The Oscar nominations are in and The King's Speech has stolen the show with 12 nominations including Best Picture, Film Editing, Music (original score, and Sound Mixing. This is the first year that I have truly loved all of the sound tracks for the films nominated, Especially Tron and True Grit. So I feel it is a good year for music at the Oscars. I am a little bummed that daft punk was not nominated for original score or original song. I personally felt they were robbed. I mean I haven't stopped listening to that soundtrack yet. Ok when I go to sleep I have it stopped, but it has logged about 1,000 plays since I bought it in December. Yes, I will eventually get over the wrongness by the Academy and move on in my life. Ok so lets get to the nominations.

Music (Original Score)

    John Powell - How to train your dragon

    Hans Zimmer - Inception

    Alexandre Desplat - The King's Speech

    A.R Rahman - 127 Hours

    Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Social Network

I feel this could be a toss up between Hans Zimmer Dark but classical score in Inception or Trent Reznor's edgy, ambient score with The Social Network. Both scores are creative in how they draw you into the emotion of their films. I am going to lean to Inception, but would not be surprised if the social network will win.

Music (Original Song)

    Coming Home - Music and Lyrics by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges, and Hillary Lindsey - Country Song

     I see the light - Music by Alan Menkren and Lyrics by Glenn Slater - Tangled

     If I Rise - Music by A.R Rahman and lyrics by Dido and Rollo Armstrong - 127 Hours

     We belong Together - Music and Lyric by Randy Newman - Toy Story 3

This one is a little harder for me to predict. I feel as if Toy Story 3 is the stronger pick here but I like the meaning of the song If I Rise from 127 hours. All of these songs are great musically and really tie in well with their films but I will say either toy story 3 or 127 Hours will win.

Sound Editing

    Richard King - Inception

    Tom Myers and Michael Silvers - Toy Story 3

    Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague - Tron Legacy

    Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey - Tru Grit

    Mark P. Stoeckinger - Unstoppable

This is another hard category because of what all sound editing entails. Fixing Dialog, Smooth out audio FX, Sound Design and then finally bringing that all in with the score. I give props to sound editors because your ears have to be precise. My gut says it will be between Inception, True Grit or Tron. I feel as if Inception will take the Oscar in this category, because there was so much detail to their sound design that was just amazing.

Sound Mixing

 Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick  - Inception

 Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley - The King's Speech

 Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin  - Salt

 Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten - The Social Network

  Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland - Tru Grit 

I am going to say it will be between True Grit and The Social Network. I am leaning more towards The Social Network in who brings home the Oscar. It will be a great night. Make sure you tune into the Oscars in Feb. to see if I've got any predictions right.