The Oscar nominations are out, and you probably want to see them. You’re in luck, because here they are. (Will be updated with commentary shortly). Lincoln leads with 12 nominations. A Spielberg movie about a beloved dead guy? Who could’ve seen that coming? Life of Pi is second with 11.
Best Picture:
“Beasts of the Southern Wild”
“Silver Linings Playbook”
“Zero Dark Thirty”
“Lincoln”
“Les Miserables”
“Life of Pi”
“Amour”
“Django Unchained”
“Argo”
Best Supporting Actor:
Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained”
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master”
Robert De Niro, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Alan Arkin, “Argo”
Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln”
Best Supporting Actress:
Sally Field, “Lincoln”
Anne Hathaway, “Les Miserables”
Jacki Weaver, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Helen Hunt, “The Sessions”
Amy Adams, “The Master”
Best Director:
David O. Russell, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Ang Lee, “Life of Pi”
Steven Spielberg, “Lincoln”
Michael Haneke, “Amour”
Benh Zeitlin, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
Best Actor:
Daniel Day Lewis, “Lincoln”
Denzel Washington, “Flight”
Hugh Jackman, “Les Miserables”
Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Joaquin Phoenix, “The Master”
Best Actress:
Naomi Watts, “The Impossible”
Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Emmanuelle Riva, “Amour”
Quvenzhané Wallis, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
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”
“A Royal Affair”
“Kon-Tiki”
“No”
“War Witch”
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 Miserables”
“Lincoln”
“Mirror Mirror”
“Snow White and the Huntsman”
Best Documentary Feature:
“Searching for Sugar Man”
“How to Survive a Plague”
“The Gatekeepers”
“5 Broken Cameras”
“The Invisible War”
Best Documentary Short:
“Open Heart”
“Inocente”
“Redemption”
“Kings Point”
“Mondays at Racine”
“Snow White and the Huntsman”
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 Miserables”
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 Short Film, Animated:
“Adam and Dog”
“Fresh Guacamole”
“Head over Heels”
“Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare’”
“Paperman”
Best Short Film, Live Action:
“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”
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Fingers crossed for Sally Field! She was SO GOOD in Lincoln, right? Eeeeek!
Where the fuck is Gary Oldman ‘s Tinker Tailor?
In 2011.
Whoops. Forgot. :P
He was good enough for a second nod.
Half of the Best Picture nominees I would not see unless I was paid a substantial sum of cash.
(Yeah, I know there are 9–I’ve seen 4 and I’ll give Michael Haneke’s Amour a half-point and watch it soon because his stuff always brightens my day, it’s so cheerful).
I always try to figure out what my price is to see certain movies. My price to see Les Miserables is $100. My price to see Beasts of the Southern Wild is $100 plus all the chitlins I can eat. Any takers, gents?
This list of nominees proves the point that the Oscars are just one big circle jerk. It’s bullshit that most of the movies are nominated in for all these little categories where there clearly had to be some other strong candidates. But no, the old queers in charge thought that would be too complicated so best sound editing and best sound mixing goes to whoever was nominated for best film. Stupid.
So…the obvious winner (like the Artist and King’s Speech before it) is Lincoln, right?
Amour seems like the kind of movie that contains 20 full minutes of people staring at one another in silence. Add the fact that the (lack of) dialogue is in French? I’d bet on a stunning best picture upset, or at least a best supporting actress win.
It’s like Drive for Frenchies
French old people.
I’m curious to see who will win best animated feature. Brave or Wreck it Ralph? I haven’t seen Ralph yet, but though Brave sucked.
I didn’t see either Brave or Frankenweenie, but of the other three, I’d rank them Ralph, Norman, and Pirates in likely-to-win order.
Wreck it Ralph was solid, definitely worth a watch.
Brave was pretty good- medium formulaic, but pretty and for once a Disney movie had both a female protagonist and a present mother figure.
Wreck-It Ralph for this image alone.
Brave is okay, just middle-of-the-road. I don’t disagree with Vince’s complaints about Paranorman but I thought it overcame those issues and was entertaining. Frankenweenie is fun but light weight. Wreck-It Ralph and The Pirates! are the tits and I’m glad they got nominated.
Basically this is the only category I have no issues with.
You guys are selling Pirates! pretty short. I’d easily rate that as the funniest of all those. But then funny isn’t really a criteria, and Slappy and I are the only ones who watched it apparently.
Hey, what’s the haps on a Fuckstarter for J-Law and B-Coops? I’m still down hot a hundo if somebody can guarantee me OnDemand rights.
I’m still in.
$150 for the couple from Amour, if it includes subtitles.
Weak ass year. Slumdog/Crash-like in its awfulness.
on point
The expanded category really makes it look worse. And it says something about the year that only 9 movies got nominated.
Eight, unless you count Beasts of the Southern Wild.
