Thursday, January 10, 2013

Oscars 2013 nominations: Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence and Naomi Watts battle for best actress

Oscars 2013 nominations: Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence and Naomi Watts battle for best actress

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Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane announced the Academy Award nominations for 2013 in Los Angeles on Thursday - and it's shaping up to be a fierce battle for the best actress nod. 

The nominations include - Jessica Chastain as a CIA operative in Zero Dark Thirty; Jennifer Lawrence as a troubled young widow struggling to heal in Silver Linings Playbook; Emmanuelle Riva as an ailing woman tended by her husband in Amour; Quvenzhane Wallis as a spirited girl on the Louisiana delta in Beasts of the Southern Wild; and Naomi Watts as a mother caught up in a devastating tsunami in The Impossible.

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And the nominees are: Jennifer Lawrence and Naomi Watts are up for best actress

Along with Sally Field for Lincoln, supporting actress nominees are Amy Adams as a cult leader's devoted wife in The Master; Anne Hathaway as an outcast mother reduced to prostitution in Les Miserables; Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate in The Sessions; and Jacki Weaver as an unstable man's doting mom in Silver Linings Playbook.

The Civil War saga Lincoln leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture, director for Steven Spielberg and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.

Battle: Jessica Chastain and French actress Emmanuelle Riva will also battle it out for the best actress

Early rise to fame: At the age of nine, Quvenzhane Wallis is the youngest ever best actress nominee in history

Early rise to fame: At the age of nine, Quvenzhane Wallis is the youngest ever best actress nominee in history

Also among the 9 nominees for best picture is the old-age love story Amour; the Iran hostage thriller Argo; the independent hit Beasts of the Southern Wild; the slave-revenge narrative Django Unchained; the musical Les Miserables; the shipwreck story Life of Pi; the lost-souls romance Silver Linings Playbook; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle Zero Dark Thirty.

Chronicling Abraham Lincoln's final months as he engineers passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, Lincoln stars best-actor contender Day-Lewis in a monumental performance as the 16th president, supporting-actress nominee Field as the notoriously headstrong Mary Todd Lincoln and supporting-actor prospect Jones as abolitionist firebrand Thaddeus Stevens.

Drama: Lawrence plays Tiffany, a messed-up twenty-something who's had an unfulfilling childhood, in Silver Linings Playbook alongside co-star Bradley Cooper

Drama: Lawrence plays Tiffany, a messed-up twenty-something who's had an unfulfilling childhood, in Silver Linings Playbook alongside co-star Bradley Cooper

Recalling a tragedy: Watts plays real-life tsunami survivor Maria Belon in The Impossible

Recalling a tragedy: Watts plays real-life tsunami survivor Maria Belon in The Impossible

Thriller: Chastain plays a member of the elite team of spies and military operatives, stationed in a covert base overseas in Zero Dark Thirty

Thriller: Chastain plays a member of the elite team of spies and military operatives, stationed in a covert base overseas in Zero Dark Thirty

Joining Day-Lewis in the best actor field are Bradley Cooper as a psychiatric patient trying to get his life back together in Silver Linings Playbook; Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo's tragic hero Jean Valjean in Les Miserables; Joaquin Phoenix as a Navy vet who falls in with a cult in The Master; and Denzel Washington as a boozy airline pilot in Flight.

Besides Jones, the supporting actor contenders are Alan Arkin as a wily Hollywood producer in Argo; Robert De Niro as a football-obsessed patriarch in Silver Linings Playbook; Philip Seymour Hoffman as a dynamic cult leader in The Master; and Christoph Waltz as a genteel bounty hunter in Django Unchained.

