The Oscars 85th Academy Awards Nominees Announced

Leslie Cheung almost 12 years ago

The full list of nominations for the Oscars 85th Academy Awards which will take place on Sunday February 24 (US time; February 25 Hong Kong time) at Dolby Theatre.

Best motion picture of the year

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

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

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Alan Arkin in Argo
• Rober De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook
• Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master
• Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln
• Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• 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

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• 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

Best animated feature film of the year

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

Achievement in cinematography

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

Achievement in costume design

• Anna Karenina
• Les Misérables
• Lincoln
• Mirror, Mirror
• Snow White And The Huntsman

Achievement in 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

Best documentary feature

• 5 Broken Cameras
• The Gatekeepers
• How To Survive A Plague
• The Invisible War
• Searching For Sugar Man

Best documentary short subject

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

Achievement in film editing

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

Best foreign language film of the year

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

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

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

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• Anna Karenina
  Dario Marianelli
• Argo
  Alexandre Desplat
• Life Of Pi
  Mychael Danna
• Lincoln
  John Williams
• Skyfall
  Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (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

Achievement in production design

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

Best animated short film

• Adam And Dog
• Fresh Guacamole
• Head Over Heels
• Maggie Simpson In "The Longest Daycare"
• Paperman

Best live action short film

• Asad
• Buzkashi Boys
• Curfew
• Death Of A Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
• Henry

Achievement in sound editing

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

Achievement in sound mixing

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

Achievement in visual effects

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Life Of Pi
• Marvel's The Avengers
• Prometheus
• Snow White And The Huntsman

Adapted screenplay

• Argo
• Beasts Of The Southern Wild
• Life Of Pi
• Lincoln
• Silver Linings Playbook

Original screenplay

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

Photo by Greg Harbaugh / © A.M.P.A.S.