2013 Academy Award Nominations Reactions

Well, I think some people's Oscar polls are already flipped on their head. With the nominations just being announced by the lovely Emma Stone and the (ugh) Oscar host Seth MacFarlane, the Internet is now free to make predictions and generally complain about the Oscars for the next seven weeks. That's right, the broadcast is still seven weeks away.

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So what about the nominations? Did the Academy actually shake things up this year? Yes and no. I would say it wasn't a shock who was nominated rather than who was NOT nominated, but isn't that always the case? The biggest category where there were some glaring omissions was for Best Director. Of course there are the staples, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg, but then David O. Russel? Michael Haneke? I can't wait to see their films, which also got nominations, to judge for myself, but some people who everyone thought were shoe-ins that were not nominated were Ben Affleck, Quentin Tarantino, Katharine Bigelow, and Oscar-bait darling, Tom Hooper.

Another surprising fact is the presence of AMOUR and SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK all over the nominations. AMOUR raked in not only a Best Picture nomination, but one for Best Foreign Film as well. Unfortunately having your picture in two categories like that will split the vote, so it has next to no chance for the main prize. I can already feel the anger for SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK boiling up around the blogger sphere. I'm sure it's a good movie pulling at all the right strings, but when you look at the production company, The Weinstein Company, all the praise seems to be a little less genuine. This could be another SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE scenario where a movie will come as the front runner, LINCOLN, and the Weinsteins do a last minute campaign and SILVER LININGS comes out on top come awards day. If that happens, I hope Spielberg runs up to the stage, punches the Weinsteins in the face, and runs away with the Best Picture Oscar. Wouldn't that make for an interesting broadcast?

There was only one surprise with the main acting categories; no Leonardo DiCaprio. I guess the academy only likes him if he's a main actor, not a supporting. But we can go ahead and give the awards to Daniel Day-Lewis and Anne Hathaway because it's quite silly to make them sit for seven weeks.

As Javi pointed out in his disappointments post, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD ended up being a critic darling, but he just couldn't connect with it. I agree with him, yet it ended up with some pretty big nominations (Picture, Actress, Actor, Director, and Adapted Screenplay) this year. It's a pretty movie sure, and the young star, Quvenzhane Wallis, who now is the youngest nominee ever, has major screen presence, but overall, the film left an overall disappointed taste in my mouth.

The main nomination I am beyond stoked about is PARANORMAN for Best Animated Feature. I was afraid it would be snubbed because...well, I'm not exactly sure why it would have been. BRAVE does not deserve their nomination at all, but it's Pixar, and the Academy loves to be somewhat predictable.

Unfortunately, awards season will never make us happy, in fact, they can ARGO f#$@ themselves. There will always be snubs and disappointments when these nominations come out, but that's what the Internet is for right? To vent our frustrations and to tell the world what the best movies of the year really were. (You can find ours here and here!)

The 2013 Academy Awards will be held on February 24, 2013.

Here are the full list of nominees:

Best Picture

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

Lincoln

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Amour

Django Unchained

Argo

Best Director

David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

Ang Lee, Life of Pi

Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

Michael Haneke, Amour

Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Actor

Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln

Denzel Washington, Flight

Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Best Actress

Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook

Alan Arkin, Argo

Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Best Supporting Actress

Sally Field, Lincoln

Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Helen Hunt, The Sessions

Amy Adams, The Master

Best Original Screenplay

Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom

Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty

John Gatins, Flight

Michael Haneke, Amour

Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

Best Adapted Screenplay

Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Tony Kushner, Lincoln

David Magee, Life of Pi

David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

Chris Terrio, Argo

Best Animated Film

Frankenweenie

Pirates: Band of Misfits

Paranorman

Wreck It Ralph

Brave

Best Foreign Film

Amour, Austria

No, Chile

War Witch, Canada

A Royal Affair, Denmark

Kon-Tiki, Norway

Best Original Song
‘Before My Time,’ Chasing Ice
‘Pi’s Lullaby,’ Life of Pi
‘Suddenly,’ Les Misérables
‘Everybody Needs a Best Friend,’ Ted
‘Skyfall,’ Skyfall

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

Best Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina
Paco Delgado, Les Misérables
Joanna Johnston, Lincoln
Eiko Ishioka, Mirror Mirror
Colleen Atwood, 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, 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

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

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

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel, Hitchcock
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell, Les Misérables

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

Best Animated Short Film
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

Best Live-Action Short Film
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

Best 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

Best Sound Mixing
Argo, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
Les Misérables, 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

Best 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

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