Here are the nominees (a.k.a. the Top 5 votegetters) for the Fourth Annual Spilled Latte Awards. Note: some categories may have more than 5 nominees due to a tie in the amount of votes the nominees received. The results will be announced the night before the Oscars, in order to steal their shine.

Running parallel to their competition for the Academy Awards, The King's Speech and The Social Network lead all nominees with six apiece. Inception, Black Swan, and Winter's Bone each came in with five nominees apiece-- Winter's Bone's showing comes as somewhat of a surprise, with it beating out Academy favorites True Grit and 127 Hours, which each have four nominations, and The Fighter, which garnered three. Also with three nominations apiece are films that got mostly snubbed by the Academy, Blue Valentine and Animal Kingdom.

In Spilled Latte History trivia, Kim Hye-Ja, nominated for Best Actress for her work in Mother, becomes only the second acting nominee ever from a foreign language film. Hailee Steinfeld, nominated for Best Actress, becomes our youngest ever nominee.

The Coen Brothers rack up their fifth nomination in four years. Jeff Bridges and Jeremy Renner both collected nominations for the second consecutive year. Multiple familiar cinematographers are nominated, with Anthony Dod Mantle and Wally Pfister each collecting their nomination and the great Roger Deakins getting his fourth in four years. Also earning his fourth (and third) nomination was Christopher Nolan, trying to catch up to the Coens and avenge his loss to Aronofsky two years ago. Other repeat nominees: Fighter actresses Melissa Leo and Amy Adams, and 127 Hours writers Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle.

BEST PICTURE:
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
Winter's Bone

BEST DIRECTOR:
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Danny Boyle, 127 Hours
David Fincher, The Social Network
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan, Inception

BEST ACTOR:
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine

BEST ACTRESS:
Kim Hye-Ja, Mother
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Christian Bale, The Fighter
John Hawkes, Winter's Bone
Ben Mendelsohn, Animal Kingdom
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Dale Dickey, Winter's Bone
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Michael Arndt, Toy Story 3
Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy, 127 Hours
Joel and Ethan Coen, True Grit
Debra Granik and Anne Rossellini, Winter's Bone
Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri & Nicolas Peufaillit, Un Prophete
Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis, Blue Valentine
Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin, Black Swan
David Michôd, Animal Kingdom
Christopher Nolan, Inception
David Seidler, The King's Speech

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Wally Pfister, Inception
Roger Deakins, True Grit
Jeff Cronenweth, The Social Network
Matthew Libatique, Black Swan
Enrique Chediak & Anthony Dod Mantle, 127 Hours

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Social Network
Daft Punk, TRON: Legacy
Hans Zimmer, Inception
Clint Mansell, Black Swan
Alexandre Desplat, The Ghost Writer

These nominations are solid, much better then The Academy's. Thanks for doing this, Longo. You're a gentleman and a scholar.

>These nominations are solid, much better then The Academy's.
>Thanks for doing this, Longo. You're a gentleman and a
>scholar.

"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

...the winners, much like the Oscars, were so obvious that I didn't see the point. Next year, hopefully the pool for those categories will be more diverse.

"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

I wrote down all the statistics, but I did this during a lunch break at work so it's all there. FUCK.

Unless there's some massive protest from people who need it to be today, I'll just post it Monday. It's done... it just doesn't have the stats.

"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

and to think, David E. Kelley's NBC Wonder Woman pilot was about to be sent to you...tsk tsk tsk.

sidenote: i still would have sent it to you..but this travesty?

#FAIL

but i can send you the pilot...i *think* im on the oscar podcast tomorrow...or assume I am?

*not posting this from home..little to NO internet so if you see a black dude in an Oberlin College jacket, glasses, black pants and black combat boots shooting up the Comcast headquarters in Pittsburgh with a Sig Sauer and a face covered in green and black between now and Monday afternoon on CNN, THAT'S ME! lol*

but yea i will either inbox you here or just ask you at some point tomorrow night for your email and either send you the actual script or a link so you can download it (it will probably be the actual script since i don't think the link is sendable, etc.)

I had a new idea.