85th Annual Academy Awards: And the nominees are...

The 85th Annual Academy Award nominations

Best Picture

Amour

Argo

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin, Argo

Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook

Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams, The Master

Sally Field, Lincoln

Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

Helen Hunt, The Sessions

Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Best Director

Michael Haneke, Amour

Ang Lee, Life of Pi

David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Original Screenplay

Amour, Michael Haneke

Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino

Flight, John Gatins

Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola

Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal

Best Adapted Screenplay

Argo, Chris Terrio

Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin

Life of Pi, David Magee

Lincoln, Tony Kushner

Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

Best Animated Feature

Brave

Frankenweenie

ParaNorman

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Wreck-It Ralph

Best Original Score

Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli

Argo, Alexandre Desplat

Life of Pi, Mychael Danna

Lincoln, John Williams

Skyfall, Thomas Newman

Best Original Song

"Before My Time," from Chasing Ice, music and lyric by J. Ralph

"Everybody Needs a Best Friend," from Ted, music by Walter Murphy; lyric by Seth MacFarlane

"Pi's Lullaby," from Life of Pi, music by Mychel Danna, lyric by Bombay Jayashri

"Skyfall," from Skyfall, music and lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth

"Suddenly," from Les Miserables, music by Claude-Michel Schoenberg; lyric by Herbert Kretzmer & Alain Boubill

There are some notable snubs.  Kathryn Bigelow and Quentin Tarantino were left out of the Best Director race, pretty surprising especially since Kathryn took home the award three years ago for The Hurt Locker.  Also, surprising since both movies received nominations for Picture and Screenplay.  The acting nominations shook out pretty much how I thought they would.  

Seth Macfarlane will either be really good or will be like David Letterman's hosting gig, panned at the time, but appreciated more and more as time passes.  This is the option that I am betting on.  You can see the 85th Annual Academy Awards when it airs on ABC February 24th (the day after my big 3-0) at 8/7 central.  You can check back here in a few weeks for my Oscar predictions.