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Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Leads Oscars With 12 Nominations
« on: January 10, 2013, 02:21:32 pm »
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Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Leads Oscars With 12 Nominations
Thursday, January 10, 2013 09:07 AM

 

(AP) — The Civil War saga "Lincoln" leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture, director for Steven Spielberg, and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and Tommy Lee Jones.
 
Also among the nine nominees for best picture Thursday: the old-age love story "Amour"; the Iran hostage thriller "Argo"; the independent hit "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; the slave-revenge narrative "Django Unchained"; the musical "Les Miserables"; the shipwreck story "Life of Pi"; the lost-souls romance "Silver Linings Playbook"; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle "Zero Dark Thirty."
 
Chronicling Abraham Lincoln's final months as he engineers passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, "Lincoln" stars best-actor contender Day-Lewis in a monumental performance as the 16th president, supporting-actress nominee Field as the notoriously headstrong Mary Todd Lincoln, and supporting-actor prospect Jones as abolitionist firebrand Thaddeus Stevens.
 
Joining Day-Lewis in the best-actor field are Bradley Cooper as a psychiatric patient trying to get his life back together in "Silver Linings Playbook"; Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo's tragic hero Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables"; Joaquin Phoenix as a Navy vet who falls in with a cult in "The Master"; and Denzel Washington as a boozy airline pilot in "Flight."
 
Nominated for best actress are Jessica Chastain as a CIA operative hunting bin Laden in "Zero Dark Thirty"; Jennifer Lawrence as a troubled young widow struggling to heal in "Silver Linings Playbook"; Emmanuelle Riva as an ailing woman tended by her husband in "Amour"; Quvenzhane Wallis as a spirited girl on the Louisiana delta in "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; and Naomi Watts as a mother caught up in a devastating tsunami in "The Impossible."
 
Along with Field, supporting-actress nominees are Amy Adams as a cult leader's devoted wife in "The Master"; Anne Hathaway as an outcast mother reduced to prostitution in "Les Miserables"; Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate in "The Sessions"; and Jacki Weaver as an unstable man's doting mom in "Silver Linings Playbook."
 
Besides Jones, the supporting-actor contenders are Alan Arkin as a wily Hollywood producer in "Argo"; Robert De Niro as a football-obsessed patriarch in "Silver Linings Playbook"; Philip Seymour Hoffman as a dynamic cult leader in "The Master"; and Christoph Waltz as a genteel bounty hunter in "Django Unchained."
 
The Oscars feature a best-picture field that ranges from five to 10 films depending on a complex formula of ballots from the 5,856 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
 
Winners for the 85th Oscars will be announced Feb. 24 at a ceremony aired live on ABC from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre.
 
"Family Guy" creator and vocal star Seth MacFarlane — a versatile performer whose work includes directing and voicing for the title character of last summer's hit "Ted" and a Frank Sinatra-style album of standards — is the Oscar host.
 
Thursday's nominees will be announced at 8:40 a.m. EST by "The Amazing Spider-Man" star Emma Stone and MacFarlane, the first time that an Oscar show host has joined in the preliminary announcement since 1972, when Charlton Heston participated on nominations day.
 
 
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Re: Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Leads Oscars With 12 Nominations
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2013, 02:34:10 pm »
So far, The Life of Pi was the movie I enjoyed most this year.  I find it hard to believe the young man who was the lead actor in that movie was not nominated.  I liked Lincoln, but found it too reverent and contrived for my taste, but it was saved by Lewis' masterful performance.  Will see Lez Miz this weekend.

This is the first I have heard of The Master.  Sounds like a promising movie.

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Re: Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Leads Oscars With 12 Nominations
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2013, 08:09:16 pm »
A worthy lot of candidates this year for a change, except why is Zero Dark Thirty even in the running?   I like a good war movie like anyone else, but unless they are on epic level such as Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day, Tora Tora Tora, they usually don’t stand a chance for Best Picture.   I haven’t seen the movie, so I’m not going to critique  it, but you know that if Bin Laden would have been killed during the Bush years, there is no way it would be a contender.
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Re: Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Leads Oscars With 12 Nominations
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2013, 02:14:59 am »
"Django Unchained"????????????  WHY!!!!!!!

I really liked Master.  Have not been in the mood to see Les Miz, I saw the play twice.

Have not heard about Master, either, but Joaquin Phoenix while crazy as a koot is an outstanding actor... 

I don't get Zero Dark Thirty being named at all.  Would think it's between Argo or Lincoln.
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Re: Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Leads Oscars With 12 Nominations
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2013, 04:34:00 am »
"Django Unchained"????????????  WHY!!!!!!!

I really liked Master.  Have not been in the mood to see Les Miz, I saw the play twice.

Have not heard about Master, either, but Joaquin Phoenix while crazy as a koot is an outstanding actor... 

I don't get Zero Dark Thirty being named at all.  Would think it's between Argo or Lincoln.

In saw Django and actually liked it until about the time the German guy died.  It devolved from there.  Like most Tarantino films, I found it well-made and vicariously entertaining, but then afterwards I felt like I had been watching pornography for a couple of hours.  It's all so gratuitous and pointless.

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Re: Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Leads Oscars With 12 Nominations
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2013, 04:38:44 am »
I am decidedly not a Tarantino fan.
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Re: Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Leads Oscars With 12 Nominations
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2013, 01:13:35 pm »
I saw Silver Linings Playbook last weekend and liked it well enough, but up there with the Oscar contender biggies?  Not sure about that--I liked and appreciated Argo a lot more.

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Re: Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Leads Oscars With 12 Nominations
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2013, 01:57:40 pm »
I went to see Django after my son told me it was his favorite Tarantino movie.

Didn't care for it that much.  Too long and too long.

For entertainment and a change of pace perhaps it serves the purpose, but no thanks.

Won't see Lincoln because I'm satisfied in the history taught me by the Sisters of Mercy and the Jesuits and Franciscans.  Don't need revisionist history data input (garbage in....)
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Re: Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Leads Oscars With 12 Nominations
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2013, 10:30:56 pm »
Actually Steinberg stuck to history...surprising.
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