2012
The winner is listed first, in CAPITAL letters.
Filmsite's Greatest Films
of 2012
Best Picture
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ARGO (2012)
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Amour (2012, Fr.)
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
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Django Unchained (2012)
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Life of Pi (2012)
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Lincoln (2012)
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Les Misérables (2012, US/UK)
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Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
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Best Animated Feature Film
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BRAVE (2012)
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Frankenweenie (2012)
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ParaNorman (2012)
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The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012, UK/US)
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Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
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Actor:
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS in "Lincoln," Bradley Cooper in "Silver
Linings Playbook,"" Hugh Jackman in "Les Miserables," Joaquin
Phoenix in "The Master," Denzel Washington in "Flight"
Actress:
JENNIFER LAWRENCE in "Silver Linings Playbook," Jessica
Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty," Emmanuelle Riva in "Amour," Quvenzhané Wallis
in "Beasts of the Southern Wild," Naomi Watts in "The
Impossible"
Supporting Actor:
CHRISTOPH WALTZ in "Django Unchained," Alan Arkin in "Argo," Robert
De Niro in "Silver Linings Playbook," Philip Seymour
Hoffman in "The Master," Tommy Lee Jones in "Lincoln"
Supporting Actress:
ANNE HATHAWAY in "Les Miserables," Amy Adams in "The
Master," Sally Field in "Lincoln," Helen Hunt in "The
Sessions," Jacki Weaver in "Silver Linings Playbook"
Director:
ANG LEE for "Life of Pi," Michael Haneke for "Amour," David
O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook," Steven Spielberg
for "Lincoln,"
Benh Zeitlin for "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
The
Best Picture (and other) races were tightly contested among a
handful of top contenders, and the wealth was ultimately very
spread out and evenly distributed. The predictable mix of the
nine Best Picture nominees vying for victory included a wide
range of both traditional studio films and smaller arthouse independent
films. By the time of the awards in late February 2013, six nominees
had grossed over $100 million - a first in Oscar history. Only Zero
Dark Thirty, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Amour did
not reach the mark.
The highly-solid and highest-grossing revenue nominee
with the greatest number of nominations, the early front-runner Lincoln,
was bested by Argo for Best Picture - a surprise win.
Usually, Best Picture winners also have their directors nominated
as well. Ben Affleck was one of a few obviously-snubbed Best
Picture-nominated directors, including un-nominated Kathryn Bigelow
for Zero Dark Thirty. (Some claimed that industry sexism
in the director's branch of the Academy remained intact.) A possible
sympathy vote and backlash in support of Affleck may have had
some impact and possibly accounted for his win for Argo.
[Note: The last film to win Best Picture without a director
nomination was Bruce Beresford's Driving Miss Daisy (1989),
and the previous victors before that were Wings (1927/28) and Grand
Hotel (1931/32).]
Director Ben Affleck's and Warner Bros.' film Argo garnered
7 nominations and only 3 wins, including Best Adapted Screenplay
by Chris Terrio, Best Film Editing, and Best Picture. At the
time of the awards, Argo was only the fourth highest-grossing
(domestic) film among the Best Picture nominees. It was a conventional
true story-based thriller about CIA agents in the Middle East
in the 1970s teaming up with filmmakers to create a fake movie
production to help free embassy workers (during the Iran hostage
crisis). Its tagline was: "THE MOVIE WAS FAKE. THE MISSION WAS
REAL." CIA operative Tony Mendez devised the scheme to rescue
the US diplomats who escaped from the American Embassy when it
was stormed by Islamic revolutionaries in 1979, but were trapped
in the home of the Canadian ambassador in Tehran.
