Awards Winners are listed first * 1. Best Picture Argo – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney Amour – Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Michael Katz Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, and Michael Gottwald Django Unchained – Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, and Pilar Savone Les Miserables – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh Life of Pi – Gil Netter, Ang Lee, and David Womark Lincoln – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy Silver Linings Playbook – Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen, and Jonathan Gordon Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, and Megan Ellison * 2. Best Directing Ang Lee – Life of Pi Michael Haneke – Amour David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook Steven Spielberg – Lincoln Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild * 3. Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrick "Pat Jr." Solitano Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables as Jean Valjean Joaquin Phoenix – The Master as Freddie Quell Denzel Washington – Flight as William "Whip" Whitaker * 4. Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty as Maya Emmanuelle Riva – Amour as Anne Laurent Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild as Hushpuppy Naomi Watts – The Impossible as Maria Bennett * 5. Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained as Dr. King Schultz Alan Arkin – Argo as Lester Siegel Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat Sr," Solitano Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master as Lancaster Dodd Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln as Thaddeus Stevens * 6. Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables as Fantine Amy Adams – The Master as Peggy Dodd Sally Field – Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln Helen Hunt – The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook as Dolores Solitano * 7. Best Original Screenplay Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino Amour – Michael Haneke Flight – John Gatins Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal * 8. Best Adapted Screenplay Argo – Chris Terrio from The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez & The Great Escape by Joshuah Bearman Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin from Juicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar Life of Pi – David Magee from Life of Pi by Yann Martel Lincoln – Tony Kushner from Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell from The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick * 9. Best Animated Feature Film Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman Frankenweenie – Tim Burton ParaNorman – Sam Fell and Chris Butler The Pirates! Band of Misfits – Peter Lord Wreck-It Ralph – Rich Moore * 10. Best Foreign Language Film Amour (Austria) in French – Michael Haneke Kon-Tiki (Norway) in English and Norwegian – Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg No (Chile) in Spanish – Pablo Larrain A Royal Affair (Denmark) in Danish – Nikolaj Arcel War Witch (Canada) in French – Kim Nguyen * 11. Best Documentary – Feature Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn 5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi The Gatekeepers – Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, and Estelle Fialon How to Survive a Plague – David France and Howard Gertler The Invisible War – Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering * 12. Best Documentary – Short Subject Inocente – Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine Kings Point – Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider Mondays at Racine – Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan Open Heart – Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern Redemption – Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill * 13. Best Live Action Short Film Curfew – Shawn Christensen Asad – Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura Buzkashi Boys – Sam French and Ariel Nasr Death of a Shadow (Dood Van Een Schaduw) – Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele Henry – Yan England * 14. Best Animated Short Film Paperman – John Kahrs Adam and Dog – Minkyu Lee Fresh Guacamole – PES Head over Heels – Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly The Longest Daycare – David Silverman * 15. Best Original Score Life of Pi – Mychael Danna Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli Argo – Alexandre Desplat Lincoln – John Williams Skyfall – Thomas Newman * 16. Best Original Song "Skyfall" from Skyfall – Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth "Before My Time" from Chasing Ice – J. Ralph "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted – Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane "Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi – Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri "Suddenly" from Les Miserables – Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer, and Alain Boublil * 17. Best Sound Editing Skyfall – Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers Zero Dark Thirty – Paul N. J. Ottosson Argo – Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn Django Unchained – Wylie Stateman Life of Pi – Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton * 18. Best Sound Mixing Les Miserables – Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, and Simon Hayes Argo – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, and Jose Antonio Garcia Life of Pi – Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill, and Drew Kunin Lincoln – Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, and Ronald Judkins Skyfall – Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, and Stuart Wilson * 19. Best Production Design Lincoln – Rick Carter and Jim Erickson Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent, and Simon Bright Les Miserables – Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson Life of Pi – David Gropman and Anna Pinnock * 20. Best Cinematography Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey Django Unchained – Robert Richardson Lincoln – Janusz Kaminski Skyfall – Roger Deakins * 21. Best Makeup And Hairstyling Les Miserables – Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell Hitchcock – Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, and Martin Samuel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater, and Tami Lane * 22. Best Costume Design Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran Les Miserables – Paco Delgado Lincoln – Joanna Johnston Mirror Mirror – Eiko Ishioka Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood * 23. Best Film Editing Argo – William Goldenberg Life of Pi – Tim Squyres Lincoln – Michael Kahn Silver Linings Playbook – Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers Zero Dark Thirty – Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg * 24. Best Visual Effects Life of Pi – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer, and Donald R. Elliott The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, and R. Christopher White Marvel's The Avengers – Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, and Dan Sudick Prometheus – Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley, and Martin Hill Snow White and the Huntsman – Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould, and Michael Dawson