Lincoln, Life Of Pi and Les Misérables head up Oscar list

It's that time of year again, and with due pomp and ceremony, Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane have announcd this year's Oscar shortlists. Leading the pack is Lincoln, with an impressive twelve nominations. Life Of Pi has eleven, Les Misérables and Silver Linings Playbook each have eight and Argo has seven, while James Bond mega-hit Skyfall has emerged as a strong British contender with five. Quvenzhané Wallis' appearance in the Best Actress category makes her its youngest ever nominee at just nine years of age - five when she auditioned for her role in Beasts Of The Southern Wild.

Here's the full list of nominations:-

Best Picture:

• Beasts Of The Southern Wild
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Lincoln
• Les Misérables
• Life Of Pi
• Amour
• Django Unchained
• Argo

Best Director

• David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
• Ang Lee, Life Of Pi
• Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
• Benh Zeitlin, Beasts Of The Southern Wild
• Michael Haneke, Amour

Best Actor

• Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
• Denzel Washington, Flight
• Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
• Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
• Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Best Actress

• Naomi Watts, The Impossible
• Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
• Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
• Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
• Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Best Supporting Actress

• Sally Field, Lincoln
• Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
• Jackie Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
• Helen Hunt, The Sessions
• Amy Adams, The Master

Best Supporting Actor

• Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
• Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
• Alan Arkin, Argo
• Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Best Animated Feature Film

• Brave
• Frankenweenie
• Paranorman
• The Pirates: Band Of Misfits
• Wreck-It Ralph

Best Documentary

• 5 Broken Cameras
• The Gatekeepers
• How to Survive A Plague
• The Invisible War
• Searching For Sugar Man

Best Foreign Language Film

• Amour
• Kon-Tiki
• No
• A Royal Affair
• War Witch

Best Cinematography

• Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
• Django Unchained, Robert Richardson
• Life Of Pi, Claudio Miranda
• Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
• Skyfall, Roger Deakins

Best Editing

• Argo
• Life Of Pi
• Lincoln
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Zero Dark Thirty

Best Original Screenplay

• Amour, Michael Haneke
• Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
• Flight, John Gatins
• Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
• Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Argo, Chris Terrio
• Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
• Life Of Pi, David Magee
• Lincoln, Tony Kushner
• Silver Linings Playbook, David O Russell

Best Short Film

• Asad
• Buzkashi Boys
• Curfew
• Death Of A Shadow
• Henry

Best Animated Short

• Adam And Dog
• Fresh Guacamole
• Head Over Heels
• Maggie Simpson In The Longest Daycare
• Paperman

Best Documentary Short

• Inocente
• King's Point
• Mondays At Racine
• Open Heart
• Redemption

Best Production Design

• Anna Karenina
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Les Misérables
• Life Of Pi
• Lincoln

Best Visual Effects

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Life Of Pi
• Marvel's The Avengers
• Prometheus
• Snow White And The Huntsman

Best Costume Design

• Anna Karenina
• Les Misérables
• Lincoln
• Mirror Mirror
• Snow White And The Huntsman

Best Make-Up And Hairstyling

• Hitchcock
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Les Misérables

Best Sound Editing

• Argo
• Django Unchained
• Life Of Pi
• Skyfall
• Zero Dark Thirty

Best Sound Mixing

• Argo
• Life Of Pi
• Les Misérables
• Lincoln
• Skyfall

Best Original Score

• Anna Karenina
• Argo
• Life Of Pi
• Lincoln
• Skyfall

Best Original Song

• Before My Time, Chasing Ice
• Everybody Needs A Best Friend, Ted
• Pi's Lullaby, Life of Pi
• Skyfall, Skyfall
• Suddenly, Les Misérables