2013 Oscar Nominations

[Lzcutter]

The Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences started the morning off with the 2013 Oscar nominations. Presented by actress Emma Stone and Oscar host, Seth MacFarlane, the lucky noms are as follows (with snubs and upsets in more than one category):



Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

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

Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

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

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

Original Screenplay
Flight
Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained
Amour
Moonrise Kingdom

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

Foreign Feature
Amour
No
War Witch
A Royal Affair
Kon-Tiki

Animated Feature
Frankenweenie
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Paranorman
Brave

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

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

Production Design
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln

Achievement in Cinematography
Seamus McGarvey - Anna Karenina
Robert Richardson - Django Unchained
Claudio Miranda - Life of Pi
Janusz Kaminski - Lincoln
Roger Deakins - Skyfall

Achievement in Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran - Anna Karenina
Paco Delgado - Les Miserables
Joanna Johnston - Lincoln
Eiko Ishioka - Mirror Mirror
Colleen Atwood - Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man

Best Documentary Short Subject
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption

Achievement in Film Editing
William Goldenberg - Argo
Tim Squyres - Life of Pi
Michael Kahn - Lincoln
Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers - Silver Linings Playbook
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg - Zero Dark Thirty

Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel - Hitchcock
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell - Les Miserables

Achievement in visual effects
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman


I am VERY surprised that Ben Affleck (Argo) and Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) were left out of Best Director nods and quite surprised that Tom Hooper (Les Miz) was as well. But Affleck's snub is the big one for me.

And no love for Skyfall for Best Picture is disappointing though Roger Deakins getting a nod for his cinematography is good.

No love at all for The Dark Knight Rises not even in visual effects or sound is surprising especially when Snow White and the Huntsman got a VE nod.

I hear that MacFarlane was cracking wise throughout the presentation.

[Rita Hayworth]

Les Miserables ...

I can see that this film is going to get the most wins. To me, it is the best film that came out that year. I enjoyed the whole movie from top to bottom.

[Vecchiolarry]

Hi,

I haven't seen any of these movies and haven't even heard of most of the nominees.....
So, I couldn't care less about the Oscars and will be in Bali and cruising the South Pacific anyway when the thing is aired....

I used to host an Oscar party from 1965 to 2000, but when nobody knew the runners any more and it became a boring, adolescent slug fest, I gave up.
I couldn't tell you the winners from the 70's onward really; but I do know when Olivia, the Joans, Bette and Clark, the Jimmys and Colman won.... They were stars, the present lot aren't!!

Larry

[Vecchiolarry]

Hi,

BTW, I did see "The Best Marigold Hotel" and "Quartet" - - what happened to them?

Also, I do think Meryl Streep is a star and the best actress available today; but can't think of anyone else - they're just celebrities.
Was Kim Kardiodashitall nominated for anything. Best ass or slut or something??

Larry

[RedRiver]

The only movie I saw last year was SPIDER-MAN.

[MikeBSG]

I am stunned that "Moonrise Kingdom" was not on the list (except for a screenwriting award). Did it come out too early in the year?

I saw "Silver Linings Playbook" last week. It struck me as an updated "Moonstruck." More serious than a comedy, but once that comparison came to me, I couldn't really shake it. I have to say that Jennifer Lawrence and Robert DeNiro were a joy to watch.

[movieman1957]

I only saw "Argo" in the Best Picture group.

In the Best Musical Score I saw "Skyfall" was listed. It seemed pretty good in the movie but I was thinking about getting the soundtrack and the 90 second samples on itunes didn't do it any favors. I passed.