'Lincoln', 'Les Miserables', 'Silver Linings' Top List Of Nominees For 18th Annual Critics Choice Movie Awards

With a record-breaking 13 nominations including Picture, Director, Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, Supporting Actress for Sally Field and Supporting Actor for Tommy Lee Jones, Steven Spielberg's long-gestating pet project Lincoln dominated the 18th Annual Critics Choice Awards announced this morning and presented by the Broadcast Film Critics Association which will air the CCMA's on January 10 in a live broadcast on the CW network. That is the same date Oscar Nominations will be announced so it should be quite a day. These  awards, unlike many of the critics groups awards, are taken very seriously as a strong precursor to the way Oscar voters may cast their ballots. And with those ballots going out earlier than usual  in less than a week these early award nominations can have a possible impact on the way the Oscar winds are blowing. Certainly the track record is there for the CCMAs.

If that's the case then Universal's Les Miserables is also going to be a strong contender snagging 11 nominations including Best Picture, Director (Tom Hooper) , Actor for Hugh Jackman and Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway. Just one notch behind is a surprisingly robust showing for The Weinstein Company's Silver Linings Playbook with a massive 10 nominations including Picture, Actor (Bradley Cooper) , Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro)  Director and Adapted Screenplay  (David O. Russell).  20th Century Fox's ambitious Life Of Pi garnered an impressive 9 nominations including Best Picture , Director (Ang Lee) and many crafts categories. After that it was up to three movies, Argo (includng Director Ben Affleck),  The Master and Skyfall  to each grab 7 nominations and try to keep the contest close. In terms of personal nominations no one could touch Jennifer Lawrence, who is having quite a year grabbing 4 nominations including Actress, Actress in a Comedy, Actress in an Action Movie (The Hunger Games) and Best Acting Ensemble. Her Silver Linings co-star Bradley Cooper led the males with three acting nominations, all for that film.

The 10 nominees for Best Picture were a diverse bunch that included three entries alone from The Weinstein Company Django Unchained, The Master and Silver Linings Playbook. Argo, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Les Miserables, Life Of Pi, Lincoln, Moonrise Kingdom and Zero Dark Thirty round out the list. The latter has already won numerous critics groups awards for Best Film of the Year and for its director Kathryn Bigelow. It snagged a total of five mentions from the Broadcast Film Critics including one for Jessica Chastain as Best Actress. Competing with her are Lawrence, Marion Cotillard for Rust And Bone, Naomi Watts for The Impossible and a couple of contenders on opposite ends of the scale : 85 year old Amour star Emmanuelle Riva  and 9 year old  Quvenzhane Wallis for Beasts Of The Southern Wild.

Joining Cooper in the Best Actor race are  Day-Lewis, John Hawkes in The Sessions, Jackman, Joaquin Phoenix in The Master  and Denzel Washington as the alcoholic pilot in Flight. There is also a very starry lineup in the supporting categories with Alan Arkin (Argo), Javier Bardem (Skyfall), De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) , Jones and Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike all making the male list while the female side had Amy Adams (The Master), Judi Dench (Skyfall), Ann Dowd from the little-seen Compliance, Field, Hathaway and Helen Hunt (The Sessions).

In an attempt to gain even more star power for the CCMAs, the organization has added four other acting categories in the Action and Comedy areas. Fans will even  be able to vote in one new category, Favorite Film Franchise indicating that perhaps everyone in this day and age has become a critic.

This morning's announcement follows yesterday's unveiling of the AFI's 10 Best Films of the Year (which match the CCMA list of Best Pic with 9 of 10 of the same titles indicating some consensus may be building)  and precedes tomorrow's all-important SAG nominations and Thursday's Golden Globe lineup to make a busy week and one sure to add more clarity to what is already a wide-open Oscar race.

Here is the full list of nominations:

 

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

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