Steven Spielberg’s period drama about Abraham Lincoln’s noble quest to emancipate the slaves looms largest in the 2013 Oscar picture with 12 nominations.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science announced the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards Thursday, and they featured a few surprises. Chief among them: No directing noms for Ben Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow, Quentin Tarantino or Tom Hooper, all four seemingly locks with distinctive directing styles and lavishly praised films.
See below for a near-complete list of the 2013 Oscar nominees:
Best Picture
“Amour”
“Argo”
“Beasts of the Southern Wild”
“Django Unchained”
“Les Misérables”
“Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”
“Silver Linings Playbook”
“Zero Dark Thirty”
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”
Quvenzhané 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”
Animated Feature
“Brave”
“Frankenweenie”
“ParaNorman”
“The Pirates! Band of Misfits”
“Wreck-It Ralph”
Cinematography
“Anna Karenina”
Seamus McGarvey
“Django Unchained”
Robert Richardson
“Life of Pi”
Claudio Miranda
“Lincoln”
Janusz Kaminski
“Skyfall”
Roger Deakins
Best Adapted Screenplay
“Argo”
Written by Chris Terrio
“Beasts of the Southern Wild”
Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
“Life of Pi”
Written by David Magee
“Lincoln”
Written by Tony Kushner
“Silver Linings Playbook”
Written by David O. Russell
Best 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
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
Foreign Language Film
“Amour”
Austria
“Kon-Tiki”
Norway
“No”
Chile
“A Royal Affair”
Denmark
“War Witch”
Canada
Best Documentary Feature
“5 Broken Cameras”
“The Gatekeepers”
“How to Survive a Plague”
“The Invisible War”
“Searching for Sugar Man”
