Welcome to the annual Classic Movies Salute to Oscar®. For classic movie fans, this is one event that ties the past to the present. Though we may not admit to a love for many of the new films, most of us will be in front of the TV set on Sunday, February 27, 2011, when the envelopes are opened.

The nominees were announced earlier this month, and we've got the list in alphabetical order by award type. (If you've already seen the list of nominees, scroll down past our list for a great selection of links to other sites with Oscar content.)

Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem in Biutiful
Jeff Bridges in True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
Colin Firth in The King's Speech
James Franco in 127 Hours

Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale in The Fighter
John Hawkes in Winter's Bone
Jeremy Renner in The Town
Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech

Actress in a Leading Role
Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine

Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams in The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter in The King's Speech
Melissa Leo in The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit
Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom

Animated Feature Film
How to Train Your Dragon Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
The Illusionist Sylvain Chomet
Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich

Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
Inception Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
The King's Speech Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr
True Grit Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

Cinematography
Black Swan Matthew Libatique
Inception Wally Pfister
The King's Speech Danny Cohen
The Social Network Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit Roger Deakins

Costume Design
Alice in Wonderland Colleen Atwood
I Am Love Antonella Cannarozzi
The King's Speech Jenny Beavan
The Tempest Sandy Powell
True Grit Mary Zophres

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

Documentary (Feature)
Exit through the Gift Shop Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz
Gasland Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
Inside Job Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Restrepo Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
Waste Land Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley

Documentary (Short Subject)
Killing in the Name Jed Rothstein
Poster Girl Sara Nesson and Mitchell W. Block
Strangers No More Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Sun Come Up Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
The Warriors of Qiugang Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon

Film Editing
Black Swan Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter Pamela Martin
The King's Speech Tariq Anwar
127 Hours Jon Harris
The Social Network Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Foreign Language Film
Biutiful Mexico
Dogtooth Greece
In a Better World Denmark
Incendies Canada
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) Algeria

Makeup
Barney's Version Adrien Morot
The Way Back Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
The Wolfman Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Music (Original Score)
How to Train Your Dragon John Powell
Inception Hans Zimmer
The King's Speech Alexandre Desplat
127 Hours A.R. Rahman
The Social Network Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Music (Original Song)
Coming Home from Country Strong Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
I See the Light from Tangled Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
If I Rise from 127 Hours Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Best Picture
Black Swan Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
The Fighter David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
Inception Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
The Kids Are All Right Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
The King's Speech Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
127 Hours Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
The Social Network Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
Toy Story 3 Darla K. Anderson, Producer
True Grit Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
Winter's Bone Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers

Short Film (Animated)
Day & Night Teddy Newton
The Gruffalo Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Let's Pollute Geefwee Boedoe
The Lost Thing Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) Bastien Dubois

Short Film (Live Action)
The Confession Tanel Toom
The Crush Michael Creagh
God of Love Luke Matheny
Na Wewe Ivan Goldschmidt
Wish 143 Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

Sound Editing
Inception Richard King
Toy Story 3 Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
Tron: Legacy Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable Mark P. Stoeckinger

Sound Mixing
Inception Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
The King's Speech Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
Salt Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
The Social Network Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
True Grit Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

Visual Effects
Alice in Wonderland Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojansky and Joe Farrell
Inception Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Iron Man 2 Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
127 Hours Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
The Social Network Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Another Year Written by Mike Leigh
The Fighter Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception Written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
The King's Speech Screenplay by David Seidler

There are lots of places on the Web where you can find more Oscar info -- including this site. For example, do you know what films swept the Oscars? Can you descramble anagrams for these best pictures and famous performers? Warm up with these tests of your film knowledge from the Classic Movies feature archives, then move on to the following collection of Oscar tributes, reviews, and predictions, beginning with the official site.

Not interested in this year's awards? Would you rather see a list of winners from the first three decades or so? Start with the winners of the major awards from 1927 to 1939, then move on to the 1940s, the 1950s, and the 1960s.

• Oscar.com
  The official Academy Awards Web site from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, offering lots of other information for real Oscar junkies. Or visit the official AMPAS site.
  
  
• Oscar, Oscar!
  An unofficial Academy Awards site at oscarworld.net created by Jason O'Brien, who also runs an Oliver Stone site. In addition to his picks and opinions, and articles by several other contributors, the site also includes a message board open to the public.
  
  
• Academy Awards: The Oscars
  Tim Dirks, of The Greatest Films site, takes a look at Oscar winners from 1927/28 to the present. You'll also enjoy his page entitled Academy Awards Mistakes and Omissions.
  
  
• Awards Heaven
  From Robert John Licuria, a site covering the Oscars, Golden Globes, SAG, BAFTA, and more.
  
  
• Digitalhit.com
  Lots and lots of information on this site, including nominee video clips, a survey, presenters, news, winners of the top awards from 1929 to 1998, etc.
  
  
• Internet Movie Database Oscar Pages
  Always the best and easiest-to-use source of detailed movie information.
  
  
• Last Link on the Left
  Stuart's Oscar Directory, including a brief history and a nice selection of outside links. Not updated since 2006, but still has lots of great information.
  
  
• Littlegoldenguy.com
  A database of information about all the nominees, cross-referenced to other years. Not updated since 2007.
  
  
• Oscar Central
  Kristopher Tapley tries to "make sense of the Oscar buzz." Includes his opinions and reviews, plus entertainment news and info on other awards.
  
  
• Outside Hollywoodland Poll
  Vote for your favorites before the awards ceremony.
  
  
• The Sammy Awards
  For the past twenty years Roger Hall has been selecting awards for movie film music, this year including Best Score, Best Song, Best Song Compilation, Most Overlooked Score, Worst Song Use, and a Lifetime Achievement Award.
  
  
• Wesley Lovell, The Oscar Guy
  The head of the Online Academies makes his predictions and looks at the history of the awards.
  
  
• Yahoo! Movies Coverage
  Very thorough coverage, as you would expect from Yahoo!, including news, photo gallery, a contest, etc.
  
  
• The envelope
  The L.A. Times' Oscar site.