“Lincoln” Leads Pack With 12 Oscar Nominations

U.S. presidential drama “Lincoln” led the pack of Oscar nominees on Thursday with 12 nominations including a nod for best picture, in the race for the world’s top film honors.
Joining “Lincoln” in the competition for the best movie Oscar were eight films – shipwreck tale “Life of Pi” with 11 nods, musical “Les Miserables,” Iran hostage drama “Argo,” French language drama “Amour,” Osama bin Laden thriller “Zero Dark Thirty,” comedy “Silver Linings Playbook,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” and mythological film “Beasts of the Southern Wild.

The Oscars are given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and this year’s winners will be named at a ceremony in Hollywood on February 24.
Silver Linings Playbook became the first film to win Oscar nominations in all four acting categories for more than 30 years. The comedy drama, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, received eight nominations in total.
Best acting nominations went to Daniel Day-Lewis for his performance as U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Hugh Jackman for “Les Miserables,” Jessica Chastain for her role as a CIA agent in “Zero Dark Thirty” and Jennifer Lawrence for playing a young widow in “Silver Linings Playbook.”
In a list with few major surprises, “Lincoln” also picked up nods for director Steven Spielberg, and supporting actors Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones, as well as best adapted screenplay and costumes.
James Bond film “Skyfall” won five nominations, including best original song and cinematography, but the British secret agent movie missed out on a coveted best picture mention.
The screen adaption of musical “Les Mis” got eight nominations, including best supporting actress for Anne Hathaway as tragic heroine Fantine. But director Tom Hooper was left off the directing nominees, along with Ben Affleck for “Argo” and Tarantino for his violent slavery era Western “Django Unchained.”
“Amour,” a moving love story about an elderly couple, fared well with the Academy, winning best picture and best director nods for Michael Haneke, and a best lead actress mention for 85 year-old Emmanuelle Riva, who became the oldest best actress nominee in the Academy’s 85-year history.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, Quvenzhane Wallis, 9, became the youngest ever best actress Oscar nominee for her performance in the end of the world movie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” which also garnered a nod for its first time director Benh Zeitlin.

The full list of Oscar 2013 nominations:
Best film:

• Amour
• Argo
• Beasts Of The Southern Wild
• Django Unchained
• Les Miserables
• Lincoln
• Life Of Pi
• Silver Linings
• Playbook Zero Dark Thirty

Best actress:

• Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
• Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
• Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
• Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Naomi Watts – The Impossible

Best actor:

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

Best director:

• Michael Haneke – Amour
• Ang Lee – Life of Pi
• David O Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
• Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
• Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best supporting actor:

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

Best supporting actress:

• Amy Adams – The Master
• Sally Field – Lincoln
• Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables
• Helen Hunt – The Sessions
• Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook

Best foreign film:

• Amour
• No
• War witch
• A Royal Affair
• Kon-Tiki

Best animated film:

• Brave
• Frankenweenie
• Paranorman
• Pirates! Band of Misfits (UK title: Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists)
• Wreck-it Ralph

Best documentary film:

• 5 Broken Cameras
• The Gatekeepers
• How To Survive A Plague
• The Invisible War
• Searching For Sugarman

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
• Skyfall (Skyfall) – Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
• Suddenly (Les Miserables) – Music by Claude-Michel Schonberg, Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Music (original score):

• Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli
• Argo – Alexandre Desplat
• Life Of Pi – Mychael Danna
• Lincoln – John Williams
• Skyfall – Thomas Newman

Adapted screenplay:

• Argo – Chris Terrio
• Beasts Of The Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
• Life Of Pi – David Magee
• Lincoln – Tony Kushner
• Silver Linings Playbook – David O Russell

Original screenplay:

• Amour – Michael Haneke
• Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
• Flight – John Gatins
• Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
• Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

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 Miserables – Paco Delgado
• Lincoln – Joanna Johnston
• Mirror Mirror – Eiko Ishioka
• Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood

Best documentary short subject:

• Inocente
• Kings Point
• Mondays at Racine
• Open Heart
• Redemption

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

Make-up and Hairstyling:

• Hitchcock – Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
• Les Miserables – Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

Production Design:

• Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
• Les Miserables – Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson
• Life Of Pi – David Gropman and Anna Pinnock
• Lincoln – Rick Carter and Jim Erickson

Short film (animated):

• Adam and the Dog
• Fresh Guacamole
• Head Over Heels
• Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare
• Paperman

Short film (live action):

• Asad
• Buzkashi Boys
• Curfew
• Death of a Shadow (Dood Van Een Schaduw)
• Henry

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 NJ Ottosson

Sound mixing:

• Argo – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia 
• Les Miserables – Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
• Life Of Pi – Ron Bartlett, DM 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 (UK title: Marvel’s Avengers Assemble) – 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

 

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