85th Academy Award Nominations – LINCOLN Leads With 12 Nods

By Movie Geeks | January 10, 2013

Contributors: Michelle McCue and Melissa Thompson

It was a morning of Oscar surprises – both shocking and welcomed. Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards® were announced today (Thursday, January 10) by this year’s Oscar host (and nominee) Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone. Minus the usual podium, MacFarlane and Stone humorously unveiled the nominees at a 5:38 a.m. PT live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives. WAMG and the various outlets were greeted with a golden breakfast, strong coffee and Jamba Juice.

Let’s get right to it. Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln scored the most nominations with 12, followed by Life of Pi with 11, and Les Misérables and Silver Linings Playbook at 8 apiece.

The nominees for best motion picture of the year are:

• “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 Misérables” 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

While Beasts of the Southern Wild nomination was well deserved, the hopes of many presumed nominees abruptly came to an end.

Kathryn Bigelow and Tom Hooper – both DGA nominees – being passed over in Best Director category was unfortunate (best pictures don’t direct themselves), but the biggest diss of the day was not hearing Ben Affleck’s name. Thought by some to be a shoo-in, the same thing happened to another Director Guild nominee in 1995 when Apollo 13 director, Ron Howard, was left off the Academy’s nomination list but then went onto win the DGA award. On the Today show this morning, even Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper conceded the Argo director “was robbed.”

Sadly John Hawkes was also robbed of a nod in the Best Actor category and no love from the Academy voters for Leonardo DiCaprio in the Supporting category. Our favorite animated film, Rise of the Guardians, was absent from the Best Animated category. While Lincoln is the favorite for gold, our pick for the dark horse to win the Big Award is the emotional Les Misérables. Last musical nommed for best picture was Chicago (2002 75th).

For those keeping track it was a good morning for Silver Linings Playbook. It is the first film to receive nominations for Best Picture, Directing, Writing and all four acting categories since Reds (1981). Amour saw 2 nominations. It is the fifth film to be nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film. The others were Z, which won the Foreign Language Film award in 1969; The Emigrants, a Foreign Language Film nominee in 1971 and a Best Picture nominee in 1972; Life Is Beautiful, which won the Foreign Language Film award in 1998; and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Foreign Language Film winner in 2000.

At 85 years old, Emmanuelle Riva becomes the oldest Best Actress nominee. Nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis becomes the youngest Best Actress nominee. This marks the first time since the earliest Awards that records for the oldest and youngest nominees in a single acting category have been set in the same year. The oldest nominee across all the acting categories remains Gloria Stuart, who was 87 when she received a Supporting Actress nomination for Titanic (1997). The youngest acting nominee overall is Justin Henry, who was eight years old when he received a Supporting Actor nomination for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).

We spoke with KTLA entertainment reporter Sam Rubin right after the nominations and he remarked, “No surprises in my book.”

Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook”
• Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln”
• Hugh Jackman in “Les Misérables”
• Joaquin Phoenix in “The Master”
• Denzel Washington in “Flight”

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 Misérables”
• 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

Achievement in cinematography

• “Anna Karenina” Seamus McGarvey
• “Django Unchained” Robert Richardson
• “Life of Pi” Claudio Miranda
• “Lincoln” Janusz Kaminski
• “Skyfall” Roger Deakins

Achievement in costume design

• “Anna Karenina” Jacqueline Durran
• “Les Misérables” Paco Delgado
• “Lincoln” Joanna Johnston
• “Mirror Mirror” Eiko Ishioka
• “Snow White and the Huntsman” Colleen Atwood

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

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

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 Misérables”
  Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

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 Misérables”
  Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

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 Misérables” 
  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

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 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

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

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

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

In the acting categories, four individuals are first-time nominees (Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman, Emmanuelle Riva, Quvenzhané Wallis). Nine of the nominees, including all of the Supporting Actor nominees, are previous acting winners (Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Alan Arkin, Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tommy Lee Jones, Christoph Waltz, Sally Field, Helen Hunt). Jessica Chastain is the only one of this year’s acting nominees who was also nominated last year. She received a Supporting Actress nomination for The Help.

