84th Academy Awards (Oscars) Nominations

The 84th Oscar nominees were announced this morning. While there weren’t that many surprises (Hugo and The Artist have almost a billion nominations each), there were some shockers in the bunch (The Adventures of Tintin was not nominated for Best Animated Feature).

I’ll be offering some commentary on the nominations during the Weekly Movie Podcast tonight as well as looking at the Golden Globe winners from last week and the BAFTA nominations which also were announced a couple of days ago. There will also be an in-depth look into the Academy Awards nominations and the Golden Globes winners this Friday in the Weekly Movie Newsletter (along with reviews of many of the films nominated for both sets of awards).

Click more to see the nominees for the 84th Academy Awards.

The 84th Academy Awards

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
2012 Academy Awards (Oscars)
January 26th, 2012

**Predicted winners in blue when available**
**Golden Globe Winner in Bold**

Best Picture

• The Artist (Thomas Langmann)
• The Descendants (Jim Burke, Jim Taylor, Alexander Payne)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Scott Rudin)
• The Help (Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan)
• Hugo (Graham King, Martin Scoresese)
• Midnight In Paris (Lefty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum)
• Moneyball (Michael De Luca, Rachel Horowitz, Brad Pitt)
• The Tree of Life (Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad) 
• War Horse (Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Demian Bichir (A Better Life)
• George Clooney (The Descendants)
• Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
• Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
• Brad Pitt – (Moneyball)

Best Actrees in a Leading Role

• Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs)
• Viola Davis (The Help)
• Rooney Mara (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)
• Meryl Streep (Iron Lady)
• Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn)

Best 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 and Incredibly Close)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Berenice Bejo (The Artist)
• Jessica Chastain (The Help)
• Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids)
• Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs)
• Octavia Spencer (The Help)

Best Animated Feature Film

• A Cat in Paris (Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli)
• Chico and Rita (Fernadndo Trueba and Javier Mariscal)
• Kung Fu Panda 2 (Jennifer Yuh Nelson)
• Puss In Boots (Chris Miller)
• Rango (Gore Verbinski)

Best Art Direction

• The Artist
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
• Hugo
• Midnight in Paris
• War Horse

Best 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)

Best Costume Design

• Anonymous
• The Artist
• Hugo
• Jane Eyre
• W.E.

Best Director

• Woody Allen (Midnight In Paris)
• Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
• Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)
• Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
• Martin Scorsese (Hugo)

Best Documentary

• Hell and Back Again (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)

Best Film Editing

• The Artist (
• The Descendants
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Hugo
• Moneyball

Best Foreign Language Film

• Bullhead (Belgium)
• Footnote (Israel)
• In Darkness (Poland)
• Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
• A Separation (Iran)

Best Makeup

• Albert Nobbs
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
• The Iron Lady

Best Original Score

• Ludovic Bource (The Artist)
• Albert Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
• Howard Shore (Hugo)
• John Williams (The Adventures of Tintin)
• John Williams (War Horse)

Best Original Song

• “Man or Muppet” – The Muppets (Music and Lyrics By: Bret McKenzie)
• “Real in Rio” – Rio (Music By: Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown, Lyrics 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 Zahle and Stefan Gieren)
• The Shore (Terry George and Oorlagh George)
• Time Freak (Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey)
• Tuba Atlantic (Hallvar Witzo)

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 Richarson)
• 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)

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

• The Descendants (Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne, Jim Rash)
• Hugo (John Logan)
• The Ides of March (George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon)
• Moneyball (Stan Chervin, Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan)

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

• The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
• Bridesmaids (Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig)
• Margin Call (J.C. Chandor)
• Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
• A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)

 

Films in Order of Nominations

Film	Nominations
Hugo	11
The Artist	10
War Horse	8
Moneyball	6
The Descendants	5
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	5
The Help	4
Midnight in Paris	4
Albert Nobbs	3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2	3
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	3
Transformers: Dark of the Moon	3
The Tree of Life	3
A Separation	2
Bridesmaids	2
Extremly Loud and Incredibly Close	2
The Iron Lady	2
My Week with Marilyn	2

Above is the list of the nominees by category for the 84th Academy Awards. The official list can be found on the official site of the Academy Awards at: http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/84/nominees.html