:00:24. > :00:27.Hello and welcome to this BBC News Special. In the next few minutes,
:00:27. > :00:34.we will be live in Hollywood to hear the Oscar nominations for the
:00:34. > :00:38.85th Academy Awards. With me for the next half an hour, our film
:00:38. > :00:47.critic Jason Solomons. He'll be giving us his views on what should
:00:47. > :00:53.and should not be making it onto the list. We can look at the scene
:00:53. > :01:00.live in Los Angeles. It is a very early start for people there, it is
:01:00. > :01:06.just 5:30am. It is an early start as we wait for the nominations.
:01:06. > :01:10.This is the scene at the Samuel Goldwyn and theatre. In about five
:01:10. > :01:19.minutes, the important list will be unveiled. While we wait for events
:01:19. > :01:26.to get under way, we can get to Jason's important thoughts. It is a
:01:26. > :01:30.lovely that you are with us. What do we think of this year? We can
:01:30. > :01:37.start with Lincoln. Would it be mean of me to suggest it will be a
:01:37. > :01:41.safe choice? I think it is probably going to lead the nominations. Not
:01:41. > :01:48.just because it was Steven Spielberg. Daniel Day-Lewis, the
:01:48. > :01:53.lead role, his fifth nomination this would be. He is doing the
:01:53. > :02:03.father of American politics in a very political year for America. It
:02:03. > :02:05.
:02:05. > :02:09.has the hallmark categories, with the make-up, the wigs. This is the
:02:09. > :02:14.sort of solid production Hollywood likes to say this is what we do
:02:14. > :02:19.well and they do do it well. It will probably lead nominations.
:02:19. > :02:24.Steven Spielberg has done that before. The colour purple before
:02:24. > :02:30.had a lot of nominations, but it went away with nothing. That makes
:02:30. > :02:40.me feel my age! Lincoln has not opened in the UK. People will not
:02:40. > :02:43.
:02:43. > :02:50.have seen it yet. We will win the war. You will begin
:02:50. > :02:56.your second term. Imagine the possibilities bees will bring. Why
:02:56. > :03:02.tarnish your lustre with a battle in a house? The same gang of
:03:02. > :03:09.talentless hacks who rejected the amendment ten months ago. I like
:03:09. > :03:14.our chances now. It really is a film for people who love American
:03:14. > :03:19.politics and it is about Lincoln's attempts to drive through the
:03:19. > :03:25.amendment to abolish slavery. Les Miserables, the longest running
:03:25. > :03:31.stage musical. Very tricky to put any musical on the big screen. It
:03:31. > :03:37.divided critics. It used to be a thing that a Hollywood musical was
:03:37. > :03:42.a staple of Hollywood. The musical has gone off in recent years. When
:03:43. > :03:51.they make them, they can do it very well. Chicago, of course. It opens
:03:51. > :03:56.in the UK this week. These films are opening soon. Tom Hooper
:03:56. > :04:00.directed The King's Speech. Can he do the same with Les Miserables? I
:04:00. > :04:06.fancy the craft will get nominations, the production. Anne
:04:06. > :04:11.Hathaway, singing. Nobody does any talking. I was going to do the show,
:04:11. > :04:17.singing! We will do it traditionally. There are great
:04:17. > :04:23.moments in the film. Great numbers, well delivered. Can it justify the
:04:23. > :04:28.running time? I found it a little bit tedious towards the end. Will
:04:28. > :04:38.it catch and a hearts in the way that Chicago did? I do not know. It
:04:38. > :04:48.is different. Eight quick word about Argo, directed by Ben Affleck.
:04:48. > :04:48.
:04:48. > :04:55.-- a quick word. This is a great heist caper movie. Hollywood loves
:04:55. > :04:58.a film about Hollywood and it has a lot of Hollywood in it. Hollywood
:04:59. > :05:04.politics come together in Argo. This is my dark horse for winning
:05:04. > :05:13.the best picture. The make-up is great, directing is good. Good old
:05:13. > :05:22.actors in it. It is a solid piece of work. It is good fun. Maybe that
:05:22. > :05:28.has been missing at the Oscars. you correctly get all 10 nominees,
:05:28. > :05:32.you win �1,000 for charity. What about Skyfall? That is the big
:05:32. > :05:38.question this year, whether it will be the first James Bond film
:05:38. > :05:46.nominated. It did not get on my list, but I would be thrilled if it
:05:46. > :05:53.got in there. I love bond. 50 years. It would be a great time to mark
:05:53. > :05:59.that -- James Bond. We are can go to Los Angeles. And our
:05:59. > :06:04.correspondent. Good morning. It is very early. I think they do
:06:04. > :06:11.it deliberately. Remind us who will be presenting
:06:11. > :06:16.the nominations. Tell us what it is like in California.
