Oscar Nominations 2013 BBC News Special

Hello and welcome to this BBC News Special. In the next few minutes,

we will be live in Hollywood to hear the Oscar nominations for the

85th Academy Awards. With me for the next half an hour, our film

critic Jason Solomons. He'll be giving us his views on what should

and should not be making it onto the list. We can look at the scene

live in Los Angeles. It is a very early start for people there, it is

just 5:30am. It is an early start as we wait for the nominations.

This is the scene at the Samuel Goldwyn and theatre. In about five

minutes, the important list will be unveiled. While we wait for events

to get under way, we can get to Jason's important thoughts. It is a

lovely that you are with us. What do we think of this year? We can

start with Lincoln. Would it be mean of me to suggest it will be a

safe choice? I think it is probably going to lead the nominations. Not

just because it was Steven Spielberg. Daniel Day-Lewis, the

lead role, his fifth nomination this would be. He is doing the

father of American politics in a very political year for America. It

has the hallmark categories, with the make-up, the wigs. This is the

sort of solid production Hollywood likes to say this is what we do

well and they do do it well. It will probably lead nominations.

Steven Spielberg has done that before. The colour purple before

had a lot of nominations, but it went away with nothing. That makes

me feel my age! Lincoln has not opened in the UK. People will not

have seen it yet. We will win the war. You will begin

your second term. Imagine the possibilities bees will bring. Why

tarnish your lustre with a battle in a house? The same gang of

talentless hacks who rejected the amendment ten months ago. I like

our chances now. It really is a film for people who love American

politics and it is about Lincoln's attempts to drive through the

amendment to abolish slavery. Les Miserables, the longest running

stage musical. Very tricky to put any musical on the big screen. It

divided critics. It used to be a thing that a Hollywood musical was

a staple of Hollywood. The musical has gone off in recent years. When

they make them, they can do it very well. Chicago, of course. It opens

in the UK this week. These films are opening soon. Tom Hooper

directed The King's Speech. Can he do the same with Les Miserables? I

fancy the craft will get nominations, the production. Anne

Hathaway, singing. Nobody does any talking. I was going to do the show,

singing! We will do it traditionally. There are great

moments in the film. Great numbers, well delivered. Can it justify the

running time? I found it a little bit tedious towards the end. Will

it catch and a hearts in the way that Chicago did? I do not know. It

is different. Eight quick word about Argo, directed by Ben Affleck.

-- a quick word. This is a great heist caper movie. Hollywood loves

a film about Hollywood and it has a lot of Hollywood in it. Hollywood

politics come together in Argo. This is my dark horse for winning

the best picture. The make-up is great, directing is good. Good old

actors in it. It is a solid piece of work. It is good fun. Maybe that

has been missing at the Oscars. you correctly get all 10 nominees,

you win �1,000 for charity. What about Skyfall? That is the big

question this year, whether it will be the first James Bond film

nominated. It did not get on my list, but I would be thrilled if it

got in there. I love bond. 50 years. It would be a great time to mark

that -- James Bond. We are can go to Los Angeles. And our

correspondent. Good morning. It is very early. I think they do

it deliberately. Remind us who will be presenting

the nominations. Tell us what it is like in California.

It is great excitement. The Oscars are earlier than normal. Many of

the awards shows, nominations, has been crunched up to being an

earlier in the year and every couple of days in Hollywood, if

another society coming out with their shortlist for this year. The

Oscars will be held on 24th February. There is great excitement

and interest as to who will be on the list. Seth MacFarlane Is

hosting this year. It has been 40 years since the host of the show

also nominate -- allows the nominations. If you do not know who

I am, pretend I am Donny Osmond! It is an honour to announce the

nominees. I do not know why we do not wait until midday because the

only people up right now are flying or having surgery! I want to

congratulate the nominees and also those who were not nominated. You

can stop doing interviews pretending you had a good time

doing the movie! Here to help me, because it is creepy to have a guy

standing by himself at Hollywood at 5am, is the lovely and talented

Emma Stone. Thanks. She is the start of the new film Gangster

Squad. She is one of the brightest talents of her generation. Some say

she is better than Meryl Streep. He says that? I don't know. A lot of

people! Let's read. The nominees people! Let's read. The nominees

will be read in no particular order. For best performance by an actor,

For best performance by an actor, the nominees are... They have won

before! He a breath of fresh air in that category! For best original

that category! For best original song... I got nominated. I get to

go to the Oscars. The MTV awards gave Michael Jackson a lifetime

achievement award so he would show up. I am not saying that is what is

up. I am not saying that is what is happening today... The 2012

nominees for best performance by an actress in a supporting role are...