Emmanuelle Riva’s nominated performance in Amour is in French. Five performers have won Academy Awards for roles using spoken languages other than English. They are Sophia Loren (1961, Actress in Two Women), Robert De Niro (1974, Supporting Actor in The Godfather Part II), Roberto Benigni (1998, Actor in Life Is Beautiful), Benicio Del Toro (2000, Supporting Actor in Traffic) and Marion Cotillard (2007, Actress in La Vie en Rose). In addition, Marlee Matlin received the 1986 Best Actress award for a performance almost entirely in American Sign Language.

Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg share the record for the most Best Picture nominations for individual producers with eight each. With his Best Picture nomination for Argo, George Clooney joins Warren Beatty as the only individuals to have competitive nominations for Best Picture, directing, writing and acting.

John Williams has more nominations than any other living person, extending his lead with 48 (the only person with more is Walt Disney at 59). Woody Allen has the second-highest number of nominations among living persons at 23. Williams also extends his record for the most music scoring nominations with 43. Michael Kahn is now the most-nominated film editor, having received his eighth nomination this year. Thomas Newman’s nomination for Original Score for Skyfall is his eleventh and brings the total for members of the Newman family (Alfred, Lionel, Emil, Thomas, David and Randy) to 87, more than any other family. With his Original Screenplay nomination for Moonrise Kingdom, Roman Coppola becomes the sixth member of the extended Coppola family (Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Talia Shire, Nicolas Cage and Sofia Coppola) to receive a nomination, for a family total of 24.

Best Picture Release Dates:

Beasts of the Southern Wild – June 27, 2012
Argo – October 12, 2012
Lincoln – November 9, 2012
Silver Linings Playbook – November 16, 2012
Life of Pi – November 21, 2012
Amour – December 19, 2012
Zero Dark Thirty – December 19, 2012
Les Misérables – December 24, 2012
Django Unchained – December 25, 2012

NOMINATIONS BY PICTURE –

(This list does not include Short Films or Documentary Short Subjects.)

“Amour,” a Les Films du Losange/X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film Production (Sony Pictures Classics) (5 nominations)
Emmanuelle Riva – Performance by an actress in a leading role
Directing
Best foreign language film (Austria)
Best picture
Original screenplay

“Anna Karenina,” a Working Title Films Production (Focus Features) (4 nominations)
Cinematography
Costume design
Original score
Production design

“Argo,” a Stage 16 Pictures Production (Warner Bros.) (7 nominations)
Alan Arkin – Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Film editing
Original score
Best picture
Sound editing
Sound mixing
Adapted screenplay

“Beasts of the Southern Wild,” a Cinereach and Court 13 Production (Fox Searchlight) (4 nominations)
Quvenzhané Wallis – Performance by an actress in a leading role
Directing
Best picture
Adapted screenplay

“Brave,” a Pixar Animation Studios Production (Walt Disney) (1 nomination)
Best animated feature film

“Chasing Ice,” an Exposure Production (Submarine Deluxe) (1 nomination)
Original song – “Before My Time”

“Django Unchained,” a Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures Production (The Weinstein Company) (5 nominations)
Christoph Waltz – Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Cinematography
Best picture
Sound editing
Original screenplay

“5 Broken Cameras,” a Guy DVD Films/Burnat Films Palestine Production (Kino Lorber) (1 nomination)
Documentary feature

“Flight,” a Paramount Pictures Production (Paramount) (2 nominations)
Denzel Washington – Performance by an actor in a leading role
Original screenplay

“Frankenweenie,” a Walt Disney Pictures Production (Walt Disney) (1 nomination)
Best animated feature film

“The Gatekeepers,” a Les Films du Poisson/Dror Moreh/Cinephil Production (Sony Pictures Classics) (1 nomination)
Documentary feature

“Hitchcock,” a Montecito Picture Company/Barnette/Thayer Production (Fox Searchlight) (1 nomination)
Makeup and hairstyling

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” a New Line and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Production (Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (3 nominations)
Makeup and hairstyling
Production design
Visual effects

“How to Survive a Plague,” a How to Survive a Plague Production (Sundance Selects) (1 nomination)
Documentary feature

