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Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Today’s Oscar Nominations: ‘Lincoln’ Dominates

Jan. 10, 2013 9:06am Jonathon M. Seidl

A giant screen shows the Oscar nominees for Best Picture at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on January 10, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. Steven Spielberg is hoping for good news Thursday as Oscar nominees are unveiled, with his ‘Lincoln’ among frontrunners, albeit in a wide field as Hollywood’s awards season enters the home straight. The nominations for the 2013 Academy Awards were held at at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, in California for the famous golden statuettes, to be handed out on February 24. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Civil War saga “Lincoln” leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture, director for Steven Spielberg and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.

Also among the 9 nominees for best picture Thursday: the old-age love story “Amour”; the Iran hostage thriller “Argo”; the independent hit “Beasts of the Southern Wild”; the slave-revenge narrative “Django Unchained”; the musical “Les Miserables”; the shipwreck story “Life of Pi”; the lost-souls romance “Silver Linings Playbook”; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Chronicling Abraham Lincoln’s final months as he engineers passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, “Lincoln” stars best-actor contender Day-Lewis in a monumental performance as the 16th president, supporting-actress nominee Field as the notoriously headstrong Mary Todd Lincoln and supporting-actor prospect Jones as abolitionist firebrand Thaddeus Stevens.

Joining Day-Lewis in the best-actor field are Bradley Cooper as a psychiatric patient trying to get his life back together in “Silver Linings Playbook”; Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo’s tragic hero Jean Valjean in “Les Miserables”; Joaquin Phoenix as a Navy vet who falls in with a cult in “The Master”; and Denzel Washington as a boozy airline pilot in “Flight.”

Nominated for best actress are Jessica Chastain as a CIA operative hunting bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty”; Jennifer Lawrence as a troubled young widow struggling to heal in “Silver Linings Playbook”; Emmanuelle Riva as an ailing woman tended by her husband in “Amour”; Quvenzhane Wallis as a spirited girl on the Louisiana delta in “Beasts of the Southern Wild”; and Naomi Watts as a mother caught up in a devastating tsunami in “The Impossible.”

Along with Field, supporting-actress nominees are Amy Adams as a cult leader’s devoted wife in “The Master”; Anne Hathaway as an outcast mother reduced to prostitution in “Les Miserables”; Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate in “The Sessions”; and Jacki Weaver as an unstable man’s doting mom in “Silver Linings Playbook.”

The Oscar nominees for Best Supporting Actress are announced by Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone at the Samuel Goldwyn Theartre on January 11, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. Steven Spielberg is hoping for good news Thursday as Oscar nominees are unveiled, with his ‘Lincoln’ among frontrunners, albeit in a wide field as Hollywood’s awards season enters the home straight. The nominations for the 2013 Academy Awards were held at at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, in California for the famous golden statuettes, to be handed out on February 24. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

Besides Jones, the supporting-actor contenders are Alan Arkin as a wily Hollywood producer in “Argo”; Robert De Niro as a football-obsessed patriarch in “Silver Linings Playbook”; Philip Seymour Hoffman as a dynamic cult leader in “The Master”; and Christoph Waltz as a genteel bounty hunter in “Django Unchained.”

The Oscars feature a best-picture field that ranges from five to 10 films depending on a complex formula of ballots from the 5,856 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Winners for the 85th Oscars will be announced Feb. 24 at a ceremony aired live on ABC from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.

“Family Guy” creator and vocal star Seth MacFarlane – a versatile performer whose work includes directing and voicing for the title character of last summer’s hit “Ted” and a Frank Sinatra-style album of standards – is the Oscar host.

Thursday’s nominees will be announced at 8:40 a.m. EST by “The Amazing Spider-Man” star Emma Stone and MacFarlane, the first time that an Oscar show host has joined in the preliminary announcement since 1972, when Charlton Heston participated on nominations day.