Congratulations. You no longer have to pretend to be attracted to

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produced by Austria and Germany. -- means the writer's copy stuff from

Microsoft Word! And they pasted it into final draft. For best original

These are five people who are the very best at sitting in a chair

watching other people make a movie! The nominees for best performance

by an actor in a leading role... This is a little fact. Denzel

Washington's character was drunk as much as half of the people up at

Best Actress nominee in Oscar history. Wallis is the youngest

ever, she's nine. Finally, we are pleased to announce

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that the film selected as the best tell Cranston he can unclench his

teeth now. Brian I love you. Please join us at the Oscars, Sunday

February 24, to find out who will take home the Oscars.

take home the Oscars. Congratulations to all the nominees.

So there it is. And a rather longer announcement process than we have

been used to. Let's hope it doesn't bode fortnight. They were doing

jokes and material, which they don't normally do, a Nazi joke I

didn't like. Interesting selection, several times we said "Wow, didn't

see that one coming." Lincoln to start, prediction that's it was

going to be the walk away, Daniel Day-Lewis, no surprise. What stood

out for you? 12 nominations in all. We'll find out late thaer a lot

were for the wigs and make up, also for Tommy Lee Jones and Steven

Spielberg. But is this the film that's going to carry those

nominations into prizes on the night? I think certainly for Daniel

Day-Lewis, yes, this will be his third Oscar. I think he is terrific

as Lincoln. I thought this film was a bit yee-oldie -westy-wingy. I

think it's a bit dull. The west wing was more exciting I think.

was wasn't it. I've had a healthy debate on Twitter about use of the

word "dull". With Daniel Day-Lewis, I wouldn't want to be in that

category. Shame for Denzel Washington, Hugh Jackman, who's

terrific, Bradley Cooper and Joaquin Phoenix who does the method

stuff in the Master. Daniel Day- Lewis is brilliant at giving this

icon, this icon a human face. He's twinkly, he's funny, serious, he

does long anecdotes. It's a lovely make i -- mixture of Day Of The

Dead dai. -- Daniel Day-Lewis. we expect a little more for Django

Unchained? Everyone talking about Quentin Tarantino's return to form.

Did we expect more? I much prefer Django Unchained, which opens next

week in the UK, I prefer that to the last film Ingorious which he

was nominated for best director. His Supporting Actor is nominated.

I was surprised that Django Unchained wasn't nominated in other

categories. It got original screen play. It is certainly that. It

deserves that. It's in for best picture as well. Christophe Waltz I

like him. I thought dicaprio is good as well. But Christophe Waltz

is marvellous in this. It was an interesting film, a lively film.

Perhaps too maverick for the Oscars and maybe tairntairntairn is still

that. I think he would be -- Quentin Tarantino is still that.

Zyryanov, it's Kathryn Bigelow as we know, the first -- Zero zark 30

with Kathryn Bigelow here. She did The Hurt Locker. We get ten best

films and only five directors. Kathryn Bigelow not nominated. She

won't be the first woman to win two Oscars in a row. What we will get

Is Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty. The CIA agent tracking down

Osama Bin Laden. They're using clues obtained by some good

evidence, some by torture. It is saying in Hollywood, is it in

favour of torture, is it showing torture in the right light? Is it

showing that the administration previously indulged in torture?