The other eight films in the Best Picture race
(in descending order of Oscar wins) were:
- director Ang Lee's and Fox Studios' Life
of Pi (with 11 nominations and 4 wins, including Best
Director, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, and Best
Original Score). It was an adaptation of Yann Martel's best-seller
- the tale of a young 16 year-old Indian boy named Piscine
Molitor "Pi" Patel (Suraj Sharma), who was shipwrecked
and lost at sea in a lifeboat - with a menacing CGI Bengal
tiger (named Richard Parker). [Note: If it had won Best Picture,
it would have been the first 3-D film to do so. Life of
Pi was also the only Best Picture nominee that
failed to acquire acting nominations. The last Best Picture
winner with no acting nominations was Slumdog Millionaire
(2008). Rhythm & Hues Studios, the company responsible
for its Visual Effects win, recently filed for bankruptcy
and laid off hundreds of its employees.]
- director Tom Hooper's and Universal's Les
Miserables (with 8 nominations and 3 wins, including
Best Supporting Actress, Best Makeup/Hairstyling, and Best
Sound Mixing). It was a spectacular adaptation of the Tony-winning
musical, and based on the novel of the same name by French
poet and playwright Victor Hugo. [Note: It was the only Best
Picture nominee without either an Original or Adapted Screenplay
nomination. It was also the first musical to receive
a Best Picture nomination since Chicago (2002) won
in the category.] The previous 1935 version of the film earned
four Academy Award nominations (with no wins), including
Best Picture.
- Lincoln (with 12 nominations, including
three acting noms, and only 2 wins: Best Actor and Best Production
Design), director Steven Spielberg's effort from Buena Vista
studios. The historical Civil War-era epic told of the 16th
President's (Daniel Day-Lewis) struggle to pass the 13th Amendment
(the abolition of slavery) through Congress. [Note: Spielberg
now has a total of eight Best Picture nominations, sharing
five nominations for the same films with collaborator Kathleen
Kennedy, who also has eight Best Picture nominations.]
- director Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (with
5 nominations and 2 wins, including Tarantino's Best Original
Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor). It was a violent slave-revenge
'spaghetti' western from the Weinstein Company. [Note: Tarantino
has now been nominated five times, twice for directing (in
1994 and 2009) and three times for original screenwriting (in
1994, 2009, and 2012) - and he has now won two Best Original
Screenplay Oscars, previously winning for Pulp
Fiction (1994).]
- writer/director David O. Russell's ensemble
film Silver Linings Playbook (with 8 nominations and
only 1 win, Best Actress), a quirky, lost-souls dramedy-romance
based upon the best-selling novel by Matthew Quick, about a
Philadelphia family and its bi-polar son seeking happiness
(and love). From the Weinstein Company. [Note: It was only
one of fourteen films in Academy history to have received nominations
in all four acting categories. The last film to do this was Reds
(1981). It was also the first film since 1981 to receive
nominations for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay and all
four acting categories. The last film with nominees in all
four acting categories to win Best Picture was From
Here to Eternity (1953).]
- director Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (with
5 nominations and only 1 win, Best Sound Editing), from Sony/Columbia
studios, another CIA-based thriller - regarding the almost
decade-long military and intelligence effort to track down
terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. [Note: Republicans in Congress
challenged the film. They called for an investigation into
whether the Obama administration leaked classified information
to the filmmakers. Even after the film was released, some Academy
members called for a boycott because the film contained scenes
that allegedly could lead to greater acceptance of torture.]
- German-born writer/director Michael Haneke's Amour (with
5 nominations and 1 win, Best Foreign Language Film - for Austria),
in French with subtitles - a surprise nominee (with the lowest
grossing box-office revenue among all the nominees, and for
at least 25 years into the past). The unsentimental, deeply-moving
film from Sony Classics (and the top prize winner at the Cannes
Film Festival) was about a loving Parisian couple, Anne and
Georges (85 year-old Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant)
whose lives were devastated by the wife's deteriorating condition.
[Note: Amour was only the 5th film in Academy history
to be nominated in both the Best Picture and Best Foreign Language
film categories. The film's distributor, Sony Classics, has
now won the Foreign-Language film category four years running,
and six of the last seven.]
- co-writer/director Benh Zeitlin's independent
hit from Fox Searchlight, Beasts of the Southern Wild (with
4 nominations and no wins), a fantasy film about a young 5
year-old girl named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis),
living and caring for her unhealthy, hot-headed father Wink
in the rising waters of the delta bayou community known as
the "Bathtub."
