Lincoln leads with 12 Oscar nominations, including best adapted screenplay by Tony Kushner (playwright of “Angels in America”). Les Miserables, the movie of the stage musical, snagged eight nominations (the fourth highest number of nominations).

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BEST PICTURE

• Amour
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• Argo
  Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
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• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
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• Django Unchained
  Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
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• Les Misérables
  Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
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• Life of Pi
  Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
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• Lincoln
  Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
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• Silver Linings Playbook
  Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
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• Zero Dark Thirty
  Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers
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• BEST LEAD ACTOR

• • 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

    BEST LEAD 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:

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

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

    Sally Field, Lincoln

    Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

    Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

    Helen Hunt, The Sessions

    Amy Adams, The Master

    BEST DIRECTOR:

    David O’Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

    Ang Lee, Life of Pi

    Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

    Michael Haneke, Amour

  • BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
    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. RussellBEST 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

• OTHER NOMINATION CATEGORIES

• Best animated feature film of the year
  Brave
  Frankenweenie
  ParaNorman
  The Pirates! Band of Misfits
  Wreck-It RalphAchievement in cinematography
  Anna Karenina Seamus McGarvey
  Django Unchained Robert Richardson
  Life of Pi Claudio Miranda
  Lincoln Janusz Kaminski
  Skyfall Roger DeakinsAchievement in costume design
  Anna Karenina Jacqueline Durran
  Les Misérables Paco Delgado
  Lincoln Joanna Johnston
  Mirror Mirror Eiko Ishioka
  Snow White and the Huntsman Colleen AtwoodBest documentary feature
  5 Broken Cameras
  The Gatekeepers
  How to Survive a Plague
  The Invisible War
  Searching for Sugar ManBest documentary short subject
  Inocente
  Kings Point
  Mondays at Racine
  Open Heart
  Redemption

  Achievement in 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 of the year
  Amour (Austria)
  Kon-Tiki (Norway)
  No (Chile)
  A Royal Affair (Denmark)
  War Witch (Canada)

  Achievement in 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

  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
  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 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 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

  Achievement in 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
  SkyfallScott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

  Achievement in 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
  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

Best animated short nominee Fresh Guacamole