Oscar fever 2013 – Nominees
Yes, it’s that time of the year.
With the closing of the Glasgow Film Festival, we celebrate another film event. In only a couple of hours will begin the 85th Academy Awards, hosted by Seth Macfarlane. Among the presenters are Robert Downey Jr, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Afflek and Jenifer Aniston, and for the good mood of both celebrities and us, the ordinary people in front of the screen, will perform Adele, Dame Shirley Bassey, Norah Jones and Barbra Streisand.
And now, time for the nominees!
The nominees for Best Picture are:
Life of Pie
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Suraj Sharma, Irffan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu
Release date: November 21, 2012
Beasts of the Southern
Director: Behn Zeitlin
Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes
Release date: December 4, 2012
Argo
Director: Ben Afflek
Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin
Release date: February 19, 2013
Amour
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud
Release date: May 20, 2012
Silver Linings Playbook
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver
Release date: September 8, 2012
Django Unchained
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington
Release date: December 25, 2012
Les Miserables
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway
Release date: December 5, 2012
Zero Dark Thirty
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong
Release date: December 19, 2012
Best director
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
Michael Haneke – Amour
Benh Zeitlin – Bests of the Southern Wild
Angle Lee – Life of Pie
David O. Russell – Silver Lining Playbook
Best actor
Daniel Day Lewis – Lincoln
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Jeniffer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible
I think you already know who my favourites are. Stick around, because tomorrow I’ll be presenting the winners. We’ll see if I guessed at least one. 🙂
M. Stefanova, 2013
