Thursday, January 10, 2013

The 2013 Oscar Nominations Are In!



For my favorite Oscar categories only...

Which one of the 2012 movies will win an Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year? Will it be...?
  • Amour (5 nominations)
  • Argo (7 nominations)
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (4 nominations)
  • Django Unchained (5 nominations)
  • Les Misérables (8 nominations)
  • Life of Pi (11 nominations)
  • Lincoln (12 nominations)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (8 nominations)
  • Zero Dark Thirty (5 nominations)


Best Director?
  • Amour (Michael Haneke)
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
  • Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
  • Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)

Best Actor?
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Bradley Cooper)
  • Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis)
  • Les Misérables (Hugh Jackman)
  • The Master (Joaquin Phoenix)
  • Flight (Denzel Washington)

Best Actress?
  • Zero Dark Thirty (Jessica Chastain)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Jennifer Lawrence)
  • Amour (Emmanuelle Riva)
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (Quvenzhané Wallis)
  • The Impossible (Naomi Watts)

Best Supporting Actor?
  • Argo (Alan Arkin)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Robert De Niro)
  • The Master (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
  • Lincoln (Tommy Lee Jones)
  • Django Unchained (Christoph Waltz)

Best Supporting Actress?
  • The Master (Amy Adams)
  • Lincoln (Sally Field)
  • Les Misérables (Anne Hathaway)
  • The Sessions (Helen Hunt)
  • Silver Linings Playbook (Jacki Weaver)

Best Original Screenplay?
  • Amour
  • Django Unchained
  • Flight
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Zero Dark Thirty

Best Adapted Screenplay?
  • Argo
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Silver Linings Playbook

Best Animated 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 Art Direction?
  • Anna Karenina
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Les Misérables
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln

Best Costume Design?
  • Anna Karenina
  • Les Misérables
  • Lincoln
  • Mirror Mirror
  • Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Cinematography?
  • Anna Karenina
  • Django Unchained
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Skyfall

Best Film Editing?
  • Argo
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Zero Dark Thirty

Best Makeup?
  • Hitchcock
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Les Misérables

Best Original Score?
  • Anna Karenina (Dario Marianelli)
  • Argo (Alexandre Desplat)
  • Life of Pi (Mychael Danna)
  • Lincoln (John Williams)
  • Skyfall (Thomas Newman)

Best Original Song?
  • Chasing Ice ("Before My Time")
  • Ted ("Everybody Needs a Best Friend")
  • Life of Pi ("Pi's Lullaby")
  • Skyfall ("Skyfall")
  • Les Misérables ("Suddenly")

Best Visual Effects?
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Life of Pi
  • Marvel's The Avengers
  • Prometheus
  • Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Sound Mixing?
  • Argo
  • Les Misérables
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Skyfall

Best Sound Editing?
  • Argo
  • Django Unchained
  • Life of Pi
  • Skyfall
  • Zero Dark Thirty




Tune in to find out during ABC's 85th Annual Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 24th. Hosted by Family Guy and Ted's Seth MacFarlane!