2012 Academy Award nominations - Aussie Kirk Baxter waves the flag for Australia

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The Australian reports

THE full list of Oscar nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards.

BEST PICTURE
War Horse
The Artist
Moneyball
The Descendants
The Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
The Help
Hugo
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

LEAD ACTOR
Demián Bichir, A Better Life
George Clooney, The Descendants
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt, Moneyball

LEAD ACTRESS
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis, The Help
Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn

BEST DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Nick Nolte, Warrior
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, The Help

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
The Descendants (Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash)
Hugo (Screenplay by John Logan)
The Ides of March (Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon)
Moneyball (Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Screenplay by Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan)

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Artist (Written by Michel Hazanavicius)
Bridesmaids (Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig)
Margin Call (Written by J.C. Chandor)
Midnight in Paris (Written by Woody Allen)
A Separation (Written by Asghar Farhadi)

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
A Cat in Paris (Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli)
Chico & Rita (Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (Jennifer Yuh Nelson)
Puss in Boots (Chris Miller)
Rango (Gore Verbinski)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Bullhead (Belgium)
Footnote (Israel)
In Darkness (Poland)
Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
A Separation (Iran)

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
Hell and Back Again (Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner)
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman)
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
Pina (Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel)
Undefeated (TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas)

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement (Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin)
God Is the Bigger Elvis (Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson)
Incident in New Baghdad (James Spione)
Saving Face (Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy)
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen)

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Dimanche/Sunday (Patrick Doyon)
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg)
La Luna (Enrico Casarosa)
A Morning Stroll (Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe)
Wild Life (Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby)

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Pentecost (Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane)
Raju (Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren)
The Shore (Terry George and Oorlagh George)
Time Freak (Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey)
Tuba Atlantic (Hallvar Witzo)

ART DIRECTION
The Artist (Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan)
Hugo (Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo)
Midnight in Paris (Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil)
War Horse (Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Guillaume Schiffman, The Artist
Jeff Cronenweth, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Robert Richardson, Hugo
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life
Janusz Kaminski, War Horse

COSTUME DESIGN
Lisy Christl, Anonymous
Mark Bridges, The Artist
Sandy Powell, Hugo
Michael O'Connor, Jane Eyre
Arianne Phillips, W.E

FILM EDITING
The Artist (Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius)
The Descendants (Kevin Tent)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall)
Hugo (Thelma Schoonmaker)
Moneyball (Christopher Tellefsen)

MAKEUP
Albert Nobbs (Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng)
The Iron Lady (Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland)

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
The Adventures of Tintin (John Williams)
The Artist (Ludovic Bource)
Hugo (Howard Shore)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alberto Iglesias)
War Horse (John Williams)

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
Man or Muppet from The Muppets (Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie)
Real in Rio from Rio (Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown: Lyric by Siedah Garrett)

SOUND EDITING
Drive (Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Ren Klyce)
Hugo (Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl)
War Horse (Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom)

SOUND MIXING
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson)
Hugo (Tom Fleischman and John Midgley)
Moneyball (Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin)
War Horse (Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson)

VISUAL EFFECTS
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson)
Hugo (Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning)
Real Steel (Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier)