Oscar Nominations: 'Lincoln,' 'Les Mis' and 'Beasts' Lead Surprising List
And the winner of the Best Picture Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards will be … well, one of these nine movies.
Nine films were nominated for Best Picture this morning as Oscar host Seth MacFarlane and Easy A star Emma Stone revealed the nominees for the 85th annual Academy Awards. They are:
The biggest surprise of the morning likely ended up being the amount of love shown for Behn Zeitlin’s Beasts, which earned a Best Director nod for the young filmmaker (over the likes of Ben Affleck and Kathryn Bigelow) and a Best Actress nomination for the brilliant young talent Quvenzhané Wallis. The Academy also seemed to respond kindly to Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, while the musical Les Miserables earned fewer nominations than experts expected.
A complete list of this year’s nominees can be found below. The Oscars will be held on Sunday, Feb. 24. Be sure to follow all of the latest up-to-the-minute news breaks filed by Fandango Chief Correspondent Dave Karger at our Awards Watch blog, as well as the Frontrunners video series. And weigh in with your guesses on who might win this year’s Best Picture in our comments section below, and vote for this morning's nominations biggest snubs and surprises!
Best Picture
Amour Nominees to be determined
Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
Beasts of the Southern Wild Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
Django Unchained Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
Les Misérables Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
Life of Pi Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
Lincoln Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Silver Linings Playbook Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers
Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln
Hugh Jackman in Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix in The Master
Denzel Washington in Flight
Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin in Argo
Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master
Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln
Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained
Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva in Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts in The Impossible
Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams in The Master
Sally Field in Lincoln
Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables
Helen Hunt in The Sessions
Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook
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
Cinematography
Anna Karenina Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained Robert Richardson
Life of Pi Claudio Miranda
Lincoln Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall Roger Deakins
Costume Design
Anna Karenina Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables Paco Delgado
Lincoln Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman Colleen Atwood
Directing
Amour Michael Haneke
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi Ang Lee
Lincoln Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell
Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers
Nominees to be determined
How to Survive a Plague
Nominees to be determined
The Invisible War
Nominees to be determined
Searching for Sugar Man
Nominees to be determined
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
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
Foreign Language Film
Amour Austria
Kon-Tiki Norway
No Chile
A Royal Affair Denmark
War Witch Canada
Makeup and Hairstyling
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
Music (Original Score)
Anna Karenina Dario Marianelli
Argo Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi Mychael Danna
Lincoln John Williams
Skyfall Thomas Newman
Music (Original 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
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 (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
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
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
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
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
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Comments :
Comment from: Sharon W
I was also happy to see my fave actress Anne Hathaway received an Oscar nod for Les Miserable. I plan to go and see that this weekend.
01 - 10 - 2013
Comment from: Zack RS Adama
Sad to see ZDT overlooked for Best Director. It's by far Katherine Bigelow's finest effort.
01 - 10 - 2013
Comment from: Ben Lordon
The Dark Knight Rises didn't get Nominations for anything and I think it should get Nominationed cause it was a great movie
01 - 10 - 2013
Comment from: Teresa
Ben Affleck was totally snubbed. Definitely deserves a Best Director nod for Argo.
01 - 10 - 2013
Comment from: sharon
as usually you got it wrong . Ben Affleck should of been on the list
01 - 10 - 2013
Comment from: Melissa
Sad that the brilliant and sensitive performance of John Hawkes in Sessions was overlooked.
01 - 10 - 2013
Comment from: Anita
Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson should have been nominated for best supporting actor in Django Unchained.
01 - 10 - 2013
Comment from: Carol C
Ben Affleck was done wrong! He is one of the best directors out there. I can't wait to see what he will do next. MAMA!!!
01 - 10 - 2013
Comment from: Debbie
Can't believe Tom Hooper wasn't nominated for Best Director for Les Mis!!!!!! Or Ben Affleck for Argo!!!! These are their BEST films!!! What was the Academy thinking--always have to throw in an odd/weird movie nobody saw or liked!!!!
01 - 10 - 2013
Comment from: Debbie
Please, Please, Please hope & pray Hugh Jackman wins the Oscar for Best Actor in Les Mis--his best & strongest role so far in his career--he was and is ValJean! Yea, I know, Daniel Day Lewis was good in Lincoln, but he's already won 2 Oscars, so let's give it to Hugh, because he really deserves & earned it!!!!!
01 - 10 - 2013
Comment from: Tom H
John Hawkes performance was one of the best performances I've seen in years. Limited release really hurt this film....
01 - 12 - 2013
Comment from: Rosalind Hollis
9 best picture nominations deserves 9 best director nominations. The Academy needs to fix this. Anne Hathaway had so few lines- how is this a best supporting actress nomination? Is it just because she sang? This is an acting award, not The Voice.
01 - 13 - 2013
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