“Lincoln” leads race to Oscars with 12 nominations
Meanwhile, "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow was snubbed! SLIDE SHOW
By Associated Press and Salon StaffTopics: slideshow, Academy Awards, oscar nominations, Film, Hollywood, cinema, Movies, Entertainment News
Daniel Day-Lewis stars as President Abraham Lincoln in this scene from director Steven Spielberg's drama "Lincoln." (Credit: AP Photo/DreamWorks, Twentieth Century Fox, David James)BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Civil War saga “Lincoln” leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture, director for Steven Spielberg and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones. Also among the 9 nominees for best picture Thursday: the old-age love story “Amour”; the Iran hostage thriller “Argo”; the independent hit “Beasts of the Southern Wild”; the slave-revenge narrative “Django Unchained”; the musical “Les Miserables”; the shipwreck story “Life of Pi”; the lost-souls romance “Silver Linings Playbook”; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Oscar nominations: Best Picture
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- "Argo" (AP Photo/Warner Bros., Claire Folger)
- "Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company)
- "Lincoln" (AP Photo/DreamWorks and Twentieth Century Fox, David James)
- "Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company)
- "Les Miserables" (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Laurie Sparham)
- "Amour" (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, File)
- "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (AP Photo/Fox Searchlight Pictures, Jess Pinkham)
- "Life of Pi" (AP Photo/20th Century Fox)
- "Zero Dark Thirty" (AP Photo/Sony - Columbia Pictures, Jonathan Olley)
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Chronicling Abraham Lincoln’s final months as he engineers passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, “Lincoln” stars best-actor contender Day-Lewis in a monumental performance as the 16th president, supporting-actress nominee Field as the notoriously headstrong Mary Todd Lincoln and supporting-actor prospect Jones as abolitionist firebrand Thaddeus Stevens.
Joining Day-Lewis in the best-actor field are Bradley Cooper as a psychiatric patient trying to get his life back together in “Silver Linings Playbook”; Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo’s tragic hero Jean Valjean in “Les Miserables”; Joaquin Phoenix as a Navy vet who falls in with a cult in “The Master”; and Denzel Washington as a boozy airline pilot in “Flight.”
Nominated for best actress are Jessica Chastain as a CIA operative hunting bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty”; Jennifer Lawrence as a troubled young widow struggling to heal in “Silver Linings Playbook”; Emmanuelle Riva as an ailing woman tended by her husband in “Amour”; Quvenzhane Wallis as a spirited girl on the Louisiana delta in “Beasts of the Southern Wild”; and Naomi Watts as a mother caught up in a devastating tsunami in “The Impossible.”
Along with Field, supporting-actress nominees are Amy Adams as a cult leader’s devoted wife in “The Master”; Anne Hathaway as an outcast mother reduced to prostitution in “Les Miserables”; Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate in “The Sessions”; and Jacki Weaver as an unstable man’s doting mom in “Silver Linings Playbook.”
Besides Jones, the supporting-actor contenders are Alan Arkin as a wily Hollywood producer in “Argo”; Robert De Niro as a football-obsessed patriarch in “Silver Linings Playbook”; Philip Seymour Hoffman as a dynamic cult leader in “The Master”; and Christoph Waltz as a genteel bounty hunter in “Django Unchained.”
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- Best Actor: Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company)
- Best Actor: Denzel Washington, “Flight" (ImageMovers, Paramount Pictures)
- Best Actor: Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables" (Working Title Films)
- Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln” (DreamWorks Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox)
- Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, “The Master” (The Weinstein Company)
- Best Supporting Actor: Robert DeNiro, "Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company)
- Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, "Argo" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
- Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company)
- Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master” (The Weinstein Company)
- Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln” (DreamWorks Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox)
- Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty" (Columbia Pictures)
- Best Actress: Naomi Watts, “The Impossible” (Summit Entertainment, Telecinco Cinema)
- Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company)
- Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour" (Canal+)
- Best Actress: Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, "The Master" (The Weinstein Company)
- Best Supporting Actress: Helen Hunt, "The Sessions" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field, "Lincoln" (DreamWorks)
- Best Supporting Actress: Jacki Weaver, "Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company)
- Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables" (Working Title Films, Universal Pictures)
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- "Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company)
- "Lincoln" (AP Photo/DreamWorks and Twentieth Century Fox, David James)
- "Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company)
- "Les Miserables" (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Laurie Sparham)
- "Amour" (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, File)
- "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (AP Photo/Fox Searchlight Pictures, Jess Pinkham)
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Among the biggest surprise in this year’s announcement was the exclusion of the four directors whose films were nominated for the best picture category: Quentin Tarantino (“Django Unchained”), Tom Hooper (“Les Miserables”), Kathryn Bigelow, (“Zero Dark Thirty”) and Ben Affleck (“Argo”):
This year's Oscar season kind of ran itself. No big surprises although Tom Hooper, Ben Affleck, nor Kathryn Bigelow were nominated.
— Nicholas Russell (@bassdrumtardis) January 10, 2013
Oscars best director category a surprise: No Katheryn Bigelow, no Ben Affleck and no Quentin Tarantino.
— Eric Deggans (@Deggans) January 10, 2013
No Bigelow nomination for Best Director?No Ben Affleck?No Tom Hooper, okay, but yes to Benh Zeitlin!
— Hollywood Elsewhere (@wellshwood) January 10, 2013
This is a weird year. Not shocked by anything but the snubs - Bigelow, Affleck, Tarantino - & all are b/c of crowded categories.
— Court Brown (@scarletsherlock) January 10, 2013
Ben Affleck snubbed for Best Director instantly renders this year's Oscars a farce. Well done, Academy. #Aaaaagggghhhgo
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 10, 2013
Even actor Bradley Cooper weighed in, saying on the “Today Show” that “Ben Affleck got robbed.”
