This just proves how out of touch the Oscars are. How many people can pick Seth MacFarlane out on the street? I mean I know who he is, but I had to Google to see what he looked like.

Well, who would you suggest? We can't keep yanking Hugh Jackman across the Pacific to host these damn things.

(Maybe we can clone him.)

Well, I like the suggestion of Robert Downey, Jr..

HA! Take that Mac Farlane haters.

Ugh I don't find this man funny really but admittedly I haven't seen him work in this sort of area so maybe that's where he shines. But yeah, unhyped.

What was the point of saying that at all?

Might as well make this the official 2013 Oscars thread.

And the nominees are...

BEST PICTURE

• Amour
• Argo
• Django Unchained
• Les Misérables
• Life Of Pi
• Lincoln
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Beasts Of The Southern Wild
• Silver Linings Playbook

BEST DIRECTOR

• Life Of Pi - Ang Lee
• Lincoln - Steven Spielberg
• Amour - Michael Haneke
• Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell
• Beasts Of The Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin

BEST ACTOR

• Denzel Washington - Flight
• Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
• Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln*
• Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables
• Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Alan Arkin - Argo
• Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
• Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
• Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

BEST ACTRESS

• Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
• Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
• Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
• Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts Of The Southern Wild
• Naomi Watts - The Impossible

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Amy Adams - The Master
• Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
• Helen Hunt - The Sessions
• Sally Field - Lincoln
• Jacky Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ANIMATED FILM

• Brave
• Frankenweenie
• Paranorman
• The Pirates! In An Adventure W Ith Scientists
• Wreck-it-Ralph

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Chris Terrio - Argo
• Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin - Beasts Of The Southern Wild
• David Magee - Life Of Pi
• Tony Kushner - Lincoln
• David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Michael Haneke - Amour
• Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
• Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom
• Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty
• John Gatins - Flight

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Anna Karenina - Seamus Mc Garvey
• 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

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• 5 Broken Cameras
• The Gatekeepers
• How To Survive A Plague
• The Invisible War
• Searching For Sugar Man

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

• Inocente
• Kings Point
• Mondays At Racine
• Open Heart
• Redemption

BEST FILM EDITING

• Argo - William Goldenberg
• Life Of Pi - Tim Squyres
• Zero Dark Thirty - Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg
• Lincoln - Michael Kahn
• Silver Linings Playbook - Jay Cassidy & Crispin Struthers

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Amour - Austria
• Kon-Tiki - Norway
• No - Chile
• A Royal Affair - Denmark
• War Witch - Canada

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

• Hitchcock - Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater
• Les Misérables - Lisa Westcott

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli
• Argo - Alexandre Desplat
• Life Of Pi - Mychael Danna
• Lincoln - John Williams
• Skyfall - Thomas Newman

BEST 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

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Anna Karenina
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Les Miserables
• Life Of Pi
• Lincoln

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

• Adam and Dog
• Fresh Guacamole
• Head Over Heels
• Maggie Simpson In "The Longest Daycare"
• Paperman

BEST LIVE FILM SHORT

• Asad
• Buzkashi Boys
• Curfew
• Death Of A Shadow
• Henry

BEST SOUND EDITING

• Argo
• Django Unchained
• Life Of Pi
• Skyfall
• Zero Dark Thirty

BEST SOUND MIXING

• Argo
• Les Miserables
• Life Of Pi
• Lincoln
• Skyfall

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Life Of Pi
• Marvel Avengers Assemble
• Prometheus
• Snow White And The Huntsman

edited 10th Jan '13 6:31:38 AM by ZeroPotential

That wanker. I'd rather watch them hosted by Seltzer and Friedberg.

edited 10th Jan '13 7:39:28 AM by Achaemenid

Oh look. That song from TED made it in. WOW I CAN'T BEGIN TO IMAGINE WHY!!

Wow. It was kind of a slow year for dramas, wasn't it?

Flight?? Really? There's a reason the trailer only shows the prologue — because the rest of the movie is hackneyed even by Hallmark Channel standards.

edited 10th Jan '13 8:22:08 AM by johnnyfog

Is it me or did most of the Best Picture nomination get released this past Winter??

edited 10th Jan '13 8:28:13 AM by kyun

Has anyone seen Amour? I hadn't even heard of it. The Academy must be huge fans - it's rare for a foreign-language film to get Best Picture and Directing nominations.

I've watched a ton of movies this year (seriously, 2012 was Geek Heaven), but not many of the nominees. May end up skipping the Oscars this year. Les Mis was good, though; hope it gets some awards. The Academy loves history and likes musicals so it's got a good shot. (And the Best Original Song nomination confirms that "Suddenly" was written for the movie; I suspected that since I didn't remember it from the theatre production, but wasn't sure. Anyway, it was good enough to fit smoothly into the rest of the film.)

edited 10th Jan '13 8:37:29 AM by WarriorEowyn

I'm surprised Cloud Atlas isn't on there anywhere. But I am happy to see Mirror Mirror hasn't been completely forgotten. The costumes in that movie were amazing.

I'm also surprised at the lack of Cloud Atlas, especially for Cinematography and costuming. That was one gorgeous film.

I think the Wachowski Broth— ... Sist—-.... Whatevers are getting shafted by Hollywood now.

Not to be that guy but I find it deliciously ironic that after the The Dark Knight Rises fanboys reacted the way they did to any negative reviews that the movie ended up getting completely shut out.

I don't think I've even seen 90% of the movies nominated, with 0 of them having been nominated for best picture, so I have even less reason to bother caring than ever before.

I've only seen 2 of those films, though I plan to see Les Mis when it's out here, might see Django Unchained too.

And me browsing these films, I actually reconginze a lot of these. Woot! Now I can make bets with everyone else.

...I will find it humorous if Skyfall wins Best Song. Then Adele can have a nice Oscar to go with her truck load of Grammy's.

@Odd1

I just find it stupid how you guys all hate him for Family Guy even though the jokes are positively hilarious. On a side note: Tvtropes "The Dethroning Moment of suck" on Family Guy has got to be the worst page on this wiki. Oversensitivity and over-freaking-exaggeration. You guys make it sound like the terribad Dane Cook is hosting it. And he's 1000 times worse than Seth macarlane (not to mention not as funny).

Wow, for once I can't argue with their selection for BAF. Notice that three out of the five films are Stop Motion Animated films and that three out of the five are also Disney produced. Hopefully the former will inspire more filmmakers to carry on this medium.

That said Wreck It Ralph should win.

Agreed. Though I would be okay with ParaNorman and Pirates!

I think Paranorman should win BAF because they pushed the envelope on what stop motion can do.

Noooo. The jokes in Family Guy AREN'T hilarious. They are ****** disrespectful, disgusting, and racist, but that's for another thread!

Different opinions about comedy? What are those?