BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln" Denzel...

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

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

Credit: AP

Not to be outdone by Sunday's Golden Globe Awards -- and, perhaps, to upstage that ceremony -- Academy Award nominees were announced Thursday morning, a couple of weeks earlier than usual. Seth MacFarlane, who hosts the Oscars telecast Feb. 24, was joined by Emma Stone to announce 11 categories.

Here is the complete list of nominees for the best in film:

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

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

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
"Frankenweenie"
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"
"Wreck-It Ralph"
"ParaNorman"
"Brave"

FOREIGN FILM
"Amour"
"No"
"War Witch"
"A Royal Affair"
"Kon-Tiki"

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

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

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Sally Field, "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"
Jacki Weaver, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"
Amy Adams, "The Master"

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"
Alan Arkin, "Argo"
Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"
Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook"

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"Flight"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Django Unchained"
"Amour"
"Moonrise Kingdom"

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
"Argo"
"Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook"
"Life of Pi"

MUSIC -- ORIGINAL SONG
"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice"
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from "Ted"
"Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi"
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall"
"Suddenly" from "Les Miserables"

MUSIC -- ORIGINAL SCORE
"Anna Karenina"
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

CINEMATOGRAPHY
"Anna Karenina"
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

COSTUME DESIGN
"Anna Karenina"
"Les Miserables"
"Lincoln"
"Mirror Mirror"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

FILM EDITING
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

PRODUCTION DESIGN
"Anna Karenina"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Miserables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"

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

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
"Inocente"
"Kings Point"
"Mondays at Racine"
"Open Heart"
"Redemption"

SHORT FILM -- LIVE ACTION
"Asad"
"Buzkashki Boys"
"Curfew"
"Death of a Shadow" ("Dood van een Schaduw")
"Henry"

SHORT FILM -- ANIMATED
"Adam and Dog"
"Fresh Guacamole"
"Head Over Heels"
"The Longest Daycare"
"Paperman"

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
"Hitchcock"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Miserables"

SOUND EDITING
"Argo"
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Skyfall"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

SOUND MIXING
"Argo"
"Les Miserables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

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

Launched with a good "If you don't know me, just pretend I'm Donny Osmond" joke from MacFarlane, watch the announcement ceremony here:

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