Argo – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney

• Les Misérables – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh
• Life of Pi – Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark
• Lincoln – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
• Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison

Ben Affleck – Argo

• Ang Lee – Life of Pi
• Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
• Michael Haneke – Amour
• Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained

Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln

• Ben Affleck – Argo as Tony Mendez
• Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio Solitano Jr.
• Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
• Joaquin Phoenix – The Master as Freddie Quell

Emmanuelle Riva – Amour as Anne Laurent

• Helen Mirren – Hitchcock as Alma Reville
• Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell
• Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty as Maya Harris
• Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone as Stephanie

Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained as King Schultz

• Alan Arkin – Argo as Lester Siegel
• Javier Bardem – Skyfall as Raoul Silva
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master as Lancaster Dodd
• Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln as Thaddeus Stevens

Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables as Fantine

• Amy Adams – The Master as Peggy Dodd
• Helen Hunt – The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene
• Judi Dench – Skyfall as M
• Sally Field – Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln

Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino

• Amour – Michael Haneke
• The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson
• Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
• Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell

• Argo – Chris Terrio
• Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
• Life of Pi – David Magee
• Lincoln – Tony Kushner

Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda

• Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey
• Les Misérables – Danny Cohen
• Lincoln – Janusz Kamiński
• Skyfall – Roger Deakins

Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran

• Great Expectations – Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
• Les Misérables – Paco Delgado
• Lincoln – Joanna Johnston
• Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood

Argo – William Goldenberg

• Django Unchained – Fred Raskin
• Life of Pi – Tim Squyres
• Skyfall – Stuart Baird
• Zero Dark Thirty – Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

Les Misérables – Lisa Westcott

• Anna Karenina – Ivana Primorac
• Hitchcock – Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel and Howard Berger
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter King, Richard Taylor and Rick Findlater
• Lincoln – Lois Burwell and Kay Georgiou

Skyfall – Thomas Newman

• Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli
• Argo – Alexandre Desplat
• Life of Pi – Mychael Danna
• Lincoln – John Williams

Les Misérables – Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson

• Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
• Life of Pi – David Gropman and Anna Pinnock
• Lincoln – Rick Carter and Jim Erickson
• Skyfall – Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock

Les Misérables – Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole and John Warhurst

• Django Unchained – Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Wylie Stateman
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge and Chris Ward
• Life of Pi – Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill
• Skyfall – Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers

Life of Pi – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer and Donald R. Elliott

• The Avengers – Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
• The Dark Knight Rises – Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb and Andrew Lockley
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
• Prometheus – Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood and Paul Butterworth

Skyfall – Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan

• Anna Karenina – Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster and Tom Stoppard
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin and Ol Parker
• Les Misérables – Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg
• Seven Psychopaths – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin

The Imposter – Bart Layton (Director) and Dimitri Doganis (Producer)

• I Am Nasrine – Tina Gharavi (Writer/Director)
• McCullin – David Morris (Director) and Jacqui Morris (Director/Producer)
• The Muppets – James Bobin (Director)
• Wild Bill – Dexter Fletcher (Writer/Director) and Danny King (Writer)

The Making of Longbird – Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson

• Here to Fall – Kris Kelly and Evelyn McGrath
• I'm Fine Thanks – Eamonn O'Neill

Swimmer – Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton and Diarmid Scrimshaw

• The Curse – Fyzal Boulifa and Gavin Humphries
• Good Night – Muriel D. Ansembourg and Eva Sigurdardottir
• Tumutt – Johnny Barrington and Rhianna Andrews
• The Voorman Problem – Mark Gill and Baldwin Li

Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman

• Frankenweenie – Tim Burton
• ParaNorman – Sam Fell and Chris Butler

Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn

• The Imposter – Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis
• Marley – Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing and Charles Steel
• McCullin – David Morris and Jacqui Morris
• West of Memphis – Amy J. Berg

Amour – Michael Haneke and Margaret Ménégoz

• Headhunters – Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray and Asle Vatn
• The Hunt – Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Marten Kaufmann
• Rust and Bone – Jacques Audiard and Pascal Caucheteux
• The Intouchables – Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou and Laurent Zeitoun

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• Elizabeth Olsen
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