UPDATE: Watch The Nominations For The 85th ACADEMY AWARDS Live Right Here
Things kick off in a little under an hour, when Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone will announce the nominations for this year's Oscars. TDKR is the big CBM hope outside of any technical nods, but we'll be keeping a close eye on Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained too..
The nominations will be announced this morning at 8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 a.m. PT by host Seth MacFarlane and actress Emma Stone at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. You can watch the live feed below, then drop back for a full list of the noms and to see if we had any CBM joy afterwards. For now sound off below - do you think Christopher Nolan and The Dark Knight Rises have any chance?
UPDATE: Nothing for TDKR unfortunately, but Django Unchained picked up a best picture nom, and Christoph Waltz a best supporting actor nod too. Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class) and Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises) also picked up nominations for Silver Linings Playbook and Les Miserables respectively. As usual, any love shown to CBM/fantasy/sci-fi was left for the visual effects category, in which The Avengers, The Hobbit and Prometheus scored noms. Here is the list of the major nominations.
Best Picture
"Amour"
"Argo"
"Beasts Of The Southern Wild"
"Django Unchained"
"Les Miserables"
"Life Of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
Best Director
Michael Haneke - "Amour"
Benh Zeitlin - "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Ang Lee - "Life Of Pi"
Steven Spielberg - "Lincoln"
David O. Russell - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Actor In A Leading Role
Denzel Washington - "Flight"
Hugh Jackman - "Les Miserables"
Daniel Day-Lewis - "Lincoln"
Joaquin Phoenix - "The Master"
Bradley Cooper - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Actress In A Leading Role
Emmanuelle Riva - "Amour"
Quvenzhane Wallis - "Beasts Of The Southern Wild"
Naomi Watts - "The Impossible"
Jennifer Lawrence - "Silver Linings PLaybook"
Jessica Chastain - "Zero Dark Thirty"
Best Actor In A Supporting Role
Alan Arkin - "Argo"
Christoph Waltz - "Django Unchained"
Tommy Lee Jones - "Lincoln"
Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Master"
Robert De Niro - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Actress In A Supporting Role
Anne Hathaway - "Les Miserables"
Sally Field - "Lincoln"
Amy Adams "The Master"
Helen Hunt - "The Sessions"
Jacki Weaver - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Original Screenplay
Michael Haneke - "Amour"
Quentin Tarantino - "Django Unchained"
John Gatins - "Flight"
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola - "Moonrise Kingdom"
Mark Boal - "Zero Dark Thirty"
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 Foreign Language Film
"Amour"
"Kon-Tiki"
"No"
"A Royal Affair"
"War Witch"
Best Animated Feature Film
"Brave"
"Frankenweenie"
"ParaNorman"
"The Pirates"
"Wreck-It Ralph"
Best Original Song
"Chasing Ice"
"Life Of Pi"
"Ted"
"Les Miserables"
"Skyfall"
Visual Effects
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Life of Pi"
"The Avengers"
"Prometheus"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"
The 85th Academy Awards will air Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theater at Hollywood & Highland Center.
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