2013 Oscar Nominations

[Steve williams]

Nominations for the 85th annual Academy Awards were announced by actress Emma Stone and Oscars show host Seth MacFarlane this morning at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Steven Spielberg's presidential biopic "Lincoln" leads this year's Oscar race with 12 nominations, including best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay and acting nods for stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.
The visually stunning survival adventure "Life of Pi" made an unexpectedly strong showing with 11 nominations, including best picture, best director for Ang Lee, best adapted screenplay and a host of technical nominations, ahead of "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Les Miserables," which had been considered potential frontrunners.
Best actress nods went to youngest and oldest nominees in the history of the category, 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis for the indie underdog fantasy "Beast of the Southern Wild," and 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva for the Austrian film "Amour." Rounding out nominations for best actress were past nominees Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty," Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook" and Naomi Watts for "The Impossible."
Best actor nominations went to first-time nominee Bradley Cooper for "Silver Linings Playbook," former Oscars show host Hugh Jackman for "Les Miserables," and veteran nominees Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln," Joaquin Phoenix for "The Master" and Denzel Washington for "Flight."
Nominations for best supporting actress went to Amy Adams for "The Master," Sally Field for "Lincoln," Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables," Helen Hunt for "The Sessions" and Jacki Weaver for "Silver Linings Playbook."
Nominations for best supporting actor went to a crowded field of decorated veterans: Alan Arkin for "Argo," Robert DeNiro for "Silver Linings Playbook," Philip Seymour Hoffman for "The Master," Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln" and Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained" -- all former Oscar winners.
The 85th Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 24th, 2013 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and broadcast live on ABC.
See the full list of nominees below.

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

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

BEST ACTRESS
Emmanuelle Riva, “Amour”
Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Naomi Watts, “The Impossible”
Quvenzhane Wallis, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin, “Argo”
Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained”
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master”
Robert De Niro, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, “The Master”
Anne Hathaway, “Les Miserables”
Sally Field, “Lincoln”
Helen Hunt, “The Sessions”
Jacki Weaver, “Silver Linings Playbook”

BEST DIRECTOR
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
David O. Russell, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Behn Zeitlin, "Beast of the Southern Wild"
Michael Haneke, “Amour”
Steven Spielberg, “Lincoln”

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 FEATURE
“Brave”
“Frankenweenie”
“ParaNorman”
“The Pirates! Band of Misfits”
“Wreck-It Ralph”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Amour”
“A Royal Affair”
“No”
“Kon-Tiki”
“War Witch”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Anna Karenina"
“Django Unchained”
“Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”
“Skyfall”

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
“Anna Karenina”
“Les Miserables”
“Lincoln”
“Mirror Mirror”
“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
“Inocente”
“Kings Point”
“Mondays at Racine”
“Open Heart”
“Redemption”

BEST FILM EDITING
“Argo”
“Life of Pi
“Lincoln”
“Silver Linings Playbook”
“Zero Dark Thirty”

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
“Hitchcock”
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
“Les Miserables”

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
“Anna Karenina”
“Argo”
“Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”
“Skyfall”

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Before My Time” from "Chasing Ice"
“Everybody Needs a Best Friend” from "Ted"
“Pi's Lullaby” from "Life of Pi"
“Skyfall” from "Skyfall"
“Suddenly” from "Les Miserables"

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
“Anna Karenina”
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
“Les Miserables”
“Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
“Adam and Dog”
“Fresh Guacamole”
“Head Over Heels”
“Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'”
“Paperman”

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
“Asad”
“Buzkashi Boys"
“Curfew”
“Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)”
“Henry”

BEST SOUND EDITING
“Argo”
“Django Unchained”
“Life of Pi”
“Skyfall”
“Zero Dark Thirty”

BEST SOUND MIXING
“Argo”
“Les Miserables"
“Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”
“Skyfall"

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
“Life of Pi”
“Marvel's The Avengers”
“Prometheus”
“Snow White and the Huntsman”

 

[Steve williams]

It was terrific to see my "sleeper movie" of the year nominated for Best Picture as well as Best Actor (as I predicted) for Silver Linings Playbook

Although I doubt either will win, this movie is not to be missed as it was just that good

I could never understand how a film can win without the director being nominated and winning but such will probably be the case with either Zero Dark Thirty or Argo

 

[Steve williams]

one other caveat I just noticed.....