[Note: Opening in theaters last June and a hit at Sundance, it
was the only Best Picture nominee released before the fall and
holiday movie seasons.]
In the Best Director category (with five of the
nine directors of Best Picture nominees receiving predictable
nods), the winner was 58 year-old Taiwanese
filmmaker Ang Lee for Life of Pi. It was his second Best
Director win - he won Best Director in the past for Brokeback
Mountain (2005), and was also nominated in the category for Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). The other Best Director nominees
were:
- 66 year-old Steven Spielberg, a two-time Best
Director winner, received his seventh directing nomination
(and eighth nomination for Best Picture) for Lincoln.
His 12 nominations for Lincoln tied the 12 nominations
he previously received for Schindler's
List (1993), which won seven Oscars, including Best
Picture and Director. [Note: Spielberg won Best Director for
two other historical dramas, Saving Private Ryan (1998) and Schindler's
List (1993). Spielberg's other previous director nominations
included nods for Close Encounters of
the Third Kind (1977), Raiders
of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T.:
The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Munich (2005).
Also, Spielberg's favored composer, John Williams, marked his
17th nomination for a Spielberg movie for Best Original Score,
and it was his 48th nomination overall - the most nominations
of any living person. Woody Allen was second with 23, and Walt
Disney had 59 nominations.]
- 54 year-old David O. Russell (with his second
director nomination) for Silver Linings Playbook - he
had been nominated once before for The Fighter (2010).
- 70 year-old veteran Austrian film-maker Michael
Haneke, a first-time nominee, was nominated for his French-language
film Amour.
- 30 year-old Benh Zeitlin, nominated for Beasts
of the Southern Wild, his feature-film debut, was also
a first-time nominee.
Four of the 20 acting nominees were first-time
nominees, and 9 of the 20 acting nominees were previous winners
(including all of the Best Supporting Actor nominees). The two
female acting winners, Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Lawrence, were
first-time winners (for their second nominations), and the two
male acting winners, Daniel Day-Lewis and Christoph Waltz, had
won previously in the same categories.
In the Best Actor category, the favorite was the
winner - 55 year-old British-born Daniel
Day-Lewis (with his fifth Best Actor nomination and third win)
for his performance as Abraham Lincoln during his final eight
months of life and as President, in Lincoln. [Note: Day-Lewis
had four previous Best Actor nominations - with two other wins: My
Left Foot (1989) (win), In the Name of the Father (1993), Gangs
of New York (2002), and There Will Be Blood (2007) (win).] [Note:
Day-Lewis became the first male performer in Academy history
to win three lead acting Oscars! He was also the first person
to win an Oscar for playing an actual U.S. President. One other
actor was nominated for playing Abraham Lincoln: Raymond Massey
for Abe Lincoln In Illinois (1940) - Massey lost to Jimmy
Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940).
Day-Lewis was also the first actor to win an Oscar for
a Steven Spielberg film.]
The other four Best Actor nominees were:
- 58 year-old Denzel Washington (with his sixth
nomination, and 4th Best Actor nomination), as tragic, heroic,
and addicted boozy airline pilot William "Whip" Whitaker
who miraculously saved a crashing plane, in Flight (with
only two nominations, also Best Original Screenplay). [Note:
Washington's previous nominations (with two wins) included:
Best Supporting Actor for Cry Freedom (1987) and Glory
(1989) (win), and Best Actor for Malcolm X (1992), The
Hurricane (1999), and Training Day (2001) (win).
[Note: He became the most nominated African-American
actor in Academy history.]
- 38 year-old Joaquin Phoenix (with his third
nomination) as violence-prone alcoholic and Navy WWII vet Freddie
Quell who joined a philosophical cult known as 'The Cause',
led by Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), in writer/director
Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (with three nominations,
all for acting roles!). [Note: Phoenix's two previous nominations
were Best Supporting Actor for Gladiator (2000), and
Best Actor for Walk the Line (2005).]
