This morning, at 5:38 AM PST the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 2013 Oscar nominations. Making the announcement will be the show’s host, Seth MacFarlane, and Emma Stone and there were certainly a few surprises.
I’m sure the one that will have people scratching their heads more than any other is the nomination for Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild) over both Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) and Ben Affleck (Argo) for Best Director. If you ask me, it’s a travesty of an oversight, but I’ll get into that a bit more in my reaction piece, which will also be touching on the fact The Intouchables somehow misses out on a Foreign Language nomination.
Looking over my predictions, I went 80 for 107 (74.7%) and only got the Visual Effects category 100% correct. My worst category, surprisingly (to me at least), was Best Director where I only got two of the five nominees correct as the Academy went with Michael Haneke, Zeitlin and David O. Russell instead of Bigelow, Affleck and Tom Hooper (Les Miserables). I’ll have a little more on that, however, in my reaction piece, which I am working on right now.
Lincoln led the way with 12 nominations, followed closely by Life of Pi with 11. Here’s the nomination count breakdown:
- Lincoln – 12 nominations
- Life of Pi – 11 nominations
- Les Mis̩rables Р8 nominations
- Silver Linings Playbook – 8 nominations
- Argo – 7 nominations
- Amour – 5 nominations
- Django Unchained – 5 nominations
- Skyfall – 5 nominations
- Zero Dark Thirty – 5 nominations
- Anna Karenina – 4 nominations
- Beasts of the Southern Wild – 4 nominations
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – 3 nominations
- The Master – 3 nominations
- Flight – 2 nominations
- Snow White and the Huntsman – 2 nominations
I’ll be adding more information to this article, but for now, the complete list of 2013 Oscar nominees is directly below.
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Lincoln
- Les Misérables
- Life of Pi
- Amour
- Django Unchained
- Argo
- Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
- Denzel Washington (Flight)
- Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables)
- Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
- Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
- Naomi Watts (The Impossible)
- Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
- Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
- Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)
- Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
- Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
- Phillip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
- Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook)
- Alan Arkin (Argo)
- Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
- Sally Field (Lincoln)
- Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
- Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook)
- Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
- Amy Adams (The Master)
- David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
- Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
- Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
- Michael Haneke (Amour)
- Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
- Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
- Chris Terrio (Argo)
- Tony Kushner (Lincoln)
- David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
- David Magee (Life of Pi)
- John Gatins (Flight)
- Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)
- Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
- Michael Haneke (Amour)
- Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)
- Anna Karenina (Seamus McGarvey)
- Django Unchained (Robert Richardson)
- Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)
- Lincoln (Janusz Kaminski)
- Skyfall (Roger Deakins)
- Dario Marianelli (Anna Karenina)
- Alexandre Desplat (Argo)
- Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)
- John Williams (Lincoln)
- Thomas Newman (Skyfall)
- “Before My Time” from Chasing Ice
- “Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi
- “Suddenly” from Les Misérables
- “Everybody Needs a Best Friend” from Ted
- “Skyfall” from Skyfall
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Life of Pi
- Marvel’s The Avengers
- Prometheus
- Snow White and the Huntsman
- Inocente
- Kings Point
- Mondays at Racine
- Open Heart
- Redemption
- Adam and Dog
- Fresh Guacamole
- Head over Heels
- Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”
- Paperman
- Asad
- Buzkashi Boys
- Curfew
- Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
- Henry
I will have my reaction piece written soon, but for now let your opinion known in the comments and in the poll below.
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The Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood and Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.
