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Nominees for the 85th Academy Awards already announced

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Nominees for the 85th Academy Awards  already announced

YEREVAN, JANUARY 10, ARMENPRESS: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has finally settled the debate with its announcement of nominees for the 85th Academy Awards, reports Armenpress referring to Interfax. Armenpress presents the full list of the nominees

Best picture

Silver Linings Playbook

Argo

The Master

Lincoln

The Impossible

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Amour

Cloud Atlas

Les Misérables

Wildcards: Trouble with the Curve; Hyde Park on Hudson; Killing Them Softly, Holy Motors

Best director

David O Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master

Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

Tom Hooper, Les Misérables

Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

Wildcards: Ben Affleck, Argo; Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty; Gus van Sant, Promised Land; Leos Carax, Holy Motors

Best actor

Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

John Hawkes, The Sessions

Russell Crowe, Les Misérables

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour

Wildcards: Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt; Michael Shannon, The Iceman; Jamie Foxx, Django Unchained

Best actress

Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables

Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone

Amy Adams, Trouble with the Curve

Wildcards: Helen Hunt, The Sessions; Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha; Elle Fanning, Ginger & Rosa; Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

Best supporting actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

James Gandolfini, Killing Them Softly

Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Hal Holbrook, Promised Land

Matthew McConaughey, Magic Mike

Wildcards: Michael Fassbender, Prometheus; Ben Mendelson, Killing Them Softly

Best supporting actress

Sally Field, Lincoln

Helena Bonham Carter, Les Misérables

Amy Adams, The Master

Laura Linney, Hyde Park on Hudson

Maggie Smith, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,

Wildcards: Maggie Smith, Quartet; Frances McDormand, Promised Land; Octavia Spencer, Smashed

Best original screenplay

The Master

The Impossible

Arbitrage

Django Unchained

Gambit,

Wildcards: Ted; Moonrise Kingdom; Promised Land; Frances Ha; Zero Dark Thirty

Best adapted screenplay

Argo

Silver Linings Playbook

Life of Pi

Anna Karenina

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Wildcards: Lincoln; The Hobbit; The Sessions

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