The Oscars feature a best-picture field that ranges from five to 10 films depending on a complex formula of ballots from the 5,856 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Incredible performance: Emmanuelle Riva, 85, has garnered rave reviews for her performance in Amour

Incredible performance: Emmanuelle Riva, 85, has garnered rave reviews for her performance in Amour

Breakout role: Wallis plays Hushpuppy, a fiercely independent little girl who lives in the Louisiana bayou with her father Wink in Beast of the Southern Wild

Breakout role: Wallis plays Hushpuppy, a fiercely independent little girl who lives in the Louisiana bayou with her father Wink in Beast of the Southern Wild

Winners for the 85th Oscars will be announced February 24 at a ceremony aired live on ABC from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre.

Family Guy creator and vocal star Seth MacFarlane, a versatile performer whose work includes directing and voicing for the title character of last summer's hit Ted and a Frank Sinatra-style album of standards, is the Oscar host.

Thursday's nominees were announced at 8:40 a.m. EST by The Amazing Spider-Man star Emma Stone and MacFarlane, the first time that an Oscar show host has joined in the preliminary announcement since 1972, when Charlton Heston participated on nominations day.

Early wake up call: Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane announced the nominees of the 85th Academy Awards at the AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater this morning

Early wake up call: Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane announced the nominees of the 85th Academy Awards at the AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater this morning

OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2013 - FULL LIST OF NOMINEES

LEADING ACTOR

Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln

Denzel Washington - Flight

Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables

Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook

Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Alan Arkin - Argo

Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook

Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master

BEST PICTURE -

Amour

Argo

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Django Unchained

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY -

Chris Terrio - Argo

Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

David Magee - Life of Pi

Tony Kushner - Lincoln

David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM -

Brave

BRAVE

Frankenweenie

ParaNorman

The Pirates! Band Of Misfits

Wreck-It Ralph

CINEMATOGRAPHY -

Anna Karenina

Django Unchained

Life of Pi

life of pi

Lincoln

Skyfall

SOUND EDITING -

Argo

Django Unchained

Life Of Pi

Skyfall

Zero Dark Thirty

ORIGINAL SONG -

Before My Time  from  Chasing Ice - J. Ralph
Everybody Needs a Best Friend  from  Ted - Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane

TED

Pi's Lullaby  from  Life of Pi - Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri

Skyfall  from  Skyfall - Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth

Suddenly  from  Les Miserables - Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE -

5 Broken Cameras

Searching for Sugar Man

Searching For Sugar Man

The Gatekeepers

How to Survive a Plague

The Invisible War

FILM EDITING -

Argo

Life Of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

ANIMATED SHORT FILM -

Adam and Dog

Fresh Guacamole

Head over Heels

Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare

Paperman

LEADING ACTRESS

Naomi Watts - The Impossible

The Impossible

Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty

Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva - Amour

Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams - The Master

Sally Field - Lincoln

Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables

Helen Hunt - The Sessions

Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook

DIRECTOR -

Michael Haneke -  Amour

Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Ang Lee -  Life of Pi

Steven Spielberg - Lincoln

David O. Russell -  Silver Linings Playbook

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM -

Amour - Austria

Kon-Tiki -  Norway

No - Chile

A Royal Affair - Denmark

War Witch -  Canada

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY -

Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom

Michael Haneke - Amour

Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained

John Gatins - Flight

Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty

PRODUCTION DESIGN -

Anna Karenina

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

SOUND MIXING -

Skyfall

SKYFALL

Argo

Les Miserables

Life Of Pi

Lincoln

ORIGINAL SCORE -

Argo - Alexandre Desplat

Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli

Life of Pi - Mychael Danna

Lincoln - John Williams

Skyfall - Thomas Newman

COSTUME -

Anna Karenina

Les Miserables

Lincoln

Mirror Mirror

Snow White and the Huntsman

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT) -

Inocente

Kings Point

Mondays at Racine

Open Heart

Redemption

MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING -

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

the hobbit

Hitchcock

Les Miserables

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM -

Asad

Buzkashi Boys 

Curfew

Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)

Henry

VISUAL EFFECTS -

Prometheus

Prometheus

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Life of Pi

Marvel's The Avengers

Snow White and the Huntsman


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