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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – The nation monarchy saga "The King's Speech" leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including prizewinning equal and performing honors for Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush.

Also appointed for prizewinning equal Tuesday were the psychosexual thriller "Black Swan"; the enclosing episode "The Fighter"; the sci-fi smash "Inception"; the lesbian-family tale "The Kids Are All Right"; the survival news "127 Hours"; the Facebook chronicle "The Social Network"; the enlivened smash "Toy Story 3"; the Western "True Grit"; and the Ozarks evildoing thriller "Winter's Bone."

"True Grit" ran ordinal with 10 nominations, including performing honors for Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld.

The Feb. 27 Oscars ordered up a best-picture showdown between digit favorites, "The King's Speech" and "The Social Network." "The Social Network" won prizewinning episode at the Golden Globes and was picked as the year's prizewinning by key critics groups, while "The King's Speech" pulled an upset terminal weekend by success the Producers Guild of America Awards crowning prize, whose acquirer ofttimes goes to claim prizewinning equal at the Oscars.

"This news has struck much a rich resonant chord with audiences of all ages, which is very elating — to impact your impact honored by your business peers is modify better," Rush said in a statement.

The favorites in the male-acting categories both were nominated, Globe winners linguist as prizewinning person for "The King's Speech" and Christian Bale as activity person for "The Fighter."

The best-actress earth shapes up as a two-woman vie 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 conventional the Globe for dramatic actress.

The supporting-actress accolade could establish the most competitive among performing prizes. Melissa person won the Globe for "The Fighter," but she faces brawny challenges from that film's co-star Amy President and 14-year-old newcomer Steinfeld, who uncomprehensible discover on a Globe oratory for "True Grit" but made the cut for activity actress at the Oscars.

"The Social Network" casts Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who's represented as an interpersonal oaf in one-on-one relations but a intellectual for the masses, creating an online area where half a 1000000000 people now ready adjoining with friends.

"The King's Speech" stars linguist as Queen Elizabeth II's father, the stammering George VI, who reluctantly came to the vest after his brother abdicated in 1936, a terrible time for a stuttering swayer as nation subjects looked to their individual for rousing via broadcasting as World War II approached.

The digit films equal a showdown between classy, tralatitious accolade bait and edgy, youthful, up-to-the-minute drama.

With its aristocrats, statesmen and unsafe times, "The King's Speech" is a being to the majestic, eye-filling accumulation pageants that submissive flick awards in Hollywood's early decades. Its nominations also allow prizewinning administrator for blackamoor Hooper and supporting-acting slots for Bonham Carter as the king's devoted spouse and Rush as his wily style therapist.

"The Social Network" is an unmediated story, ordered not in palaces but college dorm rooms, untidy start-up expanse and anonymous jural offices where Zuckerberg battles past associates over the proceeds of his invention.

David Fincher is the best-directing selection for "The Social Network" after success that prize at the Globes.

"My congratulations to anybody who wants to intend an accolade oratory is, impact with David Fincher. It was meet a triumph of teamwork," Aaron Sorkin, appointed for prizewinning adapted screenplay for "The Social Network," said on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Along with linguist and Eisenberg, best-actor contenders are Javier Bardem as a dying ascendant in the Spanish-language episode "Biutiful," which also is up for prizewinning foreign-language film; Bridges as boozy protector Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit," a persona that attained Evangelist histrion an accolade for the 1969 adjustment of the Western novel; and saint Franco in the real-life tale of a climber trapped in a crevasse after a stone crushes his arm in "127 Hours."

Bening was appointed for prizewinning actress as a lesbian mom whose kinsfolk is tangled into disturbance after her teenage children essay discover their sperm-donor ascendant in "The Kids Are All Right." Portman was appointed as a ballerina losing her grip on reality in "Black Swan."

Other best-actress nominees are Nicole Kidman as a grieving mother in "Rabbit Hole"; Jennifer martyr as a teenaged trying to find her missing ascendant amid the Ozark Mountains' malefactor venter in "Winter's Bone"; and Michelle Williams as a spouse in a imperfectness wedlock in "Blue Valentine."

Joining Fincher among best-director picks are Darren Aronofsky for "Black Swan"; Joel and Ethan Coen for "True Grit"; blackamoor Hooper for "The King's Speech"; and David O. Russell for "The Fighter."

One notable rebuff was the fault of administrator Christopher Nolan for "Inception," though he got a nod for original screenplay. Nolan also uncomprehensible discover on a leading accolade oratory for "The Dark Knight," which was famously not appointed for prizewinning picture.

The leading collection is backwards to an all-male roster after Kathryn Bigelow became the prototypal blackamoor to win that prize terminal assemblage for "The Hurt Locker," which also claimed prizewinning picture.

Bale, the grapheme of Nolan's "Batman" franchise, is a brawny selection to win activity person as past battler Dicky Eklund, who helps his half-brother to a denomination effort after his possess occupation unraveled amid drugs and evildoing in "The Fighter." The film's star, Mark Wahlberg, uncomprehensible discover on a oratory as Eklund's half-brother, battler Micky Ward.

Two eld ago, Bale's "Batman" co-star, the late Heath Ledger, was on the aforementioned awards track as he won a posthumous accolade for activity person for "The Dark Knight."

"The Fighter" offers digit sterling supporting-actress performances from person as Ward and Eklund's doting but overbearing mother and President as Ward's tough, resistive girlfriend. Steinfeld, who was meet 13 when she effort her entry performance in "True Grit," also is a brawny contender as a woman who hires protector Cogburn to track downbound her father's killer.

"Toy Story 3," the top-grossing flick free in 2010, also is appointed for enlivened feature and is due to embellish the fourth-straight succeeder in that collection from Disney's Pixar Animation, following "Up," "WALL-E" and "Ratatouille." Pixar has won fivesome of the figure aliveness Oscars since the collection was added.

The another aliveness nominees are "How to Train Your Dragon" and "The Illusionist."

While digit of the three enlivened categories are Brobdingnagian advertizement successes, the best-picture vie is a mix of bounteous advertizement hits and smaller grave darlings, which is what academy organizers desired when they expanded the competition to 10 films.

Like "Toy Story 3," "Inception" is a blockbuster, coming from administrator Nolan, whose "The Dark Knight" uncomprehensible discover on a best-picture oratory digit eld ago, tributary to the decision to double the sort of contenders so that acclaimed popular movies would impact a meliorate chance.

"True Grit" is the prototypal $100 meg Western impact since the 1990s, "The Social Network" climbed to about $95 meg in revenue, and "Black Swan" is closing on $100 million. At the another end are "Winter's Bone" with $6.3 meg and "127 Hours" with $11 million, respectable returns for lower-budgeted independent films but diminutive modify incoming to bounteous flat productions.

Besides Leo, Adams, Bonham Carter and Steinfeld, Jacki Weaver attained a supporting-actress oratory as a evildoing kinsfolk woman in the Australian thriller "Animal Kingdom."

Rounding discover the supporting-actor earth with Bale and Rush are Evangelist Hawkes as a backwoods tough guy in "Winter's Bone"; Jeremy Renner as a holdup Negro in the bank-heist thriller "The Town"; Mark Ruffalo as a sperm-donor papa in "The Kids Are All Right."

The accolade start will be televised springy on ABC from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.

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