Oscars: Complete list of 85th Annual Academy Award nominees

Aussie star Hugh Jackman has been nominated for best actor for his role as Jean Valjean in musical Les Miserables. Picture: APSource: AP

The Daily Telegraph reports

From Argo to Zero Dark Thirty, here is a complete list of the nominees for the 85th Annual Academy Awards:

Best Picture

Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Directing

Michael Haneke, Amour
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

Foreign Language Film

Amour, Austria
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
War Witch, Canada

Adapted Screenplay

Chris Terrio, Argo
Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
David Magee, Life of Pi
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

Original Screenplay

Michael Haneke, Amour
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
John Gatins, Flight
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty

Animated Feature Film

Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

Original Song

Before My Time from Chasing Ice, J. Ralph
Everybody Needs a Best Friend from Ted, Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane
Pi's Lullaby from Life of Pi, Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri
Skyfall from Skyfall, Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Suddenly from Les Miserables, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Production Design

Anna Karenina,The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln

Cinematography

Anna Karenina, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Lincoln,Skyfall

Sound Mixing

Argo, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Skyfall

Sound Editing

Argo, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Skyfall, Zero Dark Thirty

Original Score

Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas Newman.

Costume

Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, Lincoln, Mirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman

Documentary Feature

5 Broken Cameras, The Gatekeepers, How to Survive a Plague, The Invisible War, Searching for Sugar Man

Documentary (short subject)

Inocente, Kings Point, Mondays at Racine, Open Heart, Redemption

Film Editing

Argo, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty

Makeup and Hairstyling

Hitchcock, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Les Miserables

Animated Short Film

Adam and Dog, Fresh Guacamole, Head over Heels, Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare, Paperman

Live Action Short Film

Asad, Buzkashi Boys, Curfew, Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw), Henry

Visual Effects

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Life of Pi, Marvel's The Avengers, Prometheus, Snow White and the Huntsman

Jackman almost missed Oscar announcement

LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 05: Actor Hugh Jackman attends the "Les Miserables" World Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square on December 5, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart Wilson/Getty Images) Source: Getty Images

Peter Mitchell, The Daily Telegraph, reports

While most Oscar nominees were glued to TV sets nervously hoping to hear their names, Hugh Jackman almost missed the announcement he had scored his first Oscar nod.

Luckily for the Australian star, who is in Atlanta filming the crime-drama Prisoners, his driver was well aware of the big moment.

"I hadn't planned to listen live to the announcements, but when I got into the car this morning to go to work, the driver had the nominations streaming as they were being broadcast," Jackman said.

"To be honest, it's very exciting but all a bit surreal, and it hasn't fully sunk in yet."

Jackman, as expected, was nominated on Thursday in the best actor category for his performance in the musical, Les Miserables.

The best actor category is stacked with talent and brilliant performances, with two-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, for Lincoln, the favourite.

Jackman is the second favourite.

Another double Oscar winner, Denzel Washington, is nominated for Flight, while Joaquin Phoenix picked up the third nomination of his career for The Master.

The dark horse is Bradley Cooper, who is the central character, a bipolar sufferer, in Silver Linings Playbook, a film that dominated the acting categories with Aussie Jacki Weaver (supporting actress), Robert De Niro (supporting actor) and Jennifer Lawrence (actress) also nominated.

"This is a brilliant awards year that has been defined by an eclectic list of stories that have been told by incredibly talented and courageous filmmakers, and it's an honour to be mentioned in the same sentence as the other nominees in the best actor category," Jackman said.

"Having hosted the show, I have seen so many different sides of the Oscars, but to be an actual nominee is something I never would have dreamed possible."

Jackman hosted the Oscars in 2009.

Other Aussies nominated for Academy Awards were Naomi Watts (best actress - The Impossible) and Rick Findlater (make-up and hairstyling - The Hobbit).

The 85th Academy Awards ceremony will be held in Hollywood on February 24.

Prisoners, which also stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Oscar nominee Viola Davis, follows a Boston man who kidnaps the person he believes kidnapped his young daughter and her friend.

Australia's top chances for Oscar nominations

Australian actor Mia Wasikowska ... could she score a best actress nod for her performance in Jane Eyre?

The Age reports

If there is a major surprise when the Academy Award nominations are announced early Wednesday morning (AEDT) Australian actress Mia Wasikowska could be the reason.

