The list of Oscar nominations were announced today in Los Angeles, and is led by the film The Invention of Hugo , Martin Scorsese, and The Artist , Michel Hazanavicius.
The announcement was made minutes by Academy president Arts and Sciences, Tom Sherak, and actress Jennifer Lawrence, a member of the Academy. The French silent film The Artist , which debuts next week in Portugal, is nominated for ten categories and is the only present in three main categories - Best Picture , Best Director and Best Actor. But it was The Invention of Hugo who received the most nominations, eleven, mostly in technical categories - taking Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Nominees for Best Picture are still Moneyball - Throw Risk , Bennett Miller, Warhorse , Steven Spielberg, The Descendants of Alexander Payne, Midnight in Paris , Woody Allen, The Servants , Tate Taylor, The Tree of Life , Terrence Malick, and Extremely High , Incredibly Close , by Stephen Daldry. compete for Best Actor George Clooney ( The Descendants ), Jean Dujardin ( The Artist ) Brad Pitt ( Moneyball ), Gary Oldman ( The Mole ) and Demian Bichir ( A Better Life ).
In females, those nominated are Meryl Streep ( The Iron Lady ), Glenn Close ( Albert Nobbs ), Michelle Williams ( My Week with Marilyn ), Viola Davis ( The Servants ) and Rooney Mara ( Millennium 1 - The Men Who Hate Women ). Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer ( as Service ), Melissa McCarthy ( The Best Bachelor Party ), Berenice Bejo ( The Artist ), Janet McTeer ( Albert Nobbs ) are listed as Secondary noemações for Best Actress, while the male names listed Kenneth Branagh ( My Week with Marilyn ), Jonah Hill ( Moneyball ), Nick Nolte ( Warrior - Combat Sibling ), Christopher Plummer ( This Is Love ) and Max von Sydow ( Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close ). The Academy Awards will be held on February 26.
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