Oscar nominees are in!

[split decision]

BEST PICTURE
Beasts of the Southern
Amour
Les Miserables
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts - The Impossible

Best Director
Michael Haneke (Amour)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
David O'Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Behn Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin - Argo
Robert DeNiro - Silver Linings Playbook
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

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

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


I think Lincoln gets Best pic and Best actor in a leading role for DDL's performance. Could be that Spielberg walks away with Best director too.

Leading actress to Jessica Chastain? I don't know anything about Amour or Beasts of the Southern Wild, so that one's hard to say.

Maybe Christoph Waltz pulls off best supporting actor?

Amy Adams is my pick for best supporting actress.

[Jackie]

I hope Christoph Waltz wins best supporting actor, too.

BTW, has anyone seen Silver Linings Playbook? I remember seeing the previews before a movie and thought it looked awful (just another typical romantic comedy)...and then the reviews on RT came out and everyone seems to be glowing about it and it's still sitting at 90% approval.

We will probably watch Lincoln and/or Zero Dark Thirty this weekend (thanks screeners!)

[telerion]

Beasts of the Southern Wild was fantastic. The little girl from that movie definitely deserves her nomination. The person who played her father should probably have been nominated for best supporting actor.

Haven't seen the others although my younger brother hated Zero Dark Thirty. He described it as slow and incomprehensible. I take that to mean that the movie has a rich plot and compelling characters.

[Spectre]

He described it as slow and incomprehensible. I take that to mean that the movie has a rich plot and compelling characters.

Nah, it really wasn't anything special, even with the bad politics aside.

[BulldogWrestler]

I saw Zero Dark Thirty and liked it. Nothing too special about the movie though. I wasn't blown away by it.

Buddy of mine saw it and hated it, but he's really into politics so I'm guessing that will ruin the movie for a lot of people.

[Spectre]

I saw Zero Dark Thirty and liked it. Nothing too special about the movie though. I wasn't blown away by it.

Buddy of mine saw it and hated it, but he's really into politics so I'm guessing that will ruin the movie for a lot of people.

Part of it is that the movie tries to be a documentary, but at the same time butchers some facts. So what you get is, those who want facts feel angry, and those who want a good action movie feel bored.

[spasgur]

Of all those movies I've only seen Django and thus I think it should win in all the categories in which it's a nominee.

[BulldogWrestler]

Brave better win best animated picture, but I bet they'll give it to Frankenweenie based solely on their hard-on for Tim Burton.

[Best80smovieRAD]

Ben Affleck robbed of a best director nom for Argo

[Spectre]

Ben Affleck robbed of a best director nom for Argo

It's probably conservative retaliation for the left-wing attacks on Zero Dark Thirty.