Oscar Awards 2013: Here are the nominees for this year!

Zeenews Bureau

New Delhi: Hollywood’s race for the best has just started. The anticipation of the imminent announcement of the 2013 Oscars has finally ended. Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' and Ang Lee's 'Life Of Pi' lead the list with 12 and 11 nominations respectively. The two movies have certainly made heads turn. Here’s taking a look at the nominees: Best Actor: Bradley Cooper -Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables Joaquin Phoenix - The Master Denzel Washington - Flight Best Actress: Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook Emmanuelle Riva - Amour Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild Naomi Watts - The Impossible Best Direction: Amour Michael- Haneke Beasts of the Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin Life of Pi - Ang Lee Lincoln - Steven Spielberg Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin - Argo Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams - The Master Sally Field - Lincoln Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables Helen Hunt - The Sessions Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook Best Picture: Amour Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild Django Unchained Les Miserables Life of Pi Lincoln Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Best Animated Feature Film: Brave- Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman Frankenweenie- Tim Burton ParaNorman- Sam Fell and Chris Butler The Pirates! Band of Misfits - Peter Lord Wreck-It Ralph - Rich Moore Cinematography: Anna Karenina- Seamus McGarvey Django Unchained- Robert Richardson Life of Pi- Claudio Miranda Lincoln- Janusz Kaminski Skyfall- Roger Deakins Costume Design: Anna Karenina- Jacqueline Durran Les Misérables- Paco Delgado Lincoln Joanna- Johnston Mirror Mirror- Eiko Ishioka Snow White and the Huntsman- Colleen Atwood 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 Film Editing: Argo - William Goldenberg Life of Pi -Tim Squyres Lincoln - Michael Kahn Silver Linings Playbook - Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers Zero Dark Thirty - Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg Foreign Language Film: Amour – Austria Kon-Tiki – Norway No – Chile A Royal Affair – Denmark War Witch – Canada Makeup and Hairstyling: Hitchcock - Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane Les Misérables - Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell Music - Original Score: Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli Argo - Alexandre Desplat Life of Pi - Mychael Danna Lincoln - John Williams Skyfall - Thomas Newman Music - Original Song: "Before My Time" from Chasing Ice Music and Lyric by J. Ralph "Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from Ted Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane "Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri "Skyfall" from Skyfall Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth "Suddenly" from Les Misérables Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil Production Design: Anna Karenina - Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Dan Hennah (Production Design); Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decoration) Les Misérables - Eve Stewart (Production Design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decoration) Life of Pi - David Gropman (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) Lincoln - Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) Short Film - Animated: Adam and Dog - Minkyu Lee Fresh Guacamole – PES Head over Heels - Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" – David Silverman Paperman - John Kahrs Short Film - Live Action: Asad - Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura Buzkashi Boys - Sam French and Ariel Nasr Curfew - Shawn Christensen Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) - Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele Henry - Yan England Sound Editing: Argo Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn Django Unchained Wylie Stateman Life of Pi Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton Skyfall Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers Zero Dark Thirty Paul N.J. Ottosson Sound Mixing: Argo - John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia Les Misérables - Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes Life of Pi - Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin Lincoln - Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins Skyfall - Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson Visual Effects: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White Life of Pi - Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott Marvel's The Avengers Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick Prometheus - Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill Snow White and the Huntsman - Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson Writing - Adapted Screenplay: Argo - Written by Chris Terrio Beasts of the Southern Wild - Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin Life of Pi - Written by David Magee Lincoln - Written by Tony Kushner Silver Linings Playbook - Written by David O. Russell Writing- Original Screenplay: Amour - Written by Michael Haneke Django Unchained - Written by Quentin Tarantino Flight - Written by John Gatins Moonrise Kingdom - Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola Zero Dark Thirty - Written by Mark Boal The 85th Academy Awards ceremony will take place on 24th February 2013.