Those weren’t the only snubs:
RT @geoffberkshire Holy crap. Snow White and the Huntsman in visual effects? And Dark Knight Rises shut out ENTIRELY. #Oscars
— Steven Zeitchik (@ZeitchikLAT) January 10, 2013
Oscar snubs: "Moonrise Kingdom" (Wes Anderson's best since "Rushmore") and "Queen of Versailles" (best Great Recession movie, period).
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) January 10, 2013
How do 3 actors/actresses in a film get Oscar nods, but the film itself, "The Master," does not?
— Michael Roston (@michaelroston) January 10, 2013
(Hastily cancels congratulatory edible arrangements to Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey.) #Oscarnomination #snubs #supportingactor
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) January 10, 2013
Skyfall was completely shut out of major Oscar nominations. I blame Hollywood's notorious anti-British bigotry.
— Dan Gardner (@dgardner) January 10, 2013
Stunned to see that John Hawkes isn't nominated for best actor. #Snubs
— Bret Hamilton (@brethamilton) January 10, 2013
The journos here are buzzing about snubs for Affleck and Bigelow (& Tarantino) as directors, and acting snubs for Dicaprio and Sam Jackson
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) January 10, 2013
No Oscar "best song" nomination for Rick Ross #boycott
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 10, 2013
DINESH D'SOUZA WAS ROBBED oscar.go.com/nominees
— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff) January 10, 2013
But there were some pleasant surprises as well:
Quvenzhane Wallis, 9, and Emmanuelle Riva, 85 are the oldest and youngest best actress #Oscar nominees ever
— Anthony De Rosa (@AntDeRosa) January 10, 2013
And the final highlight of the morning, of course, was the off-color commentary from the “Family Guy” creator, Seth MacFarlane:
Seth MacFarlane drops first hitler joke at 5:43 am, re "Amour" being co-produced by Germans and Austrians.
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) January 10, 2013
"Hi, I'm Oscars host Seth MacFarlane and this reminds me of the time...[cut to montage of Hanna-Barbera jokes and Hitler references]"
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) January 10, 2013
The Oscars feature a best-picture field that ranges from five to 10 films depending on a complex formula of ballots from the 5,856 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Winners for the 85th Oscars will be announced Feb. 24 at a ceremony aired live on ABC from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
Thursday’s nominees were announced at 8:40 a.m. EST by “The Amazing Spider-Man” star Emma Stone and MacFarlane, the first time that an Oscar show host has joined in the preliminary announcement since 1972, when Charlton Heston participated on nominations day.
The full list of nominees, below:
1. Best Picture: “Amour,” “Argo,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Django Unchained,” “Les Miserables,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” “Zero Dark Thirty.”
2. Actor: Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”; Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”; Hugh Jackman, “Les Miserables”; Joaquin Phoenix, “The Master”; Denzel Washington, “Flight.”
3. 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.”
4. Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, “Argo”; Robert De Niro, “Silver Linings Playbook”; Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master”; Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln”; Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained.”
5. Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, “The Master”; Sally Field, “Lincoln”; Anne Hathaway, “Les Miserables”; Helen Hunt, “The Sessions”; Jacki Weaver, “Silver Linings Playbook.”
6. Directing: Michael Haneke, “Amour”; Benh Zeitlin, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”; Ang Lee, “Life of Pi”; Steven Spielberg, “Lincoln”; David O. Russell, “Silver Linings Playbook.”
7. Foreign Language Film: “Amour,” Austria; “Kon-Tiki,” Norway; “No,” Chile; “A Royal Affair,” Denmark; “War Witch,” Canada.
8. 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.”
9. Original Screenplay: Michael Haneke, “Amour”; Quentin Tarantino, “Django Unchained”; John Gatins, “Flight”; Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, “Moonrise Kingdom”; Mark Boal, “Zero Dark Thirty.”
10. Animated Feature Film: “Brave”; “Frankenweenie”; “ParaNorman”; “The Pirates! Band of Misfits”; “Wreck-It Ralph.”
11. Production Design: “Anna Karenina,” “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Les Miserables,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln.”
12. Cinematography: “Anna Karenina,” “Django Unchained,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” “Skyfall.”
13. Sound Mixing: “Argo,” “Les Miserables,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” “Skyfall.”
14. Sound Editing: “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Life of Pi,” “Skyfall,” “Zero Dark Thirty.”
15. Original Score: “Anna Karenina,” Dario Marianelli; “Argo,” Alexandre Desplat; “Life of Pi,” Mychael Danna; “Lincoln,” John Williams; “Skyfall,” Thomas Newman.
16. 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.
17. Costume: “Anna Karenina,” “Les Miserables,” “Lincoln,” “Mirror Mirror,” “Snow White and the Huntsman.”
18. Documentary Feature: “5 Broken Cameras,” “The Gatekeepers,” “How to Survive a Plague,” “The Invisible War,” “Searching for Sugar Man.”
19. Documentary (short subject): “Inocente,” “Kings Point,” “Mondays at Racine,” “Open Heart,” “Redemption.”
20. Film Editing: “Argo,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” “Zero Dark Thirty.”
21. Makeup and Hairstyling: “Hitchcock,” “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Les Miserables.”
22. Animated Short Film: “Adam and Dog,” “Fresh Guacamole,” “Head over Heels,” “Maggie Simpson in `The Longest Daycare,’” “Paperman.”
23. Live Action Short Film: “Asad,” “Buzkashi Boys,” “Curfew,” “Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw),” “Henry.”
24. Visual Effects: “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Life of Pi,” “Marvel’s The Avengers,” “Prometheus,” “Snow White and the Huntsman.”
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