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Critics' Choice Movie Awards: 'Lincoln' leads with a record setting 13 nominations

by jmaloni
Tue, Dec 11th 2012 03:25 pm

"Les Misérables" scores 11 nominations and "Silver Linings Playbook" is a top contender with 10 nominations; Critics' Choice Movie Awards announces first-ever fan voted award awards ceremony to be broadcast live on The CW

The Broadcast Film Critics Association has announced the nominees for the 18th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. The winners will be announced live at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. The show will broadcast live on The CW Network at 8 p.m.

"Lincoln" received a record-setting 13 nominations for the 18th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards, beating out previous record holder "Black Swan," which had 12 nominations in 2011. Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" garnered nods for Best Picture, Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Supporting Actor for Tommy Lee Jones, Best Supporting Actress for Sally Field, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for Spielberg, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Best Score.

Following closely behind is "Les Misérables," which received 11 nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor for Hugh Jackman, Best Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for Tom Hooper, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Best Song for "Suddenly."

David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook" also impressed with 10 nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor for Bradley Cooper, Best Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, Best Supporting Actor for Robert De Niro, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for Russell, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Comedy, Best Actor in a Comedy for Bradley Cooper and Best Actress in a Comedy Jennifer Lawrence.

"Life of Pi" earned nine nominations, and "Argo," "The Master" and "Skyfall" each garnered seven nominations. Lawrence leads the female nominees with nods for Best Actress, Best Actress in a Comedy and Best Acting Ensemble for "Silver Linings Playbook" as well as Best Actress in an Action Movie for "The Hunger Games." Cooper leads the male nominees with nods for Best Actor, Best Actor in a Comedy and Best Acting Ensemble for "Silver Livings Playbook." Judi Dench was nominated for both Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress in an Action Movie for "Skyfall" and 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis was nominated for Best Actress and Best Young Actress for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," contributing to the film's three nominations, including Best Picture.

"This has been a truly spectacular year in filmmaking and our voters had an embarrassment of riches to choose from," said BFCA President Joey Berlin. "To recognize the remarkable achievements across every genre of filmmaking we have added several new categories this year, including often overlooked performances in comedy and action. And to add even more fun, we're letting fans in on the voting in one special category."

Movie fans can indeed vote on their favorite film franchise and watch as the winner is announced live on the Critics' Choice Movie Awards on The CW on Jan. 10. This is the first fan-voted award in the history of the Critics' Choice Movie Awards. The nominees include: "Batman," "Harry Potter," "Indiana Jones," "James Bond"/007, "Lord of the Rings," "Spider-Man," "Star Trek," "Star Wars," "Toy Story" and "Twilight."

Voting is now under way. Fans can vote on the official Critics' Choice Movie Awards site, The CW and many of the Internet's most popular entertainment sites including CELEBUZZ, POPSUGAR, Entertainment Weekly, Rotten Tomatoes, Wonderwall, Summit Entertainment, Warner Bros., AreYouScreening, Awards Circuit, Screen It, Slug Mag, Lights Camera Jackson and Scene Stealers.

The Critics' Choice Movie Awards are bestowed annually by the BFCA to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. The BFCA is the largest film critics organization in the U.S. and Canada, representing more than 270 television, radio and online critics. BFCA members are the primary source of information for today's film-going public. Eligible films were released in 2012. The accounting firm of CMM, LLP tallied the written ballots.

Since its inception in 1995, the Critics' Choice Movie Awards has been a star-studded bellwether event of the movie awards season. Historically, the Critics' Choice Movie Awards are the most accurate predictor of the Academy Award nominations. Among the attendees at last year's show were George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron, Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese and Spielberg. 

Final ballots for the 18th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards will be sent to BFCA members on Jan. 7, 2013, with a deadline for returning final ballots on Jan. 8, 2013.

