Thursday, January 10, 2013

85th ACADEMY AWARDS® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

Anne Hathaway nominated
Beverly Hills, California - Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards(r) were announced today (Thursday, January 10) by this year's Oscars host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone. 

MacFarlane and Stone announced the nominees at a 5:38 a.m. PT in a live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives. For a complete list of nominees, visit the official Academy Awards website, www.oscar.com. 
       
Academy members from each of the branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories - actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees. 
       
Official screenings of all motion pictures with one or more nominations will begin for members on Saturday, January 19, at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Screenings will also be held at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and in London, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. 
       
Active members of the Academy are eligible to vote for the winners in all categories. 
       
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre(tm) at Hollywood & Highland Center(r), and televised live on the ABC
Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
Bradley Cooper  nominated  Best Actor for
"Silver Linings Playbook"

ABOUT THE ACADEMY The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world's preeminent movie-related organization, with a membership of more than 6,000 of the most accomplished men and women working in cinema. In addition to the annual Academy Awards-in which the members vote to select the nominees and winners-the Academy presents a diverse year-round slate of public programs, exhibitions and events; provides financial support to a wide range of other movie-related organizations and endeavors; acts as a neutral advocate in the advancement of motion picture technology; and, through its Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Film Archive, collects, preserves, restores and provides access to movies and items related to their history. Through these and other activities the Academy serves students, historians, the entertainment industry and people everywhere who love movies. 

- NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORY - 85TH AWARDS -

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Bradley Cooper in "Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company) 
Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) 
Hugh Jackman in "Les Misérables" (Universal) 
Joaquin Phoenix in "The Master" (The Weinstein Company) 
Denzel Washington in "Flight" (Paramount) 

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Alan Arkin in "Argo" (Warner Bros.) 
Robert De Niro in "Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company) 
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "The Master" (The Weinstein Company) 
Tommy Lee Jones in "Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) 
Christoph Waltz in "Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company) 

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty" (Sony Pictures Releasing) 
Jennifer Lawrence in "Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company) 
Emmanuelle Riva in "Amour" (Sony Pictures Classics) 
Quvenzhané Wallis in "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (Fox Searchlight) 
Naomi Watts in "The Impossible" (Summit Entertainment and Mediaset España) 

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in "The Master" (The Weinstein Company) 
Sally Field in "Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) 
Anne Hathaway in "Les Misérables" (Universal) 
Helen Hunt in "The Sessions" (Fox Searchlight) 
Jacki Weaver in "Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company) 

Best animated feature film of the year
"Brave" (Walt Disney)  Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman 
"Frankenweenie" (Walt Disney) Tim Burton 
"ParaNorman" (Focus Features) Sam Fell and Chris Butler 
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Peter Lord 
"Wreck-It Ralph" (Walt Disney) Rich Moore 

Achievement in cinematography
"Anna Karenina" (Focus Features) Seamus McGarvey 
"Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company) Robert Richardson 
"Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) Claudio Miranda 
"Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) Janusz Kaminski 
"Skyfall" (Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Roger Deakins 
Quvenzhane Wallis nominated for Best Actress for "Beasts of the Southern Wild." She's the youngest-ever nominee in the Best Actress category.

Achievement in costume design
"Anna Karenina" (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran 
"Les Misérables" (Universal) Paco Delgado 
"Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) Joanna Johnston 
"Mirror Mirror" (Relativity Media) Eiko Ishioka 
"Snow White and the Huntsman" (Universal) Colleen Atwood 

Achievement in directing
"Amour" (Sony Pictures Classics) Michael Haneke 
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" (Fox Searchlight) Benh Zeitlin 
"Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) Ang Lee 
"Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) Steven Spielberg 
"Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company) David O. Russell 

Best documentary feature
"5 Broken Cameras" (Kino Lorber) A Guy DVD Films/Burnat Films Palestine Production Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi 
"The Gatekeepers" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Les Films du Poisson/Dror Moreh/Cinephil Production 
Nominees to be determined 
"How to Survive a Plague" (Sundance Selects) A How to Survive a Plague Production Nominees to be determined 
"The Invisible War" (Cinedigm/Docurama Films) A Chain Camera Pictures Production Nominees to be determined 
"Searching for Sugar Man" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Red Box Films and Passion Pictures in association with Canfield Pictures Production Nominees to be determined 

Best documentary short subject
"Inocente"  A Shine Global Production Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine 
"Kings Point" A Kings Point Documentary Production Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider 
"Mondays at Racine" A Cynthia Wade Production Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan 
"Open Heart" An Urban Landscapes Production Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern 
"Redemption" A Downtown Docs Production Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill 