:06:16. > :06:21.It is great excitement. The Oscars are earlier than normal. Many of
:06:21. > :06:26.the awards shows, nominations, has been crunched up to being an
:06:26. > :06:29.earlier in the year and every couple of days in Hollywood, if
:06:30. > :06:35.another society coming out with their shortlist for this year. The
:06:35. > :06:45.Oscars will be held on 24th February. There is great excitement
:06:45. > :06:46.
:06:46. > :06:53.and interest as to who will be on the list. Seth MacFarlane Is
:06:53. > :06:57.hosting this year. It has been 40 years since the host of the show
:06:57. > :07:02.also nominate -- allows the nominations. If you do not know who
:07:02. > :07:07.I am, pretend I am Donny Osmond! It is an honour to announce the
:07:07. > :07:13.nominees. I do not know why we do not wait until midday because the
:07:13. > :07:18.only people up right now are flying or having surgery! I want to
:07:18. > :07:21.congratulate the nominees and also those who were not nominated. You
:07:21. > :07:25.can stop doing interviews pretending you had a good time
:07:25. > :07:33.doing the movie! Here to help me, because it is creepy to have a guy
:07:33. > :07:43.standing by himself at Hollywood at 5am, is the lovely and talented
:07:43. > :07:49.
:07:49. > :07:56.Emma Stone. Thanks. She is the start of the new film Gangster
:07:56. > :08:02.Squad. She is one of the brightest talents of her generation. Some say
:08:02. > :08:08.she is better than Meryl Streep. He says that? I don't know. A lot of
:08:08. > :08:11.people! Let's read. The nominees people! Let's read. The nominees
:08:11. > :08:21.will be read in no particular order. For best performance by an actor,
:08:21. > :08:41.
:08:41. > :08:49.For best performance by an actor, the nominees are... They have won
:08:49. > :08:59.before! He a breath of fresh air in that category! For best original
:08:59. > :09:25.
:09:25. > :09:30.that category! For best original song... I got nominated. I get to
:09:30. > :09:34.go to the Oscars. The MTV awards gave Michael Jackson a lifetime
:09:34. > :09:40.achievement award so he would show up. I am not saying that is what is
:09:40. > :09:50.up. I am not saying that is what is happening today... The 2012
:09:50. > :10:01.
:10:01. > :10:11.nominees for best performance by an actress in a supporting role are...
:10:11. > :10:12.
:10:12. > :10:22.Congratulations. You no longer have to pretend to be attracted to
:10:22. > :10:22.
:10:22. > :11:31.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 69 seconds
:11:31. > :11:40.produced by Austria and Germany. -- means the writer's copy stuff from
:11:40. > :11:50.Microsoft Word! And they pasted it into final draft. For best original
:11:50. > :12:27.
:12:27. > :12:33.These are five people who are the very best at sitting in a chair
:12:33. > :12:43.watching other people make a movie! The nominees for best performance
:12:43. > :12:53.
:12:53. > :12:57.by an actor in a leading role... This is a little fact. Denzel
:12:57. > :13:07.Washington's character was drunk as much as half of the people up at
:13:07. > :13:33.
:13:33. > :13:37.Best Actress nominee in Oscar history. Wallis is the youngest
:13:37. > :13:47.ever, she's nine. Finally, we are pleased to announce
:13:47. > :13:47.
:13:47. > :14:33.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 69 seconds
:14:33. > :14:38.that the film selected as the best tell Cranston he can unclench his
:14:38. > :14:41.teeth now. Brian I love you. Please join us at the Oscars, Sunday
:14:41. > :14:46.February 24, to find out who will take home the Oscars.
:14:46. > :14:51.take home the Oscars. Congratulations to all the nominees.
:14:51. > :14:57.So there it is. And a rather longer announcement process than we have
:14:57. > :15:02.been used to. Let's hope it doesn't bode fortnight. They were doing
:15:02. > :15:07.jokes and material, which they don't normally do, a Nazi joke I
:15:07. > :15:10.didn't like. Interesting selection, several times we said "Wow, didn't
:15:10. > :15:14.see that one coming." Lincoln to start, prediction that's it was
:15:14. > :15:18.going to be the walk away, Daniel Day-Lewis, no surprise. What stood
:15:18. > :15:22.out for you? 12 nominations in all. We'll find out late thaer a lot
:15:22. > :15:25.were for the wigs and make up, also for Tommy Lee Jones and Steven
:15:25. > :15:28.Spielberg. But is this the film that's going to carry those
:15:28. > :15:32.nominations into prizes on the night? I think certainly for Daniel
:15:33. > :15:41.Day-Lewis, yes, this will be his third Oscar. I think he is terrific
:15:41. > :15:45.as Lincoln. I thought this film was a bit yee-oldie -westy-wingy. I
:15:45. > :15:52.think it's a bit dull. The west wing was more exciting I think.
