Attention all movie lovers in Fresno: it is that time one again. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced the nominees for the 85th Annual Academy Awards.
Some of this year’s nominees have been highly expected by Hollywood analysts, while other have been rather surprising.
Here is the complete list of nominees as listed of this year’s nominees as listed on the official website.
BEST PICTURE
Zero Dark Thirty
Silver Linings Playbook
Lincoln
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Amour
Django Unchained
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty
Naomi Watts for The Impossible
Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
Quvenzhane Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild
Emanuelle Riva for Amour
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
Denzel Washington for Flight
Joaquin Phoenix for The Master
Hugh Jackman for Les Miserables
Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln
Phillip Seymour Hoffman for The Master
Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained
Alan Arkin for Argo
Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables
Sally Field for Lincoln
Jackie Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Hunt for The Sessions
Amy Adams for The Master
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Argo
Life of Pi
Beasts of the Southern Wild
BEST DIRECTOR
Ang Lee for Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg for Lincoln
David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook
Michael Haneke for Amour
Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained
Moonrise Kingdom
Amour
Flight
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Frankenweenie
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Paranorman
Brave
BEST FOREIGN FEATURE
Amour
A Royal Affair
Kon-Tiki
No
War Witch
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Life of Pi
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Skyfall
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Snow White and the Huntsman
BEST DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
Searching for Sugar Man
How to Survive a Plague
The Gatekeepers
5 Broken Cameras
The Invisible War
BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
Open Heart
Inocente
Redemption
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
BEST FILM EDITING
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Life of Pi
Argo
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST MAKEUP
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Hitchcock
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Mychael Danna for Life of Pi
Alexandre Desplat for Argo
Dario Marianelli for Anna Karenina
John Williams for Lincoln
Thomas Newman for Skyfall
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
J. Ralph ("Before My Time" for Chasing Ice)
Seth MacFarlane ("Everybody Needs a Best Friend" for Ted)
Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri ("Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi)
Hugh Jackman ("Suddenly" for Les Miserables)
Adele ("Skyfall" for Skyfall)
BEST SOUND EDITING
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST SOUND MIXING
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Curfew
Death of a Shadow
Henry
Buzkashi Boys
Asad
BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Head Over Heels
Fresh Guacamole
Paperman
Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'
Adam and Dog
This examiner would like to congratulate all of the nominees for there success this year and wish all of them the best of luck. The 85th Annual Academy Awards will air February 24, 2013 on ABC, hosted by Seth McFarlane.
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