My 2013 Oscar Reactions

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Well, the Oscar nominations have been announced. There were a few surprises, but, for the most part, nominations went as expected. See the full list here.

Interesting stats

• Lincoln leads the nominations with 12. Life of Pi coming right behind with 11.
• Life of Pi was nominated in all 7 technical categories (cinematography, editing, score, sound editing, sound mixing, visual effects, production design). Only three films have done that before: Titanic, Master and Commander, and Hugo.
• Quvenzhané Wallis is the youngest best actress nominee ever at nine years old. Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest best actress ever nominated, at 85 years young.
• Alan Arkin has the longest span of time ever between his first and last nominations, his first coming in 1966 for The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.
• Three Australians are up for acting nominations: Jackman, Watts, and Weaver.
• All five nominees in Supporting Actor have won an Oscar before. First time in history.
• George Clooney, as a producer of Argo, has now been nominated in six different Oscar categories (Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, Director, Original Screenplay, and Adapted Screenplay).
• First time nominees: Bradley Cooper, Michael Haneke, Hugh Jackman, Quvenzhané Wallis, and Benh Zeitlin.
• Amy Adams is only the 8th person that has received a nomination for Supporting Actress at least four times. All hers have come within the past seven years (The Fighter, Doubt, Junebug).

Immediate Reactions

• Lincoln is really the frontrunner by far.
• Kathryn Bigelow getting snubbed for Best Director seems big, but Ben Affleck's snub is bigger. Zero Dark Thirty has lots of detractors - Argo has almost none.
• Interesting to see The Intouchables miss out on a Foreign Film nomination.
• Very happy to see Bully miss out on a Best Documemtary nomination.
• I'm very proud of myself for having faith that the Academy would be won over by Amour.
• I apparently forgot to list Affleck as a Director nominee and listed Russell instead. That worked out pretty well, I'd say.
• I will say now the only films that have a chance to beat Lincoln are Life of Pi and Silver Linings Playbook. And that chance is very tiny.