'Lincoln', 'Life of Pi' Lead Oscar Nominations

Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' earned the most Oscar nominations with 12, ahead of Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi,' with 11 nods, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday.

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SHOTLIST : LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 10, 2013, SOURCE: ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES (AMPAS)) **NO RESALE for non-editorial purposes** Hosts announcing the nominees: The best picture nominees for 2012 are: "Beasts of the Southern Wild" "Silver Linings Playbook "Zero Dark Thirty" "Lincoln" "Les Miserables" "Life of Pi" "Amour" "Django Unchained" "Argo" --------------- AFP TEXT STORY: Entertainment-US-film-awards-Oscars-list,FACTS Nominees in main Oscars categories LOS ANGELES, Jan 10, 2013 (AFP) - Here are the nominees in the main categories for this year's Oscars, to be handed out at the climax of Hollywood's annual awards season on February 24. - Best picture: "Amour," "Argo," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Django Unchained," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Silver Linings Playbook," "Zero Dark Thirty." - Best director: Michael Haneke for "Amour," Benh Zeitlin for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," Ang Lee for "Life of Pi," Steven Spielberg for "Lincoln," and David O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook." - Best leading actor: Bradley Cooper for "Silver Linings Playbook," Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln," Hugh Jackman for "Les Miserables," Joaquin Phoenix for "The Master," and Denzel Washington for "Flight." - Best leading actress: Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty," Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook," Emmanuelle Riva for "Amour," Quvenzhane Wallis for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," and Naomi Watts for "The Impossible." - Best supporting actor: Alan Arkin for "Argo," Robert De Niro for "Silver Linings Playbook," Philip Seymour Hoffman for "The Master," Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln," and Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained." - Best supporting actress: Amy Adams for "The Master," Sally Field for "Lincoln," Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables," Helen Hunt for "The Sessions," and Jacki Weaver for "Silver Linings Playbook." - Best foreign language film: "Amour" (Austria), "Kon-Tiki" (Norway), "No" (Chile), "A Royal Affair" (Denmark) and "War Witch" (Canada). - Best animated feature: "Brave," "Frankenweenie," "ParaNorman," "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" and "Wreck-It Ralph." bur-sst/dw