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| Oscars: Silver Linings surprise contender, while Lincoln dominates | Oscars: Silver Linings surprise contender, while Lincoln dominates |
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| The 2013 Academy Award nominations have been announced in Hollywood, with Steven Spielberg's drama Lincoln dominating the shortlist with 12 . | The 2013 Academy Award nominations have been announced in Hollywood, with Steven Spielberg's drama Lincoln dominating the shortlist with 12 . |
| Ang Lee's Life of Pi secured 11 nominations, while romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook secured a nod in all six of the major categories. | Ang Lee's Life of Pi secured 11 nominations, while romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook secured a nod in all six of the major categories. |
| Nine films vie for the best picture award including action thriller Zero Dark Thirty, Argo and Les Miserables. | Nine films vie for the best picture award including action thriller Zero Dark Thirty, Argo and Les Miserables. |
| But Dame Helen Mirren missed out on a best actress nomination for Hitchcock. | But Dame Helen Mirren missed out on a best actress nomination for Hitchcock. |
| Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, Beasts of the Southern Wild and French language film Amour complete the list of best picture contenders. | |
| Emmanuelle Riva and Quvenzhane Wallis became the oldest and youngest nominees in the best actress category at the age of 85 and nine respectively. | Emmanuelle Riva and Quvenzhane Wallis became the oldest and youngest nominees in the best actress category at the age of 85 and nine respectively. |
| Wallis, who was picked from obscurity to play the lead in Benh Zeitlin's Sundance winner Beasts of the Southern Wild, was just six when she took the role of a young girl stranded by rising waters and tending to a sick father in a remote corner of Louisiana. | |
| Riva, a respected film actress in France, plays a retired music teacher afflicted by a stroke in Michael Haneke's Amour, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival last year. | |
| As well as both films appearing in the best film nominations, Haneke and newcomer Zeitlin won nominations in the best director category. | |
| They will face competition from Spielberg, Ang Lee and Silver Linings Playbook David O Russell. But there was no nomination for Zero Dark Thirty's Kathryn Bigelow, who was named best director by the National Board of Review in the autumn, and had been considered a frontrunner following nominations at the Baftas and the Golden Globes. | |
| Bigelow became the first woman to win the best director Oscar with The Hurt Locker at the Academy Awards in 2010. | |
| Prior to the nominations it has been suggested that Skyfall might become the first Bond film to win a best picture nod, but the film was not shortlisted in any of the major categories despite Bafta nominations for Dame Judi Dench and Javier Bardem earlier this week. | |
| However Adele did win a place on the best song shortlist, while the film received a further four nominations in the technical categories. | |
| The ceremony will take place at the Dolby Theatre on 24 February. | The ceremony will take place at the Dolby Theatre on 24 February. |
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| The Oscars ceremony will also be hosted by Seth MacFarlane, who created the animated series Family Guy. | |
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| It has already been announced that the star-studded event will feature a tribute to 50 years of the James Bond movie franchise. | It has already been announced that the star-studded event will feature a tribute to 50 years of the James Bond movie franchise. |
| "We are very happy to include a special sequence on our show saluting the Bond films on their 50th birthday," said the producers of the Oscars show, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. | "We are very happy to include a special sequence on our show saluting the Bond films on their 50th birthday," said the producers of the Oscars show, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. |
| The nominations are selected by a ballot of 6,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with this year's contenders being announced two weeks earlier than usual. | |
| The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said the move would "provide members and the public a longer period of time to see the nominated films". | The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said the move would "provide members and the public a longer period of time to see the nominated films". |
| The Bafta nominations were announced on Wednesday with Lincoln leading the way in 12 categories. |