Lincoln leads with 12, Life of Pi with 11. Ben Affleck and Kathryn Bigelow out for Director, Michael Haneke and Benh Zeitlin in. DGA matches with Oscar 2/5, SAG 14/20, the lowest for eleven years. Silver Linings Playbook gets eight, as does Les Mis (without Best Director though) Amour five, Beasts of the Southern Wild four. Argo on seven, Zero Dark Thirty just five, also Django Unchained. Skyfall reaps five, all in tech categories. The Master's three are all for its leading cast - Silver Linings Playbook does even better, with four acting nominations.
Best Picture
Amour
(Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz and Margaret Ménégoz)
Argo (Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov)
Beasts
of the Southern Wild (Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey and Josh Penn)
Django
Unchained (Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone and Stacey Sher)
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)
Silver
Linings Playbook (Bruce Cohen, Donna Gigliotti and Jonathan Gordon)
Zero
Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal and Megan Ellison)
Easier to analyse Best Picture in the context of Best Director, of course. Moonrise Kingdom, Skyfall, The Master all absent. Amour makes it, as does Beasts - both have strong support elsewhere. Argo, Zero Dark Thirty and Les Mis are all here, despite missing out on Director nominations.
Best Directing
Michael
Haneke (Amour)
Ang
Lee (Life of Pi)
David
O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Steven
Spielberg (Lincoln)
Benh
Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
An utterly extraordinary list. The DGA is normally better at forecasting Best Picture than Director at the Oscars, but a 2/5 match is unprecedented. Argo, 0D30 and Les Mis are now all pretty much dead as far as winning Best Picture goes; Lincoln, which missed out on a Best Director nomination yesterday from the BAFTAs, is now your frontrunner, with Silver Linings Playbook right behind it, and Life of Pi potentially spoiling. Haneke's and Zeitlin's nominations are flabbergasting, but in a good way. Tonight, the BFCA could pick Argo or Zero Dark Thirty (their votes were counted before these were announced), and doing so would complicate things further. Should they pick Lincoln, it may assume a permanent frontrunner position.
Best Actor in a Leading
Role
Bradley
Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Daniel
Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Hugh
Jackman (Les Misérables)
Joaquin
Phoenix (The Master)
Denzel
Washington (Flight)
John Hawkes is absent, losing out to Bradley Cooper and Joaquin Phoenix, both of whom are in films evidently appreciated by the actors branch, with seven nominations between them.
Best Actress in a Leading
Role
Jessica
Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Jennifer
Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Emmanuelle
Riva (Amour)
Quvenzhané
Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Naomi
Watts (The Impossible)
Deviating twice from SAG's list, both the oldest and the youngest ever nominees are in - Emmanuelle Riva and Quvenzhane Wallis, both from surprise Best Director nominated films. With so many shocks this year, all bets are off - Naomi Watts could win despite her BAFTA snub, Emmanuelle Riva could win despite her SAG snub (the Oscars are also occurring on her 86th birthday). Jessica Chastain will have a tough time winning with Zero Dark Thirty's chances having plummeted, so Jennifer Lawrence may have this one in the bag, what with SLP's popularity.
Best Actor in a
Supporting Role
Alan
Arkin (Argo)
Robert
De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook)
Philip
Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
Tommy
Lee Jones (Lincoln)
Christoph
Waltz (Django Unchained)
One of the few wholly conventional lists from the Academy this year, still it deviates from SAG, with Christoph Waltz replacing Javier Bardem. All five have won before, as Emma Stone pointed out, although so too has Bardem! Wouldn't a first timer have been nice, though? Matthew McConaughey or Dwight Henry, maybe?
Best Actress in a
Supporting Role
Amy
Adams (The Master)
Sally
Field (Lincoln)
Anne
Hathaway (Les Misérables)
Helen
Hunt (The Sessions)
Jacki
Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook)
Another acting category departing from SAG's lead by two - Amy Adams and Jacki Weaver replacing Nicole Kidman and Maggie Smith. Personally, I would have liked to have seen Kidman in, but Adams' inclusion is encouraging enough.
Best Writing (Original
Screenplay)
Wes
Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)
Mark
Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)
John
Gatins (Flight)
Michael
Haneke (Amour)
Quentin
Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Moonrise Kingdom's only nomination, which may make it tough for it to win here. The only one of these films with a Best Director nomination (and, thus, a technically legitimate shot at winning Best Picture) is, extraordinarily, Amour. A hard category to call, then. Flight also makes it, past The Master, which is only nominated in acting categories.
Best Writing (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)
The four usual suspects plus Beasts of the Southern Wild, which isn't surprising, considering the love the Academy clearly has for that film. This is a little more open now than it was, with Argo perhaps being taken down a notch or two. Lincoln could win this easily, though, if it wins everything else this year.
