LES MIS Earns 9 BAFTA Noms Including 'Best Picture'

The full list of nominations has been announced for the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) which will take place on Sunday February 10th at London's Royal Opera House. In the category for Best Picture the nominees are Les Miserables, Argo, Life of Pi. Lincoln, and Zero Dark Thirty.

Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino was nominated for Best Director along with Michael Haneke, director of Amour. Surprisingly, Lincoln's Steven Spielberg and Les Mis helmer Tom Hooper were not nominated in the category.

The nominees are as follows:

BEST FILM

Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney

LES MISERABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh

Life of Pi Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark

Lincoln Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy

Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

Anna Karenina Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker

LES MISERABLES Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer

Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin

Skyfall Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer) The Imposter

David Morris (Director), JACQUI MORRIS (Director/Producer) McCullin

DEXTER FLETCHER (Director/Writer), DANNY KING (Writer) Wild Bill

JAMES BOBIN (Director) The Muppets

TINA GHARAVI (Director/Writer) I Am Nasrine

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Amour Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz

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