BAFTA 2013 Nominations.

British Academy of Film and Television of BAFTA announced their nominations for 2012 movies. They are really important awards group, they are the British academy and even though their impact on the Oscar race isn't in most of the ways direct but it does matter. Both Lincoln and Les Miserables as expected showed a strong showing but surprisingly missed out on the nods for best director. Life of Pi, Argo and Zero Dark Thirty made the list apart from those two in the best film category. Skyfall showed a good showing as well and also the foreign movie Amour which got in for director, original screenplay and actress apart from foreign film. The nominees for best British film are Les Miserables, Skyfall, Seven Psychopaths, Anna Karenina and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. I am glad that Joaquin Phoenix got in the best actor here and i hope the same happens at the Oscars even though the chances of him being nominated faded long time ago. Ben Affleck surprisingly showed up out of nowhere in the same category, he hasn't been recognized by anyone for his acting so far. Some really good choices in the technical categories as well.

Below is the complete list of nominees:

Best Film
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Les Miserables
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director
Ben Affleck (Argo)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Michael Haneke (Amour)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall

Best Leading Actor
Ben Affleck (Argo)
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)

Best Leading Actress
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone)
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)
Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin (Argo)
Javier Bardem (Skyfall)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams (The Master)
Judi Dench (Skyfall)
Sally Field (Lincoln)
Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)
Helen Hunt (The Sessions)

Best Original Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)
Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)
Michael Haneke (Amour)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

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

Best Animated Film
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman

Best Film Not in the English Language
Amour
Headhunters
The Hunt
The Intouchables
Rust and Bone

Best Cinematography
Danny Cohen (Les Miserables)
Roger Deakins (Skyfall)
Janusz Kaminski (Lincoln)
Seamus McGarvey (Anna Karenina)
Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

Best Editing
Stuart Baird (Skyfall)
William Goldenberg (Argo)
William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor (Zero Dark Thirty)
Fred Raskin (Django Unchained)
Tim Squyres (Life of Pi)

Best Production Design
Rick Carter and Jim Erickson (Lincoln)
Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock (Skyfall)
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer (Anna Karenina)
David Gropman and Anna Pinnock (Life of Pi)
Anna Lynch-Robinson and Eve Stewart (Les Miserables)

Best Costume Design
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor (Great Expectations)
Colleen Atwood (Snow White and the Huntsman)
Paco Delgado (Les Miserables)
Jacqueline Durran (Anna Karenina)
Joanna Johnston (Lincoln)

Best Sound
Jonathan Allen, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Lee Walpole and John Warhurst (Les Miserables)
Karen M. Baker, Per Hallberg, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson (Skyfall)
Ron Bartlett, Eugene Gearty, Doug Hemphill, Drew Kunin and Philip Stockton (Life of Pi)
Christopher Boyes, Brent Burge, Michael Hedges, Tony Johnson, Michael Semanick and Chris Ward (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
Tony Lamberti, Michael Minkler, Wylie Stateman and Mark Ulano (Django Unchained)

Best Special Visual Effects
Pete Bebb, Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin and Andrew Lockley (The Dark Knight Rises)
Paul Butterworth, Charley Henley, Richard Stammers and Trevor Wood (Prometheus)
David Clayton, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon and R. Christopher White (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
Erik De Boer, Guillaume Rocheron and Bill Westenhofer (Life of Pi)
TBD (The Avengers)

Best Make Up & Hair
Howard Berger, Julie Hewett and Martin Samuel (Hitchcock)
Lois Burwell and Kay Georgiou (Lincoln)
Rick Findlater, Peter King and Richard Taylor (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
Ivana Primorac (Anna Karenina)
Lisa Westcott (Les Miserables)

Best Original Music
Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)
Alexandre Desplat (Argo)
Dario Marianelli (Anna Karenina)
Thomas Newman (Skyfall)
John Williams (Lincoln)

Best Documentary
The Imposter (Dimitri Doganis and Bart Layton)
Marley (Steve Bing, Kevin MacDonald and Charles Steel)
McCullin (David Morris and Jacqui Morris)
Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn)
West of Memphis (Amy Berg)

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
James Bobin – director (The Muppets)
Dimitri Doganis – producer: Bart Layton – director (The Imposter)
Dexter Fletcher – director/writer: Danny King – writer (Wild Bill)
Tina Gharavi – director/writer (I Am Nasrine)
David Morris – director: Jacqui Morris – director/producer (McCullin)

Best Short Film
The Curse (Fyzal Boulifa and Gavin Humphries)
Good Night (Muriel d’Ansembourg and Eva Sigurdardottir)
Swimmer (Peter Carlton, Lynne Ramsay and Diarmid Scrimshaw)
Tumult (Rhianna Andrews and Johnny Barrington)
The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill and Baldwin Li)

Best Short Animation
Here to Fall (Kris Kelly and Evelyn McGrath)
I’m Fine Thanks (Eamonn O’Neill)
The Making of Longbird (Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson)

Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award
Elizabeth Olsen
Andrea Riseborough
Suraj Sharma
Juno Temple
Alicia Vikander