Silver Linings Playbook is the only film with nominations in all major categories
Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Director

 

[Steve williams]

Just noticed that Les Mis did not receive a Best Director nomination

As I thought when I saw Les Mis that Anne Hathaway is nominated for Best "Supporting" Actress not Best Actress

 

[Steve williams]

Oscar snubs and surprises

http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/osca...jackson-django-unchained-photo-590595991.html

 

[jadis]

I could never understand how a film can win without the director being nominated and winning but such will probably be the case with either Zero Dark Thirty or Argo

my feelings too, steve. i was wondering why kathryn bigelow wasn't nominated for best director in zero dark thrity but the picture was.

 

[Steve williams]

If you look at the nine nominees for Best Picture only 5 also were nominated for Best Director

 

[jazdoc]

my feelings too, steve. i was wondering why kathryn bigelow wasn't nominated for best director in zero dark thrity but the picture was.

Oh, I think it's pretty obvious why she wasn't nominated.

 

[Steve williams]

Oh, I think it's pretty obvious why she wasn't nominated.

then I must be a dolt in not knowing why other than jealousy that she just won the award

I remember when Color Purple won Best Picture but Spielberg lost Best Director (at least he was nominated)

 

[Nightlord]

I'm happy to see "Searching for Sugar Man" on there. I believe someone on the radio said it was the first Swedish film nominated in 60 years... Will try to get to see it too, it seems interesting from a music history perspective as well.

 

[jazdoc]

then I must be a dolt in not knowing why other than jealousy that she just won the award

I remember when Color Purple won Best Picture but Spielberg lost Best Director (at least he was nominated)

The depiction of sucessful enhanced interrogation offends the sensibilities of the Hollywood elite...

David Clennon, an Emmy Award-winning actor, wrote an op-ed column for Truthout this week, explaining that he would not be voting for “Zero Dark Thirty” in any categories because it portrays torture as being an effective tool in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.

“Torture is an appalling crime under any circumstances,” Clennon wrote.” “'Zero' never acknowledges that torture is immoral and criminal. It does portray torture as getting results.”
At a media event on Friday at the federal building in downtown Los Angeles, protesting the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Clennon repeated the criticism, noting:

"I'm a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Motion Picture Academy clearly warns its members not to disclose their votes for Academy Awards. Nevertheless, I firmly believe that the film 'Zero Dark Thirty' promotes the acceptance of the crime of torture, as a legitimate weapon in America's so-called War on Terror. In that belief, following my conscience, I will not vote for 'Zero Dark Thirty' in any category… I cannot vote for a film that makes heroes of Americans who commit the crime of torture."

 

[Steve williams]

Gotcha Mark

If that is the case then Argo could win it all

 

[jazdoc]

Gotcha Mark

If that is the case then Argo could win it all

Actually, I think that it makes "Lincoln" more likely to win...

 

[Steve williams]

Let's see tonight after the Golden Globes but as I indicated those are my 3 top films of last year although I can't stop raving about Silver Linings Play book

 

[Mosin]

Oh, I think it's pretty obvious why she wasn't nominated.

It isn't enough for Hollywood that the script fits the message, even when it is their message, but it has to deliver that message in a sanitized and politically correct way. Typically, violence doesn't bother them at all, (unless it takes place in a school, of course) as is evidenced by their applause for Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs", which they lauded as a masterpiece. He didn't get a Best Director nomination for that one, but he did for other violent films on two subsequent occasions. Maybe if Bigelow had taken artistic liberties and given her "victims" Girl Scout cookies immediately following their torture at her "NAZI" hands, she would have received a warmer reception by her peers. Go figure.

