Viewers across Africa joined with a global audience to witness the  announcement of nominations for the 85^th Annual Academy Awards nominations  live on DStv’s M-Net Movies Premiere, Channel 103, today. The nominations  presented by Seth MacFarlane and actress Emma Stone at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Check out the full list of nominees:

Actor in a Leading Role:

Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables Joaquin Phoenix in The Master Denzel Washington in Flight

Actor in a Supporting Role:

Alan Arkin in Argo Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained

Actress in a Leading Role:

Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook Emmanuelle Riva in Amour Quvenzhane Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild Naomi Watts in The Impossible

Actress in a Supporting Role:

Amy Adams in The Master Sally Field in Lincoln Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables Helen Hunt in The Sessions Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook

Directing:

Michael Haneke for Amour Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild Ang Lee for Life of Pi Steven Spielberg for Lincoln David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook

Music (Original Score):

Dario Marianelli for Anna Karenina Alexandre Desplat for Argo Mychael Danna for Life of Pi John Williams for Lincoln Thomas Newman for Skyfall

Music (Original Song):

J. Ralph for Before My Time from Chasing Ice Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane for Everybody Needs A Best Friend from Ted Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri for Pi’s Lullaby from Life of Pi Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth for Skyfall from Skyfall Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil for Suddenly from Les Miserables

Best Picture:

Amour Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild Django Unchained Les Miserables Life of Pi Lincoln Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty ]]>