On January 10, 2013, the 85th Academy Award Nominations were announced. The Academy Awards will take place on February 24, 2012. This year, the category of Best Art Direction was changed to Best Production Design.
The Academy Award nominees are as follows (and any BasementReject Reviews will be linked under the nominee).
Best Picture:
Amour
WINNER: Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director:
WINNER: Ang Lee—Life of Pi
David O. Russell—Silver Lining Playbook
Behn Zeitlin—Beasts of the Southern Wild
Michael Haneke—Amour
Stephen Spielberg—Lincoln
Best Actor:
Bradley Cooper—Silver Linings Playbook
WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis—Lincoln
Denzel Washington—Flight
Hugh Jackman—Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix—The Master
Best Actress:
Emmanuelle Riva—Amour
WINNER: 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
WINNER: 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
WINNER: Anne Hathaway—Les Miserables
Sally Field—Lincoln
Helen Hunt—The Sessions
Jacki Weaver—Silver Linings Playbook
Best Writing—Original Screenplay:
Amour
WINNER: Django Unchained
Flight
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Writing—Adapted Screenplay:
WINNER: Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Best Animated Feature:
WINNER: Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Best Foreign Language Film:
WINNER: Amour
A Royal Affair
No
Kon-Tiki
War Witch
Best Documentary—Feature:
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
WINNER: Searching for Sugar Man
Best Documentary—Short Subject:
WINNER: Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption
Best Live Action Short:
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
WINNER: Curfew
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
Henry
Best Animated Short:
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”
WINNER: Paperman
Best Original Score:
Anna Karenina
Argo
WINNER: Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Best Original Song:
“Before My Time”—Chasing Ice
“Everybody Needs a Best Friend”—Ted
“Pi’s Lullaby”—Life of Pi
WINNER: “Skyfall”—Skyfall
“Suddenly”—Les Miserables
Best Sound Editing:
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
WINNER: Skyfall
WINNER: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Sound Mixing:
Argo
WINNER: Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Best Production Design:
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
WINNER: Lincoln
Best Cinematography:
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
WINNER: Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Best Make-Up and Hairstyling:
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
WINNER: Les Miserables
Best Costume Design:
WINNER: Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Snow White and the Huntsman
Best Film Editing:
WINNER: Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Visual Effects:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
WINNER: Life of Pi
The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman
Preceded By:
The 84th Academy Award Nominations
Followed By:
