Lincoln dominates in the 2013 Oscar Nominations

It’s award show time! The Golden Globes are this Sunday and the Academy Awards have put out their nominations.

Lincoln is the movie to beat with 12 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Adapted Screenplay. Other nominees for Best Picture include Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty. Surprisingly, Moonrise Kingdom barely received any Oscar nods, including missing out on Best Picture which was deemed a sure thing by critics.

Clearly, the Academy wants to shake things up this year. Notably, neither Ben Affleck (Argo) nor Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) received Best Director nominations. Of the nominees, only Spielberg was expected to be there.

Best Actor is more in line with expectations, putting up Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables), Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln), and Denzel Washington (Flight). Best Actress has both the youngest and oldest nominees, Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) at 9 with Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) at 85. Jennifer Lawrence has her second Oscar nomination in three years with Silver Linings Playbook.

For Canadians this is a good year as well. Life of Pi is based off a Canadian book by Yann Martel. Mychael Danna, the Toronto-based composer, has two nominations for Life of Pi (Original Song and Original Score) and for the third year running Canadians find themselves in the Foreign Film category. This year, Rebelle (War Witch) is nominated against Amour from Austria which has four other nominations.

Read more for a full list of the 2013 Academy Award nominations.

Picture:

• Amour
• Argo
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Django Unchained
• Les Misérables
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Zero Dark Thirty

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

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

Original Screenplay

• Amour
• Django Unchained
• Flight
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Zero Dark Thirty

Adapted Screenplay

• Argo
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Silver Linings Playbook

Foreign Language Film

• Amour (Austria)
• Kon-Tiki (Norway)
• No (Chile)
• A Royal Affair (Denmark)
• War Witch (Canada)

Animated Feature

• Brave
• Frankenweenie
• ParaNorman
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits
• Wreck-It Ralph

Sound Editing

• Argo
• Django Unchained
• Life of Pi
• Skyfall
• Zero Dark Thirty

Visual Effects

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Life of Pi
• Marvel’s The Avengers
• Prometheus
• Snow White and the Huntsman

Film Editing:

• Argo
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Zero Dark Thirty

Short Film, Animated

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

Short Film, Live Action

• Asad
• Buzkashi Boys
• Curfew
• Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
• Henry

Documentary Short Subject

• Inocente
• Kings Point
• Mondays at Racine
• Open Heart
• Redemption

Original Score

• Anna Karenina
• Argo
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Skyfall

Original Song

• Before My Time (Chasing Ice)
• Everybody Needs a Best Friend (Ted)
• Pi’s Lullaby (Life of Pi)
• Skyfall (Skyfall)
• Suddenly (Les Misérables)

Production Design

• Anna Karenina
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Les Misérables
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln

Cinematography

• Anna Karenina
• Django Unchained
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Skyfall

Costume Design

• Anna Karenina
• Les Misérables
• Lincoln
• Mirror Mirror
• Snow White and the Huntsman

Makeup:

• Hitchcock
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Les Misérables

Documentary Feature:

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

Sound Mixing:

• Argo
• Les Misérables
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Skyfall

Check back on Monday for a recap of the Golden Globe awards and what this means for the Oscars. The Oscars are on February 24th, so check back closer to the show for a printable ballot that you can fill out!

Did you notice any Oscar snubs or do you like the nominations? Who do you think will win?