OFFICIAL NOMINEE LIST BEST PICTURE ACTOR IN A SUPPOrtiNG ROLE THE ARTIST Kenneth Branagh Thomas Langmann, Producer MY WEEK WITH MARILYN THE DESCENDANTS Jonah Hill Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, MONEYBALL Producers Nick Nolte EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE WARRIOR Scott Rudin, Producer Christopher Plummer THE HELP BEGINNERS Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers Max von Sydow EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE HUGO Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers MIDNIGHT IN PaRIS ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers Glenn Close MONEYBALL ALBErt NOBBS Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Viola Davis Producers THE HELP THE TREE OF LIFE Rooney Mara Nominees to be determined THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TattOO WAR HORSE Meryl Streep Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, THE IRON LADY Producers Michelle Williams MY WEEK WITH MARILYN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Demián Bichir A BETTER LIFE ACTRESS IN A SUPPOrtiNG ROLE George Clooney THE DESCENDANTS Bérénice Bejo THE ArtIST Jean Dujardin THE ArtIST Jessica Chastain THE HELP Gary Oldman TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Melissa McCarthy BRIDESMAIDS Brad Pitt MONEYBALL Janet McTeer ALBErt NOBBS Octavia Spencer THE HELP THE ARTIST ANIMateD Feature FILM Mark Bridges A Cat IN PaRIS HUGO Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli Sandy Powell CHICO & RIta JANE EYRE Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal Michael O’Connor KUNG FU PaNDA 2 W.E. Jennifer Yuh Nelson Arianne Phillips PUSS IN BOOTS Chris Miller DIRECTING RANGO Gore Verbinski THE ARTIST Michel Hazanavicius THE DESCENDANTS ART DIRECTION Alexander Payne THE ARTIST HUGO Production Design: Laurence Bennett Martin Scorsese Set Decoration: Robert Gould MIDNIGHT IN PaRIS HARRY POTTER AND THE DEatHLY HALLOWS Woody Allen PaRT 2 Production Design: Stuart Craig THE TREE OF LIFE Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan Terrence Malick HUGO Production Design: Dante Ferretti Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo DOCUMENTARY FEATURE MIDNIGHT IN PaRIS HELL AND BACK AGAIN Production Design: Anne Seibel Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil IF A TREE FaLLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH WAR HORSE LIBERatION FRONT Production Design: Rick Carter Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman Set Decoration: Lee Sandales PaRADISE LOST 3: PURGatORY Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky CINEMATOGRAPHY PINA Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel THE ARTIST Guillaume Schiffman UNDEFEatED TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TattOO Jeff Cronenweth HUGO DOCUMENtary SHOrt Robert Richardson SUBJECT THE TREE OF LIFE THE BARBER OF BIRMINGHAM: FOOT Emmanuel Lubezki SOLDIER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin WAR HORSE Janusz Kaminski GOD IS THE BIGGER ELVIS Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson COSTUME DESIGN INCIDENT IN NEW BAGHDAD James Spione ANONYMOUS Lisy Christl SavING FaCE HUGO Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Howard Shore THE TSUNAMI AND THE CHERRY BLOSSOM TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen Alberto Iglesias WAR HORSE John Williams FILM EDITING THE ARTIST Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) THE DESCENDANTS Man or Muppet Kevin Tent THE MUPPETS Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TattOO Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall Real in Rio RIO HUGO Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Thelma Schoonmaker Lyric by Siedah Garrett MONEYBALL Christopher Tellefsen SHOrt FILM (ANIMateD) DIMANCHE/SUNDAY FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Patrick Doyon BULLHEAD THE FaNtaSTIC FLYING BOOKS OF Belgium MR. MORRIS LESSMORE William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg FOOTNOTE Israel LA LUNA Enrico Casarosa IN DARKNESS Poland A MORNING STROLL Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe MONSIEUR LAZHAR Canada WILD LIFE Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby A SEPARatION Iran SHOrt FILM (LIVE ACTION) MAKEUP PENTECOST Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane ALBERT NOBBS Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and RAJU Matthew W. Mungle Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren HARRY POTTER AND THE DEatHLY HALLOWS THE SHORE PaRT 2 Terry George and Oorlagh George Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin TIME FREAK THE IRON LADY Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland TUBA ATLANTIC Hallvar Witzø MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN John Williams THE ARTIST Ludovic Bource SOUND EDITING WRITING DRIVE (ADAPTED SCREENplay) Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis THE DESCENDANTS THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TattOO Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Ren Klyce Jim Rash HUGO HUGO Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty Screenplay by John Logan TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON THE IDES OF MARCH Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon WAR HORSE Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom MONEYBALL Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Story by Stan Chervin SOUND MIXING TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TattOO Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson WRITING HUGO Tom Fleischman and John Midgley (ORIGINAL SCREENplay) MONEYBALL THE ARTIST Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Written by Michel Hazanavicius Ed Novick BRIDESMAIDS TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush MARGIN CALL and Peter J. Devlin Written by J.C. Chandor WAR HORSE MIDNIGHT IN PaRIS Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Written by Woody Allen Stuart Wilson A SEPARatION Written by Asghar Farhadi VISUAL EFFECTS HARRY POTTER AND THE DEatHLY HALLOWS PaRT 2 Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson HUGO Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning REAL STEEL Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier.