This thread is for discussing the 2013 Academy Awards (Oscars)
Here are the nominations
Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of Southern Wild"
David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Michael Haneke, "Amour"
Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Denzel Washington, "Flight"
Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables"
Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Naomi Watts, "The Impossible"
Quvenzhane Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Bests Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, "Argo"
Christoph Waltz, "Django Uncahined"
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"
Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, "The Master
Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"
Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"
Jack Weaver, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Sally Field, "Lincoln"
Best Animated Film
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Cinematography
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Costume Design
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirro
Snow White and the Huntsman
Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man
Documentary Short
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption
Film Editing
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Foreign Language Film
Amour
Kon-Tiki
No
A Royal Affair
War Witch
Makeup and Hairstyling
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Best Original Score
Anna Karenina
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Best Original Song
"Before my Time" from Chasing Ice
"Everybody Needs a Beast Friend" from ted
"Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi
"Skyfall" from Skyfall
"Suddenly" from Les Miserables
Best Production Design
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Best Animation Short
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head over Heels
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
Paperman
Best Live Action Short
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
Henry
Sound Editing
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
Sound Mixing
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Visual Effects
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Marvel's The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow Whtie and the Huntsman
Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Best Original Screenplay
Amour
Django Unchained
Flight
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
For me, I personally hope Life of Pi sweeps all the technical awards, it deserves them 100% for how chilling and haunting, and beautiful they could all be, and how all the technical works (like cinematography) were practically characters that gave the movie its tone and beauty and how it changed when the tone of that section would be different.
Others that I firmly want to see win,
Wreck-It Ralph for the best Animated Movie, simply because it was by far (Brave was such a disappointment, and none of the three stop-motions blew me away like one should) the best animated movie released this year, and if it doesn't it's simply because some of the voters didn't like that it was about video games.
Paper Man, for best animated short, spectacular short, it was really hard to decide when I went to see Wreck-It Ralph which I liked better Paper Man (the short that played with it) or Wreck-It Ralph and that says a lot since I loved both.
Best Supporting Actress, definitely deserves to go to Anne Hathaway, her performance was one of the best of the year for leads or supporting for both genders.
And with that Best Actor in a Lead Role should go to Daniel-Day Lewis, as he also was one of the best performances of the year period.
Other than that, all the other categories there are multiples I wouldn't mind winning, but those are the ones I have a definite opinion on. And besides a couple fluke nominations (Mirror, Mirror shouldn't be nominated for anything, even if its a filler nomination for costume design) and the fact Looper was snubbed from Best Original Screenplay I really like these choices.