As predicted here, the newly resurgent “The King’s Speech” leads today’s Oscar nominations with 12. What’s surprising is that the runner-up is “True Grit” with 10, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Joel and Ethan Coen (who were snubbed in the Director’s Guild of America nods). 

This is not especially good news for “The Social Network” — tying for third place in the nominations with “Inception,” at eight — which failed to land a Best Supporting Actor nomination for either Andrew Garfield or Justin Timberlake.

The actor nominations are made by the actor’s branch, the academy’s largest. The fact they also passed over Mila Kunis and Barbara Hershey in the Best Supporting Actress race does not augur especially well for “Black Swan” pulling off an upset. Also weighing against the film is the failure to secure a Best Original Screenplay nomination — no film has won without a writing nod since “Titantic” in 1997.

Ben Affleck’s “The Town” did not make the cut for Best Picture, but the micro-budgeted “Winter’s Bone” did — and it did deliver perhaps the day’s biggest surprise, a Best Supporting Actor nod for the little-known John Hawkes.

Nominations in the leading categories:

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”

BEST DIRECTOR

Darren Aronofsky, “Black Swan”

David O. Russell, “The Fighter”

Tom Hooper, “The King’s Speech”

David Fincher, “The Social Network”

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, “True Grit”

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”