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'Lincoln' leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations
The Civil War saga was nominated for Best Picture; Director for Steven Spielberg and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.
Also among the nine nominees for Best Picture announced on Thursday - the old-age love story "Amour;" the Iran hostage thriller "Argo;" the independent hit "Beasts of the Southern Wild;"; the slave-revenge narrative "Django Unchained" the musical "Les Miserables;" the shipwreck story "Life of Pi;" the lost-souls romance "Silver Linings Playbook" and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle "Zero Dark Thirty."
Daniel Day-Lewis was nominated for Best Actor for his role chronicling Abraham Lincoln's final months as he engineers passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.
Joining Day-Lewis in the best actor field are Bradley Cooper as a psychiatric patient trying to get his life back together in "Silver Linings Playbook;" Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo's tragic hero Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables;" Joaquin Phoenix as a Navy vet who falls in with a cult in "The Master" and Denzel Washington as a boozy airline pilot in "Flight."
Nominated for Best Actress are Jessica Chastain as a CIA operative hunting bin Laden in "Zero Dark Thirty;" Jennifer Lawrence as a troubled young widow struggling to heal in "Silver Linings Playbook;" Emmanuelle Riva as an ailing woman tended by her husband in "Amour;" Quvenzhane Wallis as a spirited girl on the Louisiana delta in "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and Naomi Watts as a mother caught up in a devastating tsunami in "The Impossible."
The Oscars feature a best-picture field that ranges from five to 10 films depending on a complex formula of ballots from the 5,856 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Winners for the 85th Oscars will be announced on 24 February at a ceremony aired live on ABC from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre.
"Family Guy" creator and vocal star Seth MacFarlane - a versatile performer whose work includes directing and voicing for the title character of last summer's hit "Ted" and a Frank Sinatra-style album of standards - is the Oscar host.
The nominees were announced by "The Amazing Spider-Man" star Emma Stone and MacFarlane.
It's the first time that an Oscar show host has joined in the preliminary announcement since 1972, when Charlton Heston participated on nominations day.
Also among the nine nominees for Best Picture announced on Thursday - the old-age love story "Amour;" the Iran hostage thriller "Argo;" the independent hit "Beasts of the Southern Wild;"; the slave-revenge narrative "Django Unchained" the musical "Les Miserables;" the shipwreck story "Life of Pi;" the lost-souls romance "Silver Linings Playbook" and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle "Zero Dark Thirty."
Daniel Day-Lewis was nominated for Best Actor for his role chronicling Abraham Lincoln's final months as he engineers passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.
Joining Day-Lewis in the best actor field are Bradley Cooper as a psychiatric patient trying to get his life back together in "Silver Linings Playbook;" Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo's tragic hero Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables;" Joaquin Phoenix as a Navy vet who falls in with a cult in "The Master" and Denzel Washington as a boozy airline pilot in "Flight."
Nominated for Best Actress are Jessica Chastain as a CIA operative hunting bin Laden in "Zero Dark Thirty;" Jennifer Lawrence as a troubled young widow struggling to heal in "Silver Linings Playbook;" Emmanuelle Riva as an ailing woman tended by her husband in "Amour;" Quvenzhane Wallis as a spirited girl on the Louisiana delta in "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and Naomi Watts as a mother caught up in a devastating tsunami in "The Impossible."
The Oscars feature a best-picture field that ranges from five to 10 films depending on a complex formula of ballots from the 5,856 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Winners for the 85th Oscars will be announced on 24 February at a ceremony aired live on ABC from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre.
"Family Guy" creator and vocal star Seth MacFarlane - a versatile performer whose work includes directing and voicing for the title character of last summer's hit "Ted" and a Frank Sinatra-style album of standards - is the Oscar host.
The nominees were announced by "The Amazing Spider-Man" star Emma Stone and MacFarlane.
It's the first time that an Oscar show host has joined in the preliminary announcement since 1972, when Charlton Heston participated on nominations day.