Best documentary feature
•    "5 Broken Cameras" Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
•    "The Gatekeepers" Nominees to be determined
•    "How to Survive a Plague" Nominees to be determined
•    "The Invisible War" Nominees to be determined
•    "Searching for Sugar Man" Nominees to be determined

Best documentary short subject
•    "Inocente" Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
•    "Kings Point" Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
•    "Mondays at Racine" Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
•    "Open Heart" Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
•    "Redemption" Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill

Achievement in film editing
•    "Argo" William Goldenberg
•    "Life of Pi" Tim Squyres
•    "Lincoln" Michael Kahn
•    "Silver Linings Playbook" Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
•    "Zero Dark Thirty" Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

Best foreign language film of the year
•    "Amour" Austria
•    "Kon-Tiki" Norway
•    "No" Chile
•    "A Royal Affair" Denmark
•    "War Witch" Canada

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
•    "Hitchcock" Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
•    "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
•    "Les Misérables" Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
•    "Anna Karenina" Dario Marianelli
•    "Argo" Alexandre Desplat
•    "Life of Pi" Mychael Danna
•    "Lincoln" John Williams
•    "Skyfall" Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (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; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
•    "Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi" Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
•    "Skyfall" from "Skyfall" Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
•    "Suddenly" from "Les Misérables" Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Best motion picture of the year
•    "Amour" Nominees to be determined
•    "Argo" Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
•    "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
•    "Django Unchained" Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
•    "Les Misérables" Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
•    "Life of Pi" Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
•    "Lincoln" Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
•    "Silver Linings Playbook" Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
•    "Zero Dark Thirty" Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers

Achievement in production design
•    "Anna Karenina" Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
•    "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
•    "Les Misérables" Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
•    "Life of Pi" Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
•    "Lincoln" Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Best animated short film
•    "Adam and Dog" Minkyu Lee
•    "Fresh Guacamole" PES
•    "Head over Heels" Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
•    "Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"" David Silverman
•    "Paperman" John Kahrs

Best live action short film
•    "Asad" Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
•    "Buzkashi Boys" Sam French and Ariel Nasr
•    "Curfew" Shawn Christensen
•    "Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)" Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
•    "Henry" Yan England

Achievement in sound editing
•    "Argo" Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
•    "Django Unchained" Wylie Stateman
•    "Life of Pi" Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
•    "Skyfall" Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
•    "Zero Dark Thirty" Paul N.J. Ottosson

Achievement in sound mixing
•    "Argo" John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
•    "Les Misérables" Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
•    "Life of Pi" Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
•    "Lincoln" Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
•    "Skyfall" Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

Achievement in visual effects
•    "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
•    "Life of Pi" Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
•    "Marvel's The Avengers" Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
•    "Prometheus" Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
•    "Snow White and the Huntsman" Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson

Adapted screenplay
•    "Argo" Screenplay by Chris Terrio
•    "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
•    "Life of Pi" Screenplay by David Magee
•    "Lincoln" Screenplay by Tony Kushner
•    "Silver Linings Playbook" Screenplay by David O. Russell

Original screenplay
•    "Amour" Written by Michael Haneke
•    "Django Unchained" Written by Quentin Tarantino
•    "Flight" Written by John Gatins
•    "Moonrise Kingdom" Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
•    "Zero Dark Thirty" Written by Mark Boal