Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced on Jan. 10, 2013. The televised nominations for the coveted Oscar were announced by Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane, from the AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif..
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Steven Spielberg's drama, "Lincoln," about the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln, leads the race for this year's Academy Awards, with 12 nominations. Nominations for "Lincoln" include: Best Picture, Best Director for Steven Spielberg, Best Actor for Daniel Day Lewis, Best Supporting Actor for Tommy Lee Jones and Best Supporting Actress for Sally Field.
"Life of Pi" Ang Lee's mystical fable of a young man stranded on a ship's lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, follows closely behind with 11 nominations. Nominations include Best Picture and Best Director for Ang Lee.
"Les Miserables," an adaptation of the stage musical set during the French Revolution, earned eight nominations, including: Best Picture, Best Actor for Hugh Jackman, and Best Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway.
"Argo," from director Ben Affleck, received seven nominations, Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin. "Argo" wins Golden Globe awards, Critics' Choice awards led by Affleck's "Argo"
"Zero Dark Thirty," from Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow, received five nominations, including Best Picture.
Follow is the listing of nominees for the 85th Academy Awards.
Best picture nominees are "Argo," "Django Unchained," "Life of Pi," "Zero Dark Thirty," "Lincoln," "Silver Linings Playbook," "Les Miserables," "Amour" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild."
Best actor nominees are Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln"), Hugh Jackman ("Les Miserables"), Denzel Washington ("Flight"), Joaquin Phoenix ("The Master") and Bradley Cooper ("Silver Linings Playbook").
Best actress nominees are Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), Naomi Watts ("The Impossible") and Emmanuelle Riva ("Amour").
Best supporting actor nominees are Robert De Niro ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln"), Alan Arkin ("Argo") and Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained").
Best supporting actress nominees are Sally Field ("Lincoln"), Amy Adams ("The Master"), Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables"), Helen Hunt ("The Sessions") and Jacki Weaver ("Silver Linings Playbook").
Best director nominees are Steven Spielberg ("Lincoln"), David O. Russell ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Ang Lee ("Life of Pi"), Michael Haneke ("Amour") and Benh Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild").
Best Foreign Language Film nominees are: "Amour," Austria; "Kon-Tiki," Norway; "No," Chile; "A Royal Affair," Denmark; "War Witch," Canada.
Best Adapted Screenplay nominees are: Chris Terrio, "Argo"; Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; David Magee, "Life of Pi"; Tony Kushner, "Lincoln"; David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook."
Best Original Screenplay nominees are: Michael Haneke, "Amour"; Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained"; John Gatins, "Flight"; Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, "Moonrise Kingdom"; Mark Boal, "Zero Dark Thirty."
Best Animated Feature Film nominees are: "Brave"; "Frankenweenie"; "ParaNorman"; "The Pirates! Band of Misfits"; "Wreck-It Ralph."
Best Production Design nominees are: "Anna Karenina," ''The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," ''Les Miserables," ''Life of Pi," ''Lincoln."
Best Cinematography nominees are: "Anna Karenina," ''Django Unchained," ''Life of Pi," ''Lincoln," ''Skyfall."
Best Sound Mixing nominees are: "Argo," ''Les Miserables," ''Life of Pi," ''Lincoln," ''Skyfall."
Best Sound Editing nominees are: "Argo," ''Django Unchained," ''Life of Pi," ''Skyfall," ''Zero Dark Thirty."
Best Original Score nominees are: "Anna Karenina," Dario Marianelli; "Argo," Alexandre Desplat; "Life of Pi," Mychael Danna; "Lincoln," John Williams; "Skyfall," Thomas Newman.
Best Original Song nominees are: "Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice," J. Ralph; "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from "Ted," Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane; "Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi," Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri; "Skyfall" from "Skyfall," Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth; "Suddenly" from "Les Miserables," Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil. Adele to perform James Bond song Skyfall at the Oscars
Best Costume nominees are: "Anna Karenina," ''Les Miserables," ''Lincoln," ''Mirror Mirror," ''Snow White and the Huntsman."
Best Documentary Feature nominees are: "5 Broken Cameras," ''The Gatekeepers," ''How to Survive a Plague," ''The Invisible War," ''Searching for Sugar Man."
Best Documentary (short subject) nominees are: "Inocente," ''Kings Point," ''Mondays at Racine," ''Open Heart," ''Redemption."
Best Film Editing nominees are: "Argo," ''Life of Pi," ''Lincoln," ''Silver Linings Playbook," ''Zero Dark Thirty."
Best Makeup and Hairstyling nominees are: "Hitchcock," ''The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," ''Les Miserables."
Best Animated Short Film nominees are: "Adam and Dog," ''Fresh Guacamole," ''Head over Heels," ''Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare,'" "Paperman."
Best Live Action Short Film nominees are: "Asad," ''Buzkashi Boys," ''Curfew," ''Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)," ''Henry."
Best Visual Effects nominees are: "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," ''Life of Pi," ''Marvel's The Avengers," ''Prometheus," ''Snow White and the Huntsman."
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar® Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre(tm) at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
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