It’s the biggest show in town. The nominees for the 2013 Oscars (a.k.a. the Academy Awards) were announced in the wee hours of this morning. All the big names are present but there were a couple of surprises and snubs which keep things interesting – along with a rather amusing presentation by Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane.
Predictably Steven Spielberg‘s Lincoln and Ang Lee‘s Life of Pi lead the way, with 12 and 11 nominations respectively – and no snub for Spielberg as director, unlike at the BAFTAs. Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables, Argo and Django Unchained, which have all featured at other awards this season, also had strong showings. But despite a ten-strong Best Picture field Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master and Wes Anderson‘s Moonrise Kingdom missed out on selection for the big prize.
In huge snubs, Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), Ben Affleck (Argo), and Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) all missed out on Best Director noms – very surprising, especially for Bigelow and Affleck, given their strong showings to this point. There’s talk the depiction of torture in Zero Dark Thirty hurt Bigelow’s chances; but I find that strange given the film’s nominated for Best Picture and a bunch of other awards.
There were some very pleasant surprises though. Two of Admit One’s favourite gems from 2012, Ben Zeitlin‘s Beast of the Southern Wild and Michael Haneke‘s Amour, are up for big awards – Best Picture, Director and Actress in a Leading Role. Beasts is a huge surprise given it hasn’t really featured this awards season – despite fully deserving to. The two films will also make history at this year’s Oscars in the lead actress category, with Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) and Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts) being the oldest and youngest actresses ever nominated – 85 and 9 years old respectively. Both their performances were incredible. If it were up to me, they’d share the award.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey didn’t miss out completely, featuring in three “below the line” categories: Visual Effects, Makeup and Hairstyling, and Production Design. Not a huge surprise it didn’t get recognised for other awards, although I thought Neil Finn might sneak in for his end credit ditty.
Hosted by Seth MacFarlane (who was also nominated today!) the Oscars will be held on 25 February (NZT) at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Hopefully the show will go smoother than the new online nomination voting process – the deadline for which had to be extended due to technical issues. In some cases members of the Academy were forced to hand deliver their votes to HQ.
Here’s the full list of nominees for the 2013 Oscars:
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Best Picture:
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Directing:
Michael Haneke – Amour
Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Actor in a Leading Role:
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight
Actress in a Leading Role:
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible
Actor in a Supporting Role:
Alan Arkin – Argo
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Actress in a Supporting Role:
Amy Adams – The Master
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook
Writing (Adapted Screenplay):
Chris Terrio – Argo
Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
David Magee – Life of Pi
Tony Kushner – Lincoln
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Writing (Original Screenplay):
Michael Haneke – Amour
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
John Gatins – Flight
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal – Zero Dark Thirty
Foreign Language Film:
Amour (Austria)
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
No (Chile)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
War Witch (Canada)
Animated Feature Film:
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Music (Original Song):
“Before My Time” from Chasing Ice – J. Ralph
“Everybody Needs a Best Friend” from Ted – Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane
“Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi – Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri
“Skyfall” from Skyfall – Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
“Suddenly” from Les Misérables – Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Music (Original Score):
Dario Marianelli – Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat – Argo
Mychael Danna – Life of Pi
John Williams – Lincoln
Thomas Newman – Skyfall
Production Design:
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Cinematography:
Seamus McGarvey – Anna Karenina
Robert Richardson – Django Unchained
Claudio Miranda – Life of Pi
Janusz Kaminski – Lincoln
Roger Deakins – Skyfall
Film Editing:
William Goldenberg – Argo
Tim Squyres – Life of Pi
Michael Kahn – Lincoln
Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers – Silver Linings Playbook
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg – Zero Dark Thirty
Costume Design:
Jacqueline Durran – Anna Karenina
Paco Delgado – Les Misérables
Joanna Johnston – Lincoln
Eiko Ishioka – Mirror Mirror
Colleen Atwood – Snow White and the Huntsman
Makeup and Hairstyling:
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel – Hitchcock
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell – Les Misérables
Visual Effects:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman
Sound Editing:
Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn – Argo
Wylie Stateman – Django Unchained
Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton – Life of Pi
Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers – Skyfall
Paul N.J. Ottosson – Zero Dark Thirty
Sound Mixing:
Argo John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia – Argo
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes – Les Misérables
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin – Life of Pi
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins – Lincoln
Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson – Skyfall
Documentary Feature:
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man
Documentary Short Subject:
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption
Best Animated Short Film:
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head over Heels
Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”
Paperman
Live Action Short Film:
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
Henry
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So, obvious question time… whose gonna win?
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