:15:52. > :15:55.was wasn't it. I've had a healthy debate on Twitter about use of the
:15:55. > :15:59.word "dull". With Daniel Day-Lewis, I wouldn't want to be in that
:15:59. > :16:01.category. Shame for Denzel Washington, Hugh Jackman, who's
:16:01. > :16:05.terrific, Bradley Cooper and Joaquin Phoenix who does the method
:16:05. > :16:13.stuff in the Master. Daniel Day- Lewis is brilliant at giving this
:16:14. > :16:19.icon, this icon a human face. He's twinkly, he's funny, serious, he
:16:19. > :16:25.does long anecdotes. It's a lovely make i -- mixture of Day Of The
:16:25. > :16:29.Dead dai. -- Daniel Day-Lewis. we expect a little more for Django
:16:29. > :16:33.Unchained? Everyone talking about Quentin Tarantino's return to form.
:16:33. > :16:39.Did we expect more? I much prefer Django Unchained, which opens next
:16:39. > :16:47.week in the UK, I prefer that to the last film Ingorious which he
:16:47. > :16:51.was nominated for best director. His Supporting Actor is nominated.
:16:51. > :16:54.I was surprised that Django Unchained wasn't nominated in other
:16:54. > :16:58.categories. It got original screen play. It is certainly that. It
:16:58. > :17:07.deserves that. It's in for best picture as well. Christophe Waltz I
:17:07. > :17:12.like him. I thought dicaprio is good as well. But Christophe Waltz
:17:12. > :17:14.is marvellous in this. It was an interesting film, a lively film.
:17:14. > :17:20.Perhaps too maverick for the Oscars and maybe tairntairntairn is still
:17:20. > :17:30.that. I think he would be -- Quentin Tarantino is still that.
:17:30. > :17:36.
:17:36. > :17:42.Zyryanov, it's Kathryn Bigelow as we know, the first -- Zero zark 30
:17:42. > :17:45.with Kathryn Bigelow here. She did The Hurt Locker. We get ten best
:17:45. > :17:55.films and only five directors. Kathryn Bigelow not nominated. She
:17:55. > :17:59.won't be the first woman to win two Oscars in a row. What we will get
:17:59. > :18:05.Is Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty. The CIA agent tracking down
:18:05. > :18:08.Osama Bin Laden. They're using clues obtained by some good
:18:08. > :18:12.evidence, some by torture. It is saying in Hollywood, is it in
:18:12. > :18:15.favour of torture, is it showing torture in the right light? Is it
:18:15. > :18:19.showing that the administration previously indulged in torture?
:18:19. > :18:24.This is a much better film about that. It's a great performance from
:18:24. > :18:27.Jessica Chastain. This air win, this sole person, Kathryn Bigelow,
:18:27. > :18:32.equates herself with this strong heroin figure in a masculine world
:18:32. > :18:35.trying to forge a way through. It's a brilliant performance from an
:18:35. > :18:39.actress who will be one of the greats. She broke through last year
:18:39. > :18:45.with a nomination in the Help. Now nominated for her role in this. I
:18:45. > :18:48.think she's going to wib it. That's one of your -- Win it. That's one
:18:48. > :18:52.of your bets. Life of Pi, one of the expected of the season, you
:18:52. > :18:55.think how can anyone make a film about a boy in a lifeboat with a
:18:55. > :19:00.tiger, what I load of old nonsense. It was the booker winning nofrl
:19:00. > :19:05.that people said you couldn't possibly film. All credit to Ang
:19:05. > :19:08.Lee for managing it. Yes he's done fantastic. Lovely to see a best
:19:08. > :19:14.director nomination. The question of the tone right. I gave up with
:19:14. > :19:18.the book after about 50 pages. The film is magical. It's about making
:19:18. > :19:23.movies in a way. The artificialness of it works. We see it here not in
:19:24. > :19:27.3-D. I recommend 3-D. It is superb. It's about a boy ah, drift with the
:19:27. > :19:32.tide, all of these things sound wrong to me. It's crazy but you
:19:32. > :19:35.have to see it. The magic is this sort of stuff works. As a movie
:19:35. > :19:39.goes, this is the most magical movie experience in the list. It
:19:39. > :19:44.could only be a movie. When you make a book like the book that can
:19:44. > :19:47.only be a book, it's great to make a movie after it that can only be a
:19:47. > :19:51.movie. 11 nominations someone is saying to me. The technical
:19:51. > :19:55.categories are for this film, they were invented. It drives things
:19:55. > :20:00.forward. But it alies them to story telling. They're not just for show.
