The 83rd Annual Academy Awards or popularly known as Oscars Awards was hosted by Anne Hathaway and James Franco and was aired by the ABC on Sunday February 28, 2011.

According to Nielsen, the show rating was down by 9.9 percent compared to the Oscars last year or there are about 37.6 million people watched the program compared to 41.7 million of last year. And it was ranked the fifth lowest among the Oscars since 1974. Besides, many complained that the 83rd Oscars was hosted by the co-hosts poorly.

Regarding the co-hosts, Oprah Winfrey told Anne during the Oprah Special show after the Oscars, “you were great!”

List of Oscars Nominees and the Winners

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Winner: The King’s Speech
• Black Swan
• The Fighter
• Inception
• The Kids are All Right
• The Social Network
• 127 Hours
• Toy Story 3
• True Grit
• Winter’s Bone

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Winner: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
• Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right)
• Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
• Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)
• Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Winner: Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
• Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
• Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
• James Franco (127 Hours)
• Jeff Bridges (True Grit)

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Winner: Christian Bale (The Fighter)
• John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone)
• Jeremy Renner (The Town)
• Mark Ruffalo (The Kids are All Right)
• Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Winner: Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
• Amy Adams (The Fighter)
• Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech)
• Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
• Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

• Winner: Toy Story 3
• How to Train Your Dragon
• The Illusionist

Best Documentary Short Subject

• Winner: Strangers No More
• Killing in the Name
• Poster Girl
• Sun Come Up
• The Warriors of Qiugang

Best Short Film (Animated)

• Winner: The Lost Thing
• Day & Night
• The Gruffalo
• Let’s Pollute
• Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)

Best Short Film (Live Action)

• Winner: God of Love
• The Confession
• The Crush
• Na Wewe
• Wish 143

Achievement in Art Direction

• Winner: Alice in Wonderland
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
• Inception
• The King’s Speech
• True Grit

Achievement in Cinematography

• Winner: Inception
• Black Swan
• The King’s Speech
• The Social Network
• True Grit

Achievement in Costume Design

• Winner: Alice in Wonderland
• I Am Love
• The King’s Speech
• The Tempest
• True Grit

Achievement in Directing

• Winner: Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)
• Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
• David O. Russell (The Fighter)
• David Fincher (The Social Network)
• Joel and Ethan Coen (True Grit)

Best Documentary Feature

• Winner: Inside Job
• Exit through the Gift Shop
• Gasland
• Restrepo
• Waste Land

Achievement in Makeup

• Winner: The Wolfman
• Barney’s Version
• The Way Back

Achievement in Film Editing

• Winner: The Social Network
• Black Swan
• The Fighter
• The King’s Speech
• 127 Hours

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

• Winner: In a Better World (Denmark)
• Biutiful (Mexico)
• Dogtooth (Greece)
• Incendies (Canada)
• Hors la Loi (Algeria)

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Winner: The Social Network
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Inception
• The King’s Speech
• 127 Hours

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Winner: “We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3
• “Coming Home” from Country Strong
• “I See the Light” from Tangled
• “If I Rise” from 127 Hours

Achievement in Sound Editing

• Winner: Inception
• Toy Story 3
• TRON: Legacy
• True Grit
• Unstoppable

Achievement in Sound Mixing

• Winner: Inception
• The King’s Speech
• Salt
• The Social Network
• True Grit

Achievement in Visual Effects

• Winner: Inception
• Alice in Wonderland
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Hereafter
• Iron Man 2

Adapted Screenplay

• Winner: The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)
• 127 Hours (Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle)
• Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt, story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)
• True Grit (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
• Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik and Anne Rossellini)

Original Screenplay

• Winner: The King’s Speech (David Seidler)
• Another Year (Mike Leigh)
• The Fighter (Paul Attanasio, Lewis Colich, Eric Johnson, Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy)
• Inception (Christopher Nolan)
• The Kids are All Right (Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko)