The moment that you’ve been waiting for is here. It’s time for the 2013 Academy Awards aka Oscar nominations. Selected by a ballot of 6,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the contenders were revealed two weeks earlier than usual this year
For weeks leading to this announcement, rumours were rife about Adele possibly performing “Skyfall” live at the star-studded event. And now, producers of the Oscars show, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have confirmed that the event will include a special sequence saluting the James Bond movie franchise on their 50th birthday.
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As suspected, rumours about Adele’s original song for “Skyfall” (of the same name) cinching a “Best Original Song” nomination was absolutely true!
The main contenders in the world-class quality films shortlist are Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” with 12 nominations, Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi” with 11 nominations, and Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables with 8 nominations. One can agree that the competition is stiff, considering the fact that these works of art will be coming head on for several awards such as “Best Picture” and “Production Design”.
Full list of nominees as follows:
Best Picture
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Amour
Django Unchained
Argo
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Denzel Washington, Flight
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Joaquin Pheonix, The Master
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Phillip Seymor Hoffman, The Master
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Alan Arkin, Argo
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Jackie Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Amy Adams, The Master
Best Animated Feature Film
Frankenweenie
The Pirates
Wreck-It Ralph
Paranorman
Brave
Best Foreign Language Film
Austria: Amor
Chile: No
Canada: War Witch
Denmark: A Royal Affair
Norway: Kon Tiki
Best Original Song
“Before My Time,” Chasing Ice
“Pi’s Lullaby,” Life Of Pi
“Suddenly,” Les Misérables
“Everybody Needs A Best Friend”, Ted
“Skyfall,” Skyfall
Best Original Score
Dario Marianelli, Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat, Argo
Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
John Williams, Lincoln
Thomas Newman, Skyfall
Best Original Screenplay
John Gatins, Flight
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Michael Haneke, Amour
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
Best Adapted Screenplay
Chris Terrio, Argo
Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
David Magee, Life of Pi
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How To Survive A Plague
The Invisible War
Searching For Sugar Man
Best Documentary Short
Inocente
Open Heart
Kings Point
Redemption
Mondays at Racine
Director
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Speilberg, Lincoln
Michael Haneke, Amor
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Cinematography
Seamus McGarvey, Anna Karenina
Robert Richardson, Django Unchained
Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi
Janusz Kaminski, Lincoln
Roger Deakins, Skyfall
Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina
Paco Delgado, Les Misérables
Joanna Johnston, Lincoln
Eiko Ishioka, Mirror Mirror
Colleen Atwood, Snow White and the Huntsman
Production Design
Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration), Anna Karenina
Dan Hennah (Production Design); Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decoration), The Hobbit
Eve Stewart (Production Design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decoration), Les Misérables
David Gropman (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration), Life of Pi
Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration), Lincoln
Makeup And Hairstyling
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel, Hitchcock
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane, The Hobbit
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell, Les Misérables
Film Editing
William Goldenberg, Argo
Tim Squyres, Life Of Pi
Michael Kahn, Lincoln
Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers, Silver Linings Playbook
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg, Zero Dark Thirty
Sound Editing
Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn, Argo
Wylie Stateman, Django Unchained
Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton, Life of Pi
Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers, Skyfall
Paul N.J. Ottosson, Zero Dark Thirty
Sound Mixing
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia, Argo
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes, Les Misérables
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin, Life Of Pi
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins, Lincoln
Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson, Skyfall
Visual Effects
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White, The Hobbit
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer & Donald R. Elliott, Life of Pi
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick, The Avengers
Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill, Prometheus
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson, Snow White and the Huntsman
No prizes for guessing which films we’re rooting for. The 2013 Academy Awards gala event is slated to happen at the Dolby Theatre on 24th February 2013 (Sunday). For more information, visit their official website.