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 4:03pm
Yeah, they can’t wait to tell Americans they have mental problems, then celebrate with a yearly party that will likely glorify their use of mental illness to “entertain us”? Who is demanding “camera control”, besides those of us who refuse to go to the movies, or rent your stupid movies?

Life is a bowl of cherries, you just have to cherry pick what gives you life?

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 3:47pm
Lincoln was a POS. It is very, very possible (reading a few of his letters to a ‘friend’) that he was AC/DC. He involved himself in seances. He was not a big fan of blacks like some think. He destroyed habeas Corpus while in office. He packed the Supreme court with more judges when they ruled against him. His generals and army were so hideous to Confederate civilians that these days they all would have been in front of the Hague. He was almost a dictator…..kinda’ like obama.

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freedoc
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:55pm
Django unchained.

Let us all think: What did Jamie Foxx say recently? Obama is OUR( meaning Black people) Savior?

Now, Foxx is the savior, in a bloody, classless, morbid story of a Black Super Man killing white people by the score.

Sound familar? Sound like we need additional slave reperations( above the 700 billion stimulus and the new ‘redistribution’ taxes)? Need to gin up the Blacks and the New Panther party?

There it is.

This movie is so loathsome, so horrible, so ridiculously racist in the opposite direction( with the scene on Phrenology), that it completely stinks. Notice there is not a single American with a positive image. The only white man who ‘understands’ is the European.

Anti-american. Racist Anti-white. Kill them. Kill them all. Usher in the Black Utopian world—-and its not about 1858. Its about NOW.

I stayed for the whole movie. Its important to know your enemy.

Whats truly sad is that neither I, nor my ancestors had anything to do with slavery or racism……but even 150 years later—-you better believe WE will be blamed, and our lives and property confiscated.

And they call us racist. Pfft.

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rsanchez1
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:09pm
It’s obvious why Lincoln dominates. With Obama trying to link himself to Lincoln, the media trying to link him to Lincoln, of course they want to boost Lincoln. Next year the Oscars will go to some movie about FDR. Then the next to some movie about Che Guevara. After that us normal folk will not be permitted to watch the Oscars.

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KidCharlemagne
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:54pm
Actually, the ‘original’ 13th Amendment was the Corwin Amendment.

The Corwin Amendment was the first ever proposed amendment to the US Constitution to which an actual numerical designation (’13′) was specified.

Passed by both houses of Congress on March 2, 1861, the Corwin Amendment reads:

“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”

Even to this very day, the Corwin Amendment remains pending before the States for ratification:

“This proposed amendment is still pending before the state legislatures for ratification, because Congress submitted it to the state legislatures without a deadline.”

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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 5:04pm
  It’s not going to pass.
  
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jessieH
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:31pm
Hollyweird won’t be getting any of my money any time soon. I plan on boycotting anything Hollyweird, from now on. I refuse to pay to watch their propaganda & make them any richer.

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GoodStuff
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:25pm
A garbage movie Lincoln was. You’ve got three secular Jews making this flick, Spielberg, Kushner and Day-Lewis. And what’s a secular Jew to do? Add vulgarity where there was none. Lincoln did not curse and he despised people that did. Yet in this movie you’ve got Abe dropping the F-bomb several times. Talk about injecting contemporary vulgarity into history.

I shouldn’t expect any less from Spielberg, the guy has a history of historical revisionism. Not to mention the fact that during interviews for the film, all these guys go with the same old nonsense: that the political parties have switched places, and if Lincoln was alive today he’d be a Democrat. Bull!

Screw Hollywood…stop giving them your money…they hate you!

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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 5:17pm
  Have you seen the movie? Mr. Lincoln does not drop any f-bombs, though in one scene another character does use the word upon meeting him. This was just an internet rumor probably started by ignorant viewers who had never heard the word “pettifogging” before.
  