:20:00. > :20:05.They're part of the narrative and that's important. Amour, a film
:20:05. > :20:09.that universely fantastic. Reviews, well a bit a gasp from both of us
:20:09. > :20:12.when we heard that Michael Haneke had been nominated. But in a good
:20:13. > :20:16.way. Perhaps we didn't see that coming? I didn't see it coming. You
:20:16. > :20:19.mention my ten best bets. This morning I had Amour in there to
:20:19. > :20:24.break out of the foreign language category, where it normally resides,
:20:24. > :20:31.into the best picture category. It won the Palme D'Or last year in May.
:20:31. > :20:34.It swept me away. It has broken out of the foreign language category
:20:34. > :20:39.nominated as foreign film and a best picture and Michael Haneke is
:20:39. > :20:43.nominated as best director and Emmanuelle Riva nominated as Best
:20:44. > :20:46.Actress. Why the Best Actor is not nominated I don't know. But it's
:20:46. > :20:50.the Best Film made anywhere in the world this year. It's a superb
:20:50. > :20:53.piece of work. I think Michael Haneke is the Best Film maker in
:20:53. > :20:56.the world. Heefz head and shoulders above the rest much it's unusual
:20:56. > :21:02.that the Oscars have recognised this. It's in French, but last year
:21:02. > :21:08.they had a French film, the Artist winning it, will they let a frenk
:21:08. > :21:13.film run away with it again. I know they didn't talk French in the
:21:13. > :21:18.Artist, can a French speaking film take the Oscar? I don't think so.
:21:18. > :21:23.But it's about ageing and love. The Academy Award voters are in a
:21:23. > :21:27.position that a couple of them will see things reflected on the scene
:21:27. > :21:31.that they might see in real life. They made the point that Emmanuelle
:21:31. > :21:37.Riva, she's in the Best Actress category and the oldest ever to be
:21:37. > :21:41.nominated. A great star. She was in film in the 60s. Lovely to see her
:21:41. > :21:47.revived on the big screen. She's wonderful. So is her co-star. I'm
:21:47. > :21:50.upset for him today. We touched on Argo before the announcement. Not
:21:50. > :21:55.quite as many as I might have thought. I'm trying to scan this
:21:55. > :21:59.list quickly. A film that Ben Affleck has done himself proud in
:21:59. > :22:03.terms of reviews. He's not nominated as director, but it has
:22:03. > :22:06.been nominated as Best Film. It's nominated as an adapted screen play.
:22:06. > :22:13.It was adapted from an original Vanity Fair article about what
:22:14. > :22:21.happened in Iran. It's nominated for Alan Arkin as a supporting act
:22:21. > :22:26.or. I wonder why the academy flocks to Alan Arkin role? I think most
:22:26. > :22:30.6,000 voters can sympathise with his performance in Argo. We touched
:22:31. > :22:35.on the average age of the academy voter. Silver Linings Playbook the
:22:35. > :22:40.kind of film, gentle, I hate the phrase rom-com, slightly amusing,
:22:40. > :22:44.not hard hitting, lots of acting credits and is it the kind of thing
:22:44. > :22:51.that gets those votes? surprised you say it's a rom-com,
:22:51. > :22:56.it is. It's an anti-rom-com if you like. It's a recognisable trop for
:22:56. > :23:01.it. It has been popular. I'm pleased for Bradley Cooper. He's a
:23:01. > :23:04.handsome young actor who has broken through. For laurpblgs Lawrence to
:23:04. > :23:08.get a nomination -- Jennifer Lawrence to get a nomination, they
:23:08. > :23:13.are terrific together but they are a different couple, than we've seen.
:23:13. > :23:21.They have screw ball elements, but they play it out with the back drop
:23:21. > :23:24.of mental illness. It's skilfully done. The director got a nomination.
:23:24. > :23:29.That's great that this man was redeemed. There was a viral clip of
:23:30. > :23:33.him loseing his temper on set and everyone said he wouldn't work in
:23:33. > :23:41.Hollywood again. Hollywood gifb second -- gives second chances.
:23:41. > :23:43.Your bet, we had nine on the list, we were allowed ten. They've thrown
:23:44. > :23:48.me a Googlie with Amour being in there, which I took off the list
:23:48. > :23:53.this morning. I did think Skyfall is the one that lost out. Only
:23:53. > :23:56.Adele's song is probably going to win. I see Seth MacFarlane has been
:23:56. > :24:03.nominated. Can she beat him? That seems like a done deal already.
:24:03. > :24:13.will find out. Thank you. Just a reminder of the those main
:24:13. > :24:13.
:24:13. > :25:09.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 69 seconds