2012 Oscar Nominations

While there seems to be a very large discrepancy between Best Picture nominees and Director nominees (Nothing for Affleck, Bigelow, Hooper, and Tarantino even though their films got a combined total of 25 nominations???), and a few other notable snubs (no Leonardo DiCaprio or Samuel L Jackson nomination for Django, only 1 nomination for The Avengers (visual effects), and zero nominations for Bernie, Dark Knight Rises), I am pleased with others- Waltz for Django, 7 noms for Argo, 5 for Skyfall-though nothing major.

Here is the full list of nominations followed by a handy scorecard for the amount of nominations for each film.

Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards



Performance by an actor in a leading role

•Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook”
•Daniel Day-Lewisin “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


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


Achievement in cinematography

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


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 foreign language film of the year

•“Amour” Austria
•“Kon-Tiki” Norway
•“No” Chile
•“A Royal Affair” Denmark
•“War Witch” Canada


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


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 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


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 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


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


12

LINCOLN


11

LIFE OF PI


8

LES MISERABLES
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK


7

ARGO


5

AMOUR
DJANGO UNCHAINED
SKYFALL
ZERO DARK THIRTY


4

ANNA KARENINA
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

3

MASTER
HOBBIT- UNEXPECTED JOURNEY

2

FLIGHT
SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN


SINGLE NOMINATIONS

AVENGERS
BRAVE
CHASING ICE
FRANKENWEENIE
HITCHCOCK
IMPOSSIBLE
MIRROR, MIRROR
MOONRISE KINGDOM
PARANORMAN
PIRATES- BAND OF MISFITS
PROMETHEUS
SESSIONS
TED
WRECK IT RALPH


FOREIGN

KON-TIKI
NO
ROYAL AFFAIR
WAR WITCH


DOCUMENTARY

5 BROKEN CAMERAS
GATEKEEPERS
HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
INVISIBLE WAR
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN

SHORT SUBJECTS

DOCS

INOCENTE
KINGS POINT
MONDAYS AT RACINE
OPEN HEART
REDEMPTION

ANIMATED

ADAM AND DOG
FRESH GUACAMOLE
HEAD OVER HEELS
LONGEST DAYCARE
PAPERMAN

LIVE ACTION

ASAD
BUZKASHI BOYS
CURFEW
DEATH OF A SHADOW
HENRY