List of Oscar nominations in major categories

Notably absent from the Best Picture category is "Skyfall" (though it did garner 5 nominations in mostly technical categories) and from the Best Actor category is Liam Neeson who I thought gave one of the year's best performances in "The Grey". The big winner in the nominations race was, as expected, "Lincoln" which raked in 12 nominations.

BEST PICTURE

• Amour
• Argo
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Django Unchained
• Les Miserables
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ACTOR

• Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”
• Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”
• Denzel Washington, “Flight”
• Hugh Jackman, “Les Miserables”
• John Hawkes, “The Sessions”

BEST ACTRESS

• Emmanuelle Riva, “Amour”
• Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”
• Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
• Naomi Watts, “The Impossible”
• Quvenzhane Wallis, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Amy Adams, “The Master”
• Anne Hathaway, “Les Miserables”
• Sally Field, “Lincoln”
• Helen Hunt, “The Sessions”
• Jacki Weaver, “Silver Linings Playbook”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

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

BEST DIRECTOR

• David O. Russell, “Silver Linings Playbook”
• Behn Zeitlin, "Beast of the Southern Wild"
• Michael Haneke, “Amour”
• Paul Thomas Anderson, “The Master”
• Steven Spielberg, “Lincoln”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• “Amour”
• “Django Unchained”
• “Flight”
• “Moonrise Kingdom”
• “Zero Dark Thirty”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• “Argo”
• “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
• “Life of Pi”
• “Lincoln”
• “Silver Linings Playbook”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• “Brave”
• “Frankenweenie”
• “ParaNorman”
• “The Pirates! Band of Misfits”
• “Wreck-It Ralph”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• “Amour”
• “A Royal Affair”
• “No”
• “Kon-Tiki”
• “War Witch”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• “Anna Karenina"
• “Django Unchained”
• “Life of Pi”
• “Lincoln”
• “Skyfall”

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• “Anna Karenina”
• “Les Miserables”
• “Lincoln”
• “Mirror Mirror”
• “Snow White and the Huntsman”

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”
• “Life of Pi
• “Lincoln”
• “Silver Linings Playbook”
• “Zero Dark Thirty”

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

• “Hitchcock”
• “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
• “Les Miserables”

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• “Anna Karenina”
• “Argo”
• “Life of Pi”
• “Lincoln”
• “Skyfall”

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 ACTION SHORT

• “Asad”
• “Buzkashi Boys"
• “Curfew”
• “Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)”
• “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's The Avengers”
• “Prometheus”
• “Snow White and the Huntsman”