GEORGIA FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION NOMINATIONS

Best Motion Picture

·          Amour

·          Argo

·          Beasts of the Southern Wild

·          Life of Pi

·          The Master

·          Moonrise Kingdom

·          Rust and Bone

·          Silver Linings Playbook

·          This Is Not a Film

·          Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director

·          Ben Affleck (Argo)

·          Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Michael Haneke (Amour)

·          David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

·          Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Actor

·          Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)

·          Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

·          Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)

·          Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone)

·          Jean-Louis Trintignant (Amour)

Best Actress

·          Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone)

·          Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

·          Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)

·          Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Supporting Actor

·          Javier Bardem (Skyfall)

·          Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook)

·          Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

·          Samuel L. Jackson (Django Unchained)

·          Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress

·          Amy Adams (The Master)

·          Emily Blunt (Looper)

·          Judi Dench (Skyfall)

·          Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Original Screenplay

·          Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)

·          Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling (Sound of My Voice)

·          Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon (The Cabin in the Woods)

·          Michael Haneke (Amour)

Best Adapted Screenplay

·          Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

·          Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain (Rust and Bone)

·          Michael Bacall and Jonah Hill (21 Jump Street)

·          Tony Kushner (Lincoln)

·          David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Cinematography

·          Roger Deakins (Skyfall)

·          Greig Fraser (Killing Them Softly)

·          Greig Fraser (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Janusz Kaminski (Lincoln)

·          Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

Best Production Design

·          Rick Carter (Lincoln)

·          Alex DiGerlando (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

·          Sarah Greenwood (Anna Karenina)

·          David Gropman (Life of Pi)

·          Dan Hennah (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Best Original Score

·          Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)

·          Alexandre Desplat (Argo)

·          Jonny Greenwood (The Master)

·          Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

·          John Williams (Lincoln)

Best Original Song

·          Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth – ‘Skyfall’ (Skyfall)

·          Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – ‘Cosmonaut’ (Lawless)

·          Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – ‘Fire in the Blood’ (Lawless)

·          Seth MacFarlane and Walter Murphy – ‘Everybody Needs a Best Friend’ (Ted)

·          Ennio Morricone and Elisa Toffoli – ‘Ancora Qui’ (Django Unchained)

Best Ensemble

·          Argo

·          Django Unchained

·          Liberal Arts

·          Lincoln

·          Moonrise Kingdom

·          Silver Linings Playbook

Best Animated Film

·          Brave

·          Frankenweenie

·          ParaNorman

·          The Pirates! Band of Misfits

·          Rise of the Guardians

·          Wreck-It Ralph

Best Documentary

·          Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry

·          The Imposter

·          Only the Young

·          The Queen of Versailles

·          This Is Not a Film

Best Foreign Film

·          Amour

·          Holy Motors

·          The Kid with a Bike

·          Restoration

·          Rust and Bone

·          This Is Not a Film

Best Breakthrough

·          Zal Batmanglij (Sound of My Voice)

·          Derek Connolly (Safety Not Guaranteed)

·          Bart Layton (The Imposter)

·          Scoot McNairy (Argo / Killing Them Softly / Promised Land)

·          Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

·          Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Do you think they waited until after the Oscar nominations for a reason? These nominations come off as a combination of surefire nominees, Academy-informed surprises and plainly random surprises. Best Director nominations for Haneke, Russell and Zeitlin? Much love for those three films, and also Rust and Bone, scattershot love for other films, like Argo and The Master. The Georgia critics are weird, though. A little too emphatically weird, and I can't help but draw my own conclusions regarding the prevalence of Oscar nominees here, like Jacki Weaver. But, after days without any word from critics' groups, this is a very interesting, refreshing slate of nominees. Winners will be announced on Friday!