BAFTA Nominations 2013 Announced!

After that, Argo had seven nods, Anna Karenina six and there were five apiece for Zero Dark Thirty and Django Unchained. The Master and Amour both took four nods while Silver Linings Playbook and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (the latter entirely in the technical categories) saw three each.

The Best Film nominees are much as expected: Argo, Life Of Pi, Les Misérables, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty. Of those, only three got a matching Director nomination: Ben Affleck for Argo, Ang Lee for Life Of Pi and Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty. That means that, while Lincoln might have most nominations overall, it may not be the front-runner for the big prizes (though if Daniel Day-Lewis isn’t still the front-runner for Best Actor, we’ll eat our stovepipe hat).

Best British Film looks like it could be a duel between Les Misérables and Skyfall, but also nominated are last year’s breakout hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, gorgeous tragedy Anna Karenina and the not-very-British-feeling Seven Psychopaths.

In the Acting categories, oft-nominated veterans rub shoulders with plucky upstarts. In Actor, it’s Day-Lewis and Joaquin Phoenix up against Bradley Cooper, Ben Affleck and Hugh Jackman; Actress sees Helen Mirren and Marion Cotillard against Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain and Amour’s Emmanuelle Riva. That’s a good showing for Silver Linings Playbook, which has generally had more support for acting than in any other field, and it’s good to see two foreign language candidates acknowledged for extraordinary turns in Actress.

The Supporting categories see Alan Arkin nominated for, essentially, being Alan Arkin in Argo, and Judi Dench nominated for, essentially, being Judi Dench (albeit brilliantly) in Skyfall. Javier Bardem is up for the same film, while Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams get nods for The Master (welcome acknowledgment for a beautifully played role by Adams that might have been overlooked). As expected, Anne Hathaway gets a nod for Les Misérables, but Supporting Actor also sees love for Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained and Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln - we’d love to see the latter win if only to see how gruff it’s possible for an award recipient to be. Sally Field also gets a Lincoln nod, and Helen Hunt is up for The Sessions.

The Screenplay categories saw the only acknowledgement of Beasts Of The Southern Wild and Moonrise Kingdom, while Prometheus, Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises got their sole nominations in the technical categories. Winner of the Most Surprising Film To Appear Anywhere prize is Snow White And The Huntsman, which is up for Best Costume. Then again, given that its costume designer is perennial nominee Colleen Atwood (whose costumes were impressive) even that isn’t terribly shocking.

In the other categories, only three films qualify for Best Animated Film this year, two of them stop-motion, which is an impressive ratio but sees the likes of The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists sadly overlooked. But as if to make up for that small field Best Documentary should be a hard-fought category (the excellent Room 237 didn’t even get a nomination, such were the embarrassment of documentary riches this year).

Omissions? Well, we might have hoped for more for Beasts Of The Southern Wild, and a British film nod for Berberian Sound Studio or Sightseers would have been a cool choice. BAFTA’s choices, overall, feel classy but perhaps a teensy bit staid; still, who knows what surprises the results will bring?

The winners will be announced on February 10 at the Royal Opera House in London. We’ll be there with all the news that’s fit to print.

BEST FILM

Argo Les Misérables Life Of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

Anna Karenina The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Les Misérables Seven Psychopaths Skyfall

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

Bart Layton (Director), Dimitri Doganis (Producer) The Imposter David Morris (Director), Jacqui Morris (Director/Producer) McCullin Dexter Fletcher (Director/Writer), Danny King (Writer) Wild Bill James Bobin (Director) The Muppets Tina Gharavi (Director/Writer) I Am Nasrine

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Amour Headhunters The Hunt Rust And Bone Untouchable

DOCUMENTARY

The Imposter Marley McCullin Searching For Sugar Man West Of Memphis

ANIMATED FILM

Brave Frankenweenie Paranorman

DIRECTOR

Michael Haneke - Amour Ben Affleck - Argo Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained Ang Lee - Life Of Pi Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Michael Haneke - Amour Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Chris Terrio - Argo Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin - Beasts Of The Southern Wild David Magee - Life Of Pi Tony Kushner - Lincoln David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

LEADING ACTOR

Ben Affleck - Argo Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

LEADING ACTRESS

Emmanuelle Riva - Amour Helen Mirren - Hitchcock Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty Marion Cotillard - Rust and Bone

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Alan Arkin - Argo Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained Javier Bardem - Skyfall Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

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

ORIGINAL MUSIC

Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli Argo - Alexandre Desplat Life Of Pi - Mychael Danna Lincoln - John Williams Skyfall - Thomas Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Anna Karenina - Seamus McGarvey Les Misérables - Danny Cohen Life Of Pi - Claudio Miranda Lincoln - Janusz Kaminski Skyfall - Roger Deakins

EDITING

Argo - William Goldenberg Django Unchained - Fred Raskin Life Of Pi - Tim Squyres Skyfall - Stuart Baird Zero Dark Thirty - Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Anna Karenina - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer Les Misérables - Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson Life Of Pi - David Gropman, Anna Pinnock Lincoln - Rick Carter, Jim Erickson Skyfall - Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock

COSTUME DESIGN

Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran Great Expectations - Beatrix Aruna Pasztor Les Misérables - Paco Delgado LIincoln - Joanna Johnston Snow White And The Huntsman - Colleen Atwood

MAKE UP & HAIR

Anna Karenina - Ivana Primorac Hitchcock - Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater Les Misérables - Lisa Westcott Lincoln - Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou

SOUND

Django Unchained - Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward Les Misérables - Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst Life Of Pi - Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill Skyfall - Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

The Dark Knight Rises - Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White Life Of Pi - Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer Marvel Avengers Assemble - Nominees TBC Prometheus - Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth

SHORT ANIMATION

Here To Fall I’m Fine Thanks The Making Of Longbird

SHORT FILM

The Curse Good Night Swimmer Tumult The Voorman Problem

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

Elizabeth Olsen Andrea Riseborough Suraj Sharma Juno Temple Alicia Vikander