The nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were announced this morning, with Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln and Les Miserables leading in nominations for the most prestigious golden statues of bald men awarded annually in the world of film.
The nominees were selected by members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — after a delay due to technical difficulties with the first ever online voting system — and the winners will be announced at the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on Feb. 24.
But who cares what they think! Regardless of what happens in the “canonical” version of the Oscars, Wired will be assembling its own alternate universe version of how the most prestigious awards in film should go down, and we’d like your input. Tell us your choices for the winner in nine of the most important categories — or write in your own nominees if you think the Academy dropped the ball. (How could they forget best directors Ben Affleck/Quentin Tarantino/Kathryn Bigelow/Joss Whedon! The humanity!)
Share your picks below in our two-page poll and then keep scrolling for the full slate of nominees, from Best Actor to Best Live Action Short Film.
Complete list of 2013 Academy Awards Nominees:
BEST PICTURE 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 Misérables – 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
DIRECTOR Amour – Michael Haneke Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin Life of Pi – Ang Lee Lincoln – Steven Spielberg Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
LEAD ACTOR Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln Hugh Jackman in Les Misérables Joaquin Phoenix in The Master Denzel Washington in Flight
LEAD ACTRESS Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook Emmanuelle Riva in Amour Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild Naomi Watts in The Impossible
SUPPORTING ACTOR 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
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Adams in The Master Sally Field in Lincoln Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables Helen Hunt in The Sessions Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 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
CINEMATOGRAPHY Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey Django Unchained – Robert Richardson Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda Lincoln – Janusz Kaminski Skyfall – Roger Deakins
COSTUME DESIGN Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran Les Misérables – Paco Delgado Lincoln – Joanna Johnston Mirror Mirror – Eiko Ishioka Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood
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
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
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
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Amour – Austria Kon-Tiki – Norway No – Chile A Royal Affair – Denmark War Witch – Canada
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 Misérables – Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
ORIGINAL SCORE Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli Argo – Alexandre Desplat Life of Pi – Mychael Danna Lincoln – John Williams Skyfall – Thomas Newman
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 Misérables” Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
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 Misérables – 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
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
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
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
SOUND MIXING Argo – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia Les Misérables – 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
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
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
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
