2013 Oscar nominations: Lots of surprises in super competitive year (Video)

Happy Oscar nomination morning, everybody! This year’s hosts of the Oscars, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone announced the official nominees for the 85th Academy Awards at 8:30 EST/5:30 PST this morning, and without further adieu, here they are:

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

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

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

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

Best Foreign Language:
Amour - Austria
Kon-Tiki - Norway
No - Chile
A Royal Affair - Denmark
War Witch - Canada

Best Animated Feature Film:
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-it Ralph

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

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

Best Original Screenplay:
Amour
Django Unchained
Flight
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Cinematography:
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Best Editing:
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Score:
Anna Karenina
Argo
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
“Skyfall” – Skyfall
“Suddenly” – Les Miserables

Best Costume Design:
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables

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

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
The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

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

Best Animated Short Film:
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
Henry

Below is a list of the number of nominations each film received.

Lincoln – 12
Life of Pi – 11
Les Miserables – 8
Silver Linings Playbook - 8
Argo - 7
Amour – 5
Django Unchained – 5
Skyfall – 5
Zero Dark Thirty – 5
Anna Karenina - 4
Beasts of the Southern Wild – 4
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – 3
The Master – 3
Flight – 2
Snow White and the Huntsman – 2
5 Broken Cameras – 1
Adam and Dog – 1
Asad – 1
The Avengers – 1
Brave - 1
Buzkashi Boys – 1
Chasing Ice – 1
Curfew – 1
Death of a Shadow – 1
Frankenweenie - 1
Fresh Guacamole – 1
The Gatekeepers – 1
Head Over Heels – 1
Henry – 1
Hitchcock – 1
How to Survive a Plague – 1
The Impossible – 1
Inocete – 1
The Invisible War – 1
Kings Point – 1
Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare” – 1
Mondays at Racine – 1
Mirror Mirror – 1
Moonrise Kingdom – 1
Open Heart – 1
Paperman – 1
ParaNorman – 1
The Pirates! Band of Misfits – 1
Prometheus – 1
Redemption – 1
Searching for Sugar Man – 1
The Sessions – 1
Ted – 1
Wreck-it Ralph – 1

Reaction on the nominees, snubs, and what this means for the overall race soon to come.

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