2013 Academy Awards Nominations

Injustice! Leo should have been nominated

Jan 10 - 07:17 AM

Very happy about Michael Haneke's "Amour" can gain so many nominations. It will be better if Jean-Louis Trintignant can be a nominee for Best Actor. And the academy recognize independent films such as "Amour" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild". :)

Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" gets snubbed. :(

Jan 10 - 07:24 AM

Matthew Younker

I don't see how The Master got snubbed, it picked up three acting awards and although people really really were hoping for a BP, BD, BSP it really was a film powered by performances.

Jan 10 - 07:30 AM

Janson Jinnistan

It was an excellently made film. People don't like ambiguity, but it deals with primal, gnomic material. (It isn't actually about Scientology) It's a masterpiece.

Jan 10 - 10:21 AM

Smartx MU

echoing the grudges,the master isnt in the best picture ? And pta as best director ? her movie got the nod for best picture, but bigelow's not in ? Just like ben afleck ? shocking...truly shocking

Jan 10 - 07:25 AM

Matthew Younker

Every year the Academy manages to throw a few curve balls and this year it's clearly with the Director's category. I think we can safely rule out Zero Dark Thirty, Les Miserables, Argo and Django Unchained for Best Picture this year. The only films well situated to knock off Lincoln are Life of Pi (which did amazingly well today) and Silver Linings Playbook.

Jan 10 - 07:27 AM

Pablo Urbina

The most surprising thing with the Best Director nominations are the surprising absences of Ben Affleck and Quentin Tarantino.

Jan 10 - 07:37 AM

Vyom Nautiyal

Funny how all the best supporting actor nominees have all already won Oscars before...

Jan 10 - 07:27 AM

Steven Scott

So The Dark Knight Rises gets no nominations, but Snow White and the Huntsman does? And just as an add on I'm fine with the rest!

Jan 10 - 07:31 AM

Christopher Aull

I agree. I'm really disappointed that TDKR didn't get a single nomination when SWatH and even Mirror Mirror did. That's just utter BS.

Jan 10 - 07:59 AM

Susy Schwatz

I agree too. Mirror mirror and SWatH are basically painful to watch. I mean, ok, SWatH had some nice animated deer and trees but it's not Oscar material.

Jan 10 - 03:00 PM

Big Brother

Special Effects wise that Troll scene in SWaTH was pretty awesome even if the rest of the movie sans Theron was a disappointment.

Jan 10 - 05:09 PM

Nick Clavette

Again, they blew off Christopher Nolan a nomination for Best Director. Why?! He was fantastic directing The Dark Knight Rises

Jan 10 - 07:31 AM

WS Shannon

No he wasn't. TDKR was filled with plot holes and inconsistencies, despite good action scenes and some drama. It definitely wasn't Best Director worthy like The Dark Knight was.

Jan 10 - 08:28 AM

Mark Burdette

TDKR was a terrible film. The scene between Catwoman and Daggett where the "Clean Slate" is being obnoxiously overly simplified for the audience alone makes this flick Razzie-worthy. And the action scenes really weren't great. All the extras play-fighting during all the final scenes were so distracting and laughable.

Jan 10 - 10:07 AM

Dave J

I don't know some of those scenes were conveniently identicle to "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" and theirs obviously a direct correalation with all three films!

And to say it deserves a "Razzie" in comparison to Burton's Batman films makes Nolans third film a masterpiece since in Burton's version Batman didn't need an introduction to the character at all whatsoever since it's assumed that because he's already in comic books that he didn't really need one- now that's pretentious!

Jan 10 - 01:23 PM

Jason Cook

LOL, there was not one plot hole in the entire DKR film. TDKR was a great film other wise it would have nevee won the AFI best picture award which carries much more prestige over this joke of an award. TDKR was never going to get a nom for best picture anyway. I mean one it was based on a comic book film and the other because of the shooting.

Jan 10 - 09:49 PM

Zane Morrow

Theres no Ben Affleck for best director or Katharine Bigelow but Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook are in for Best Director so I will be fine with those two they fit in good.

Jan 10 - 07:32 AM

Pablo Urbina

What is the world coming to? Quentin Tarantino and Ben Affleck have NOT been nominated for Best Director????? I haven't seen Argo, but it looks phenomenal.

Leonardo DiCaprio is snubbed YET again! WHAT IS UP WITH THAT??????

