Snubs and Surprises Among the Oscar Nominations

This morning a lively Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone announced the nominations for the 85th Annual Academy Awards, and while there were some shoo-ins seen from a red carpet mile, there were surprising snubs that had the crowd of press clutching their pearls.

Lincoln (from gay screenwriter Tony Kushner) leads the pack with 12 nominations; director Steven Spielberg was nominated for Best Director to coincide with his Lincoln Best Picture nomination. Other filmmakers that were seen as locks, such as Ben Affleck, Tom Hooper, and Kathryn Bigelow, were left out in the cold even though their respective films were all nominated for Best Picture.

The newest PFLAG mom, Sally Field (Lincoln), and marriage equality activist Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)will battle it out for Best Supporting Actress along with Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook), Helen Hunt (The Sessions), and Amy Adams (The Master). The most groundbreaking category this year will be Best Actress, which has both the oldest (Emmanuelle Riva) and youngest (Quvenzhane Wallis) nominees in Academy history, vying for gold with front-runners Jennifer Lawrence and Jessica Chastain.

In the Feature Documentary category, the powerful AIDS documentary How to Survive a Plague was nominated, and in the Animated Feature category a nom went to ParaNorman, which was directed by out co-creator Chris Butler and features a lead gay character, a first for an animated film.

While Tom Hooper was shut out, Hugh Jackman was nominated for his transformative role in Les Miserables, and Kushner is nominated for his first screenplay, for Lincoln (LGBT viewerscan most likely look forward to a shout-out to his husband as he accepts his award on Oscar night).

The awards will be presented in Hollywood February 24. The full list of nominees:

Performance by an actor in a leading role

* Bradley Cooper in "Silver Linings Playbook"
* Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln"
* Hugh Jackman in "Les Miserables"
* Joaquin Phoenix in "The Master"
* Denzel Washington in "Flight"

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
* Alan Arkin in "Argo"
* Robert De Niro in "Silver Linings Playbook"
* Philip Seymour Hoffman in "The Master"
* Tommy Lee Jones in "Lincoln"
* Christoph Waltz in "Django Unchained"

Performance by an actress in a leading role
* Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty"
* Jennifer Lawrence in "Silver Linings Playbook"
* Emmanuelle Riva in "Amour"
* Quvenzhane Wallis in "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
* Naomi Watts in "The Impossible"

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
* Amy Adams in "The Master"
* Sally Field in "Lincoln"
* Anne Hathaway in "Les Miserables"
* Helen Hunt in "The Sessions"
* Jacki Weaver in "Silver Linings Playbook"

Best animated feature film of the year
* "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

Achievement in cinematography
* "Anna Karenina" Seamus McGarvey
* "Django Unchained" Robert Richardson
* "Life of Pi" Claudio Miranda
* "Lincoln" Janusz Kaminski
* "Skyfall" Roger Deakins

Achievement in costume design
* "Anna Karenina" Jacqueline Durran
* "Les Miserables" Paco Delgado
* "Lincoln" Joanna Johnston
* "Mirror Mirror" Eiko Ishioka
* "Snow White and the Huntsman" Colleen Atwood

Achievement in directing
* "Amour" Michael Haneke
* "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Benh Zeitlin
* "Life of Pi" Ang Lee
* "Lincoln" Steven Spielberg
* "Silver Linings Playbook" David O. Russell

Best documentary feature
* "5 Broken Cameras" Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
* "The Gatekeepers" Nominees to be determined
* "How to Survive a Plague" Nominees to be determined
* "The Invisible War" Nominees to be determined
* "Searching for Sugar Man" Nominees to be determined

Best documentary short subject
* "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

Achievement in film editing
* "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

Best foreign language film of the year
* "Amour" Austria
* "Kon-Tiki" Norway
* "No" Chile
* "A Royal Affair" Denmark
* "War Witch" Canada

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
* "Hitchcock" Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
* "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
* "Les Miserables" Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
* "Anna Karenina" Dario Marianelli
* "Argo" Alexandre Desplat
* "Life of Pi" Mychael Danna
* "Lincoln" John Williams
* "Skyfall" Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
* "Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice"
Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
* "Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from "Ted"
Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
* "Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi"
Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
* "Skyfall" from "Skyfall"
Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
* "Suddenly" from "Les Miserables"
Music by Claude-Michel Schonberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Best Picture of the Year
* "Amour" Nominees to be determined
* "Argo" Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
* "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
* "Django Unchained" Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
* "Les Miserables" Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
* "Life of Pi" Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
* "Lincoln" Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
* "Silver Linings Playbook" Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
* "Zero Dark Thirty" Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers

Achievement in production design
* "Anna Karenina"
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
* "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
* "Les Miserables"
Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
* "Life of Pi"
Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
* "Lincoln"
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Best animated short film
* "Adam and Dog" Minkyu Lee
* "Fresh Guacamole" PES
* "Head over Heels" Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
* "Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"" David Silverman
* "Paperman" John Kahrs

Best live action 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

Achievement in sound editing
* "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

Achievement in sound mixing
* "Argo"
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
* "Les Miserables"
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

Achievement in visual effects
* "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

Best Adapted Screenplay
* "Argo" Screenplay by Chris Terrio
* "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
* "Life of Pi" Screenplay by David Magee
* "Lincoln" Screenplay by Tony Kushner
* "Silver Linings Playbook" Screenplay by David O. Russell

Best Original Screenplay
* "Amour" Written by Michael Haneke
* "Django Unchained" Written by Quentin Tarantino
* "Flight" Written by John Gatins
* "Moonrise Kingdom" Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
* "Zero Dark Thirty" Written by Mark Boal