This is a much better film about that. It's a great performance from

Jessica Chastain. This air win, this sole person, Kathryn Bigelow,

equates herself with this strong heroin figure in a masculine world

trying to forge a way through. It's a brilliant performance from an

actress who will be one of the greats. She broke through last year

with a nomination in the Help. Now nominated for her role in this. I

think she's going to wib it. That's one of your -- Win it. That's one

of your bets. Life of Pi, one of the expected of the season, you

think how can anyone make a film about a boy in a lifeboat with a

tiger, what I load of old nonsense. It was the booker winning nofrl

that people said you couldn't possibly film. All credit to Ang

Lee for managing it. Yes he's done fantastic. Lovely to see a best

director nomination. The question of the tone right. I gave up with

the book after about 50 pages. The film is magical. It's about making

movies in a way. The artificialness of it works. We see it here not in

3-D. I recommend 3-D. It is superb. It's about a boy ah, drift with the

tide, all of these things sound wrong to me. It's crazy but you

have to see it. The magic is this sort of stuff works. As a movie

goes, this is the most magical movie experience in the list. It

could only be a movie. When you make a book like the book that can

only be a book, it's great to make a movie after it that can only be a

movie. 11 nominations someone is saying to me. The technical

categories are for this film, they were invented. It drives things

forward. But it alies them to story telling. They're not just for show.

They're part of the narrative and that's important. Amour, a film

that universely fantastic. Reviews, well a bit a gasp from both of us

when we heard that Michael Haneke had been nominated. But in a good

way. Perhaps we didn't see that coming? I didn't see it coming. You

mention my ten best bets. This morning I had Amour in there to

break out of the foreign language category, where it normally resides,

into the best picture category. It won the Palme D'Or last year in May.

It swept me away. It has broken out of the foreign language category

nominated as foreign film and a best picture and Michael Haneke is

nominated as best director and Emmanuelle Riva nominated as Best

Actress. Why the Best Actor is not nominated I don't know. But it's

the Best Film made anywhere in the world this year. It's a superb

piece of work. I think Michael Haneke is the Best Film maker in

the world. Heefz head and shoulders above the rest much it's unusual

that the Oscars have recognised this. It's in French, but last year

they had a French film, the Artist winning it, will they let a frenk

film run away with it again. I know they didn't talk French in the

Artist, can a French speaking film take the Oscar? I don't think so.

But it's about ageing and love. The Academy Award voters are in a

position that a couple of them will see things reflected on the scene

that they might see in real life. They made the point that Emmanuelle

Riva, she's in the Best Actress category and the oldest ever to be

nominated. A great star. She was in film in the 60s. Lovely to see her

revived on the big screen. She's wonderful. So is her co-star. I'm

upset for him today. We touched on Argo before the announcement. Not

quite as many as I might have thought. I'm trying to scan this

list quickly. A film that Ben Affleck has done himself proud in

terms of reviews. He's not nominated as director, but it has

been nominated as Best Film. It's nominated as an adapted screen play.

It was adapted from an original Vanity Fair article about what

happened in Iran. It's nominated for Alan Arkin as a supporting act

or. I wonder why the academy flocks to Alan Arkin role? I think most

6,000 voters can sympathise with his performance in Argo. We touched

on the average age of the academy voter. Silver Linings Playbook the

kind of film, gentle, I hate the phrase rom-com, slightly amusing,

not hard hitting, lots of acting credits and is it the kind of thing

that gets those votes? surprised you say it's a rom-com,

it is. It's an anti-rom-com if you like. It's a recognisable trop for

it. It has been popular. I'm pleased for Bradley Cooper. He's a

handsome young actor who has broken through. For laurpblgs Lawrence to

get a nomination -- Jennifer Lawrence to get a nomination, they

are terrific together but they are a different couple, than we've seen.

They have screw ball elements, but they play it out with the back drop

of mental illness. It's skilfully done. The director got a nomination.

That's great that this man was redeemed. There was a viral clip of

him loseing his temper on set and everyone said he wouldn't work in

Hollywood again. Hollywood gifb second -- gives second chances.

Your bet, we had nine on the list, we were allowed ten. They've thrown

me a Googlie with Amour being in there, which I took off the list

this morning. I did think Skyfall is the one that lost out. Only

Adele's song is probably going to win. I see Seth MacFarlane has been

nominated. Can she beat him? That seems like a done deal already.

will find out. Thank you. Just a reminder of the those main

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