Well, they’re here! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been announced and, once again, I slept through them – which means that I missed Seth McFarlane’s jokes and Emma Stone’s enthusiasm. So, let’s just get right to it. The complete list of nominees – and the occasional notation of possible glaring omissions (no excoriating of any actual nominees this year) – follow the jump.
Best motion picture of the year
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 Miserables, 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
Glaring Omissions: Moonrise Kingdom (There are ten possible slots here; Moonrise should have gotten the tenth – it’s a better movie than 44% of the abovementioned films!), Cloud Atlas
Achievement in directing
Amour, Michael Haneke
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi, Ang Lee
Lincoln, Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell
Glaring Omissions: Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty didn’t direct itself…), Ben Affleck (ditto Argo)
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln
Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix in The Master
Denzel Washington in Flight
Glaring Omission: John Hawkes, The Sessions (Helen Hunt gets a nom but not the guy who had to play polio victim?)
Performance by an 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
Performance by an 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
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in The Master
Sally Field in Lincoln
Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables
Helen Hunt in The Sessions
Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook
Best animated feature film of the year
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
Glaring Omission: Rise of the Guardians, a much better movie than Brave, or ParaNorman
Achievement in cinematography
Anna Karenina,Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained, Robert Richardson
Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins
Glaring Omission: The Dark Knight Rises, Cloud Atlas
Achievement in costume design
Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
Les Miserables, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood
Glaring Omission: Cloud Atlas
Best documentary feature
5 Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers (nominees to be determined)
How to Survive a Plague (nominees to be determined)
The Invisible War (nominees to be determined)
Searching for Sugar Man (nominees to be determined)
Best documentary short subject
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
Achievement in 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
Glaring Omission: Cloud Atlas, Marvel’s The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises
Best foreign language film of the year
Amour, Austria
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
War Witch, Canada
Achievement in 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 Miserables, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Glaring Omission: Cloud Atlas
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original score)
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas Newman
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (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 Miserables; music by Claude-Michel Schonberg, lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Glaring Omission: from Django Unchained; 100 Black Coffins by Rick Ross
Achievement in production design
Anna Karenina, production design: Sarah Greenwood; set decoration: Katie Spencer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, production design: Dan Hennah; set decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
Les Miserables, production design: Eve Stewart; set decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
Life of Pi, production design: David Gropman; set decoration: Anna Pinnock
Lincoln, production design: Rick Carter; set decoration: Jim Erickson
Glaring Omission: Cloud Atlas, The Dark Knight Rises
Best animated short film
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
Best live- action 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
Achievement in 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
Achievement in sound mixing
Argo, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
Les Miserables, 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
Achievement in 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
Glaring Omission: Cloud Atlas
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
Glaring Omission: The Dark Knight Rises, screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
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