LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Hollywood's biggest stars hit the red carpet Sunday for the movie industry's biggest night. Following is a list of nominees in key categories of the Oscars for 2012.
-- BEST PICTURE
"Zero Dark Thirty," "Django Unchained," "Argo," "Les Miserables," "Amour," "Life of Pi," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Silver Linings Playbook", "Lincoln."
-- BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln"), Denzel Washington ("Flight"), Hugh Jackman ("Les Miserables"), Bradley Cooper ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Joaquin Phoenix ("The Master").
--BEST ACTRESS
Emmanuelle Riva ("Amour"), Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Naomi Watts ("The Impossible"), Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings Playbook").
-- BEST DIRECTOR
Steven Spielberg ("Lincoln"), Michael Haneke ("Amour"), David O. Russell ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Ang Lee ("Life of Pi"), Benh Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild").
-- BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin ("Argo"), Robert De Niro ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln"), Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained").
-- BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams ("The Master"), Sally Field ("Lincoln"), Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables"), Helen Hunt ("The Sessions"), Jacki Weaver ("Silver Linings Playbook").
-- BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Amour" (Austria), "Kon-Tiki" (Norway), "No" (Chile), "A Royal Affair" (Denmark), "War Witch" (Canada).
-- BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
"Brave," "Frankenweenie," "ParaNorman," "The Pirates! Band of Misfits," "Wreck-It Ralph."
-- BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"5 Broken Cameras," "The Gatekeepers," "How to Survive a Plague," "The Invisible War," "Searching for Sugar Man."