Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards

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Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards

Best Picture

"Amour"
"Argo"
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
"Django Unchained"
"Les Misérables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

Best Director

Michael Haneke, "Amour"
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
Ben Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables"
Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"
Denzel Washington, "Flight"

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"
Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Naomi Watts, "The Impossible"

Best Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin, "Argo"
Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"
Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"
Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams, "The Master"
Sally Field, "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway, "Les Misérables"
Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"
Jacki Weaver, "Silver Linings Playbook"

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

"Argo"
Screenplay by Chris Terrio
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
"Life of Pi"
Screenplay by David Magee
"Lincoln"
Screenplay by Tony Kushner
"Silver Linings Playbook"
Screenplay by David O. Russell

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

"Amour"
Written by Michael Haneke
"Django Unchained"
Written by Quentin Tarantino
"Flight"
Written by John Gatins
"Moonrise Kingdom"
Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
"Zero Dark Thirty"
Written by Mark Boal

Best Animated Feature Film

"Brave"
Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
"Frankenweenie"
Tim Burton
"ParaNorman"
Sam Fell and Chris Butler
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"
Peter Lord
"Wreck-It Ralph"
Rich Moore

Best Cinematography

"Anna Karenina"
Seamus McGarvey
"Django Unchained"
Robert Richardson
"Life of Pi"
Claudio Miranda
"Lincoln"
Janusz Kaminski
"Skyfall"
Roger Deakins

Best Documentary Feature

"5 Broken Cameras"
"The Gatekeepers'
"How to Survive A Plague"
"The House I Live In"
"The Iinvisible War"
"Searching For Sugar Man"

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 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 Music (Original Score)

"Anna Karenina"
Dario Marianelli
"Argo"
Alexandre Desplat
"Life of Pi"
Mychael Danna
"Lincoln"
John Williams
"Skyfall"
Thomas Newman

Best Music (Original Song)

"Before My Time"
Chasing Ice
Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
"Everybody Needs A Best Friend"
Ted
Music by Walter Murphy
Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
"Pi’s Lullaby"
Life of Pi
Music by Mychael Danna
Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
"Suddenly"
Les Miserables
"Skyfall"
Skyfall
Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul
Epworth

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

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

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

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

Foreign Language Film

"Amour"
Austria
"Kon-Tiki"
Norway
"No"
Chile
"A Royal Affair"
Denmark
"War Witch"
Canada

Production Design

"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

Short Film (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

Short Film (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

Documentary Short Subject

"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



The 85th Academy Awards will be held on February 24 and broadcast beginning at 8:00 PM ET, 5:00 PM PT on ABC.

lamontbdc

Silver Linings Playbook
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Armour

i never even heard of these 3 movies

rip.dilla

Day-Lewis will nab the Best Actor again in less than 5 years . .

1CK1S

fortyacres&amule wrote: »

Daniel day Lewis about to be the joe Montana of the oscars

No di caprio again , the academy must hate this dude

That ? ALWAYS gets nominated!!!

rage

fortyacres&amule wrote: »

fortyacres&amule wrote: »

Daniel day Lewis about to be the joe Montana of the oscars

No di caprio again , the academy must hate this dude

Its a wrap for everybody else...I dont even know why the bothering to nominate them. I've seen all of those performances and DDL put in WORK.

lamontbdc

DDL been the ? since last of the Mohicans

Idiopathic Joker

Why QT ain't nominated for best director?

rage

fortyacres&amule wrote: »

Makaveli Joker wrote: »

Why QT ain't nominated for best director?

The oscars ain't about that controversial life

DU is nominated for best movie though.

atribecalledgabi

welp...will be another boring year at the oscars

white715

Who's hosting this year?

rage

Lincoln was an amazing movie. DDL is ? scary good...I will never be able to disassociate myself from his performance as Lincoln.

real_hh_rep

Anybody can enlighten me what the ? is so good about Lincoln? Or is DDL getting praise because he plays Lincoln? All he does in this movie is mediatating and talking, oh I forgot - he looks like Lincoln. Now that's enough to get Oscar. I'm rooting for Denzel and Phoenix over him.
I'm glad Beasts of Southern Wild and Amour were recognized. Amazing films.

dontdiedontkillanyon

The 2013 Oscar Nominations By Numbers
We explain this year's Academy Award nominees in graphic form

WORDS AMAR VIJAY



http://www.empireonline.com/features/oscar-2013-nominations-infographic

Mister B.

