Moneyball and War Horse Fare Well, Extremely Loud Sneaks into Best Pic
The biggest surprise of the morning was a spot for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close among the nine Best Picture nominees. (It received only two nominations total, including one for supporting actor Max Von Sydow, leaving director Stephen Daldry out in the cold.) Some had expected the wild card in the Best Picture race to be The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (especially following that film’s success with Guild award noms) or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Critical fave and commercial success The Descendants got only five nominations, despite being considered a front-runner in the race. And Midnight in Paris, a well-liked comeback and genuine box-office hit for writer/director Woody Allen, managed only three nominations, including one for Best Picture.
But chief among Oscar snubs may be the lack of a nomination for Pixar’s Cars 2 this year. Voters opted for two off-Hollywood titles (A Cat in Paris and Chico & Rita), along with the expected Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, and Rango, rather than give Pixar the honor.
Last year, Inception was the only Best Picture nominee to also be named in the visual-effects category. This year, Hugo fits that description. Other VFX films that made the cut were Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Real Steel, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
The winners will be announced February 26. A complete list of nominations follows below.
The Artist
Thomas Langmann, Producer
The Descendants
Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor,
Producers
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Scott Rudin, Producer
The Help
Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and
Michael Barnathan, Producers
Hugo
Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
Midnight in Paris
Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
Moneyball
Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt,
Producers
The Tree of Life
Nominees to be determined
War Horse
Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy,
Producers
Actor in a Leading Role
Demià¡n Bichir
A Better Life
George Clooney
The Descendants
Jean Dujardin
The Artist
Gary Oldman
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt
Moneyball
Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh
My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill
Moneyball
Nick Nolte
Warrior
Christopher Plummer
Beginners
Max Von Sydow
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close
Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis
The Help
Rooney Mara
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep
The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams
My Week with Marilyn
Actress in a Supporting Role
Bà©rà©nice Bejo
The Artist
Jessica Chastain
The Help
Melissa Mccarthy
Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer
Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer
The Help
Animated Feature Film
A Cat in Paris
Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
Chico & Rita
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
Kung Fu Panda 2
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Puss in Boots
Chris Miller
Rango
Gore Verbinski
Art Direction
The Artist
Production Design: Laurence Bennett
Set Decoration: Robert Gould
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Production Design: Stuart Craig
Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
Hugo
Production Design: Dante Ferretti
Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
Midnight in Paris
Production Design: Anne Seibel
Set Decoration: Hà©là¨ne Dubreuil
War Horse
Production Design: Rick Carter
Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
Cinematography
The Artist
Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Jeff Cronenweth
Hugo
Robert Richardson
The Tree of Life
Emmanuel Lubezki
War Horse
Janusz Kaminski
Costume Design
Anonymous
Lisy Christl
The Artist
Mark Bridges
Hugo
Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre
Michael o’Connor
W.E.
Arianne Phillips
Directing
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants
Alexander Payne
Hugo
Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick
Documentary Feature
Hell and Back Again
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Pina
Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
Undefeated
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas
Documentary Short Subject
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
God is the Bigger Elvis
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
Incident in New Baghdad
James Spione
Saving Face
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
Film Editing
The Artist
Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants
Kevin Tent
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
Hugo
Thelma Schoonmaker
Moneyball
Christopher Tellefsen
Foreign Language Film
Bullhead
Belgium
Footnote
Israel
In Darkness
Poland
Monsieur Lazhar
Canada
A Separation
Iran
Makeup
Albert Nobbs
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
The Iron Lady
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
Music (Original Score)
The Adventures of Tintin
John Williams
The Artist
Ludovic Bource
Hugo
Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Alberto Iglesias
War Horse
John Williams
Music (Original Song)
Man or Muppet
The Muppets
Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Real in Rio
Rio
Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown
Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Short Film (Animated)
Dimanche/Sunday
Patrick Doyon
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
La Luna
Enrico Casarosa
A Morning Stroll
Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
Wild Life
Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Short Film (Live Action)
Pentecost
Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
Raju
Max Zà¤hle and Stefan Gieren
The Shore
Terry George and Oorlagh George
Time Freak
Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
Tuba Atlantic
Hallvar Witzà¸
Sound Editing
Drive
Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Ren Klyce
Hugo
Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
War Horse
Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
Sound Mixing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
Hugo
Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
Moneyball
Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
War Horse
Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson
Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
Hugo
Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
Real Steel
Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Descendants
Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Hugo
Screenplay by John Logan
The Ides of March
Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Moneyball
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin
Story by Stan Chervin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Artist
Written by Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids
Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
Margin Call
Written by J.C. Chandor
Midnight in Paris
Written by Woody Allen
A Separation
Written by Asghar Farhadi
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