The 85th Academy Awards – The Nominations

Well, it’s that time of year again. fernbyfilms.com is proud to continue our tradition of Academy Awards Coverage, kicking off today with the complete list of Oscar Nominees. The 85th Academy Awards are scheduled to be presented on February 24th, in Los Angeles (approx midday, Feb 25th, Australian Time) with Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane hosting. In the lead-up to the big night, we’ll have coverage of many of the other awards ceremonies occurring at this time of year, including the Golden Globe’s and the BAFTA’s, both of which are key indicators as to who might take home Oscar later in February.

We’ll be back in a few days with our tips and theories on this year’s ceremony, so until then, have a look down this list and see who YOU would like to win!

*List sourced from Wikipedia.

Best Picture	Best Director
Amour Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild Django Unchained Life of Pi Lincoln Les Misérables Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty	Michael Haneke – Amour Ang Lee – Life of Pi David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook Steven Spielberg – Lincoln Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Actor	Best Actress
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables Joaquin Phoenix – The Master Denzel Washington – Flight	Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook Emmanuelle Riva – Amour Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild Naomi Watts – The Impossible
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Alan Arkin – Argo Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained	Amy Adams – The Master Sally Field – Lincoln Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables Helen Hunt – The Sessions Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook
Best Writing – Original Screenplay	Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Amour – Michael Haneke Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino Flight – John Gatins Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal	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 Animated Feature	Best Foreign Language 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	Amour (Austria) Kon-Tiki (Norway) No (Chile) A Royal Affair (Denmark) War Witch (Canada)
Best Documentary – Feature	Best Documentary – Short Subject
5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi The Gatekeepers How to Survive a Plague The Invisible War Searching for Sugar Man	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
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
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	Adam and Dog – Minkyu Lee Fresh Guacamole – PES Head over Heels – Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly The Longest Daycare – David Silverman Paperman – John Kahrs
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli Argo – Alexandre Desplat Life of Pi – Mychael Danna Lincoln – John Williams Skyfall – Thomas Newman	“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 Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, and Alain Boublil
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
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	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
Best Production Design	Best Cinematography
Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent, and Simon Bright Les Misérables – Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson Life of Pi – David Gropman and Anna Pinnock Lincoln – Rick Carter and Jim Erickson	Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey Django Unchained – Robert Richardson Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda Lincoln – Janusz Kamiński Skyfall – Roger Deakins
Best Makeup and Hairstyling	Best Costume Design
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	Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran Les Misérables – Paco Delgado Lincoln – Joanna Johnston Mirror Mirror – Eiko Ishioka Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
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	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

Who wrote this?

Rodney Twelftree

If you’re reading this, you’ve now learned that Rodney loves movies and will continue to write about them until he falls over dead. And even then he’ll have some content scheduled post-mortem.

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2 thoughts on “The 85th Academy Awards – The Nominations”

Dan Stephens says:
January 12, 2013 at 12:38 am
I'm looking forward to seeing Seth MacFarlane's presentation of the event – should be amusing.
My recent post Top 10 Robots Who Think They’re Human
1. Rodney says:
  January 13, 2013 at 10:40 am
  I admit, that's one of the things I"m most looking forward to too…..

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