Oscar 2012 Nominees Announced

The Academy announced the nominations for the 84th annual Academy Awards on Tuesday. Nominees were announced by Jennifer Lawrence and Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Martin Scorsese’s 3D ode to movies, Hugo, leads the field with 11 nominations with silent film The Artist following with 10. With a new voting procedure implemented and the nominees in the best picture category not revealed in alphabetical order, nine films were named, including War Horse, The Tree of Life and The Descendants.

This year’s Oscar nominations didn’t offer any colossal surprises, but a few of the slights have some people being pretty surprised. Gary Oldman has finally gotten a nomination in Best Actor for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The Tree of Life and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close earned Best Picture nominations, bringing the total number of nominees to nine, one less than the maximum limit. The elusive Terrence Malick scored a nomination for directing Tree of Life, and film legend von Sydow made the cut for his supporting role in Extremely Loud.

Rooney Mara’s Best Actress nomination made for a minor surprise. Her nod was the only major nomination for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which was passed over for Best Picture, Director and Writing. Perhaps the biggest oversight from Dragon Tattoo was the hypnotic score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, last year’s Best Score winners for The Social Network. The nomination that may have brought on some of the biggest cheers around the country was the Best Supporting Actress nod for the breakout star from Bridesmaids, Melissa McCarthy. She had been passed over for a Golden Globe nomination, but she made the Oscar cut along with her co-star Kristen Wiig, who was nominated for co-writing the screenplay.

Best Picture
War Horse

The Artist

Moneyball

The Descendants

The Tree of Life
 (Pictured)
Midnight in Paris

The Help

Hugo

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Viola Davis, The Help (pictured)
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn

Actor in a Leading Role
Demian Bichir, A Better Life
George Clooney, The Descendants (pictured)
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt, Moneyball

Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Nick Nolte, Warrior
Christopher Plummer, Beginners (pictured)
Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Actress in a Supporting Role
Berenice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs (pictured)
Octavia Spencer, The Help

Directing
Michel Hazanivicus, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo (pictured)
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

Art Direction
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2(Pictured)
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
War Horse

Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Artist

Bridesmaids

Midnight in Paris
 (Pictured)
Margin Call

A Separation

Makeup
Albert Nobbs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Iron Lady (Pictured)

Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hugo
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Pictured)
Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon

Cinematography
The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
The Tree of Life
War Horse (Pictured)

Costume Design
Anonymous (Pictured)
The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.

Sound Editing
Drive (Pictured)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon
War Horse

Film Editing
The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Pictured)
Hugo
Moneyball

Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants
Hugo
Ides of March (Pictured)
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Sound Mixing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball (Pictured)
Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon
War Horse

Best Animated Feature
A Cat in Paris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango (Pictured)

Original Score
The Adventures of Tintin
The Artist
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Pictured)
War Horse

Original Song
Man or Muppet from The Muppets (Pictured)
Real in Rio from Rio

Documentary (Feature)
Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Pictured)
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
Undefeated

Trailers:

Hugo

The Artist

The Tree of Life

The Descendants

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The Help

Moneyball

Midnight In Paris

War Horse

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