The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 85th Annual Academy Awards. Among the surprises, no best director nod for Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained, even though the film did receive nominations in the best picture and best supporting actor category. Beasts of the Southern Wild and Silver Linings Playbook both took home arm-fuls of nominations, and Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest best actress nominee ever, at the age of nine.
Here is the list of nominees in the major categories:
Best Picture
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Amour
Django Unchained
Argo
Best Actor
Denzel Washington – Flight
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables
Daniel Day-Lewis — Lincoln
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Actress
Naomi Watts — The Impossible
Jessica Chastain — Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence — Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Supporing Actress
Salley Field — Lincoln
Anne Hathaway — Les Miserables
Jacki Weaver –Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Amy Adams – The Master
Supporing Actor
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Phillip Seymour Hoffman — The Master
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Alan Arkin – Argo
Tommy Lee Jones — Lincoln
Best Foreign Film
Amour
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War Witch
A Royal Affair
Kon Tiki
Best Director
David O Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
Michael Hanake – Amour
Benh Zeitlin — Beasts of the Southern Wild
Animated Feature
Franekenweenie
The Pirates: Band of Misfits
Wreck it Ralph
Paranorman
Brave
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