NOMINATIONS FOR THE 18th ANNUAL CRITICS' CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS

BEST PICTURE

  • "Argo"
  • "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
  • "Django Unchained"
  • "Les Misérables"
  • "Life of Pi"
  • "Lincoln"
  • "The Master"
  • "Moonrise Kingdom"
  • "Silver Linings Playbook"
  • "Zero Dark Thirty"

BEST ACTOR

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

BEST ACTRESS

  • Jessica Chastain - "Zero Dark Thirty"
  • Marion Cotillard - "Rust and Bone"
  • Jennifer Lawrence - "Silver Linings Playbook"
  • Emmanuelle Riva - "Amour"
  • Quvenzhané Wallis - "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
  • Naomi Watts - "The Impossible"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
  • Alan Arkin - "Argo"
  • Javier Bardem - "Skyfall"
  • Robert De Niro - "Silver Linings Playbook"
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Master"
  • Tommy Lee Jones - "Lincoln"
  • Matthew McConaughey - "Magic Mike"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  • Amy Adams - "The Master"
  • Judi Dench - "Skyfall"
  • Ann Dowd - "Compliance"
  • Sally Field - "Lincoln"
  • Anne Hathaway - "Les Misérables"
  • Helen Hunt - "The Sessions"

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

  • Elle Fanning - "Ginger & Rosa"
  • Kara Hayward - "Moonrise Kingdom"
  • Tom Holland - "The Impossible"
  • Logan Lerman - "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
  • Suraj Sharma - "Life of Pi"
  • Quvenzhané Wallis - "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

  • "Argo"
  • "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"
  • "Les Misérables"
  • "Lincoln"
  • "Moonrise Kingdom"
  • "Silver Linings Playbook"

BEST DIRECTOR

  • Ben Affleck - "Argo"
  • Kathryn Bigelow - "Zero Dark Thirty"
  • Tom Hooper - "Les Misérables"
  • Ang Lee - "Life of Pi"
  • David O. Russell - "Silver Linings Playbook"
  • Steven Spielberg - "Lincoln"

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  • Quentin Tarantino - "Django Unchained"
  • John Gatins - "Flight"
  • Rian Johnson - "Looper"
  • Paul Thomas Anderson - "The Master"
  • Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola - "Moonrise Kingdom"
  • Mark Boal - "Zero Dark Thirty"

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  • Chris Terrio - "Argo"
  • David Magee - "Life of Pi"
  • Tony Kushner - "Lincoln"
  • Stephen Chbosky - "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
  • David O. Russell - "Silver Linings Playbook"

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • "Les Misérables" - Danny Cohen
  •  "Life of Pi" - Claudio Miranda
  • "Lincoln" - Janusz Kaminski
  •  "The Master" - Mihai Malaimare Jr.
  • "Skyfall" - Roger Deakins

BEST ART DIRECTION

  • "Anna Karenina" - Sarah Greenwood/Production Designer; Katie Spencer/Set Decorator
  • "The Hobbit" - Dan Hennah/Production Designer; Ra Vincent & Simon Bright/Set Decorators
  • "Les Misérables" - Eve Stewart/Production Designer; Anna Lynch-Robinson/Set Decorator
  • "Life of Pi" - David Gropman/Production Designer; Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator
  • "Lincoln" - Rick Carter/Production Designer; Jim Erickson/Set Decorator

BEST EDITING

  • "Argo" - William Goldenberg
  • "Les Misérables" - Melanie Ann Oliver and Chris Dickens
  • "Life of Pi" - Tim Squyres
  • "Lincoln" - Michael Kahn
  • "Zero Dark Thirty" - William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

  • "Anna Karenina" - Jacqueline Durran
  • "Cloud Atlas" - Kym Barrett and Pierre-Yves Gayraud
  • "The Hobbit" - Bob Buck, Ann Maskrey and Richard Taylor
  • "Les Misérables" - Paco Delgado
  • "Lincoln" - Joanna Johnston

BEST MAKEUP

  • "Cloud Atlas"
  • "The Hobbit"
  • "Les Misérables"
  • "Lincoln"

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

  • "The Avengers"
  • "Cloud Atlas"
  • "The Dark Knight Rises"
  • "The Hobbit"
  • "Life of Pi"

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

  • "Brave"
  • "Frankenweenie"
  • "Madagascar 3"
  • "ParaNorman"
  • "Rise of the Guardians"
  • "Wreck-It Ralph"

BEST ACTION MOVIE

  • "The Avengers"
  • "The Dark Knight Rises"
  • "Looper"
  • "Skyfall"

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE

  • Christian Bale - "The Dark Knight Rises"
  • Daniel Craig - "Skyfall"
  • Robert Downey Jr. - "The Avengers"
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt - "Looper"
  • Jake Gyllenhaal - "End of Watch"