Denzel got nominated for Flight? REALLY??

Wow. That's a shocker, considered that movie wasn't that good at all.

Swiffness!

Killing Them Softly deserved Sound Editing & Mixing awards. Word to Ray Liotta's beating scene.

eyes low

I don't like foreign movies getting nominated for something besides best foreign movie. They have their own award shows

CP203

silver linings playbook is a good movie, didn't think bradley cooper could pull off a serious role

rip.dilla

real_hh_rep wrote: »

Anybody can enlighten me what the ? is so good about Lincoln? Or is DDL getting praise because he plays Lincoln? All he does in this movie is mediatating and talking, oh I forgot - he looks like Lincoln. Now that's enough to get Oscar. I'm rooting for Denzel and Phoenix over him.
I'm glad Beasts of Southern Wild and Amour were recognized. Amazing films.

I personally think Lincoln is Spielberg's best film since Minority Report . .

Well directed and designed

DDL hardly features in films but when he does its always an event. He is IMO the best out there with his 'method' acting (dude is always in movie character during shooting).

There Will Be Blood was a scary ass performance from him


Phoenix and more especially Denzel gave amazing performances as well but my money is on Day-Lewis . .

TheBossman

shout out to Christoph Waltz.

TheBossman

reping sliver linings, django, flight, BOTSW.

dontdiedontkillanyon

Oscars 2013: Who Missed Out
The good, the deserving and the plain unlucky

There was much rejoicing when the Academy Award nominations were announced last Thursday – but spare a thought for those who weren’t included. Every year some hotly-tipped stars, directors and crew members must see their efforts go unrewarded – and here’s a look at this year’s surprise omissions, and why they might have missed out...

WORDS PHIL DE SEMLYEN


Marion Cotillard
Category: Best Actress
Film: Rust And Bone



With Amour busting out of the Best Foreign Film ghetto with a cane in one hand and a glass of raw heartache in the other, no-one could accuse Academy members of subtitle dodging this year. But Michael Haneke’s film, and its standout, Emmanuelle Riva, may have taken the attention away from Marion Cotillard’s blistering turn in Rust And Bone. So versatile she could probably have played one of the killer whales, she captivated as Jacques Audiard’s resilient heroine in a much-fancied realist drama. Cotillard has one Oscar already though, and we suspect there will be others to come, so we’re not going to fret this too much.


John Hawkes
Category: Best Actor
Film: The Sessions



The absence of John Hawkes’ name from the Best Actor category was the closest this year’s voters came to ? -mindedness, especially with The Sessions’s co-star Helen Hunt picking up a nomination in a less demanding (though still tricky) role. Perhaps it was the lack of ‘big’ dramatic moments that deterred the Academy – Hawkes’ performance as a quadriplegic man searching for sex is playful and dialled back – or maybe there’s a groundswell against able-bodied actors playing disabled characters to account for his and Cotillard’s absences. Like the French actress, the ever-impressive Hawkes will be back.


Chris Corbould / Paul Franklin
Category: Best Visual Effects
Film: The Dark Knight Rises



While The Dark Knight Rises was never likely to do a Return Of The King and round off the trilogy buried under a pile of statuettes, Christopher Nolan’s battle-hardened VFX team did pull off another feast of visual wonder that arguably deserved recognition. As with Dark Knight and Inception, Chris Corbould and Paul Franklin pulled off a balance of physical effects (truck smash!) and CG (football stadium!). It might not have mattered much anyway, however: if Life Of Pi doesn’t win, we’re Tony the Tiger.


Kathryn Bigelow
Category: Best Director
Film: Zero Dark Thirty



If there was one vote for every bazillion column inches of newsprint generated by Kathryn Bigelow and her CIA thriller, the Best Director category would have been sewn up long ago. Overlooking the film’s nuance, the rumblings about CIA leaks and its depiction of torture didn’t play well with Academy voters, it seems. Despite Zero Dark Thirty’s Best Film nomination, Bigelow joins Ben Affleck and Tom Hooper on the list of surprise director omissions, making her possibly the first director to miss out for a movie that was apparently both too right wing and not right wing enough all at the same time. At least she already has one Oscar to comfort her on this misfortune.