I think it’s a sign of my getting old that I haven’t seen any of these films and yet I hate all of them.
I’m way behind this year on seeing the contending films. I’m also not very excited about several of them. Lincoln, Les Miserables, and Argo are the only ones I haven’t seen but would like to. Gonna be hard to do as I’m in between girlfriends.
A lot of this seems pretty predictable, but I’ll say that Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance in Django is underrated. I love Christoph Waltz, but DiCaprio was amazing. He had one of those transformative performances where I forgot who I was watching. I want to see him only in bad guy roles from now on.
Here’s how I see it going down:
Best Picture: Argo
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams
Best Director: Ang Li
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain
All the rest of the awards are irrelevant. This is Hollywood’s way of telling Steven Spielberg, dude, enough making “serious” movies. we get that you occasionally get great performances out of certain actors (Lewis here) but You were responsible for Indian Jones and the Kingdom of Shia LaBoufe’s CGI Monkey Orgy, so really, cut the shit.
Spielberg needs to make more movies like Munich. We all know he’s an amazing director, but he can be a little gutless. Most of his movies are simplistic, morally with the line between right and wrong, good guy and bad guys being pretty clear.
Replace Argo with Lincoln because the Academy isn’t smart enough to go with anything but the obvious choice.
Those guys going up against Daniel Day-Lewis might as well not even show up for the ceremony.
Huge Jackman shouldn’t even be in the “actor” category.
ZING!
First Sergio Busquets gets overlooked for the FIFA XI and now this.
hahahaha, a football-related comment on filmdrunk? Well, that must be a first! :P
And don’t get me started on Philip Lahm’s omission.
an all la liga FIFA XI is bullshit! Swap out Xabi Alonso for Pirlo at least dammit! And both fullbacks for Lahm and Ashley Cole!
WWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEE the fuck is Sam Jackson from Django? I DEMAND A RECOUNT. OUTRAGE. SHAME ON YE OLD WRINKLY BASTARDS
SHAME! Waltz was good, but one of the least interesting parts in the film. Sam Jackson was throwing A-game.
Seriously irritated that PT Anderson and Tarantino weren’t up for best director and mildly irritated that the Dark Knight Rises got no love.
Vince was right about Beasts. Just excruciating and fuck him for spelling his name Benh.
DKR deserves no love. It’s the rare big-budget-effects blockbuster which doesn’t even qualify for technical awards, since a) it’s visual effects and costumes were mediocre, and b) Christopher Nolan decided to say “fuck you” to people with normal hearing by first garbling Bane then redubbing him to a level completely out of sync with the rest of the scene (I believe Vince referred to it as “spite editing”). It was a barely adequate movie with an epically dumb script and none of the flashing lights and shiny things which normally distract people like me.
EM, I think you’d find most people disagree. I feel like the Heinz Field scene was worth the best VFX nod alone. And I definitely think it should have been involved in the best cinematography discussion
The Pittsburgh Batman Football field implosion scene was about as bad as CGI effects get. Terrible. Just Awful/ The only thing worse in recent history that I can remember is most of the effects in Die Another Day.
Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever had better visual effects than that scene even with all the neon and West Side Story choreography..
I accept that I’m just going to disagree with some people about TDKR, and that’s ok. But this is a little strong. The costumes were fine and Catwoman’s was great, it was an excellent upgrade in line with Nolan’s version of the characters. In Nolan’s movies, the characters actually have a reason for dressing the way they do, other than to look crazy. Catwoman and Scarecrow (not to mention Bane) has functional reasons for their outfits.
The utter lack of Batsuit or Catsuit Nipples is disappointing.
Affleck is *pissed* they said “Benh” but not “Affleck.”
Also, I watched Flight last night. Worst ending to a movie I have seen in years. It goes from quite decent/good to this is a bag of balls all on the strength of one scene.
Oddly enough, I watched Red Lights last night and thought the same thing.
Right? Worst fucking ending ever.
Contact was the worst ending ever. It was a decent movie, raised one sole interesting point (“Did all that really happen?”) then stupidly answered it.
Academy Award nominated Bradley Cooper. Sounds weird…
All I can picture is him in the lobby of the Theater where the Oscars are being held, in a Rugby Jersey, taunting the other nominees like his character in Wedding Crashers. LAX-Bros being nominated for Oscars. This thing is like a fucking participation trophy at this point.
Cher won an Oscar. After that, nothing seems that weird anymore.
FACT: Looper got robbed and Silver Linings Playbook is WILDLY overrated….wildly.
The first half of Looper got robbed.
The second half robbed itself.
Even with its faults towards the end, it should’ve AT LEAST gotten a Best Original Screenplay nod over Flight. I mean, thats just absurd.
Agreed and agreed.
Stay lame, Oscars.
Sigh. So the little sassy kid from Beasts get nominated for acting like a little sassy kid. Such range! Please reward her Oscar!
