The 85th Academy Awards Nominees

Award season is in full swing now that the People's Choice Awards aired on January 9th.  The Globes nomination came out last month, and it all led up to this.  The 85th Annual Academy Awards is set to air on February 24, 2013.  This year's Oscars will be hosted by comedian, Seth McFarlane.  Without further ado, here are the nominees:

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

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

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

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

Best Animated Feature:
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

You know I have to put in my two cents.  I really did not see some of these snubs coming... But let's start with the good, eh? 

The Good: All the love for Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbooks, look at all those nominations.  Everyone from those projects completely deserve it.  I watched Silver Linings for the second time yesterday and I plan on watching Lincoln again.  They were by far two of the best movies last year.  I suppose I'm content with the overall Best Picture and Actor/Actress categories... And of course animation is wonderful, as long as Wreck-It Ralph wins! And if not them, it best be Brave! 

The Bad: The nominations are not too bad this year, aside from a few snubs.  Argo got some love here and there, but the fact Ben Affleck was not nominated for Best Director, beyond ridiculous.  As well as Katheryn Bigalow for Zero Dark Thirty, what though?  It is definitely a tight category, but I am very surprised. I knew that Perks of Being a Wallflower had no chance for Best Picture, but I was rooting for a nomination at least for screenplay.  I get the Best Picture/Directing nomination for Life of Pi, because it's an Ang Lee film, but Perks should have gotten their spot for Adapted Screenplay.

This years nominations are not horrible and yet not ideal.  I will definitely make a Who I Want/Who Will Win blog sometime closer to the event.  

What do you think about this years nominations?

Will you be tuning in?