A few weeks ago the best actress Oscar prospects for the Canberra-born 22-year-old's critically-acclaimed, but quickly forgotten, starring role in Jane Eyre were as healthy as the Costa Concordia cruise ship.

The tide recently turned.

One of Wasikowska's champions, ironically, is the woman most likely to win the best actress Oscar, Meryl Streep.

The US star used a portion of her acceptance speech after winning the Golden Globe last week to remind the world about Wasikowska's performance as Jane Eyre in the new adaptation of the classic Charlotte Bronte novel.

"How about Mia Wasikowska in Jane Eyre?" Streep, a short-priced favourite to win the third Oscar of her career for playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, asked the A-list crowd at the Globes that included many Academy-voting members.

Wasikowska remains at long-shot odds of 100/1 and would have to squeeze out one of the five actresses who appear set to receive nominations: Streep; Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn); Viola Davis (The Help); Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs); and Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin).

Also in the hunt in the best actress category are Charlize Theron (Young Adult), Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Emma Stone (The Help).

Adding to Wasikowska's Oscar campaign are two of America's top film critics, with USA Today's Claudia Puig recently including the actress in an article titled: "Oscar, don't forget these films and their actors, directors".

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times film critic, wrote in his review: "Mia Wasikowska, from Australia, is a relative newcomer who must essentially carry Jane Eyre, and succeeds with restraint, expressing a strong moral compass".

At last year's Oscar ceremony Australia had 10 nominees and a record five wins, but 2012 likely won't be as fruitful.

Wasikowska is Australia's only chance at picking up an acting nominee, contrasting with last year's tally when Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole), Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech) and Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom) received invites in the glamour acting categories, and Tom Hooper (director) and producer Emile Sherman (best picture) scored gold statuettes for The King's Speech.

Sherman has a decent chance of receiving another best picture nomination this year with Shame, about a New York sex addict, receiving plenty of buzz, particularly with lead Michael Fassbender expected to nab a best actor nod with George Clooney (The Descendants), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Brad Pitt (Moneyball) and Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar).

Naomi Watts is given little hope of sneaking into the supporting actress category for her portrayal of a loyal secretary in J. Edgar. Joel Edgerton, compelling as a school teacher forced to return to the mixed martial arts ring to save his family's home from being foreclosed, has also fallen off the Oscar nomination radar.

Happy Feet won the animated feature film Oscar for George Miller in 2007, but last year's sequel, Happy Feet 2, was disappointing at the box office and failed to make the Academy's short-list, which includes Rango, The Adventures of Tintin and Puss in Boots.

Australia's best chances are in the technical categories.

Let's hope Aussie editor Kirk Baxter, who won the Oscar last year for his work on The Social Network, bought the tuxedo he wore to the ceremony rather than renting it.

He will likely need it this year as he is one of the favourites in the editing category for his new film with director David Fincher, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Another potential Australian nominee is the prolific Andy Nelson, a sound mixer on the Steven Spielberg-directed World War I drama, War Horse. Nelson is no stranger to the Academy Awards, winning an Oscar in 1999 for Saving Private Ryan and nominated another 14 times for films including Avatar, Moulin Rouge!, L.A. Confidential, Braveheart and Schindler's List.

Visual effects wizard Ben Snow, who grew up on a goat farm outside of Canberra, has four Oscar nominations over the years (Pearl Harbor, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Iron Man and Iron Man 2) but is yet to win.

His 2011 film, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, is on the 10-film short-list for the visual effects Oscar.

In other categories, The Artist, The Descendants, The Help, Hugo and Midnight in Paris are expected to be best picture nominees.

Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Martin Scorsese (Hugo), Alexander Payne (The Descendants), Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) and Steven Spielberg (War Horse) are expected to fill out the five directing category nominees.

The Oscar nominees will be announced at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences headquarters in Beverly Hills at 5.30am Tuesday Los Angeles time (12.30am Wednesday AEDT).

The winners will be revealed at 84th Annual Academy Awards ceremony held at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on February 26.


AUSTRALIA'S TOP CHANCES FOR OSCAR NOMINATIONS

GREAT CHANCE

* Kirk Baxter - editing - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

* Andy Nelson - sound mixing - War Horse

* Ben Snow - visual effects - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

GOOD CHANCE

* Emile Sherman - best picture - Shame

LONG SHOTS

* Mia Wasikowska - lead actress - Jane Eyre

* Naomi Watts - supporting actress - J. Edgar

* Joel Edgerton - supporting actor - Warrior

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