octavia Spencer – The Help as Minny Jackson

• Bérénice Bejo – The Artist as Peppy Miller
• Jessica Chastain – The Help as Celia Foote
• Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids as Megan Price
• Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs as Hubert Page

Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen

• The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
• Bridesmaids – Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
• Margin Call – J.C. Chandor
• A Separation – Asghar Farhadi

The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash from The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings

• Hugo – John Logan from The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• The Ides of March – George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon from Farragut North by Beau Willimon
• Moneyball – Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin from Moneyball by Michael Lewis
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

Rango – Gore Verbinski

• A Cat in Paris – Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
• Chico and Rita – Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
• Kung Fu Panda 2 – Jennifer Yuh Nelson
• Puss in Boots – Chris Miller

A Separation (Iran) in Persian – Asghar Farhadi

• Bullhead (Belgium) in Dutch and French – Michaël R. Roskam
• Footnote (Israel) in Hebrew – Joseph Cedar
• In Darkness (Poland) in Polish – Agnieszka Holland
• Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) in French – Philippe Falardeau

Undefeated – TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay, and Richard Middlemas

• Hell and Back Again – Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
• If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front – Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
• Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory – Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
• Pina – Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel

Saving Face – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge

• The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement – Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
• God Is the Bigger Elvis – Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
• Incident in New Baghdad – James Spione
• The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom – Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

The Shore – Terry George and Oorlagh George

• Pentecost – Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane
• Raju – Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
• Time Freak – Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
• Tuba Atlantic – Hallvar Witzø

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg

• Dimanche – Patrick Doyon
• La Luna – Enrico Casarosa
• A Morning Stroll – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
• Wild Life – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

The Artist – Ludovic Bource

• The Adventures of Tintin – John Williams
• Hugo – Howard Shore
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias
• War Horse – John Williams

"Man or Muppet" from The Muppets – Bret McKenzie

• "Real in Rio" from Rio – Sérgio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown, and Siedah Garrett

Hugo – Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty

• Drive – Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Ren Klyce
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
• War Horse – Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

Hugo – Tom Fleischman and John Midgley

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Bo Persson
• Moneyball – Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, David Giammarco, and Ed Novick
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush, and Peter J. Devlin
• War Horse – Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, and Stuart Wilson

Hugo – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo

• The Artist – Laurence Bennett and Robert Gould
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Stuart Craig and Stephanie McMillan
• Midnight in Paris – Anne Seibel and Hélène Dubreuil
• War Horse – Rick Carter and Lee Sandales

Hugo – Robert Richardson

• The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Jeff Cronenweth
• The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki
• War Horse – Janusz Kamiński

The Iron Lady – Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

• Albert Nobbs – Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnson, and Matthew W. Mungle
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, and Lisa Tomblin

The Artist – Mark Bridges

• Anonymous – Lisy Christl
• Hugo – Sandy Powell
• Jane Eyre – Michael O'Connor
• W.E. – Arianne Phillips

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

• The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
• The Descendants – Kevin Tent
• Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker
• Moneyball – Christopher Tellefsen

Hugo – Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, and Alex Henning

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler, and John Richardson
• Real Steel – Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Danny Gordon Taylor, and Swen Gillberg
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White, and Daniel Barrett
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew E. Butler, and John Frazier