- 44 year-old Australian actor Hugh Jackman (with
his first nomination), as Victor Hugo's tragic hero - reformed
petty ex-con/thief Jean Valjean, who broke his probation and
sought escape from Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe), in Les
Miserables. [Note: If Jackman won, it would have been the
first Best Actor win for a musical since Rex Harrison's Oscar
for My Fair Lady (1964).]
- 38 year-old Bradley Cooper (with his first nomination),
a long-shot nomination for his role as bi-polar psychiatric
patient Pat Solitano, a former teacher who had been institutionalized
but was trying to get his life back together while living with
his parents and romancing a weird young widow (nominated co-star
Jennifer Lawrence), in Silver Linings Playbook.
The Best Actress category appeared to be a two-way
race between two young actresses (each with their second nomination).
None of the Best Actress nominees had won an Oscar before. The
contest was won by 22 year-old Jennifer Lawrence (with her second
nomination) for Silver Linings Playbook. She portrayed
troubled, pushy and wild, recent young widow Tiffany Maxwell
- unemployed, neurotic and struggling to heal, who captured the
broken heart of recovering romantic interest Pat Solitano (Bradley
Cooper). [Note: She was previously nominated as Best Actress
for Winter's Bone (2010). She became the youngest performer
to receive two Best Actress nominations upon receiving the 2010
nomination, and the third-youngest Best Actress nominee.
With the 2012 Best Actress win, she became the second-youngest Best
Actress winner ever.]
The other four Best Actress nominees were:
- 35 year-old Jessica Chastain (with her second
nomination) as Maya, the obsessive CIA operative tracking and
hunting Al Qaeda's leader Osama bin Laden for many years, in Zero
Dark Thirty. [Note: She was previously nominated as Best
Supporting Actress the previous year for The Help (2011).]
- 44 year-old Naomi Watts (with her second nomination),
as distraught Spanish mother of three Maria Belon, trying to
locate her family (including 12 year old Lucas (Tom Holland))
in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, while they
were vacationing in Thailand over Christmas, in The Impossible (with
only one nomination). [Note: This was Watts' second Best Actress
nomination, following 21 Grams (2003).]
- 85 year-old French actress Emmanuelle Riva (with
her first nomination) as ailing and elderly octogenarian Anne,
a one-time pianist with her left-side paralyzed after a failed
operation and tended by her husband Georges until her condition
deteriorated, in Amour. [Note: 85 year-old Riva's nomination
was a record - she was the oldest Best Actress nominee
ever - who would turn 86 on the day of the Oscars' presentation.]
- 9 year-old Louisiana-born Quvenzhané Wallis
(with her first nomination and in her film debut), as spirited
and brave young child prodigy Hushpuppy living with her dying
father Wink (Dwight Henry) in the Louisiana delta/bayou area
known as the "Bathtub," in Beasts of the Southern
Wild. [Note: The young actress was only six when she played
the role. Now at 9 years of age, she was still the youngest-ever
Best Actress nominee. She was the first acting nominee to have
a Q in her name.]
The Best Supporting Actor
category was composed of veteran nominees who were all previous Oscar
winners. The winner was a long-shot - 56 year-old Austrian-born
Christoph Waltz (with his second nomination and second win in
the category), played the role of ex-German dentist and genteel
gunslinging bounty-hunter Dr. King Schultz, who freed Django
(Jamie Foxx) and mentored him, in Django Unchained. [Note:
Waltz previously won Best Supporting Actor for Inglourious
Basterds (2009), another Quentin Tarantino film.]
The other four Best Supporting Actor nominees were:
- 69 year-old Robert De Niro (with his seventh
nomination, and 2nd Best Supporting Actor nomination), as complaining,
football-obsessed, unemployed patriarchal dad Pat Solitano
Sr., in Silver Linings Playbook. [Note: De Niro has
two Oscars: Best Supporting Actor for The
Godfather, Part II (1974) and Best Actor for Raging
Bull (1980). He also had four other Best Actor nominations,
for Taxi Driver (1976), The
Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), and Cape
Fear (1991).]
