Oscars: Silver Linings surprise contender, while Lincoln dominates 10 January 2013 Last updated at 14:49 Silver Linings Playbook has become the first film to win Oscar nominations in all four acting categories for more than 30 years. The comedy drama, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, received eight nominations in total. Steven Spielberg's drama Lincoln dominated the shortlist with 12, while Ang Lee's Life of Pi picked up 11. Nine films vie for the best picture award including action thriller Zero Dark Thirty, Argo and Les Miserables. Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, Beasts of the Southern Wild and French language film Amour complete the list of best picture contenders. The ceremony will take place at the Dolby Theatre on 24 February. Emmanuelle Riva and Quvenzhane Wallis became the oldest and youngest nominees in the best actress category at the age of 85 and nine respectively. Wallis, who was picked from obscurity to play the lead in Benh Zeitlin's Sundance winner Beasts of the Southern Wild, was just six when she took the role of a young girl stranded by rising waters and tending to a sick father in a remote corner of Louisiana. Riva, a respected film actress in France, plays a retired music teacher afflicted by a stroke in Michael Haneke's Amour, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival last year. Silver Linings Playbook is directed by David O Russell who also won a best director nomination As well as both films appearing in the best film nominations, Haneke and newcomer Zeitlin won nominations in the best director category. They will face competition from Spielberg, Ang Lee and Silver Linings Playbook David O Russell. But there was no nomination for Zero Dark Thirty's Kathryn Bigelow, who was named best director by the National Board of Review in the autumn, and had been considered a frontrunner following nominations at the Baftas and the Golden Globes. Bigelow became the first woman to win the best director Oscar with The Hurt Locker at the Academy Awards in 2010. Prior to the nominations it has been suggested that Skyfall might become the first Bond film to win a best picture nod, but the film was not shortlisted in any of the major categories despite Bafta nominations for Dame Judi Dench and Javier Bardem earlier this week. However Adele did win a place on the best song shortlist, while the film received a further four nominations in the technical categories. Oscars 2013: Main contenders Lincoln (pictured) - 12 nominations Life of Pi - 11 nominations Les Miserables - 8 nominations Silver Linings Playbook - 8 nominations Argo - 7 nominations Aside from Riva and Wallis, the best actress category is completed by Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook, Naomi Watts in The Impossible and Jessica Chastain, who plays a CIA agent hunting Osama Bin Laden, in Zero Dark Thirty. Watts is the only nomination for The Impossible, the real-life story of a family caught up in the devastating 2004 tsunami. Dame Helen Mirren missed out on a best actress nomination for Hitchcock. The Oscars ceremony will also be hosted by Seth MacFarlane, who created the animated series Family Guy. It has already been announced that the star-studded event will feature a tribute to 50 years of the James Bond movie franchise. The nominations are selected by a ballot of 6,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with this year's contenders being announced two weeks earlier than usual. The Bafta nominations were announced on Wednesday with Lincoln leading the way in 12 categories.