Oscar Nominations: Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards Announced ~ Fun & Entertainment

The 85th Academy Awards ceremony is an upcoming event during which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) will present its annual Academy Awards to honor the best films of 2012 in the United States. The ceremony is scheduled for February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. Seth MacFarlane will host the Academy Awards for the first time

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The nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were revealed Thursday morning, with Hollywood darling Emma Stone and Oscar host Seth Macfarlane announcing the 2013 contenders.
Emmanuelle Riva, of "Amour," and Quvenzhané Wallis, of "Beasts of The Southern Wild," bookended the Best Actress list as the oldest and youngest Oscar nominees, alongside expected nominees like Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day Lewis, both nominated for "Lincoln."
Best Picture:
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

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
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor:
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Alan Arkin, Argo
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

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

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

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

Best Adapted Screenplay:
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:
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:
Brave,
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

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

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

Best Sound Mixing:
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Best Sound Editing:
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Original Score:
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas Newman.

Best Original Song:
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

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

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

Best Documentary (short subject):
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption

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

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

Best Animated Short Film:
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head over Heels
Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare
Paperman

Best Live Action Short Film:
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
Henry

Best Visual Effects:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Marvel's The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman