Warner Bros. received 12 Academy Award nominations for 2011. Christopher Nolan’s Inception led the way with eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Other Warner Bros. films to garner nominations include The Town, which received a Best Supporting Actor nod for Jeremy Renner’s compelling portrayal of an out-of-control bank robber, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One, which received two nominations, for Visual Effects and Art Direction, and Hereafter, which received a Visual Effects nomination. The Academy Awards will be broadcast on ABC on Sunday, February 27.
Inception
Best Picture – Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
Original Screenplay – Christopher Nolan
Cinematography – Wally Pfister
Original Score – Hans Zimmer
Art Direction – Production Designer, Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
Visual Effects – Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb
Sound Editing – Supervising Sound Editor, Richard King
Sound Mixing – Production Sound Mixer, Ed Novick; Re-Recording Mixers, Lora Hirschberg and Gary A. Rizzo
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The Town
Best Supporting Actor – Jeremy Renner
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One
Visual Effects – Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Art Direction – Production Design, Stuart Craig; Set Decoration Stephanie McMillan
Hereafter
Visual Effects – Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephen Trojanski and Joe Farrell