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ltb
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:02pm
I hated that movie (i.e., “Lincoln”). It’s disturbing to realize how many Americans get their news from Jon Stewart and their history lessons from Steven Spielberg. Even though Republicans were responsible for getting the 13th Amendment passed, this movie managed to portray Democrats as the heroes, conservative Republicans as the villains and Mary Lincoln as the real force behind pushing Abe to abolish slavery.

Here’s some of the Liberal propaganda you’ll get from the movie: The House of Representatives is bunch of hicks who stand in the way of progress, the President is where power is supposed to be concentrated in our government, the “liberal” viewpoint is preferable to the “stingy” viewpoint and sometimes you have to give up freedom to gain new freedoms. Additionally, the phrase “conservative Republicans” was used in a pejorative way several times.

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taxpro4u03
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:57am
Have posted these before — neat reads — Lincoln; — glorified by many, despised by others — {wouldn’t it BITE if the DNA samples from Edwin Booth and those believed to be John Wilkes’ did NOT match? — :-) } Moreover — What was John Surratt doing in ALEXANDRIA EGYPT and WHY was he donning the PAPAL colors?? Inquiring minds want to know…. — :-) —>
http://archive.org/details/factsfalsehoodsc00edmo

http://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsinrome00chinuoft
What WAS the connection (if any) TO Lincoln? Moreover – WHY was Sherman’s March to the sea so ‘successful’ to begin with — and WHO AUTHORIZED such tyranny to be unleashed upon the PROPERTY of non-combatants? (What was Sherman’s later CHICAGO connection and what WAS ‘Camp Douglas?’ WHY are these scrubbed from history??? Arlington Nat’l Cemetary IS in the FRONT YARD of Gen Robt E. Lee’s seized by the Fed’s ancesteral home. WHY there? (PsyOp to SHAME the General is the rumor – filled it up with the bodies of Yankee soldiers) —
If the ‘liberals’ are truly out to destroy American Icons — WHY isn’t the media jumping all over the HISTORY of the tyrant ‘responsible’ for the deaths of nearly 630,000 Americans, ‘collectively?’ WHY were ONLY 38 Native Americans (rather than the original 130+ originally ‘convicted’) HANGED in Minnesota – green-lighted by Abe Lincoln and known to be the LARGEST mass-execution on the North American continent?
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/dakota/dak

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Mad_as_Hell...
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:14am
Maybe as a result of these Oscars’ some more people will see the movie and be made aware that it was the republicans who wanted to abolish slavery and it was the Democrats who wanted to keep slavery in place.
And that Lincoln didn’t want to impose his will by ordering an executive order to abolish slavery. He understood a mandate would not effectivelly change the hearts and minds of the American people by forcing his will. He wanted the “people’s vote” to make this change.

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- Marine25
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:25am
  Liberal Republicans, you are absolutely correct.
  
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- Free_Thought
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:46am
  Now take a look at what has happened since then. Republicans fought integration tooth and nail.
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:33am
  What was the Emancipation Proclamation, if not an executive order? Declaring all slaves in Confederate-controlled areas free, it was almost immediately widely known by most slaves behind Confederate lines, and gave them every incentive to abscond and seek the protection of advancing Union forces. If a 13th Amendment was required to free slaves in loyal slave states, and to perpetuate abolition beyond the end of the war, that was merely a logical extension of what Lincoln had undertaken originally by executive authority.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:12pm
  Marine25, you’re exactly the type of mindless drone for whom this piece of propaganda (i.e., “Lincoln”) was intended. You’re ignorant about history and all you needed was a movie about Lincoln that denigrated conservative Republicans and made heroes of Democrats to be convinced that it truly was Liberals who freed the slaves. You may be a feather in the cap for our State run school system, but you’re an embarrassment to your country. BTW, do you think calling yourself a Marine gives you some kind of credibility on the Internet?
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:31pm
  @Freethought
  
  “Republicans fought integration tooth and nail.”
  
