[List] Nominees for the 85th Academy Awards

"Really, really bad surprises! No woman and 'the next Eastwood' in Best Director! Lincoln leads (again!) with 12 nominations, and Life of Pi follows with 11, while Les Miserables and Silver Lining Playbook get 8, and Argo gets 7 without (once again), Ben Affleck."

Apa jadinya Oscar tanpa kejutan? That will be totally boring, tapi tentu penuh kontroversi. Dan hal yang sama terjadi pada Oscar tahun ini. Di luar dugaan, nama Ben Affleck dan Kathryn Bigelow, sutradara Argo dan Zero Dark Thirty, hilang dari daftar nominasi Best Director. Banyak yang kecewa? Tentu, termasuk saya yang kecewa berat. Untungnya, rasa kekecewaan saya sedikit terbayar (sedikit log, sedikit), karena pengganti mereka, menurut saya juga pantas mendapatkannya. Adalah Benh Zeitlin dan Michael Haneke, untuk Beasts of the Southern Wild dan Amour. Ya! Kejutan lain datang dari Amour. Meski merupakan front-runner untuk Best Foreign Languange, tapi Amour memang termasuk kuda hitam dalam nominasi utama, karena Amour bukanlah film berbahasa Inggris. Seingat saya, terakhir kalinya sebuah film berbahasa asing yang masuk dalam Best Picture dan Best Director adalah Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon dari Ang Lee, yang masuk juga karena filmnya termasuk produksi AS. Sedangkan Amour? Sama sekali bukan tak ada ikut campur AS, namun secara mengejutkan berhasil menembus Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, dan Best Actress. Well, meski Best Director cukup mengecewakan, Best Actress hadir dengan pilihan yang sangat tepat sekaligus paling unik: Chastain, Lawrence, Wallis, Riva, dan Watts. Unik? Ya, dari nominator termuda Wallis, hingga nominator tertua Riva, semuanya mendapatkan tempat tersendiri.

Dan seperti yang orang lain perkirakan, Lincoln kembali mendominasi kali ini dengan 12 nominasi, diikuti oleh Life of Pi yang mengantongi 11. Sedangkan, musikal (Les Miserables) dan komedi (Silver Lining Playbook) mendapat bagian yang sama rata, 8 nominasi. Thriller dari Affleck, Argo berdiri sendiri dengan 7 nominasi. Lima nominasi juga didapatkan oleh Amour, Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty, dan Skyfall. Anna Karanina mengantongi 4 nominasi, yang seluruhnya merupakan teknis, berbanding terbalik dengan Beasts of the Southern Wild, yang juga mendapat 4 nominasi pula, namun seluruhnya merupakan penghargaan utama. Dan inilah daftar nominasi selengkapnya beserta prediksi saya (hanya untuk awards non-teknis, bukan film pendek, dan dokumenter, yang bukan hanya didasarkan pendapat saya, tapi juga buzz yang mereka terima), mulai dari Amour dan Argo, hingga Silver Linings Playbook serta Zero Dark Thirty.

Best Picture

Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Lincoln
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Will win: Lincoln

Best Director

Michael Haneke – Amour

Ang Lee – Life of Pi

David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook

Steven Spielberg – Lincoln

Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Will win: Steven Spielberg 

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook

Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln

Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables

Joaquin Phoenix – The Master

Denzel Washington – Flight

Will win: Daniel Day-Lewis 

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty

Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva – Amour

Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Naomi Watts – The Impossible

Will win: Jennifer Lawrence or Jessica Chastain

Best Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin – Argo

Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook

Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained

Will win: Philip Seymour Hoffman or Tommy Lee Jones

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams – The Master

Sally Field – Lincoln

Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables

Helen Hunt – The Sessions

Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook

Will win: Anne Hathaway

Best Writing – Original Screenplay

Amour – Michael Haneke

Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino

Flight – John Gatins

Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola

Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

Will win: Django Unchained

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay

Argo – Chris Terrio

Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin

Life of Pi – David Magee

Lincoln – Tony Kushner

Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell

Will win: Lincoln

Best Animated Feature

Brave

Frankenweenie

ParaNorman

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Wreck-It Ralph

Will win: Brave, Frankenweenie, or Wreck-It Ralph

Best Foreign Language Film

Amour

Kon-Tiki

No

A Royal Affair

War Witch

Will win: Amour

Best Documentary – Feature

5 Broken Cameras

The Gatekeepers

How to Survive a Plague

The Invisible War

Searching for Sugar Man

Best Documentary – Short Subject

Inocente

Kings Point

Open Heart

Redemption

Mondays at Racine

Best Live Action Short Film

Asad

Buzkashi Boys

Curfew

Death of a Shadow (Dood Van Een Schaduw)

Henry

Best Animated Short Film

Adam and Dog

Fresh Guacamole

Head over Heels

The Longest Daycare

Paperman

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 – J. Ralph

“Everybody Needs a Best Friend” from Ted – Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane

“Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi – Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri

“Skyfall” from Skyfall – Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth

“Suddenly” from Les Misérables – Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Best Sound Editing

Argo – Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn

Django Unchained – Wylie Stateman

Life of Pi – Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton

Skyfall – Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers

Zero Dark Thirty – Paul N. J. Ottosson

Best Sound Mixing

Argo – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia

Les Misérables – Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes

Life of Pi – Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin

Lincoln – Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins

Skyfall – Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

Best Production Design

Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood & Katie Spencer

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent and Simon Bright

Les Misérables - Eve Stewart & Anna Lynch-Robinson

Life of Pi – David Gropman & Anna Pinnock

Lincoln – Rick Carter & Jim Erickson

Best Cinematography

Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey

Django Unchained – Robert Richardson

Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda

Lincoln – Janusz Kaminski

Skyfall – Roger Deakins

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Hitchcock

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Les Misérables

Best 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 Film Editing

Argo – William Goldenberg

Life of Pi – Tim Squyres

Lincoln – Michael Kahn

Silver Linings Playbook – Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers

Zero Dark Thirty – Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

Best Visual Effects

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White

Life of Pi – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott

Marvel’s The Avengers – Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick

Prometheus – Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill

Snow White and the Huntsman – Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson