Let Awards Season begin! Oscar noms, dahlings! Just announced!

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For my newer followers, you'll find I'm a movie freak and love the Oscars! Every year I do an Oscar marathon where I try and catch up with movies that I hadn't seen and weigh in with my picks. Seth McFarlane and Emma Stone just got done announcing the Oscar nominations for 2013. They are:

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook
Alan Arkin - Argo
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln



Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams - The Master
Sally Field - Lincoln
Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook

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

Note: if young Quvenzhane wins, she will beat Tatum O'Neal as the youngest standard Academy Award winner. Tatum was 10 when she won for "Paper Moon", and Quvenzhane is 9.

Best Actor
Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
Denzel Washington - Flight

Director
Michael Haneke - Amour
Ben Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

Best Picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Life Of Pi
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Animated Feature
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It-Ralph

And there are actually some Original Songs nominated!! WOO! GO ADELE!

"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted
"Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi
"Skyfall" from Skyfall
"Suddenly" from Les Miserables

As far as original score is concerned:
Dario Marianelli - Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat - Argo
Mychael Dana - Life of Pi
John Williams - Lincoln
Thomas Newman - Skyfall

There will also be a 50th Anniversary James Bond retrospective!

This years telecast will be Feb. 24. Seth McFarlane hosts. See the full list of nominees here!
I have some movie watching to do. I need to see Silver Linings Playbook, Argo, Django Unchained, The Master and Life of Pi. Les Mis was wonderful and I'm rooting for Anne there, but I think this will be between her and Sally. I'll come back and weigh in further with my picks in a few days.