Oscar Nominations for 2013

Earlier than I care for, the Oscar nominations were announced by Emma Stone and, to-be Oscar host, Seth McFarlane. There were certainly more than a few surprises (and huge snubs) for the 85th Academy Awards. Not surprisingly, Steven Spielberg's Oscar pandering sweeping epic, Lincoln, leads the way with 12 nominations. Ang Lee's self-righteous film snore visually stunning, Life of Pi, follows closely behind with 11.

Without any further ado, the official selection for the 85th Academy Awards!

EDIT: Just the Big 5 (more will come later)
Now that I'm out of class, here is the complete list.

Best Picture

Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Les Misérables
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
  

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Denzel Washington (Flight)
Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)

Best Actress

Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Naomi Watts (The Impossible)
Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin (Argo)
Christoph Walz (Django Unchained)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook)
Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)

Best Supporting Actress 

Amy Adams (The Master)
Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook)
Sally Field (Lincoln)

Best Director

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

Best Original Screenplay

Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained
Moonrise Kingdom
Amour
Flight

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Argo
Life of Pi
Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Animated Feature

Frankenweenie
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It-Ralph
Paranorman
Brave

Best Foreign Feature

Amour (Austria)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
No (Chile)
War Witch (Canada)

Best Visual Effects

Life of Pi
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Cinematography

Skyfall
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln

Best Costume Design

Anna Karenina
Les Misérables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Documentary

Searching for Sugar Man
How to Survive a Plague
The Gatkeepers 
5 Broken Camera
The Invisible War

Best Documentary Short

Open Heart
Inocente
Redemption
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine

Best Film Editing

Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Life of Pi
Argo
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables

Best Music (Original Score)

Anna Karenina
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Best Music (Original Song)

Before My Time from Chasing Ice
Everybody Needs a Best Friend from Ted
Pi's Lullaby from Life of Pi
Skyfall from Skyfall
Suddenly from Les Misérables

Best Production Design

Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln

 

Best Animated Short

Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head over Heels
Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'
Paperman

Best Live Action Short

Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
Henry

Best Sound Editing

Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Sound Mixing

Argo 
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Congratulations on making it through the whole list.

I will certainly be sounding off on the nominations and snubs. Such as, Kathryn Bigelow and Ben Affleck not being nominated under the Best Director category, while Ang Lee gets a nod for his bloated Life of Pi, and Benh Zeitlin for the underrated (but not undeserving) Beasts of the Southern Wild. Or perhaps I will sound off on how Leonardo DiCaprio gets the short stick, as his co-star Christoph Walz gets the nominations for Best Supporting Actor. But that shall come later.