Oscars Going Big This Time With Heavyweight Contenders: 85th Academy Awards Complete Nominations Announced

The most prestigious awards of all, The 85th Academy Awards Nominations were announced by this year’s Oscar hosts Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone last thursday, the 10th of January.

The nominations for various categories were announced at Beverly Hills, CA at a 5:38 a.m PT Live News conference which was attended by more than 400 international media representatives.

The voting procedure for the nominees goes this way – Members from respective categories vote to determine nominees from the same category. For example-actors vote for actors, script-writers vote for script-writers. Nominees are selected by vote of multi-branch screening committee in Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories. All voting members enjoy the privilege to select the best picture nominees.

The felicitation ceremony for the 85th Oscars is scheduled to be held on Feb. 24, 2013 at the Dolby Theater at Hollywood & Highland Center and broadcast live on ABC.

Coming Saturday, January 19th, official screening of all motion pictures with one or more nominations will begin for the members at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. Screenings will also be held at Hollywood, New York, London and the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Complete List of the Nominees as released by the Oscar’s Official governing committee are as follows:

Actor in a Leading Role

● Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook”
● Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln”
● Hugh Jackman in “Les Misérables”
● Joaquin Phoenix in “The Master”
● Denzel Washington in “Flight”

Actor in a Supporting Role
● Alan Arkin in “Argo”
● Robert De Niro in “Silver Linings Playbook”
● Philip Seymour Hoffman in “The Master”
● Tommy Lee Jones in “Lincoln”
● Christoph Waltz in “Django Unchained”

Actress in a Leading Role
●Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty”
●Jennifer Lawrence in “Silver Linings Playbook”
●Emmanuelle Riva in “Amour”
●Quvenzhané Wallis in “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
●Naomi Watts in “The Impossible”

Actress in a Supporting Role
●Amy Adams in “The Master”
●Sally Field in “Lincoln”
●Anne Hathaway in “Les Misérables”
●Helen Hunt in “The Sessions”
●Jacki Weaver in “Silver Linings Playbook”

Animated Feature Film
● “Brave” Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
● “Frankenweenie” Tim Burton
● “ParaNorman” Sam Fell and Chris Butler
● “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” Peter Lord
● “Wreck-It Ralph” Rich Moore

Cinematography

● “Anna Karenina” Seamus McGarvey
● “Django Unchained” Robert Richardson

● “Life of Pi” Claudio Miranda
● “Lincoln” Janusz Kaminski
● “Skyfall” Roger Deakins

Costume Design

● “Anna Karenina” Jacqueline Durran
● “Les Misérables” Paco Delgado
● “Lincoln” Joanna Johnston
● “Mirror Mirror” Eiko Ishioka
● “Snow White and the Huntsman” Colleen Atwood

Direction

● “Amour” Michael Haneke
● “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Benh Zeitlin
● “Life of Pi” Ang Lee
● “Lincoln” Steven Spielberg
● “Silver Linings Playbook” David O. Russell

Documentary Feature Film

● “5 Broken Cameras” Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
● “The Gatekeepers” Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky and Estelle Fialon
● “How to Survive a Plague” David France and Howard Gertler
● “The Invisible War” Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
● “Searching for Sugar Man” Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn

Documentary Short Subject Film

● “Inocente” Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
● “Kings Point” Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider

● “Mondays at Racine” Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
● “Open Heart” Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
● “Redemption” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill

Film Editing

● “Argo” William Goldenberg
● “Life of Pi” Tim Squyres
● “Lincoln” Michael Kahn
● “Silver Linings Playbook” Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
● “Zero Dark Thirty” Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

Foreign Language Film

● “Amour” Austria
● “Kon-Tiki” Norway
● “No” Chile
● “A Royal Affair” Denmark
● “War Witch” Canada

Makeup and Hairstyling

● “Hitchcock” Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
● “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
● “Les Misérables” Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

Music (Original Score)

● “Anna Karenina” Dario Marianelli
● “Argo” Alexandre Desplat
● “Life of Pi” Mychael Danna
● “Lincoln” John Williams
● “Skyfall” Thomas Newman

Music (Original Song)

● “Before My Time” from “Chasing Ice” Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
● “Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from “Ted” Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
● “Pi’s Lullaby” from “Life of Pi” Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
● “Skyfall” from “Skyfall” Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
● “Suddenly” from “Les Misérables” Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Best Picture

● “Amour” Nominees to be determined
● “Argo” Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
● “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
● “Django Unchained” Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
● “Les Misérables” Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
● “Life of Pi” Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
● “Lincoln” Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
● “Silver Linings Playbook” Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
● “Zero Dark Thirty” Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers

Production Design

● “Anna Karenina” Production Designer: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
● “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” Production Designer: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
● “Les Misérables” Production Designer: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
● “Life of Pi” Production Designer: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock

● “Lincoln” Production Designer: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Short Film (Animated)

● “Adam and Dog” Minkyu Lee
● “Fresh Guacamole” PES
● “Head over Heels” Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
● “Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”" David Silverman
● “Paperman” John Kahrs

Short Film (Live Action)

● “Asad” Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
● “Buzkashi Boys” Sam French and Ariel Nasr
● “Curfew” Shawn Christensen
● “Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)” Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
● “Henry” Yan England

Sound Editing

● “Argo” Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
● “Django Unchained” Wylie Stateman
● “Life of Pi” Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
● “Skyfall” Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
● “Zero Dark Thirty” Paul N.J. Ottosson

Sound Mixing

● “Argo” John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
● “Les Misérables” Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
● “Life of Pi” Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
● “Lincoln” Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
● “Skyfall” Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

Visual Effects

● “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
● “Life of Pi” Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
● “Marvel’s The Avengers” Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
● “Prometheus” Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
● “Snow White and the Huntsman” Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

● “Argo” Screenplay by Chris Terrio
● “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
● “Life of Pi” Screenplay by David Magee
● “Lincoln” Screenplay by Tony Kushner
● “Silver Linings Playbook” Screenplay by David O. Russell

Writing (Original Screenplay)

● “Amour” Written by Michael Haneke
● “Django Unchained” Written by Quentin Tarantino
● “Flight” Written by John Gatins
● “Moonrise Kingdom” Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
●”Zero Dark Thirty” Written by Mark Boal

Get glued to your HD TV sets this Thursday to see who wins BIG!!