The Imposter
Category: Best Documentary



Few of the Best Documentary picks have landed on these shores yet, but if they’re half as good as Bart Layton’s five-star noir, doc-lovers are in for a treat in coming months. Like Undefeated’s Coach Courtney and Man On Wire’s Philippe Petit, its subject, AAA-rated trickster Frédéric Bourdin, was the kind of compelling protagonist the Academy usually loves – and we know that the film made the Documentary longlist, so it was presumably eligible. Perhaps it was only a Weinstein (or other studio push) away from Academy Award recognition.

dontdiedontkillanyon

Rian Johnson
Category: Best Original Screenplay
Film: Looper



Rian Johnson’s sci-fi pressed many of the buttons Oscar voters appreciate. It was fierce, original and had a twinkle in its eye (“I’m from the future,” goes one of its choicest lines, “you should go to China”) – all the qualities that saw Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind win in 2004. Admittedly, it has been that long since a science-fiction script won the honour – Midnight In Paris (ahem) apart – with talkie dramas (Flight, Milk) and quirky indies (Juno, Little Miss Sunshine) regularly dominating the field, but Looper was well worth recognising. Looks like, unlike the rest of the world, Oscar voters are not yet in touch with their inner geek.


Mads Mikkelsen
Category: Best Actor
Film: The Hunt



The darling of Cannes, Mads Mikkelsen’s name was surprisingly buzz-free in the lead up to the nominations. His performance in Thomas Vinterberg’s drama was as good as anything we’ve seen this year and possibly, Daniel Day-Lewis apart, better. He was unfortunate that the year produced two Danish films of substance, as Best Foreign Film contender A Royal Affair took the limelight from an issue movie with the punch of a Mikkel Kessler uppercut. A little more of a push could surely have seen Mikkelsen “pull a Riva” (as we’re now calling it) and land an acting nomination for a foreign film.


Félix Bergés
Category: Best Visual Effects
Film: The Impossible




Ewan McGregor can count himself unlucky not to be joining co-star Naomi Watts at the Kodak Theater, but it’s The Impossible post-production wizards who are most hard done by. If you’ve witnessed that terrifying tsunami on the big screen, you’ll know exactly what we’re talking about. In truth, the film’s tech wizards behind it didn’t get close to tux time – The Impossible missed even the Academy’s ten-film VFX shortlist – which, considering Hereafter was recognised for an inferior sequence, reveals a disappointing Hollywood bias in the voting.



Ben Affleck
Category: Best Director
Film: Argo



If Oscar buzz is a mysterious, ever-shifting thing, it takes discernible shapes in the lead-up to February 24. But before this turns into a Green Lantern analogy, cast your mind back to that time (October) when Argo, and Ben Affleck in particular, was the name on everyone’s lips. It now seems a long time ago that he was warm, if not actually hot, favourite for a Best Director award. The fickle nature of Oscar campaigning and surprise love for Silver Linings Playbook and Beasts Of The Southern Wild among Academy members ended up squeezing him out. He can count himself unlucky – but it’s surely only a matter of time until he takes home a directing Oscar to match his screenwriting one.


Kevin O’Connell
Category: Best Sound Mixing
Film: Pitch Perfect



We’ll be honest, we don’t know if the sound mixing on Pitch Perfect was up there with his best work – although the title kinda implies it was – but we really want to see Kevin O’Connell, the man behind it, win an Academy Award so we’re calling this a snub. O’Connell has been nominated 20 times – TWENTY – and not won a single statuette. To rub salt into our wounds (though, in fairness, probably not his) his old collaborator Greg P. Russell is up for an Oscar this year for Skyfall. Someone just give this man an Oscar already.

http://www.empireonline.com/features/oscars-2013-who-missed-out/

Iheart~Cali

I'm pulling for Ben or QT in any category they're nominated for. I predict QT will win and Ben will come away empty-handed, even though surprisingly he beat QT out for the Golden Globe.

I originally was sure Daniel would beat out Denzel, but I'm going to go out on a limb and choose Denzel as winner for best actor. Ya it's a stretch, but I'm sticking with it.

I hope Christoph Waltz wins best supporting.

Maximus Rex

I'm always curious when the Academy shares my taste in movies. Two of the movies I've seen Argo and Django and I plan on seeing Lincoln and ZDT

I always trip off the 2000 Oscars because that was the year Gladitor, Couching Tiger, and Traffic got nominated. the weird thing about this year is, I saw these movies in their original theatrical release waaaay before the nominations were announced.

atribecalledgabi

damn they didn't nominate john hawkes?!??!! WTF????????

TheBossman

seen all the movie cept les mes, i cant watch musicals, i just can't.

lincoln was just a boring ass movie.