BAFTA NOMINATIONS

Best Film

Argo (Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov)

Life of Pi (Ang Lee, Gil Netter and David Womark)

Lincoln (Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg)

Les Misérables (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh)

Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal and Megan Ellison)

Best Director

Ben Affleck (Argo)

Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)

Michael Haneke (Amour)

Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Best Leading Actor

Ben Affleck (Argo)

Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)

Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables)

Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)

Best Leading Actress

Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone)

Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)

Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)

Best Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin (Argo)

Javier Bardem (Skyfall)

Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)

Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams (The Master)

Judi Dench (Skyfall)

Sally Field (Lincoln)

Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)

Helen Hunt (The Sessions)

Best Original Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)

Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)

Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)

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 Cinematography

Danny Cohen (Les Misérables)

Roger Deakins (Skyfall)

Janusz Kaminski (Lincoln)

Seamus McGarvey (Anna Karenina)

Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

Best Editing

Stuart Baird (Skyfall)

William Goldenberg (Argo)

William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor (Zero Dark Thirty)

Fred Raskin (Django Unchained)

Tim Squyres (Life of Pi)

Best Production Design

Rick Carter and Jim Erickson (Lincoln)

Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock (Skyfall)

Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer (Anna Karenina)

David Gropman and Anna Pinnock (Life of Pi)

Anna Lynch-Robinson and Eve Stewart (Les Misérables)

Best Costume Design

Beatrix Aruna Pasztor (Great Expectations)

Colleen Atwood (Snow White and the Huntsman)

Paco Delgado (Les Misérables)

Jacqueline Durran (Anna Karenina)

Joanna Johnston (Lincoln)

Best Sound

Jonathan Allen, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Lee Walpole and John Warhurst (Les Misérables)

Karen M. Baker, Per Hallberg, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

Ron Bartlett, Eugene Gearty, Doug Hemphill, Drew Kunin and Philip Stockton (Life of Pi)

Christopher Boyes, Brent Burge, Michael Hedges, Tony Johnson, Michael Semanick and Chris Ward (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Tony Lamberti, Michael Minkler, Wylie Stateman and Mark Ulano (Django Unchained)

Best Special Visual Effects

Pete Bebb, Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin and Andrew Lockley (The Dark Knight Rises)

Paul Butterworth, Charley Henley, Richard Stammers and Trevor Wood (Prometheus)

David Clayton, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon and R. Christopher White (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Erik De Boer, Guillaume Rocheron and Bill Westenhofer (Life of Pi)

Janek Sirrs, Daniel Sudick, Jeff White and Guy Williams (The Avengers)

Best Make Up & Hair

Howard Berger, Julie Hewett and Martin Samuel (Hitchcock)

Lois Burwell and Kay Georgiou (Lincoln)

Rick Findlater, Peter King and Richard Taylor (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Ivana Primorac (Anna Karenina)

Lisa Westcott (Les Misérables)

Best Original Music

Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)

Alexandre Desplat (Argo)

Dario Marianelli (Anna Karenina)

Thomas Newman (Skyfall)

John Williams (Lincoln)

Best Animated Film

Brave (Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman)

Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)

ParaNorman (Chris Butler and Sam Fell)

Best Documentary

The Imposter (Dimitri Doganis and Bart Layton)

Marley (Steve Bing, Kevin MacDonald and Charles Steel)           

McCullin (David Morris and Jacqui Morris)

Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn)

West of Memphis (Amy Berg)

Best Film Not in the English Language

Amour (Michael Haneke and Margaret Ménégoz)

Headhunters (Marianne Gray, Morten Tyldum and Asle Vatn)

The Hunt (Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann and Thomas Vinterberg)

The Intouchables (Nicolas Duval-Adassovsky, Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, Laurent Zeitoun and Yann Zenou)

Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard and Pascal Caucheteux)

Outstanding British Film

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

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, John Madden and Ol Parker)

Les Misérables (Tim Bevan, Alain Boublil, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Tom Hooper, Herbert Kretzmer, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson and Claude-Michel Schönberg)

Seven Psychopaths (Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin and Martin McDonagh)

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

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

James Bobin – director (The Muppets)

Dimitri Doganis – producer; Bart Layton – director (The Imposter)

Dexter Fletcher – director / writer; Danny King – writer (Wild Bill)

Tina Gharavi – director / writer (I Am Nasrine)

David Morris – director; Jacqui Morris – director / producer (McCullin)

Best Short Film

The Curse (Fyzal Boulifa and Gavin Humphries)

Good Night (Muriel d’Ansembourg and Eva Sigurdardottir)

Swimmer (Peter Carlton, Lynne Ramsay and Diarmid Scrimshaw)

Tumult (Rhianna Andrews and Johnny Barrington)

The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill and Baldwin Li)

Best Short Animation

Here to Fall (Kris Kelly and Evelyn McGrath)

I’m Fine Thanks (Eamonn O’Neill)

The Making of Longbird (Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson)

Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award

Elizabeth Olsen

Andrea Riseborough

Suraj Sharma

Juno Temple

Alicia Vikander

Lincoln leads with ten, although is missing a Best Director nomination, pretty much ruling it out of winning Best Film here (although not anywhere else - BAFTA's influence isn't quite that strong). Les Mis is next with nine, yet is also missing recognition for its director. Best Film would appear to be between Life of Pi, also with nine nominations, Argo, with seven, and Zero Dark Thirty, with the fewest among Best Film nominees, five. Amour makes a very strong showing, with nominations in Director and Original Screenplay alongside Actress and Foreign Language Film; Actress nixes Naomi Watts, which may be a sign that the Oscar race is now definitely between just Chastain and Lawrence, unless BFCA / HFPA / SAG says any different. Ben Affleck surprisingly turns up in Best Actor, a first for the season (not one critics group has mentioned him in this category even), and all three of The Master's leads are nominated. The Master misses cinematography, though. Beasts of the Southern Wild makes an appearance, perhaps unexpectedly, in Adapted Screenplay. Film and Director match up 3/5; Quentin Tarantino receives two nominations, Django five in total. Of course, Skyfall has a strong showing, with eight nominations, and who's surprised? Winners will be announced on the 10th of February.