This is the Oscariest list in quite some time. Arguably Zero Dark Thirty and Django are the only ones not saying “I’M A FUCKING OSCAR MOVIE”
Prometheus has more right to be on this list than some of these movies. At least it tried to be challenging, all the while being mentally challenged at the same time.
Prometheus. LOL. Stop it.
Nobody is going to comment on McConaughey’s snub?
He wasn’t acting, so he’s not eligible.
hasn’t this site spent enough time polishing McConaughey’s nub?
Ha ha as if there’s “enough” time. Oh Underball. Oh, you.
The song snub for “Ladies of Tampa” is unconscionable.
I can’t believe they wouldn’t want sleeveless-tuxedo McConaughey at that show?!
Snow White was a documentary short? Or was that a back-door dwarf joke?
my top 3 of what I’ve seen this year
Argo
Looper
Skyfall
At least The Master got some love with the actor nods.
None of them are going to win, but at least they’re mentioned.
No Stairway? Denied!
It’s ridiculous that Hawkes wasn’t nominated for The Sessions but Denzel was.
You know good and goddamn well if it were a bigger star playing a handicapped person it would waltz to this award.
This post reminds me of Eddie Murphy’s “Buck the Wonder Slave” tirade in Bowfinger.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Maybe Hawkes’s problem was that he did it so well, with so much humor, that it almost looked easy. J.Hawkes the future!
The Director category is some bullshit
Kathryn Bigelow is going to call in a covert strike on the Academy. Some BULLshit.
She can get Burt Macklain on the case!
For some reason Aaron Sele also received a single vote for ‘Best Actor’
The Raid was snubbed! Boring ass Ted got a nomination but they couldn’t eke out a single nomination for 21 Jump Street? Bullshit!
But the biggest letdown was seeing that Emma Stone now looks like a freaky skeleton with a creepy goblin face. Somebody make that girl eat something. Andrew Garfield’s reign of ruining things continues.
Absolutely true about Emma Stone, she looked gross today.
Disagree with most people saying this is a crappy list, or a crappy year, or somesuch somethingorother.
I think…
the Sessions shoulda got a Best Picture nod.
John Hawkes shoulda got a little recognition in the Acting category.
Sam Jackson over Waltz in Django for sure.
Outta the directors, I would have loved to see Ben Affleck + Bigelow wiggle in there, though I haven’t seen Amour, Beasts, or Silver Linings.
The biggest thing that strikes me with this list. Why is Zero Dark Thirty an original screenplay, but Lincoln is an adaptation? Why is one “based on actual events” original, and the other “based on actual events” not? Visual effects will probably go to Prometheus. Sacrifice should’ve been on the foreign list (it’s pretty slow in the middle, but its still interesting enough for the Academy to eat that type of shit up). And finally, I don’t know what the fuck type of criteria would go into “best editing”. Sounds like that’s just an extension of best picture.
Because Lincoln is based on a book (Team of Rivals). With ZDT, Boal, while drawing on plenty of investigative journalism, started with the screenplay.
I figured as much, but it still sounds kind of funny that a screenplay based on an account of true events is considered more unoriginal than a screenplay based on an investigation of true events. If I had to choose one though, I’d say ZDT shouldn’t belong in original. Even though there’s nothing new under sun, I’d rather an award for creativity go to someone who created elements (or arranged them in a new way) than to someone who structured it around real life events. Prometheus, for instance, is a much better example of an original work. I’m not saying the individual elements of the story are stronger, but they’re more original.
Michael Haneke is 1 of only like 5 currently working directors whose work I anticipate more than anything, so it’s nice to see him get some love.
Not that anyone cares, but the other 4 are Lars Von Trier, Guy Maddin, Werner Herzog, and Quentin Tarintino.
I expected big things from Amour, but it was seriously overrated. The fact that this list doesn’t include the words “The Hunt” or “Mads Mikkelsen” is a travesty
The Danish Film Academy can only suggest one film for nomination as Best Foreign Film, and they went with A Royal Affair (a period costume drama – incidentally also with Mads Mikkelsen in the lead) over The Hunt or A Hijacking.
The Danish Film Academy are idiots. Or, more specifically, they know that the American Academy are idiots and therefore more likely to go for a costume drama than a film about falsely accusing someone of child abuse.
No argument there.
I’m just excited for the show. Four and a half hours of Seth MacFarlane in the Silver Linings sweatsuit doing the same joke about Daniel Day-Lewis hunting Draculas sounds like a blast!
Why is Silver Linings Playbook getting all this awards love? All love and respect to Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t it just some RomCom?
I had wanted to get some friends together for an Oscar party but after seeing that list of nominees. I just don’t care. What a waste? How do you leave ‘The Master’ off of best picture?
Beasts of the Southern Wild sounds like a pixar film about crabs in a bushy vag.