| Best Picture |
Best Director |
- Amour – Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Michael Katz
- Argo – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney
- Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, and Michael Gottwald
- Django Unchained – Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, and Pilar Savone
- Les Misérables – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh
- Life of Pi – Gil Netter, Ang Lee, and David Womark
- Lincoln – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
- Silver Linings Playbook – Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen, and Jonathan Gordon
- Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, and Megan Ellison
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- Michael Haneke – Amour
- Ang Lee – Life of Pi
- David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
- Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
- Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
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| Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook as Pat Solitano Jr.
- Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
- Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
- Joaquin Phoenix – The Master as Freddie Quell
- Denzel Washington – Flight as William "Whip" Whitaker
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- Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty as Maya
- Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell
- Emmanuelle Riva – Amour as Anne Laurent
- Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild as Hushpuppy
- Naomi Watts – The Impossible as Maria Bennett
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| Best Supporting Actor |
Best Supporting Actress |
- Alan Arkin – Argo as Lester Siegel
- Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook as Pat Solitano Sr.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master as Lancaster Dodd
- Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln as Thaddeus Stevens
- Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained as Dr. King Schultz
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- Amy Adams – The Master as Peggy Dodd
- Sally Field – Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln
- Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables as Fantine
- Helen Hunt – The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene
- Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook as Dolores Solitano
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| Best Writing – Original Screenplay |
Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay |
- Amour – Michael Haneke
- Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
- Flight – John Gatins
- Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
- Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal
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- Argo – Chris Terrio from The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez & The Great Escape by Joshuah Bearman
- Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin from Juicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar
- Life of Pi – David Magee from Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Lincoln – Tony Kushner from Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell from The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
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| Best Animated Feature |
Best Foreign Language Film |
- Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
- Frankenweenie – Tim Burton
- ParaNorman – Sam Fell and Chris Butler
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits – Peter Lord
- Wreck-It Ralph – Rich Moore
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- Amour (Austria)
- Kon-Tiki (Norway)
- No (Chile)
- A Royal Affair (Denmark)
- War Witch (Canada)
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| Best Documentary – Feature |
Best Documentary – Short Subject |
- 5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
- The Gatekeepers – Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, and Estelle Fialon
- How to Survive a Plague – David France and Howard Gertler
- The Invisible War – Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
- Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn
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- Inocente – Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
- Kings Point – Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
- Mondays at Racine – Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
- Open Heart – Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
- Redemption – Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
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| Best Live Action Short Film |
Best Animated Short Film |
- Asad – Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
- Buzkashi Boys – Sam French and Ariel Nasr
- Curfew – Shawn Christensen
- Death of a Shadow (Dood Van Een Schaduw) – Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
- Henry – Yan England
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- Adam and Dog – Minkyu Lee
- Fresh Guacamole – PES
- Head over Heels – Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
- The Longest Daycare – David Silverman
- Paperman – John Kahrs
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| Best Original Score |
Best Original Song |
- Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli
- Argo – Alexandre Desplat
- Life of Pi – Mychael Danna
- Lincoln – John Williams
- Skyfall – Thomas Newman
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- "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
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| Best Sound Editing |
Best Sound Mixing |
- 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
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- 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
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| Best Production Design |
Best Cinematography |
- Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent, and Simon Bright
- Les Misérables – Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson
- Life of Pi – David Gropman and Anna Pinnock
- Lincoln – Rick Carter and Jim Erickson
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- Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey
- Django Unchained – Robert Richardson
- Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda
- Lincoln – Janusz Kamiński
- Skyfall – Roger Deakins
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| Best Makeup and Hairstyling |
Best Costume Design |
- Hitchcock – Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, and Martin Samuel
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater, and Tami Lane
- Les Misérables – Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
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- Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran
- Les Misérables – Paco Delgado
- Lincoln – Joanna Johnston
- Mirror Mirror – Eiko Ishioka
- Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood
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| Best Film Editing |
Best Visual Effects |
- 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
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- 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
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