Compared to the last few years, the road to this year’s Oscars has moved rather quickly. At least to me, it has. But the fun hasn’t really started yet. This morning, Oscar host Seth MacFarlene (Family Guy, Ted) and Emma Stone (Gangster Squad) announced the nominations for the 85th Academy Awards.
As always, there’s the nominees you expect, like Daniel Day-Lewis and pretty much all of the Lincoln nods It leads the race with 12 nominations). Life of Pi has the second most nominations with 11. And then, there are the surprises… Silver Linings Playbook must have really charmed Oscar voters, it landed nods in all of the 6 major categories. Foreign language film, Amour, also got some love with a surprising Best Director nomination for Michael Haneke. (Not sure if the Amour amour is actually shocking since a good percentage of Oscar voters are old.) Another non-surprising “surprise’ is that Leo DiCaprio got snubbed once again for his fantastic performance in Django Unchained. Beasts of the Southern Wild also shocked by securing a directing nod for Benh Zeitlin and Quvenzhane Wallis became the youngest actress to ever be nominated for Best Actress (Yay. young folks!)
The truest surprise is really the Best Director category, which snubbed both Ben Affleck (Argo) and Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty). I gotta say, The Academy, those omissions hurt. Check out the full list of nominees below, and keep tuning into our Oscar Buzz column for all updates and predictions for the rest of awards season.
The complete list of nominees for the 85th Academy Awards:
Best Picture:
- Argo
- Amour
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Django Unchained
- Les Miserables
- Life Of Pi
- Lincoln
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director:
- Michael Haneke, Amour
- Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern WIld
- Ang Lee, Life Of Pi
- Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
- David O. Russell , Silver Linings Playbook
Best Actor:
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- Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
- Denzel Washington, Flight
- Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
- Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Best Actress:
- Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
- Naomi Watts, The Impossible
- Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
- Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
- Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Supporting Actor:
- Alan Arkin, Argo
- Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
- Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
- Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Supporting Actress:
- Amy Adams, The Master
- Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
- Helen Hunt, The Sessions
- Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
- Sally Field, Lincoln
Best Original Screenplay:
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- Michael Haneke, Amour
- Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
- John Gatins, Flight
- Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
- Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Adapted Screenplay:
- Chris Terrio, Argo
- Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin, Beasts Of The Southern Wild
- David Magee, Life Of Pi
- Tony Kushner, Lincoln
- David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Foreign Language Film:
- Amour
- Kon-Tiki
- No
- A Royal Affair
- War Witch
Best Animated Film:
- Brave
- Frankenweenie
- ParaNorman
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits
- Wreck-It Ralph
Best Documentary
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- 5 Broken Cameras
- The Gatekeepers
- How to Survive a Plague
- The Invisible War
- Searching for Sugar Man
Best Cinematography
- “Anna Karenina” Seamus McGarvey
- “Django Unchained” Robert Richardson
- “Life of Pi” Claudio Miranda
- “Lincoln” Janusz Kaminski
- “Skyfall” Roger Deakins
Best Costume Design
- “Anna Karenina” Jacqueline Durran
- “Les Misérables” Paco Delgado
- “Lincoln” Joanna Johnston
- “Mirror Mirror” Eiko Ishioka
- “Snow White and the Huntsman” Colleen Atwood
Best Film Editing
- “Argo” William Goldenberg
- “Life of Pi” Tim Squyres
- “Lincoln” Michael Kahn
- “Silver Linings Playbook” Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
- “Zero Dark Thirty” Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg
Best Makeup
- “Hitchcock”
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel - “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane - “Les Misérables”
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Best Original Score
- “Anna Karenina” Dario Marianelli
- “Argo” Alexandre Desplat
- “Life of Pi” Mychael Danna
- “Lincoln” John Williams
- “Skyfall” Thomas Newman
Best Song
- “Before My Time” from “Chasing Ice”
Music and Lyric by J. Ralph - “Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from “Ted”
Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane - “Pi’s Lullaby” from “Life of Pi”
Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri - “Skyfall” from “Skyfall”
Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth - “Suddenly” from “Les Misérables”
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Best Production Desgin
- “Anna Karenina”
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer - “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright - “Les Misérables”
Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson - “Life of Pi”
Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock - “Lincoln”
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Best Sound Editing
- “Argo” Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
- “Django Unchained”Wylie Stateman
- “Life of Pi” Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
- “Skyfall” Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
- “Zero Dark Thirty”Paul N.J. Ottosson
Best Sound Mixing
- “Argo”
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia - “Les Misérables”
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes - “Life of Pi”
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin - “Lincoln”
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins - “Skyfall”
Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson
Best Visual Effects
- “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White - “Life of Pi”
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott - “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick - “Prometheus”
Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill - “Snow White and the Huntsman”
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson
Best Short – Documentary
- “Inocente”
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine - “Kings Point”
Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider - “Mondays at Racine”
Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan - “Open Heart”
Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern - “Redemption”
Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
Best Best Short – Animated
- “Adam and Dog” Minkyu Lee
- “Fresh Guacamole” PES
- “Head over Heels” Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
- “Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”” David Silverman
- “Paperman” John Kahrs
Best Short – Live Action
- “Asad” Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
- “Buzkashi Boys”Sam French and Ariel Nasr
- “Curfew” Shawn Christensen
- “Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)” Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
- “Henry” Yan England
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