Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Animated Feature

"Frankenweenie"

"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"

"Wreck-It Ralph"

"Brave"

"ParaNorman"

Foreign Language Film

"Amour," Austria

"No," Chile

"War Witch," Canada

"A Royal Affair," Denmark

"Kon-Tiki," Norway

Adapted Screenplay

"Beasts of the Southern Wild," Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin

"Argo," Chris Terrio

"Lincoln," Tony Kushner

"Silver Linings Playbook," David O. Russell

"Life of Pi," David Magee

Original Screenplay

"Flight," John Gatins

"Zero Dark Thirty," Mark Boal

"Django Unchained," Quentin Tarantino

"Amour," Michael Haneke

"Moonrise Kingdom," Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola

Original Song

"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice," music and lyric by J. Ralph

"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from "Ted," music by Walter Murphy and lyric by Seth MacFarlane

"Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi," music by Mychael Danna and lyric by Bombay Jayashri

"Skyfall" from "Skyfall," music and lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth

"Suddenly" from "Les Misérables," music by Claude-Michel Schonberg, lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Original Score

Dario Marianelli, "Anna Karenina"

Alexandre Desplat, "Argo"

Mychael Danna, "Life of Pi"

John Williams, "Lincoln"

Thomas Newman, "Skyfall"

Visual Effects

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"

"Life of Pi"