Academy Awards 2011 -- A Word Search Puzzle

Edited by Vicki A Benge

The 83rd annual Academy Awards, as presented on February 27, 2011, were dominated by several feature films, one of which was The King's Speech. From twelve nominations, the film received four awards, taking home the Best Picture Oscar for the year. Tom Hooper, who directed the film earned the Best Director Oscar, and Colin Firth, who portrayed King George VI, took home the Academy Award for Best Actor. David Seidler won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

In the word search puzzle below, names from the nominations for best actress and actor, and supporting actor and actress are used as the answer words in the puzzle. Find and circle the words that run diagonally, horizontally, and vertically throughout the grid. For a list of winners and nominees in six major Oscar categories, scroll below the puzzle grid.

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Academy Awards 2011

Winners are written in bold type.

Performance by an actress in a leading role:
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

Performance by an actor in a leading role:
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours


Performance by an actor in a supporting role:
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


Performance by an actress in a supporting role:
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom


The Oscar for Best Picture of the Year was awarded to The King's Speech. Other nominees in the category included Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, 127 Hours, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, and Winter's Bone.

Tom Hooper won the Academy Award for Best Director for his direction of The King's Speech. The other nominees included Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan, Joel and Ethan Coen for True Grit, David Fincher for The Social Network, Tom Hooper for The King's Speech and David O. Russell for The Fighter.



See also:
Academy Awards 2009 Word Search Puzzle
Academy Awards 2008 Word Search Puzzle


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