Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Best Director
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Original Screenplay
Amour, Michael Hanake
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
Flight, John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal

Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo, Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin,
Life of Pi, David Magee
Lincoln, Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

Best Animated Feature:
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Cinematography
Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained, Robert Richardson
Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins

Best Costume Design
Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood

Best Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man

Best Documentary Short
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption

Best 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

Best Foreign Language Film
Amour, Austria
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
War Witch, Canada

Best 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

Best Original Score
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas Newman

Best 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 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
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head over Heels
Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”
Paperman

Best Live Action Short
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death of a Shadow
Henry

Best 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

Best 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

Best 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
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

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The world's gene pool could use a little more chlorine.

Affleck, Bigelow snubbed for best director....just plain robbed

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The world's gene pool could use a little more chlorine.

+1. Must have forgotten to bribe the academy.

They need to make a Breasts of the Southern Wild porn parody.

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Best Picture nominees BLOW! A few of those artsy movies no one ever heard of AGAIN! Fuck Hollywood.

Skyfall should have been nominated. They figure throwing in a 007 salute is good enough.

Avengers gets one nomination? BS

Batman getting ignored? I might agree more with this,but it's still a better movie than most of the crap I've seen in 2012.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Plus for adapted screenplay The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Critics could say nothing wrong about it.
I mean the morons at the Academy don't like "Comic Book" Movies but Dark Knight was a lot more than that. While Avengers was just a great movie it was still not too serious a movie. Dark Knight had some deep meanings and messages about society.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I thought Silver Linings PLaybook was a typical lame chick flick, was I wrong?

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I think it was the mental health aspect of it that made it more than just a chick flick.

That and Jennifer Lawrence's boobies

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Just like every year, these nominations fill me with an overwhelming sense of not giving a fuck.

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How can you have a movie nominated for Best Picture and not have the director nominated? That is basically saying that the movie was good in spite of the director. That it was such an easy movie to make and shoot, that a director was basically just added because someone needed to say "action".

Because they can nominate up to 10 movies for Best Picture now but can only nominate 5 directors.

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Math.

Only five directors got nominated. Nine films got nominated for best picture. At least four had to be left off.

I didnt realize Lipid's hatred of me ran so deep.

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But, couldn't it then end up that the winner for Best Picture did not have its director even nominated?

Sure. I guess you seem to have a problem with that possible outcome. I really don't care. A director is important, sure, but the best director doesn't equate to the best film.

I usually watch just to look at the cleavage.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

As for snubs, I can't really comment too much, since I've only seen one of the nine films nominated for Best Picture.

That being said, I would have ranked Moonrise Kingdom above Life of Pi...heck, depending on the mood I'm in, I could argue for Flight over Life of Pi too.

Just seems silly to me. It would seem to me that the director is responsible for the filmography, the sets, the acting, the music, the editing, ect. If a movie wins best picture, then the director must have done a fantastic job.

Then again, who really gives a fuck. Watching a bunch of snooty pricks give themselves awards for two months makes me want to puke.

YEAH!!!


Who won poster of the year?

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Damn, you just put a lot of set designers, actors, composers, editors, etc. out of work with that last post.

I get what you are saying...but to compare it to sports, it'd be like saying the MVP can only come from the team that wins the title every year...there is likely someone who did a better job on one of the other teams that, for some reason, didn't win.