Argo – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney
Les Misérables – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh* Life of Pi – Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark* Lincoln – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy* Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison | Ben Affleck – Argo* Ang Lee – Life of Pi* Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty* Michael Haneke – Amour* Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained |
| Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln* Ben Affleck – Argo as Tony Mendez* Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio Solitano Jr.* Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables as Jean Valjean* Joaquin Phoenix – The Master as Freddie Quell | Emmanuelle Riva – Amour as Anne Laurent* Helen Mirren – Hitchcock as Alma Reville* Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell* Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty as Maya Harris* Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone as Stephanie |
| Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained as King Schultz* Alan Arkin – Argo as Lester Siegel* Javier Bardem – Skyfall as Raoul Silva* Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master as Lancaster Dodd* Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln as Thaddeus Stevens | Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables as Fantine* Amy Adams – The Master as Peggy Dodd* Helen Hunt – The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene* Judi Dench – Skyfall as M* Sally Field – Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln |
| Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino* Amour – Michael Haneke* The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson* Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola* Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal | Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell* Argo – Chris Terrio* Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin* Life of Pi – David Magee* Lincoln – Tony Kushner |
| Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda* Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey* Les Misérables – Danny Cohen* Lincoln – Janusz Kamiński* Skyfall – Roger Deakins | Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran* Great Expectations – Beatrix Aruna Pasztor* Les Misérables – Paco Delgado* Lincoln – Joanna Johnston* Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood |
| Argo – William Goldenberg* Django Unchained – Fred Raskin* Life of Pi – Tim Squyres* Skyfall – Stuart Baird* Zero Dark Thirty – Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg | Les Misérables – Lisa Westcott* Anna Karenina – Ivana Primorac* Hitchcock – Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel and Howard Berger* The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter King, Richard Taylor and Rick Findlater* Lincoln – Lois Burwell and Kay Georgiou |
| Skyfall – Thomas Newman* Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli* Argo – Alexandre Desplat* Life of Pi – Mychael Danna* Lincoln – John Williams | Les Misérables – Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson* Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer* Life of Pi – David Gropman and Anna Pinnock* Lincoln – Rick Carter and Jim Erickson* Skyfall – Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock |
| Les Misérables – Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole and John Warhurst* Django Unchained – Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Wylie Stateman* The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge and Chris Ward* Life of Pi – Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill* Skyfall – Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers | Life of Pi – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer and Donald R. Elliott* The Avengers – Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick* The Dark Knight Rises – Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb and Andrew Lockley* The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White* Prometheus – Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood and Paul Butterworth |
| Skyfall – Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan* Anna Karenina – Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster and Tom Stoppard* The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin and Ol Parker* Les Misérables – Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg* Seven Psychopaths – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin | The Imposter – Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis * I Am Nasrine – Tina Gharavi * McCullin – David Morris and Jacqui Morris * The Muppets – James Bobin * Wild Bill – Dexter Fletcher and Danny King |
| The Making of Longbird – Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson* Here to Fall – Kris Kelly and Evelyn McGrath* I'm Fine Thanks – Eamonn O'Neill | Swimmer – Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton and Diarmid Scrimshaw* The Curse – Fyzal Boulifa and Gavin Humphries* Good Night – Muriel D. Ansembourg and Eva Sigurdardottir* Tumutt – Johnny Barrington and Rhianna Andrews* The Voorman Problem – Mark Gill and Baldwin Li |
| Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman* Frankenweenie – Tim Burton* ParaNorman – Sam Fell and Chris Butler | Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn* The Imposter – Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis* Marley – Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing and Charles Steel* McCullin – David Morris and Jacqui Morris* West of Memphis – Amy J. Berg |
| Amour – Michael Haneke and Margaret Ménégoz* Headhunters – Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray and Asle Vatn* The Hunt – Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Marten Kaufmann* Rust and Bone – Jacques Audiard and Pascal Caucheteux* The Intouchables – Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou and Laurent Zeitoun | Juno Temple* Alicia Vikander* Andrea Riseborough* Elizabeth Olsen* Suraj Sharma |