“The Impossible,” an Apaches Entertainment/Telecinco Cinema in association with La Trini, CANAL +, ICAA, IVAC and Generalitat Valenciana Production (Summit Entertainment and Mediaset España) (1 nomination)
Naomi Watts – Performance by an actress in a leading role

“The Invisible War,” a Chain Camera Pictures Production (Cinedigm/Docurama Films) (1 nomination)
Documentary feature

“Kon-Tiki,” a Nordisk Film Production (The Weinstein Company) (1 nomination)
Best foreign language film (Norway)

“Les Misérables,” a Universal Pictures and Working Title Production (Universal) (8 nominations)
Hugh Jackman – Performance by an actor in a leading role
Anne Hathaway – Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Costume design
Makeup and hairstyling
Original song – “Suddenly”
Best picture
Production design
Sound mixing

“Life of Pi,” a Fox 2000 Pictures Production (20th Century Fox) (11 nominations)
Cinematography
Directing
Film editing
Original score
Original song – “Pi’s Lullaby”
Best picture
Production design
Sound editing
Sound mixing
Visual effects
Adapted screenplay

“Lincoln,” a DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production (Walt Disney/20th Century Fox) (12 nominations)
Daniel Day-Lewis – Performance by an actor in a leading role
Tommy Lee Jones – Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Sally Field – Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Cinematography
Costume design
Directing
Film editing
Original score
Best picture
Production design
Sound mixing
Adapted screenplay

“Marvel’s The Avengers,” a Marvel Studios Production (Walt Disney) (1 nomination)
Visual effects

“The Master,” a Ghoulardi Film Company/Annapurna Pictures Production (The Weinstein Company) (3 nominations)
Joaquin Phoenix – Performance by an actor in a leading role
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Amy Adams – Performance by an actress in a supporting role

“Mirror Mirror,” a Goldmann Pictures/Relativity Media/RAT Entertainment/Misher Films Production (Relativity Media) (1 nomination)
Costume design

“Moonrise Kingdom,” an Indian Paintbrush Production (Focus Features) (1 nomination)
Original screenplay

“No,” a Fabula Production (Sony Pictures Classics) (1 nomination)
Best foreign language film (Chile)

“ParaNorman,” a LAIKA Production (Focus Features) (1 nomination)
Best animated feature film

“The Pirates! Band of Misfits,” a Columbia and Sony Pictures Animation Production (Sony Pictures Releasing) (1 nomination)
Best animated feature film

“Prometheus,” a 20th Century Fox Production (20th Century Fox) (1 nomination)
Visual effects

“A Royal Affair,” a Zentropa Production (Magnolia Pictures) (1 nomination)
Best foreign language film (Denmark)

“Searching for Sugar Man,” a Red Box Films and Passion Pictures in association with Canfield Pictures Production (Sony Pictures Classics)(1 nomination)
Documentary feature

“The Sessions,” a Such Much Films/Rhino Films Production (Fox Searchlight) (1 nomination)
Helen Hunt – Performance by an actress in a supporting role

“Silver Linings Playbook,” a Weinstein Company Production (The Weinstein Company) (8 nominations)
Bradley Cooper – Performance by an actor in a leading role
Robert De Niro – Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Jennifer Lawrence – Performance by an actress in a leading role
Jacki Weaver – Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Directing
Film editing
Best picture
Adapted screenplay

“Skyfall,” an Eon Productions Ltd./Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures Production (Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (5 nominations)
Cinematography
Original score
Original song – “Skyfall”
Sound editing
Sound mixing

“Snow White and the Huntsman,” a Universal Pictures Production (Universal) (2 nominations)
Costume design
Visual effects

“Ted,” a Media Rights Capital Production (Universal) (1 nomination)
Original song – “Everybody Needs A Best Friend”

“War Witch,” an Item 7 Production (Tribeca Film) (1 nomination)
Best foreign language film (Canada)

“Wreck-It Ralph,” a Walt Disney Animation Studios Production (Walt Disney) (1 nomination)
Best animated feature film

“Zero Dark Thirty,” a Columbia Pictures Production (Sony Pictures Releasing) (5 nominations)
Jessica Chastain – Performance by an actress in a leading role
Film editing
Best picture
Sound editing
Original screenplay

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™ at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

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