After Colin Firth’s Golden Globe triumph, he has been installed as favourite for his first Oscar, as The King’s Speech grabbed a whopping 12 nominations for this year’s Academy Awards.

The film was pipped to almost all of the big awards by The Social Network at the Golden Globes, but if the cast and crew, including co-stars Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush, pick up gongs they probably won’t be bothered any more.

‘It's great, and it's the fact that so many of us are there - a royal flush. It's a bit out of body,’ said Firth. ‘It's a wonderful, orbiting-the-earth's-atmosphere feeling.’

Best Picture

• Black Swan
• The Fighter
• Inception
• The Kids Are All Right
• The King's Speech
• 127 Hours
• The Social Network
• Toy Story 3
• True Grit
• Winter's Bone

Director

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

• 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)

Best Supporting Actress

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

Adapted Screenplay

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

Original Screenplay

• Mike Leigh (Another Year)
• Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington (The Fighter)
• Christopher Nolan (Inception)
• Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right)
• David Seidler (The King's Speech)

Animated Feature

• How To Train Your Dragon
• The Illusionist
• Toy Story 3

Best Foreign Language Film

• Biutiful
• Dogtooth
• In A Better World
• Incendies
• Outisde The Law

Art Direction

• Alice In Wonderland
• Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Inception
• The King's Speech
• True Grit

Cinematography

• Black Swan
• Inception
• The King's Speech
• The Social Network
• True Grit

Costume Design

• Alice In Wonderland
• I Am Love
• The King's Speech
• The Tempest
• True Grit

Documentary Feature

• Exit Through The Gift Shop
• Gasland
• Inside Job
• Restrepo
• Wasteland

Documentary Short

• Killing In The Name
• Poster Girl
• Strangers No More
• Sun Come Up
• The Warriors Of Qiugang

Editing

• Black Swan
• The Fighter
• The King's Speech
• 127 Hours
• The Social Network

Makeup

• Barney's Version
• The Way Back
• The Wolfman

Original Score

• How To Train Your Dragon
• Inception
• The King's Speech
• 127 Hours
• The Social Network

Original Song

• 'Coming Home' (Country Strong)
• 'I See The Light' (Tangled)
• 'If I Rise' (127 Hours)
• 'We Belong Together' (Toy Story 3)

Sound Editing

• Inception
• Toy Story 3
• Tron: Legacy
• True Grit
• Unstoppable

Sound Mixing

• Inception
• The King's Speech
• Salt
• The Social Network
• True Grit

Visual Effects

• Alice In Wonderland
• Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Hereafter
• Inception
• Iron Man 2

Animated Short

• Day & Night
• The Gruffalo
• Let's Pollute
• The Lost Thing
• Madagascar, A Journey Diary

Live Action Short

• The Confession
• The Crush
• Gods Of Love
• Na Wewe
• Wish 143