Jan 10 - 07:36 AM

Fareed Kairon

Paul Thomas Anderson
Christopher Nolan
Ben Affleck
Kathryn Bigelow
Quentin Tarentino

That is what best director should look like!! The actual nominees are alright, though most of these movies won't be the ones I'll think about when I think 2012. Films like Django Unchained and The Dark Knight Rises. Love 'em or hate 'em, we're gonna remember those.

Jan 10 - 07:51 AM

Prithvi Chowdhury

The Academy had a choice: Either make it super exciting for us, or, make it really easy for them to vote. They chose the latter.

Jan 10 - 11:48 AM

Saetre Saetre

No Looper for Best Picture? Dayum shayum.

Jan 10 - 08:02 AM

Max Ben

no looper
Disappointing

Jan 10 - 08:02 AM

Shin Charli

this year is very strong male supporting actor all straight as the selection, had long straight probably smash his head to decide who once, unfortunately it again DiCaprio, although not yet received a nomination for the wonderful Samuel L Jackson for his role in Django. important omission is the lack of academics Ben Affleck in nomenatsii best director and no film Wes Anderson

Jan 10 - 08:05 AM

Christopher Greffin

Bigelow! No!!! Biggest snub in decades. But at least on the bright side two great critical gems, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Amour, will get some very worthy attension from their surprise director nomination.

Jan 10 - 08:06 AM

Shin Charli

she received an Oscar for Best Director has decided to give a chance to other

Jan 10 - 08:10 AM

Mick Travis

Screw Reifenstahl, she won already so let her move on.

Jan 10 - 08:30 AM

Big Brother

Why don't you switch it up a bit Mick, call her Goebbals once or Himmler just to spice it up a bit. Despite not agreeing with it's premise you never say it's actually a bad movie which I find interesting.

Jan 10 - 05:12 PM

Mick Travis

I don't think it's a bad movie, I actually think it's an extremely well made movie. That's why I'm telling people to just not waste money on it.

Jan 11 - 06:36 PM

Gage Kent

Dude, shut up. Please. Do everyone a favor.

Jan 13 - 12:36 AM

Mick Travis

No problem...derp, derp...

Jan 13 - 11:15 AM

Tyler Massingale

I bet Kathryn Bigelow is pissed!!!

Jan 10 - 08:07 AM

Shin Charli

James Cameron to comfort her, buying her Toyota

Jan 10 - 08:13 AM

Mick Travis

FFS!

Jan 10 - 08:30 AM

Ryan Shuman

It's pretty apparent that Lincoln is going to win Best Picture, since its only competition- Argo, Django, Zero Dark Thirty, The Master- do not have nominations in the Best Director category. And like people before me have said, the last film to win a Best Picture and not even be nominated for a Best Director was Driving Miss Daisy. Also, snubs for Moonrise Kingdom and The Master...

Jan 10 - 08:14 AM

Will Morrow

That would be a shame. A nice movie, but nothing truly special. I like Django, Master, and Silver Linings much better.

Jan 10 - 09:04 AM

William Muniz

gladiator, crash, shakespeare in love, and chicago won best picture but not best director

Jan 10 - 10:54 AM

Big Brother

But all their directors were at least nominated.

Jan 10 - 05:13 PM

Sebastian Diaz

not a single for Dark Knight Rises or the Avengers, ik HUGE box office hits but i mean for stuff like sound mix, sound effects you know... and DKR for score but there is not Tarantino on best director nor is Bigelow :/ great films this year imo

Jan 10 - 08:23 AM

Sebastian Diaz

also why didn't the intouchables got nominated for best foreign?

Jan 10 - 08:23 AM

Antonio Chidiac

Ben Affleck's snub from that Best director list is the biggest oscar snub since Nolan's subs for both "Inception" and "The Dark Knight". Shame... Sorry Ben.

Jan 10 - 08:27 AM

King Simba

It would be impossible for the academy to please everyone, but I think their choices were pretty good for the most part. The biggest surprises for me are the best director nominations. For a while, I was thinking that the oscar race would be between Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and (in the case that the academy wants to choose a film from a director who hasn't yet won an oscar) Django Unchained. However, with Kathryn Bigelow and Quentin Tarentino out of the best director race, it looks almost certain that Lincoln is going to be the big winner come oscar night.

Jan 10 - 08:30 AM

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