- 45 year-old Philip Seymour Hoffman (with his
fourth nomination), as charismatic and dynamic New Age messiah
Lancaster Dodd, in The Master. [Note: Hoffman won Best
Actor for Capote (2005), and was nominated twice before
for Best Supporting Actor, for Charlie Wilson's War (2007) and Doubt
(2008). In fact, the other two Oscar nominees for The
Master were also nominated for 2005 Oscars, which Hoffman
won.]
- 78 year-old Alan Arkin (with his fourth nomination),
as crotchety, wily and irascible Hollywood producer Lester
Siegel, in Argo. [Note: Arkin's two Best Actor nominations
go way back to the 1960's, for The Russians Are Coming!
The Russians Are Coming! (1966) and The Heart is a Lonely
Hunter (1968). His sole Oscar win as Best Supporting Actor
was for Little Miss Sunshine (2006).]
- 66 year-old Tommy Lee Jones (with his fourth
nomination), as fierce anti-slavery Congressman Thaddeus Stevens,
in Lincoln. [Note: Jones was nominated as Best Supporting
Actor for JFK (1991) and won his sole Oscar in the same
category for The Fugitive (1993). He also was nominated
as Best Actor for In the Valley of Elah (2007).]
In the Best Supporting Actress category, there
were no first-time nominees. The leading contender was the winner
- 30 year-old Anne Hathaway (with her second nomination and first
Oscar win) as tragic, heartbreaking, and desperate factory worker/mother
Fantine, outcast and forced into prostitution to support her
daughter Cosette, in Les Miserables. [Note: Hathaway's
previous nomination was Best Actress for Rachel Getting Married
(2008).]
The other four Best Supporting Actress nominees
were:
- 38 year-old Amy Adams (with her fourth nomination,
all Best Supporting!), as the Messiah's (nominated co-star
Philip Seymour Hoffman) calculating yet devoted wife Peggy
Dodd, in The Master. [Note: Her three previous Best
Supporting Actress nominations were for Junebug (2005), Doubt
(2008), and The Fighter (2010).]
- 66 year-old Sally Field (with her third nomination,
and first supporting nomination), as the erratic, stalwart,
long-suffering and grieving First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, in Lincoln.
[Note: Field was now a three-time nominee and two-time Best
Actress Oscar winner for Norma Rae (1979) and Places
in the Heart (1984).]
- 49 year-old Helen Hunt (with her second nomination),
in a raw and often fully-naked performance (actually the lead
role!) as married sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene, working
with a disabled man (John Hawkes) who was trying to lose his
virginity, in The Sessions. [Note: Hunt's previous sole
nomination - and win - was Best Actress for As Good As It
Gets (1997).]
- 65 year-old Australian actress Jacki Weaver
(with her second nomination), a surprise nominee, as concerned
and doting mother Dolores Solitano, in Silver Linings Playbook.
[Note: Her previous Best Supporting Actress nomination was
for Animal Kingdom (2010).]
The winner of the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar
was director Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman's Brave,
made by Disney's Pixar, CGI. Three of the five nominees used
stop-motion (frame-by-frame) animation. This
was the first time that three stop-motion films were nominated
since this category was created in 2001. The other four nominees
were:
- director Tim Burton's Frankenweenie,
from Disney
- director Chris Butler and Sam Fell's zombie
comedy ParaNorman
- director Peter Lord's The Pirates! Band of
Misfits
- director Rich Moore's Wreck-It Ralph,
from Disney, CGI
[Note: Starting this year, there were two changes
in the titles of awards. The Best Art Direction award was renamed
Best Production Design, and the Best Makeup award was renamed
Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Also, after expanding the Best Picture
nominee roster from five to 10 in 2009, the AMPAS made another
change last year. The new rule allowed for 5 to 10 films to be
nominated for Best Picture (and nine were nominated this year).