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE

  • Emily Blunt - "Looper"
  • Gina Carano - "Haywire"
  • Judi Dench - "Skyfall"
  • Anne Hathaway - "The Dark Knight Rises"
  • Jennifer Lawrence - "The Hunger Games"

BEST COMEDY

  • "Bernie"
  • "Silver Linings Playbook"
  • "Ted"
  • "This Is 40"
  • "21 Jump Street"

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY

  • Jack Black - "Bernie"
  • Bradley Cooper - "Silver Linings Playbook"
  • Paul Rudd - "This Is 40"
  • Channing Tatum - "21 Jump Street"
  • Mark Wahlberg - "Ted"

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

  • Mila Kunis - "Ted"
  • Jennifer Lawrence - "Silver Linings Playbook"
  • Shirley MacLaine - "Bernie"
  • Leslie Mann - "This Is 40"
  • Rebel Wilson - "Pitch Perfect"

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE

  • "The Cabin in the Woods"
  • "Looper"
  • "Prometheus"

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

  • "Amour"
  • "The Intouchables"
  • "A Royal Affair"
  • "Rust and Bone"

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

  • "Bully"
  • "The Central Park Five"
  • "The Imposter"
  • "The Queen of Versailles"
  • "Searching for Sugar Man"
  • "West of Memphis"

BEST SONG

  • "For You" - performed by Keith Urban/written by Monty Powell & Keith Urban - Act of Valor
  • "Learn Me Right" - performed by Birdy with Mumford & Sons/written by Mumford & Sons - Brave
  •  "Skyfall" - performed by Adele/written by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth - Skyfall
  • "Still Alive" - performed by Paul Williams/written by Paul Williams - Paul Williams Still Alive
  • "Suddenly" - performed by Hugh Jackman/written by Claude-Michel Schonberg & Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer - Les Misérables

BEST SCORE

  • "Argo" - Alexandre Desplat
  • "Life of Pi" - Mychael Danna
  • "Lincoln" - John Williams
  • "The Master" - Jonny Greenwood
  • "Moonrise Kingdom" - Alexandre Desplat

NOMINEES BY PICTURE FOR

THE 18th ANNUAL CRITICS' CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS

21 JUMP STREET - 2 Nominations

  • Best Comedy
  • Best Actor in a Comedy/Channing Tatum

A ROYAL AFFAIR - 1 Nomination

  • Best Foreign Language Film

ACT OF VALOR - 1 Nomination

  • Best Song/"For You"

AMOUR - 2 Nominations

  • Best Actress/Emmanuelle Riva
  • Best Foreign Language Film

ANNA KARENINA - 2 Nominations

  • Best Art Direction
  • Best Costume Design

ARGO - 7 Nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Supporting Actor/Alan Arkin
  • Best Acting Ensemble
  • Best Director/Ben Affleck
  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Best Editing
  • Best Score

THE AVENGERS - 3 Nominations

  • Best Visual Effects
  • Best Action Movie
  • Best Actor in an Action Movie/Robert Downey Jr.

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD - 3 Nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Actress/Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Best Young Actress/Quvenzhane Wallis

BERNIE - 3 Nominations

  • Best Comedy
  • Best Actor in a Comedy/Jack Black
  • Best Actress in a Comedy/Shirley MacLaine

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL - 1 Nomination

  • Best Acting Ensemble

BRAVE - 2 Nominations

  • Best Animated Feature
  • Best Song/ "Learn Me Right"

BULLY - 1 Nomination

  • Best Documentary Feature

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS - 1 Nomination

  • Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie

THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE - 1 Nomination

  • Best Documentary Feature

CLOUD ATLAS - 3 Nominations

  • Best Costume Design
  • Best Makeup
  • Best Visual Effects

COMPLIANCE - 1 Nomination

  • Best Supporting Actress/Ann Dowd

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES - 4 Nominations

  • Best Visual Effects
  • Best Action Movie
  • Best Actor in an Action Movie/Christian Bale
  • Best Actress in an Action Movie/Anne Hathaway

DJANGO UNCHAINED - 2 Nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Original Screenplay

END OF WATCH - 1 Nomination

  • Best Actor in an Action Movie/Jake Gyllenhaal

FLIGHT - 2 Nominations

  • Best Actor/Denzel Washington
  • Best Original Screenplay

FRANKENWEENIE - 1 Nomination

  • Best Animated Feature

GINGER & ROSA - 1 Nomination

  • Best Young Actress/Elle Fanning

HAYWIRE - 1 Nomination

  • Best Actress in an Action Movie/Gina Carano

THE HOBBIT - 4 Nominations

  • Best Art Direction
  • Best Costume Design
  • Best Makeup
  • Best Visual Effects

