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”

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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