Achievement in film editing
"Argo" (Warner Bros.) William Goldenberg 
"Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) Tim Squyres 
"Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) Michael Kahn 
Denzel Washington nominated
for Best Actor for "Flight"
"Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company) Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers 
"Zero Dark Thirty" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg 

Best foreign language film of the year
"Amour" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Les Films du Losange/X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film Production Austria 
"Kon-Tiki" (The Weinstein Company) A Nordisk Film Production Norway 
"No" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Fabula Production Chile 
"A Royal Affair" (Magnolia Pictures) A Zentropa Production Denmark 
"War Witch" (Tribeca Film) An Item 7 Production Canada 

Achievement in makeup
"Hitchcock" (Fox Searchlight) Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel 
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" (Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) 
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
"Les Misérables" (Universal) Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell 

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"Anna Karenina" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli 
"Argo" (Warner Bros.) Alexandre Desplat 
"Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) Mychael Danna 
"Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) John Williams 
"Skyfall" (Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Thomas Newman 

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice" (Submarine Deluxe) Music and Lyric by J. Ralph 
"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from "Ted" (Universal) Music by Walter Murphy Lyric by Seth MacFarlane 
"Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) Music by Mychael Danna Lyric by Bombay Jayashri 
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall" (Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth 
"Suddenly" from "Les Misérables" (Universal) Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil 

Best motion picture of the year
"Amour" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Les Films du Losange/X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film Production Nominees to be determined 
"Argo" (Warner Bros.) A Stage 16 Pictures Production Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers 
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" (Fox Searchlight) A Cinereach and Court 13 Production Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers 
"Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company) A Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures Production Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers 
"Les Misérables" (Universal) A Universal Pictures and Working Title Production 
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers 
"Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) A Fox 2000 Pictures Production Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers 
"Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) A DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers 
"Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company) A Weinstein Company Production Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers 
"Zero Dark Thirty" (Sony Pictures Releasing) A Columbia Pictures Production Mark Boal, Kathryn 

Lucy Alibar nominated Best Adapted Screenplay
for "Beasts of the Southern Wild" 
Achievement in production design 
"Anna Karenina" (Focus Features) Production Design: Sarah Greenwood Set Decoration: Katie Spencer 
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" (Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Production Design: Dan Hennah Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright 
"Les Misérables" (Universal) Production Design: Eve Stewart Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson 
"Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) Production Design: David Gropman Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock 
"Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) Production Design: Rick Carter Set Decoration: Jim Erickson 

Best animated short film
"Adam and Dog" A Lodge Films Production Minkyu Lee 
"Fresh Guacamole" A PES Production PES 
"Head over Heels" (National Film and Television School) A National Film and Television School Production Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly 
"Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"" (20th Century Fox Animation) A Gracie Films Production David Silverman "Paperman" (Walt Disney) A Disney Animation Studios Production John Kahrs 

Best live action short film
"Asad" A Hungry Man Production Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura 
"Buzkashi Boys" An Afghan Film Project Production Sam French and Ariel Nasr 
"Curfew" (Ouat Media) A Fuzzy Logic Pictures Production Shawn Christensen 
"Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)" (Premium Films) A Serendipity Films Production Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele 
"Henry" A Yan England Production Yan England 

Achievement in sound editing
"Argo" (Warner Bros.) Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn 
"Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company) Wylie Stateman 
"Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton 
"Skyfall" (Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers 
"Zero Dark Thirty" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Paul N.J. Ottosson 

Achievement in sound mixing
"Argo" (Warner Bros.) John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia 
"Les Misérables" (Universal) Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes 
"Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin 
"Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins 
"Skyfall" (Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson 

Achievement in visual effects
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" (Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White 
"Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott 
"Marvel's The Avengers" (Walt Disney) Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick 
"Prometheus" (20th Century Fox) Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill 
"Snow White and the Huntsman" (Universal) Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, 

Adapted screenplay
"Argo" (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by Chris Terrio 
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin 
"Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) Screenplay by David Magee 
"Lincoln" (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) Screenplay by Tony Kushner 
"Silver Linings Playbook" (The Weinstein Company) Screenplay by David O. Russell 

Original screenplay
"Amour" (Sony Pictures Classics) Written by Michael Haneke 
"Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company) Written by Quentin Tarantino 
"Flight" (Paramount) Written by John Gatins 
"Moonrise Kingdom" (Focus Features) Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola 
"Zero Dark Thirty" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Written by Mark Boal

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