 

[Steve williams]

Oscar snubs leave Globes with also-ran nominees

By DAVID GERMAIN | Associated Press

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Hollywood's junior prom for film honors features quite a different cast than the senior prom at next month's Academy Awards.
Sunday night's Golden Globes are in a rare place this season, coming after the Oscar nominations, which were announced earlier than usual and threw out some shockers that have left the Globes show a little less relevant.
Key Globe contenders lined up largely as expected, with Steven Spielberg's Civil War saga "Lincoln" leading with seven nominations and two CIA thrillers — Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" and Ben Affleck's "Argo" — also doing well.
All three films earned Globe nominations for best drama and director. Yet while "Lincoln," ''Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" grabbed best-picture slots at Thursday's Oscar nominations, Bigelow and Affleck were snubbed for directing honors after a season that had seen them in the running for almost every other major award.
The Globe and Oscar directing fields typically match up closely. This time, though, only Spielberg and "Life of Pi" director Ang Lee have nominations for both. Along with Spielberg, Lee, Bigelow and Affleck, Quentin Tarantino is nominated for directing at the Globes. At the Oscars, it's Spielberg, Lee, "Silver Linings Playbook" director David O. Russell and two surprise picks: veteran Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke for "Amour" and first-time director Benh Zeitlin for "Beasts of the Southern Wild."
That forces some top-name filmmakers to put on brave faces for the Globes. And while a Globe might be a nice consolation prize, it could be a little awkward if Affleck, Bigelow or Tarantino won Sunday and had to make a cheery acceptance speech knowing they don't have seats at the grown-ups table for the Feb. 24 Oscars.
That could happen. While "Lincoln" has the most nominations, it's a purely American story that may not have as much appeal to Globe voters — about 90 reporters belonging to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who cover entertainment for overseas outlets.
The Bigelow and Affleck films center on Americans, too, but they are international tales — "Zero Dark Thirty" chronicling the manhunt for Osama bin Laden and "Argo" recounting the rescue of six U.S. embassy workers trapped in Iran amid the 1979 hostage crisis.
Globe voters might want to make right on a snub to Bigelow three years ago, when they gave their best-drama and directing prize to ex-husband James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar" over her war-on-terror tale "The Hurt Locker."
Bigelow made history a month later, becoming the first woman to win the directing Oscar for "The Hurt Locker," which also won best picture.
Globe voters like to be trend-setters, but they missed the boat on that one. Might they feel enough chagrin to hand Bigelow the directing trophy this time?
Spielberg already has won two best-director Globes, so that might be a further inducement for the foreign-press members to favor someone else this time.
Their votes were locked in before the Oscar nominations came out. Globe balloting closed Wednesday, the day before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its awards lineup.
The Globes feature two best-picture categories — one for drama and one for musical or comedy. Most of the Globe contenders also earned Oscar best-picture nominations, including all of the drama picks: "Argo," ''Lincoln," ''Life of Pi," ''Django Unchained" and "Zero Dark Thirty."
Yet only two of the Globe musical or comedy nominees — "Les Miserables" and "Silver Linings Playbook" — are in the running at the Oscars. That's not unusual, though, since Oscar voters tend to overlook comedy. The other Globe nominees for musical or comedy are "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," ''Moonrise Kingdom" and "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
Acting contenders include Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln"; Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables"; Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman for "The Master"; Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook"; Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained"; Alan Arkin for "Argo"; and Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty."
Globe acting recipients usually are a good sneak peek for who will win at the Oscars. All four of last season's Oscar winners — Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady," Jean Dujardin for "The Artist," Octavia Spencer for "The Help" and Christopher Plummer for "Beginners" — took home a Globe first.
Jodie Foster will receive the Globes' Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the 70th Globes ceremony, airing live from 8-11 p.m. EST on NBC.
There will be a friendly rivalry between the hosts of the Globe ceremony, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The co-stars of the 2008 big-screen comedy "Baby Mama" both are nominated for best actress in a TV comedy or musical series, Fey for "30 Rock" and Poehler for "Parks and Recreation."
The Globes present 14 film awards and 11 television prizes.
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[jadis]

If you look at the nine nominees for Best Picture only 5 also were nominated for Best Director

is this the first time there are more than 5 nominees in the best picture category? i used to see only 5 before.

 

[jadis]

It isn't enough for Hollywood that the script fits the message, even when it is their message, but it has to deliver that message in a sanitized and politically correct way.... Maybe if Bigelow had taken artistic liberties and given her "victims" Girl Scout cookies immediately following their torture at her "NAZI" hands, she would have received a warmer reception by her peers. Go figure.

or, i'm thinking if michael moore did the movie, he would have given the victims girl scout cookies.

 

[Steve williams]

is this the first time there are more than 5 nominees in the best picture category? i used to see only 5 before.

IIRC it started last year

 

[jadis]

IIRC it started last year

ah. good to know, steve.