Colin Firth won Best Actor and writer David Seidler, 73, won for Best Original Screenplay.
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Woody Allen, whose "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" was widely praised, didn't receive his usual original screenplay nomination.
Elsewhere Mike Leigh gets a surprise nomination in the original screenplay category for Another Year.
The films was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Best Directing and Best Picture.
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Meyers, who wrote this original screenplay, throws in a few cheap up-yours, Hollywood wives zingers, just for fun.
Mark Boal took the original screenplay prize for Kathryn Bigelow's film chronicling the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Dustin Lance Black, who won original screenplay for "Milk, " also gave an impassioned speech in favor of gay rights.
Tarantino is still better off than Wes Anderson, whose "Moonrise Kingdom" picked up just one nomination, for original screenplay.
This set's most resonant film is "The Blue Dahlia" (1946), Raymond Chandler's only original screenplay and an Oscar-nominated one at that.
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The film is written by Richard Hawkins, whose original screenplay was sent in a brown envelope, unsolicited, to the BBC.
Jessica Chastain will win the Oscar for Best Actress, and Mark Boal will probably win for Best Original Screenplay.
Tarantino won the original screenplay prize for Django Unchained, adding to the Oscar he won for writing Pulp Fiction in 1994.
The film earned Campion a best director nomination at the Oscars and she won the Academy Award for best original screenplay.
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But the film netted nine Oscar nominations, and Damon and Affleck were on the map after winning for best original screenplay.
Film fans' favourite Quentin Tarantino also celebrated as he picked up the original screenplay Bafta for his western slavery epic, Django Unchained.
Best Picture and Best Director nominations are likely, as well as Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, and few more.
Django Unchained was also nominated for original screenplay, sound editing and cinematography.
Take This Waltz is based on an original screenplay by the director.
Her long life may give the 73-year-old Seidler the distinction of being the oldest writer to win an Oscar for an original screenplay.
The King's Speech picked up four Oscars at the 83rd Academy Awards, including best picture, best actor, best original screenplay and best director.
It is the second movie from director JC Chandor, whose first feature Margin Call (2011) was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay.
Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic Inglourious also won best original screenplay and ensemble cast, which included Brad Pitt, Eli Roth and Michael Fassbender.
Iranian film A Separation, which recently triumphed at the London Critics Circle awards, received two nods, including best foreign language movie and original screenplay.
One of the movie's Oscar nominations is for best original screenplay.
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Affleck first made his name as the co-writer of Good Will Hunting, for which he and co-star Matt Damon won an Oscar for best original screenplay.
Unflinching and in French, it was a surprise best-picture nominee, and also received nominations for Haneke's direction, for original screenplay and for the performance of 85-year-old Riva.
Best Original Screenplay nominees are: Flight (John Gatins), Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal), Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino), Amour (Michael Haneke), and Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola).
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Christoph Waltz was a bit of a surprise winner in the Best Supporting Actor category for Django Unchained and Quentin Tarantino won for Best Original Screenplay for Django.
Michael Haneke's keenly observed love story is also up for best picture, best direction, best actress in a leading role (for 85 year-old Emmanuelle Riva) and best original screenplay.
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