2013 Academy Award Nominations & Snubs

My alarm wasn't set for 5:30am this morning when Emma Stone and this year's Oscar host Seth MacFarlane announced the nominees, but I compiled the gist of it. Villain-ry gets no love at the Oscars this year: Quentin Tarantino and Leonardo DiCaprio are painstakingly left out. Best Supporting Actor category is filled to the brim with all previous Oscar winners. At 85 and 9-years-old, both the oldest and the youngest ever nominees for Best Actress were announced. When I was 9 I was picking scabs and eating grass, so kudos to her. A foreign film no one has seen nabs 5 nominations, including Best Picture. As upsetting as yet another snub for great talent DiCaprio (who literally has no comfort zone as an actor. Seriously Academy, are you still with us?), my favorite film this year, Silver Linings Playbook, did get recognized for the 5 majors: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress. Although, it has no chance up against the Spielberg snooze-fest Lincoln. Tune in for the 85th Annual Academy Awards live on ABC, Sunday, February 24th, 2013. I have taken the liberty of marking in blood red some of my choices:

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”
• Denzel Washington, “Flight”
• Hugh Jackman, “Les Miserables”
• Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"

BEST ACTRESS

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

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Alan Arkin, “Argo”
• Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained”
• Philip 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”
• Sally Field, “Lincoln”
• Helen Hunt, “The Sessions”
• Jacki Weaver, “Silver Linings Playbook”

BEST DIRECTOR

• Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
• David O. Russell, “Silver Linings Playbook”
• Behn Zeitlin, "Beast of the Southern Wild"
• Michael Haneke, “Amour”
• Steven Spielberg, “Lincoln”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• “Amour”
• “Django Unchained”
• “Flight”
• “Moonrise Kingdom”
• “Zero Dark Thirty”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• “Argo”
• “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
• “Life of Pi”
• “Lincoln”
• “Silver Linings Playbook”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• “Brave”
• “Frankenweenie”
• “ParaNorman”
• “The Pirates! Band of Misfits”
• “Wreck-It Ralph”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• “Amour”
• “A Royal Affair”
• “No”
• “Kon-Tiki”
• “War Witch”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• “Anna Karenina"
• “Django Unchained”
• “Life of Pi”
• “Lincoln”
• “Skyfall”

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• “Anna Karenina”
• “Les Miserables”
• “Lincoln”
• “Mirror Mirror”
• “Snow White and the Huntsman”

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• “5 Broken Cameras”
• “The Gatekeepers”
• “How to Survive a Plague”
• “The Invisible War”
• “Searching for Sugar Man”

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

• “Inocente”
• “Kings Point”
• “Mondays at Racine”
• “Open Heart”
• “Redemption”

BEST FILM EDITING

• “Argo”
• “Life of Pi
• “Lincoln”
• “Silver Linings Playbook”
• “Zero Dark Thirty”

BEST 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 Best 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 Journey”
• “Les Miserables”
• “Life of Pi”
• “Lincoln”

BEST ANIMATED 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”

BEST SOUND EDITING

• “Argo”
• “Django Unchained”
• “Life of Pi”
• “Skyfall”
• “Zero Dark Thirty”

BEST SOUND MIXING

• “Argo”
• “Les Miserables"
• “Life of Pi”
• “Lincoln”
• “Skyfall"

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
• “Life of Pi”
• “Marvel's The Avengers”
• “Prometheus”
• “Snow White and the Huntsman”