UPDATE: I saw Life of Pi on Friday night, so I had to make some changes.
I’ll stick with the Academy’s format for this, which means I have to refrain from listing Best Animated Feature, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Documentary Feature. I simply didn’t see enough films to fill up those categories.
BEST PICTURE
Argo
Bernie
Cloud Atlas
Life of Pi
Looper
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
Wreck-it Ralph
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Rian Johnson, Looper
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Tom Tykwer & The Wachowskis, Cloud Atlas
BEST ACTOR
Jack Black, Bernie
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Liam Neeson, The Grey
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
Noomi Rapace, Prometheus
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, Skyfall
Michael Fassbender, Prometheus
John Goodman, Argo
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, The Master
Emily Blunt, Looper
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Rian Johnson, Looper
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
Derek Connolly, Safety Not Guaranteed
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio, Argo
Richard Linklater & Skip Hollandsworth, Bernie
Tom Tykwer & The Wachowskis, Cloud Atlas
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jacqueline West, Argo
Kym Barrett & Pierre-Yves Gayraud, Cloud Atlas
Paco Delgado, Les Misérables
Eiko Ishioka, Mirror Mirror
Mickey Carleton and Keri Lee Doris, Moonrise Kingdom
BEST FILM EDITING
William Goldenberg, Argo
Alexander Berner, Cloud Atlas
Bob Ducsay, Looper
Leslie Jones & Peter McNulty, The Master
William Goldenberg & Dylan Tichenor, Zero Dark Thirty
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Frank Griebe & John Toll, Cloud Atlas
Mihai Malaimare Jr., The Master
Claudio Mirandi, Life of Pi
Dariusz Wolski, Prometheus
Roger Deakins, Skyfall
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Tom Tykwer & Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil, Cloud Atlas
Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight Rises
Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
Jonny Greenwood, The Master
Marc Streitenfeld, Prometheus
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Yo No Se” from Casa de mi Padre
“Ancora Qui” from Django Unchained
“Abraham’s Daughter” from The Hunger Games
“Big Machine” from Safety Not Guaranteed
“Skyfall” from Skyfall
BEST SOUND MIXING
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Prometheus
Skyfall
Wreck-it Ralph
BEST SOUND EDITING
The Avengers
Life of Pi
Prometheus
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
Cloud Atlas
Hitchcock
Looper
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Moonrise Kingdom
Prometheus
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
Life of Pi
Prometheus
Skyfall
Multiple nominations:
• Argo (5)
• The Avengers (2)
• Bernie (3)
• Cloud Atlas (10)
• Django Unchained (2)
• Hitchcock (2)
• Les Misérables (4)
• Life of Pi (7)
• Looper (4)
• Lincoln (3)
• The Master (7)
• Moonrise Kingdom (4)
• Prometheus (8)
• Safety Not Guaranteed (2)
• Silver Linings Playbook (4)
• Skyfall (6)
• Wreck-it Ralph (2)
• Zero Dark Thirty (6)