In conjunction with Hollywood’s Award season, I present to you the nominess for the Best of Film 2012.  Cloud Atlas leads the pack with 7 nods, but is followed very closely by Life of Pi, The Hunger Games, and Lincoln, all of which boast 6.  And the nominees are…

Cinematography:

– Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda

 – Cloud Atlas – Frank Griebe, John Toll

– Skyfall – Roger Deakins

– A Royal Affair – Rasmus Videbæk

– Hitchcock – Jeff Cronenweth

Costume Design:

– Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood

– The Hunger Games – Judianna Makovsky

– Magic Mike – Christopher Peterson

– Mirror Mirror – Eiko Ishioka

– The Dark Knight Rises – Lindy Hemming

Art Direction:

– Life of Pi – Dan Webster

– The Hunger Games – John Collins

– Mirror Mirror – Nicolas Lepage, Jean-Pierre Paquet, and Real Proulx

– ParaNorman – Phil Brotherton, Francesca Berlingiere Maxwell

– Lincoln – Curt Beech, David Crank, Leslie McDonald

Original Song:

– “Skyfall” – Adele – Skyfall

– “Pi’s Lullaby” – Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri  – Life of Pi

– “Love Always Comes As A Surprise” – Peter Asher – Madagascar 3

– “Safe and Sound” – The Civil Wars (and Taylor Swift) – The Hunger Games

– “Suddenly” – Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables

Original Score:

– Argo – Alexandre Desplat

– Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin

– Cloud Atlas – Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, and Gene Pritsker

– The Dark Knight Rises – Hans Zimmer

– Life of Pi – Mychael Danna

Original Screenplay:

– Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino

– Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

– The Dark Knight Rises – Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan

– End of Watch – David Ayer

– Ted – Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild

Adapted Screenplay:

– Argo – Chris Terrio

– Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar and Ben Zeitlin

– Lincoln – Tony Kushner

– Cloud Atlas – Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski

– A Royal Affair – Rasmus Heisterberg and Nicolaj Arcel

Actor in a Voice-Over Role:

– John C. Reilly as “Ralph” – Wreck It Ralph

– Charlie Tahan as “Victor Frankenstein” – Frankenweenie

– Kodi Smit-McPhee as “Norman Babcock” – ParaNorman

– Jack McBrayer as “Fix It Felix” – Wreck It Ralph

– Chris Pine as “Jack Frost” – Rise of the Guardians

Actress in a Voice-Over Role:

– Betty White as “Grammy Norma” – Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax

– Frances McDormand as “Captain Chantel DuBois” – Madagascar 3

– Jessica Chastain as “Gia” – Madagascar 3

– Catherine O’Hara as “Mrs. Frankenstein / Weird Girl / Gym Teacher” – Frankenweenie

– Kelly Macdonald as “Merida” – Brave

Actor in a Supporting Role:

– Leonardo DiCaprio – Django Unchained

– Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

– James D’Arcy – Hitchcock

– Tom Hardy – The Dark Knight Rises

– Ben Whishaw – Cloud Atlas

Actress in a Supporting Role:

– Helen Hunt – The Sessions

– Charlize Theron – Snow White and the Huntsman

– Elizabeth Banks – The Hunger Games

– Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables

– Doona Bae – Cloud Atlas                    

Actor in a Leading Role:

– Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln

– Jim Sturgess – Cloud Atlas

– Jake Gyllenhaal – End of Watch

– John Hawkes – The Sessions

– Willem Dafoe – The Hunter

Actress in a Leading Role:

– Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild

– Helen Mirren – Hitchcock

– Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games

– Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty

– Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook

The Lumiére Award for Directing:

– Steven Spielberg – Lincoln

– Ben Affleck – Argo

– Ang Lee – Life of Pi

– Ben Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild

– Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty

Animated Feature of the Year:

– Wreck It Ralph

– Rise of the Guardians

– ParaNorman

– Frankenweenie

– Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

Animated Short Film of the Year:

– Paperman – John Kahrs  

– La Luna – Enrico Casarosa  

– Maggie Simpson in the Longest Daycare – David Silverman

Foreign Language Feature of the Year:

– Declaration of War – France

– Monsieur Lazhar – Canada

–  A Royal Affair – Denmark

– A Trip – Slovenia

– The Hunter – Australia

Documentary Feature of the Year:

– Chimpanzee – Alistair Fothergill, Mark Linfield

– West of Memphis – Amy Berg

– The Island President – Jon Shenk

– Informant – Jamie Meltzer

– Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Benjelloul

Feature Film of the Year:

– Lincoln

– Argo

– Beasts of the Southern Wild

– Cloud Atlas

– The Dark Knight Rises

– Django Unchained

– The Hunger Games

– Life of Pi

– Zero Dark Thirty

Winners to be revealed January 20 – in the meantime, what are your thoughts and more importantly, is there something here that shouldn’t be or something that should be but isn’t?  Let me hear it…

-Bobby-james