  On what planet? What books are you reading? It was Republicans that ended slavery, it was Republicans that were the majority vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It was the Democrats who wanted to continue slavery. The KKK was created as the military wing of the Democrat party. It was Democrat sheriffs that enforced Jim Crow Laws. Gov. George Wallace, who stood on the steps of the Univ. of Alabama and said, “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”, was a Democrat.
  
  Do your homework, everything you believe is wrong.
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 2:19pm
  @GoodStuff:
  
  Here’s the party breakdown for the vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  
  House of Representatives:
  Democrats for: 152
  Democrats against: 96
  Republicans for: 138
  Republicans against: 34
  Senate:
  Democrats for: 46
  Democrats against: 21
  Republicans for: 27
  Republicans against: 6
  
  The measure would not have passed without Republican votes, but it’s very clear that in both houses, a majority of Democrats supported it.
  
  None of this absolves the Democratic Party of its racist past, but what happened in 1964 pointed toward the future in which Democrats got the vast majority of the black vote, while Republicans increasingly became the party of the white South.
  
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cassandra
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:12am
Lincoln was awfull so full of untruths it was hard to watch just like Oliver Stones Real America show I had to turn it off one LIE after another

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- Marine25
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:27am
  Which lies offended you most?
  
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- Sharlene
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:29am
  What precisely was untrue about the movie?????????? Are you also one of those who say Bill O’Reilly’s book Killing Lincoln is also full of untruths ????????????
  
  Just asking
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:52am
  I assume you mean Oliver Stone’s “Untold History.” It’s tendentious and one-sided, but I wonder exactly what are the “untruths” in it? That World War II in Europe was really won by the Red Army? That the Pacific War might have been won without the use of atomic bombs, and also without the further loss of any large number of American lives? That American as well as Soviet initiatives had a lot to do with the onset of the Cold War? All these propositions are at the very least arguable and deserve to be heard.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:52pm
  NotaMarine25, propaganda has become more sophisticated since the days of your hero Adolf Hitler. Nowadays, propaganda doesn’t hit people over the head with lies, it just plants seeds like “conservative Republicans were messing up the works even during Lincoln’s day,” or “Democrats must have been good, because they were being applauded so much in ‘Lincoln’” or “the conservative way of thinking is stingy.” See, Spielberg knows that he couldn’t make the movie he really wanted about Lincoln, where all of the Democrats voted to abolish slavery, because even the most successfully indoctrinated liberals in America can’t refute the fact that Democrats have always been racists who blocked every civil rights bill from the Civil War through the 1960s. You’re a case study in willful ignorance and a testimony to the fact that Spielberg accomplished his mission.
  
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jcldwl
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:27am
Does anyone who visits this site regularly give a hoot about the oscars?

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- lynnissmart
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:47am
  No~
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:40am
  Kinda’ like all those politicians patting each other on the back
  and hi-fiving during the Sandy hurricane rescue effort…
  Photo op, then they disappear.. disgusting individuals !!
  
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:20am
Sick of these people giving themselves awards. I do not support hollywierd or TV media. Out of Babylon and into reality. To have ever called a lowly actor; one who wears a mask a “star” is ridiculous. It has allowed them to put themselves above all common decency and become drunk with the power of illusion and are delusional by their own drunkeness. A sick bunch of freaks. And the unions control this just as they do professional sports. They are all paid more than they are worth and set above as “false idols”. Good luck with that…Babylon.

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- joey g
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:29am
  right on…seen lincoln …it sucked
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:45am
  Mr or Ms JOEY G,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Kirk Cameron can’t be in EVERY movie.
  
  It is so.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:00am
  Mr or Ms PGSWILLNEVERFLY,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Bedtime for Bonzo.
  
  It is so.
  
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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:08am
  YOURSENSI : The next Mass Murderer ? I’m thinking “it is so”.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:42am
  ARMED: The “good news” is that SENEI is out of rehab. The bad news is that I see a relapse in the making. “it will be so ” as the kid says…
  
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