'Lincoln' Dominates Oscar Announcement with 12 Nominations

The Academy announced its nominations for the 85th Academy Awards on Thursday morning, and it definitely surprised when it came to a few categories. Amour, a lock for Best Foreign Film, also earned a Best Picture nomination. Moonrise Kingdom and The Master getting left out. The Academy only nominated nine Best Pictures, falling short of the ten they could have honored. This is strange considering the depth of films 2012 brought.

The race for Best Director has been turned upside down after this morning. While Steven Spielberg and Ang Lee both secured nominations as expected, Amour's Michael Haneke, Silver Linings Playbook's David O. Russell and Beasts of the Southern Wild's Benh Zeitlin joined the category. Directors Guild Award winner Ben Affleck was snubbed. Kathryn Bigelow, who collected a ton of critics awards for Zero Dark Thirty, was also left out of the category.

We'll have more coverage of the 85th Academy Awards as the day goes along. For now, check out the full list of nominees after the jump.

Best Picture
Amour 
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director
Michael Haneke (Amour)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)

Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)

Denzel Washington (Flight)

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)
Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin (Argo)
Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook)

Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams (The Master)
Sally Fields (Lincoln)

Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)

Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Original Screenplay
Amour (Michael Haneke)
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
Flight (Rian Johnson)

Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola)

Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo (Chris Terrio)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin)

Life of Pi (David Magee)

Lincoln (Tony Kushner)

Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)

Best Animated Feature
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man

Best Foreign Language Film
Amour
Kon-Tiki
No
A Royal Affair
War Watch

Best Animated Short Film
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"

Best Documentary Short Subject
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption

Best Live Action Short Film
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death of a Shadow
Henry

Best Cinematography
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Best Costume Design
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Film Editing
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables

Best Original Score
Anna Karenina (Dario Marianelli)
Argo (Alexandre Desplat)

Life of Pi (Mychael Danna)

Lincoln (John Williams)

Skyfall (Thomas Newman)

Best Original Song
Before My Time — J. Ralph (Chasing Ice)
Everybody Needs a Best Friend — Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane (Ted)

Pi's Lullaby — Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri (Life of Pi)

Skyfall — Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth (Skyfall)

Suddenly — Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil (Les Miserables)

Best Production Design
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln

Best Sound Editing
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Sound Mixing
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Best Visual Effects
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman