2013 Oscar nominations are out

[bigdarryl]

My prediction is it's going to be Lincoln for best movie and Daniel Day Lewis for best actor http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/oscars-nominations-2013_n_2435207.html

[graham4anything]

1. Here are the nominees, my picks in bold

Best Actor:
Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln
Denzel Washington, Flight
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Best Actress:
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour -the oldest nominee ever
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild -the youngest nominee ever

Best Supporting Actor: all five already have won Oscars
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
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild


Best Picture:
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Amour
Django Unchained
Argo


AdaptedScreenplay
Beasts of the southern wild
Argo
Lincoln
SIlver Linings Playbook
Life of Pi

Original Screenplay
Flight
Zero Dark Thirty
Django
Amour
Moonrise Kingdom

[onehandle]

4. Pretty much agree. I think Jennifer Lawrence might take Best Actress though.

Really pulling for Anne Hathaway and Tommy Lee Jones.

Daniel Day Lewis? A given.

[el_bryanto]

11. I'm mildly irritated at Django being on the list - it's such a slipshod movie

I mean - great sequences, and some really strong performances, and it should have been an hour 45 at most.

I'm rooting for Argo or Life of Pi, but probably Argo moreso. Lincoln was great, but it was also kind of a standard Oscar movie.

Bryant

[AngryAmish]

2. Once again I didn't see one of the nominated movies

I did see Moonrise Kingdom, liked it very much. But I am white person...

[annatee33]

3. Seth and Emma were great at the announcements! Funny stuff! n/t

[Paladin]

5. No Best Director Nom. For Ben Affleck ("Argo")?

Oh, well. He's young, good-looking, talented and rich....

[graham4anything]

6. None for directing for both Katherine Bigelow or Quentin Tarentino either

[Bjorn Against]

12. Not Tom Hooper either, there were four big snubs in that category

I was rooting for Ben Affleck to win the best director category, Argo was a great movie and was the best directing I saw in a movie this year. The fact that he was not even nominated is shameful. Lincoln was fine, but I feel it was praised more for the names involved than the actual quality of the movie. Lincoln was a very good movie but not a great movie, Argo and Les Miserables were the best movies of the year in my opinion.

I hope Les Mis pulls some big upset wins, I loved that movie. I would love to see Hugh Jackman win, Ann Hathaway of course as well but I take her as a given while Daniel Day Lewis will provide Jackman with some tough competition. The only movie I really want to see shut out is Zero Dark Thirty, the pro-torture propaganda contained in that film makes me despise Katherine Bigelow and her screenwriters and I want them to lose big.

[graham4anything]

15. Lincoln is going to probably sweep...though they hate giving Spielberg awards, he deserves it

almost never does a picture win, if the director isn't nominated
that means Argo, Les Mis, Zero Dark 30 won't win

Anne Hathaway is a given, so is Daniel Day Lewis.

that leaves the supporting actor and best actress.

A case could be made for Amour sweeping like the artist did, with Lewis and Hathaway winning.
It is a beautiful, so sad, but real to life portrayal of two people in love for their lifetimes now about to be forced apart by the sad reality of death at the door.
Wonderful acting by two of the greatest players of all time, who most Americans are not familiar with.

They say Jessica and Jennifer will be competing against each other.
So they might cancel each other out, leaving Ms. Riva to win.
and they really like young Miss Wallis too and her very small $$$ film.
so it is possible those two will cancel each other out, then...
there is Sally Field (they like her, they really like).
So with a lincoln sweep, she easily could win. Probably the best category in years.

If someone had told Hugh Jackman he would be nominated for an Oscar five years ago, he would have laughed in their face.

BTW, the one person i am sad wasn't nomnated (AGAIN) was Richard Gere.
The academy doesn't like him and continues to prove it.

The more awards Liincoln gets, the happier I would be.
The best movie about political maneuvering ever.
And Tony Kushner deserves an Oscar for screenplay everytime he picks up a pen.
There is no way lewis won't win his 3rd. Think that is the clearest sureshot pick of them all.

[RZM]

7. This might be the first year I haven't seen single nominated film

I haven't seen anything nominated for any major category, including the acting ones. The only one I saw was 'Brave,' which is nominated for best animated feature.

[sadbear]

8. Silver Linings Playbook?

I haven't seen it. Was it that good?

[brucefan]

9. Yes it was!

but i'm from Philly and a little predjudiced

[Beaverhausen]

10. Chris Nolan deserved a nom for Dark Knight Rises

IMHO.

[Bjorn Against]

13. He deserved one for Memento, The Dark Knight and Inception.

I could have even seen him possibly deserving of a nod for Insomnia, but The Dark Knight Rises was probably his worst movie ever. He will be nominated someday and if he moves away from super hero movies and goes back to filming original scripts he will probably eventually win at least one Oscar, but this was not his year.

[dsc]

14. Memento and Inception are amazing films

Nolan is a great director, I think all three of his Batman films were among the best superhero films ever done. His downfall for Oscar purposes is that Oscar doesn't like gimmicks and doesn't like superhero films with memento and inception being considered gimmicks.