MacFarlane and Stone announced the nominees at a 5:38 a.m. PT live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives. For a complete list of nominees, visit the official Academy Awards website, www.oscar.com.
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.
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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- "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
- "Anna Karenina" Seamus McGarvey
- "Django Unchained" Robert Richardson
- "Life of Pi" Claudio Miranda
- "Lincoln" Janusz Kaminski
- "Skyfall" Roger Deakins
- "Anna Karenina" Jacqueline Durran
- "Les Misérables" Paco Delgado
- "Lincoln" Joanna Johnston
- "Mirror Mirror" Eiko Ishioka
- "Snow White and the Huntsman" Colleen Atwood
- "Amour" Michael Haneke
- "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Benh Zeitlin
- "Life of Pi" Ang Lee
- "Lincoln" Steven Spielberg
- "Silver Linings Playbook" David O. Russell
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"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
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"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
- "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
- "Amour" Austria
- "Kon-Tiki" Norway
- "No" Chile
- "A Royal Affair" Denmark
- "War Witch" Canada
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"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
- "Anna Karenina" Dario Marianelli
- "Argo" Alexandre Desplat
- "Life of Pi" Mychael Danna
- "Lincoln" John Williams
- "Skyfall" Thomas Newman
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"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
- "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
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"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
- "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
- "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
- "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
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"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
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"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
- "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
- "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
