Nominees in main Oscars categories

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Here is a list of the nominees in the main categories for this year's Oscars, including best picture and best leading and supporting actors

CALIFORNIA, United States – Here is a list of the nominees in the main categories for this year’s Oscars, as well as the number of nominations for each film that garnered two or more nods, and the films’ distributors.

The winners will be announced at the 85th Academy Awards show Sunday, February 24 in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

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Best picture: “Amour,” “Argo,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Django Unchained,” “Les Miserables,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Best director: Michael Haneke for “Amour,” Benh Zeitlin for “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Ang Lee for “Life of Pi,” Steven Spielberg for “Lincoln,” and David O. Russell for “Silver Linings Playbook.”

Best leading actor: Bradley Cooper for “Silver Linings Playbook,” Daniel Day-Lewis for “Lincoln,” Hugh Jackman for “Les Miserables,” Joaquin Phoenix for “The Master,” and Denzel Washington for “Flight.”

Best leading actress: Jessica Chastain for “Zero Dark Thirty,” Jennifer Lawrence for “Silver Linings Playbook,” Emmanuelle Riva for “Amour,” Quvenzhane Wallis for “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” and Naomi Watts for “The Impossible.”

Best supporting actor: Alan Arkin for “Argo,” Robert De Niro for “Silver Linings Playbook,” Philip Seymour Hoffman for “The Master,” Tommy Lee Jones for “Lincoln,” and Christoph Waltz for “Django Unchained.”

Best supporting actress: Amy Adams for “The Master,” Sally Field for “Lincoln,” Anne Hathaway for “Les Miserables,” Helen Hunt for “The Sessions,” and Jacki Weaver for “Silver Linings Playbook.”

Best foreign language film: “Amour” (Austria), “Kon-Tiki” (Norway), “No” (Chile), “A Royal Affair” (Denmark) and “War Witch” (Canada).

Best animated feature: “Brave,” “Frankenweenie,” “ParaNorman,” “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” and “Wreck-It Ralph.”

Number of nominations for films with two or more nods, and their distribution company:

“Lincoln” – 12, Walt Disney/20th Century Fox.

“Life of Pi” – 11, 20th Century Fox.

“Les Miserables” – 8, Universal.

“Silver Linings Playbook” – 8, The Weinstein Company.

“Argo” – 7, Warner Bros.

“Amour” – 5, Sony Pictures Classics.

“Django Unchained” – 5, The Weinstein Company.

“Skyfall” – 5, Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

“Zero Dark Thirty” – 5, Sony Pictures Releasing.

“Anna Karenina” – 4, Focus Features.

“Beasts of the Southern Wild” – 4, Fox Searchlight.

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” – 3, Warner Bros and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

“The Master” – 3, The Weinstein Company.

“Flight” – 2, Paramount.

“Snow White and the Huntsman” – 2, Universal.

Rappler live blogs the 85th Oscar Awards on February 25, Monday, 5:30am. – Rappler.com


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