The granddaddy of all awards shows is finally nigh, as nominations for the 85th annual Academy Awards were announced this morning.
And if you’re a betting person, Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables and Lincoln are leading the pack.
It’s slim pickings for LGBT films and representations, though queer folk did get honors: activist/journalist David France’s seminal AIDS doc How to Survive a Plague is up for Best Documentary, out playwright Tony Kushner scored a Best Adapted Screenplay nom for Lincoln, and gay filmmaker Chris Butler’s ParaNorman, is up for Best Animated Feature.
And, of course, gay-fave Adele might add an Oscar to her mantle with the theme from Skyfall (called it).
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And the nominees are:
Best Picture
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Silver Linings Playbook
Amour
Les Misérables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Argo
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Denzel Washington, Flight
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook
Alan Arkin, Argo
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Hunt, Sessions
Amy Adams, The Master
Best Director
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Michael Haneke, Amour
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Animated Film
Brave
Frankenweenie
Paranorman
The Pirates! Band Of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Best Foreign-Language Film
Amour
War Witch
A Royal Affair
No
Kon-Tiki
Best Original Screenplay
Michael Haneke, Amour
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
John Gatins, Flight
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Adapted Screenplay
Chris Terrio, Argo
Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
David Magee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Documentary
Searching for Sugar Man,
The Gatekeepers,
5 Broken Cameras
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Best Original Song
“Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi
“Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from Ted
“Before My Time” from Chasing Ice
“Skyfall” from Skyfall
“Suddenly” from Les Misérables
For a full list of nominees, visit Oscar.com. You can see who snatches the trophies when the Oscars air February 24 at 7 pm on ABC.
Ronbo
Who selected this pathetic lot? Argo and Life of Pi are the only movies that I enjoyed. I want to see great moviemaking honored. Lincoln? Dear God, save us from sloooow movies that flourish on pretense end schitck.
PrettyLittleLiar
I’m so happy to see that Beasts of a Southern Wild was not forgotten! It is a phenomenal piece of film making. It’ll lose to Silver Linings Playbook, but I’m glad it was nominated at least.
ncman
Who writes your headlines? Lincoln received 12 nominations. Life of Pi received 11. Le Miz and Silver Linings Playbook each receive 8 and your headline claims that Silver Linings Playbook “dominates”. Just how does receiving 4 fewer nominations than the leader qualify you to be described as “dominating”?
boring
This is a solid list, but totally unremarkable.
And 100 Black Bibles from the Django soundtrack should have gotten a best song nod. That shit is WILD.