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Best Picture

	Argo
	Beasts of the Southern Wild
	Cloud Atlas
	Django Unchained
	Lincoln
	The Master
	Les Misérables
	Moonrise Kingdom
	Silver Linings Playbook
	Zero Dark Thirty

Best Direction of a Motion Picture

	Ben Affleck - Argo
	Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
	Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
	Tom Hooper - Les Misérables
	Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

	Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
	John Hawkes - The Sessions
	Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables
	Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
	Denzel Washington - Flight

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

	Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
	Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
	Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
	Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
	Naomi Watts - The Impossible

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

	Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
	Alan Arkin - Argo
	Javier Bardem - Skyfall
	Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
	Matthew McConaughey - Magic Mike

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

	Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
	Amy Adams - The Master
	Judi Dench - Skyfall
	Sally Field - Lincoln
	Helen Hunt - The Sessions

Best Screenplay

	Lincoln - Tony Kushner
	Argo - Chris Terrio
	Looper - Rian Johnson
	Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell
	Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal

Best Cinematography

	Skyfall - Roger Deakins
	Life of Pi - Claudio Miranda
	Lincoln - Janusz Kamiński
	The Master - Mihai Mălaimare Jr.
	Les Misérables - Danny Cohen

Best Original Score

	Cloud Atlas - Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer
	Life of Pi - Mychael Danna
	Hitchcock - Danny Elfman
	The Master - Jonny Greenwood
	Skyfall - Thomas Newman
	Beasts of the Southern Wild - Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin
	Lincoln - John Williams

Best Original Song

	"Skyfall" by Adele - Skyfall
	"Learn Me Right" by Mumford & Sons and Birdy - Brave
	"Song of the Lonely Mountain" by Neil Finn - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
	"Suddenly" by Claude-Michel Schönberg - Les Misérables
	"Touch the Sky" by Alex Mandel and Mark Andrews - Brave

Best Foreign Language Film

	Holy Motors • France/Germany
	Amour • French
	The Intouchables • French
	A Royal Affair • Denmark
	Rust and Bone • France/Belgium

Best Documentary Feature

	Searching for Sugar Man
	Bully
	The Central Park Five
	The House I Live In
	The Imposter
	The Queen of Versailles

Best Animated Feature Film

	Wreck-It Ralph
	Brave
	Frankenweenie
	ParaNorman
	Rise of the Guardians

Worst Film

	That's My Boy
	Anna Karenina
	Battleship
	Prometheus
	The Three Stooges