THE HUNGER GAMES - 1 Nomination

  • Best Actress in an Action Movie/Jennifer Lawrence

THE IMPOSSIBLE - 2 Nominations

  • Best Actress/Naomi Watts
  • Best Young Actor/Tom Holland

THE IMPOSTER - 1 Nomination

  • Best Documentary Feature

THE INTOUCHABLES - 1 Nomination

  • Best Foreign Language Film

LES MISÉRABLES - 11 Nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor/Hugh Jackman
  • Best Supporting Actress/Anne Hathaway
  • Best Acting Ensemble
  • Best Director/Tom Hooper
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Art Direction
  • Best Editing
  • Best Costume Design
  • Best Makeup
  • Best Song/ "Suddenly"

LIFE OF PI - 9 Nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Young Actor/Suraj Sharma
  • Best Director/Ang Lee
  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Art Direction
  • Best Editing
  • Best Visual Effects
  • Best Score

LINCOLN - 13 Nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor/Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Best Supporting Actor/Tommy Lee Jones
  • Best Supporting Actress/Sally Field
  • Best Acting Ensemble
  • Best Director/Steven Spielberg
  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Art Direction
  • Best Editing
  • Best Costume Design
  • Best Makeup
  • Best Score

LOOPER - 5 Nominations

  • Best Original Screenplay
  • Best Action Movie
  • Best Actor in an Action Movie/Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Best Actress in an Action Movie/Emily Blunt
  • Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie

MADAGASCAR 3 - 1 Nomination

  • Best Animated Feature

MAGIC MIKE - 1 Nomination

  • Best Supporting Actor/Matthew McConaughey

THE MASTER - 7 Nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor/Joaquin Phoenix
  • Best Supporting Actor/Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Best Supporting Actress/Amy Adams
  • Best Original Screenplay
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Score

MOONRISE KINGDOM - 5 Nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Young Actress/Kara Hayward
  • Best Acting Ensemble
  • Best Original Screenplay
  • Best Score

PARANORMAN - 1 Nomination

  • Best Animated Feature

PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE - 1 Nomination

  • Best Song/"Still Alive"

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER - 2 Nominations

  • Best Young Actor/Logan Lerman
  • Best Adapted Screenplay

PITCH PERFECT - 1 Nomination

  • Best Actress in a Comedy/Rebel Wilson

PROMETHEUS - 1 Nomination

  • Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie

THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES - 1 Nomination

  • Best Documentary Feature

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS - 1 Nomination

  • Best Animated Feature

RUST AND BONE- 2 Nominations

  • Best Actress/Marion Cotillard
  • Best Foreign Language Film

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN - 1 Nomination

  • Best Documentary Feature

THE SESSIONS - 2 Nominations

  • Best Actor/John Hawkes
  • Best Supporting Actress/Helen Hunt

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK - 10 Nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor/Bradley Cooper
  • Best Actress/Jennifer Lawrence
  • Best Supporting Actor/Robert De Niro
  • Best Acting Ensemble
  • Best Director/David O. Russell
  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Best Comedy
  • Best Actor in a Comedy/Bradley Cooper
  • Best Actress in a Comedy/Jennifer Lawrence

SKYFALL - 7 Nominations

  • Best Supporting Actor/Javier Bardem
  • Best Supporting Actress/Judi Dench
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Action Movie
  • Best Actor in an Action Movie/Daniel Craig
  • Best Actress in an Action Movie/Judi Dench
  • Best Song/"Skyfall"

TED - 3 Nominations

  • Best Comedy
  • Best Actor in a Comedy/Mark Wahlberg
  • Best Actress in a Comedy/Mila Kunis

THIS IS 40 - 3 Nominations

  • Best Comedy
  • Best Actor in a Comedy/Paul Rudd
  • Best Actress in a Comedy/Leslie Mann

WEST OF MEMPHIS - 1 Nomination

  • Best Documentary Feature

WRECK IT RALPH - 1 Nomination

  • Best Animated Feature

ZERO DARK THIRTY - 5 Nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Actress/Jessica Chastain
  • Best Director/Kathryn Bigelow
  • Best Original Screenplay
  • Best Editing

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