2013 Academy Award Nominations Announced! LES MISERABLES for 8, Hathaway, Jackman, Chastain & More - Full List!

Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced this morning by the show's host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

The film that theatre fans have been watching out for, LES MISERABLES received 7 nominations including Actor in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Picture, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Song) and Production Design.

Recent and current stage stars including Hugh Jackman, Denzel Washington, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and more received nominations as well.

And the nominees are...

BEST PICTURE

Amour TBD, Producer
Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
Beasts of the Southern Wild Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
Django Unchained Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
LES MISERABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward andCameron Mackintosh, Producers
Life of Pi Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
Lincoln Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Silver Linings Playbook Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and JonathanGordon, Producers
Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers

Actor in a Leading Role

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, LES MISERABLES
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Actor in a Suporting Role

Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Actres in a Leading Role

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

Actres in a Suporting Role

Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, LES MISERABLES
Helen Hunt, The Sesions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Animated Feature Film

Brave, Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Frankenweenie, Tim Burton
ParaNorman, Sam Fell and Chris Butler
The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Peter Lord
Wreck-It Ralph, Rich Moore

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained,Robert Richardson
Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN

Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
LES MISERABLES, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka,
Snow White and the Huntsman. Colleen Atwood

DIRECTING

Amour, Michael Haneke
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi, Ang Lee
Lincoln, Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

5 Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers, TBD
How to Survive a Plague, TBD
The Invisible War, TBD
Searching for Sugar Man, TBD

Documentary Short Subject

Inocente, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Kings Point, Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine, Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
Open Heart, Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill

FILM EDITING

Argo, William Goldenberg
Life of Pi, Tim Squyres
Lincoln, Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook, Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty, Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

Foreign Language Film

Amour, Austria
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
War Witch, Canada

MAKEUP and hairstyling

Hitchcock - Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
LES MISERABLES - Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

Music (Original Score)

Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall,Thomas Newman

Music (Original Song)

Before My Time - Chasing Ice, Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
Everybody Needs A Best Friend - Ted, Music by Walter Murphy, Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
Pi's Lullaby - Life of Pi, Music by Mychael Danna, Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
Skyfall - Skyfall, Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Suddenly - LES MISERABLES, Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Production Design

Anna Karenina - Production Design: Sarah Greenwood, Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Production Design: Dan Hennah, Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
LES MISERABLES - Production Design: Eve Stewart, Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
Life of Pi - Production Design: David Gropman, Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Lincoln - Production Design: Rick Carter, Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Short Film (Animated)

Adam and Dog, Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole, PES
Head over Heels, Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
David Silverman, Paperman
John Kahrs

Short Film (Live Action)

Asad, Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys, Sam French and Ariel Nasr
Curfew, Shawn Christensen
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw), Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
Henry, Yan England

SOUND EDITING

Argo, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
Django Unchained, Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi, Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
Skyfall, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
Zero Dark Thirty, Paul N.J. Ottosson

SOUND MIXING

Argo, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
LES MISERABLES, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
Life of Pi, Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
Lincoln, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
Skyfall, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

VISUAL EFFECTS

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
Life of Pi - Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
Marvel's The Avengers - Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
Prometheus - Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
Snow White and the Huntsman - Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson

Writing (Adapted Screnplay )

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

Writing (Original Screnplay )

Amour, Written by Michael Haneke
Django Unchained, Written by Quentin Tarantino
Flight, Written by John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Written by Mark Boal

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