ACADEMY AWARDS 2013

Rumours have been flying for days. Anyone who's seen a movie in the past twelve months has been speculating. Without question, it's that time again - the road to the year's biggest celebration of film, the Academy Awards.

With news that the nominees would be announced by Seth MacFarlane (only the second time in the ceremony's tradition that the Oscars presenter would also reveal the nominations, joining the illustrious ranks with trigger-happy Charlton Heston in 1972), along with Hollywood favourite, Emma Stone, it's a small hint that the Academy is planning to do things a little differently this year.

And the nominees are...

Best Supporting Actress
Sally Field - Lincoln
Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
Jackie Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Amy Adams - The Master

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

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

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

Best Original Screenplay
John Gatins - Flight
Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
Michael Haneke - Amour
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom

Best Adapted Screenplay
Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Chris Terrio - Argo
Tony Kushner - Lincoln
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
David Magee - Life of Pi

Best Animated Film
Frankenweenie
Pirates! Band Of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
ParaNorman
Brave

Best Director
David O'Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Stephen 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

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