If a film received 5% of the ranked first-place votes from Academy
members, it would become one of the nominees.]
Most Obvious Omissions or Snubs:
Best Picture: The
Dark Knight Rises (the year's second biggest box-office
hit), the final installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy,
was shut out entirely. (His two previous Batman movies
combined for nine nominations, and two wins.) Writer/director
Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master was also absent
from the Best Picture category, although it had three acting
nominations, as was Moonrise Kingdom about two love-struck
12 year-old runaways in mid-1960s New England, which had
only one nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Best Director: Probably the most egregious mistakes or omissions
of the year were in this category: actor-turned-director Ben
Affleck was ignored in the category for his third feature film Argo,
as was feted female war-film director Kathryn Bigelow for Zero
Dark Thirty,
Tom Hooper for Les Miserables, Paul Thomas Anderson for The
Master, and Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained.
Another oversight for Tarantino's film was the snubbing of Rick
Ross and Jamie Foxx for their contribution to the soundtrack
- "100
Black Coffins."
Best Actor: Richard Gere was passed over for his role as cheating
60 year-old Wall Street multi-billionaire Robert Miller in Arbitrage,
as was John Hawkes as real-life polio victim Mark O'Brien in The
Sessions, or Ben Affleck as CIA specialist Tony Mendez in his
own Argo.
Best Actress: Missing from the category's nominations were previous
Best Actress Oscar-winners Marion Cotillard as killer whale trainer-amputee
Stephanie in Rust and Bone, and Helen Mirren as Hitchcock's
beleaguered wife Alma Reville during the making of Psycho (1960) in Hitchcock.
Best Supporting Actor: Also unnominated was Leonardo
di Caprio as cruel, racist and sadistic plantation owner and
slave holder Calvin J. Candie in Django Unchained.
Best Supporting Actress: Many critics thought Maggie Smith should
have received a nomination for her role as retired housekeeper
Muriel in director John Madden's British comedy-drama The Best
Exotic Marigold Hotel, about a group of British senior pensioners
in a rundown retirement hotel in Jaipur, India run by inept manager
Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel).
Best Animated Feature Film: Three didn't make the cut: Sony Pictures
Animation's Hotel Transylvania (made with CGI), and two
DreamWorks' animations: Rise of the Guardians (CGI) and Madagascar
3: Europe's Most Wanted.
There were no honors for Magic Mike, Perks
of Being a Wallflower, Looper, Compliance,
or Cloud Atlas. The dominant box-office film of the
year, Marvel's The Avengers, tapped only one nomination
- Best Visual Effects (which it lost to Life of Pi).
And the third highest grossing film of the year, The Hunger
Games, also failed to garner a single nomination (although
it starred Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence!).
Comedy-genre films were neglected, as expected,
with no nominations for Richard Linklater's black comedy Bernie,
Seth MacFarlane's R-rated, hugely-popular, directorial debut
film Ted (except for one nomination for Best Original
Song), Judd Apatow's This Is 40 (a spin-off sequel to
Apatow's own Knocked Up (2007)), or Phil Lord's and Chris
Miller's action comedy 21 Jump Street.
The 23rd James Bond film - director Sam Mendes' Skyfall,
scored five Oscar nominations (a major record for the 50 year-old
franchise, the most nominated Bond film ever) and two wins: Best
Sound Editing, and Best Original Song (Adele's "Skyfall").
Its other three nominations were for Best Cinematography (Roger
Deakins), Best Original Score, and Best Sound Mixing. There
was no Best Supporting Actor nomination for villain Raoul Silva
(Javier Bardem), or a nod to Judi Dench for her long-running
role as M.
[Note about Bond and the Oscars: Adele's "Skyfall" was
the first Original Song contender in 10 years to have
also been a top-10 hit on Billboard's Hot 100. It was
also the first Oscar-nominated Bond tune since For
Your Eyes Only (1981). The only two Academy Award wins
in previous years for Bond films were Best Sound Effects for Goldfinger
(1964), and Best Special Visual Effects for Thunderball
(1965).]
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