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Scorsese's 'Hugo' leads Oscar race with 11 nominations
Silent-era film "The Artist," which has swept through the awards season this year, taking many pre-Oscar awards, had 10 nominations in total.
Also nominated for best picture on Tuesday were the family drama "The Descendants," the Sept. 11 tale "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," the Deep South drama "The Help," Woody Allen's romantic fantasy "Midnight in Paris," the sports tale "Moneyball," Terrence Malick's family chronicle "The Tree of Life" and the World War I epic "War Horse."
The nominations set up a best-picture showdown between the top films at the Golden Globes: best musical or comedy recipient "The Artist" and best drama winner "The Descendants." The two easily outdistanced other top nominees, including baseball movie "Moneyball" with six nods and Steven Spielberg's "War Horse," also with six nominations.
Because of a rule change requiring films to receive a certain number of first-place votes, the best-picture field has only nine nominees rather than the 10 that were in the running the last two years.
Nominees for best actor included George Clooney for "The Descendants," Jean Dujardin in "The Artist," Brad Pitt for "Moneyball," Gary Oldman in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and Demian Bichir in "A Better Life." Best actress nominees were led by Meryl Streep for her portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady," Glenn Close in a gender-bending role in "Albert Nobbs," Viola Davis for "The Help," Rooney Mara in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and Michelle Williams in "My Week with Marilyn."
"A Separation," from Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi, which has already won the Golden Globe for best foreign language film, was among the five titles competing for the Academy Award for best foreign language film. It is joined in the foreign Oscar race by "Bullhead," by Belgium's Michael R. Roskam; "Footnote," by Israel's Joseph Cedar; "In Darkness," by Poland's Agnieszka Holland; and "Monsieur Lazhar," from Canada's Philippe Falardeau.
Winners of the 84th annual Oscar Awards will be announced at a Feb. 26 ceremony at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
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