Critics Choice nominees

EARLIER: Standby for the Broadcast Film Critics Association's nominees, which should be dropped imminently. The BFCA has traditionally fancied itself more of an Oscar predictor than a group with its own opinion (although they hedge their bets by including six nominees in most categories), but with so many categories casting an ever widening net, it's hard to tell what their collective opinion is anyway.

UPDATE: And her they are. True to form, the BFCA has made sure to line up behind all the presumed Oscar frontrunners, with Lincoln leading the way with 13 nods. The full list of nominees after the jump, along with some trifling commentaries on some super superfluous categories.

Best Picture
"Argo"
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
"Django Unchained"
"Les Misérables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"The Master"
"Moonrise Kingdom"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

Best Director

Ben Affleck, "Argo"
Tom Hooper, "Les Misérables"
Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty"

Falling in line...

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
John Hawkes, "The Sessions"
Hugh Jackman, "Les Misérables"
Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"
Denzel Washington, "Flight"

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Marion Cotillard, "Rust and Bone"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"
Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Naomi Watts, "The Impossible"

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, "Argo"
Javier Bardem, "Skyfall"
Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"
Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"
Matthew McConaughey, "Magic Mike"

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, "The Master"
Judi Dench, "Skyfall"
Ann Dowd, "Compliance"
Sally Field, "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway, "Les Misérables"
Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"

Best Adapted Screenplay
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"

"Lincoln"
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
"Silver Linings Playbook"

Best Original Screenplay
"Django Unchained"
"Flight"
"Looper"
"The Master"
"Moonrise Kingdom"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

Best Art Direction
"Anna Karenina"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Misérables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"

Best Cinematography
"Les Misérables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"The Master"
"Skyfall"

Best Costume Design
"Anna Karenina"
"Cloud Atlas"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Misérables"
"Lincoln"

Best Editing
"Argo"
"Les Misérables"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

Best Makeup
"Cloud Atlas"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Misérables"
"Lincoln"

Best Score
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"The Master"
"Moonrise Kingdom"

Best Song
"For You" from "Act of Valor"
"Learn Me Right" from "Brave"
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall"
"Still Alive" from "Paul Williams Still Alive"
"Suddenly" from "Les Misérables"

Best Visual Effects
"The Avengers"
"Cloud Atlas"
"The Dark Knight Rises"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Life of Pi"

Best Animated Feature
"Brave"
"Frankenweenie"
"Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted"
"ParaNorman"
"Rise of the Guardians"
"Wreck-It Ralph"

I guess they didn't see any of the foreign toons in the Oscar hunt?

Best Foreign Language Film
"Amour"
"The Intouchables"
"A Royal Affair"
"Rust and Bone"

Why only four? Are these the only foreign films they saw all year?

Best Documentary Feature
"Bully"
"The Central Park Five"
"The Imposter"
"The Queen of Versailles"
"Searching for Sugar Man"
"West of Memphis"

Best Young Actor/Actress
Elle Fanning, "Ginger & Rosa"
Kara Hayward, "Moonrise Kingdom"
Tom Holland, "The Impossible"
Logan Lerman, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
Suraj Sharma, "Life of Pi"
Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

No love of Moonrise Kingdom's Jared Gelman. Boo-urns.

Best Acting Ensemble
"Argo"
"The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"
"Les Misérables"
"Lincoln"
"Moonrise Kingdom"
"Silver Linings Playbook"

Best Action Movie
"The Avengers"
"The Dark Knight Rises"
"Looper"
"Skyfall"

Best Actor in an Action Movie
Christian Bale, "The Dark Knight Rises"
Daniel Craig, "Skyfall"
Robert Downey Jr., "The Avengers"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "Looper"
Jake Gyllenhaal, "End of Watch"

Downey Jr.? Really? Been there, done that. And End of Watch is an action movie? Kinda like the confusing misrepresentation of Drive last year.

Best Actress in an Action Movie
Emily Blunt, "Looper"
Gina Carano, "Haywire"
Judi Dench, "Skyfall"
Anne Hathaway, "The Dark Knight Rises"
Jennifer Lawrence, "The Hunger Games"

Watch Jennifer Lawrence win even though Dench is nominated for Supporting Actress for her fine turn in Skyfall.

Best Comedy
"Bernie"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Ted"
"This is 40"
"21 Jump Street"

Best Actor in a Comedy
Jack Black, "Bernie"
Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Paul Rudd, "This is 40"
Channing Tatum, "21 Jump Street"
Mark Wahlberg, "Ted"

Best Actress in a Comedy
Mila Kunis, "Ted"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Shirley MacLaine, "Bernie"
Leslie Mann, "This is 40"
Rebel Wilson, "Pitch Perfect"

These last two categories are particularly redundant. If Cooper and Lawrence are both nominated for Best Actor and Actress respectively, wouldn't that make them the defacto winners here? Waste of space, BFCA.

Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie
"The Cabin in the Woods"
"Looper"
"Prometheus"

Weak sauce.