The nominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced this morning, and there were, of course, a few surprises and snubs. The Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 24, and below are all the nominations with my predictions in pink:
BEST PICTURE
Surprise: Amour received a nomination for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film.
Snub: Moonrise Kingdom should have been nominated - but I still think this category should return to having only five nominees.
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST DIRECTOR
Surprises and Snubs: Michael Haneke (Amour) and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild) were nominated instead of Ben Affleck (Argo) and Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty).
Amour Michael Haneke
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi Ang Lee
Lincoln Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell
BEST ACTRESS
9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis is the youngest nominee and 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest nominee for Best Actress in Oscar history.
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
BEST ACTOR
Snub: John Hawkes in The Sessions.
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
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
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
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Argo Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi David Magee
Lincoln Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Amour Michael Haneke
Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino
Flight John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour (Austria)
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
No (Chile)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
War Witch (Canada)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
So I just listened to all of the songs on YouTube, and I selected the only one that I would want to hear a second time.
"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 Misérables (Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Anna Karenina Dario Marianelli
Argo Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi Mychael Danna
Lincoln John Williams
Skyfall Thomas Newman
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Marvel's The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina
Les Misérables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Snow White and the Huntsman
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 Misérables
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
BEST SOUND EDITING
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST SOUND MIXING
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption
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
2 comments:
Several disappointments. Ben's exclusion was certainly shocking. Argo is an excellent, tense, very well directed movie that I think is one of the best of the year. He'll definitely be in the winner's spot one day and he HAS received many accolades but the failure to acknowledge his excellent work with an Oscar nom is a surprising snub.
Kathryn Bigelow's absence is also surprising but all the controversy about the torture scenes makes it less so.
Had my hopes high Rachel Weisz' beautiful work in The Deep Blue Sea would be honored although it was a long shot, no such luck but at least she can console herself with Daniel Craig! The rest of us should be so lucky.
Was also sorry Ann Dowd wasn't nominated for Compliance but they found a spot to once again tap the average Amy Adams. Mind bogglingly she has with only a mediocre gift managed to now tie such acting giants as Lee Grant, Maureen Stapleton, Ethel Barrymore and Agnes freaking Moorehead! with four supporting nominations! That alone has diminished the award in my eyes.
As far as that clown show this morning where they announced the nominations if that's the best Seth MacFarlane can do the show is going to be one long slog.
I agree with you, Joel, that Ms. Adams isn't in the same league as the acting giants you mention. But I did like her in Junebug and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.
And I definitely agree with you about Mr. MacFarlane, who will hopefully be much more amusing come Oscar night.
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