Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" dominated the nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards early Wednesday. The historical American epic earned 10 nominations including best film, best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, best supporting actor for Tommy Lee Jones and best supporting actress for Sally Field. 
 
 Tom Hooper's musical "Les Miserables" and Ang Lee's adventure "Life of Pi" received nine nominations each from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, while the James Bond thriller "Skyfall" earned eight nominations. 
 
 Besides "Lincoln," best film nominees are "Argo," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi" and "Zero Dark Thirty." 
 
 Joining Day-Lewis in the lead actor category is Ben Affleck for "Argo," Bradley Cooper for "Silver Linings Playbook," Hugh Jackman for "Les Miserables" and Joaquin Phoenix for "The Master." 
 
 COMPLETE LIST: British Academy of Film and Television Awards nominees 
 
 Lead actress nominees for the BAFTA are Emmanuelle Riva for "Amour," Helen Mirren for "Hitchcock," Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook," Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty" and Marion Cotillard for "Rust and Bone." ||||| Kelsey Grammer will host the 65th annual event Feb. 2. 
 
 Ben Affleck scored the first DGA Award nomination of his career as the Directors Guild of America announced its motion picture nominees Tuesday. Affleck, who was welcomed into the club for his work on Argo, was nominated along with four past winners of the DGA Award: Kathryn Bigelow, nominated for Zero Dark Thirty; Tom Hooper, Les Miserables; Ang Lee, Life of Pi; and Steven Spielberg, Lincoln. 
 
 Among the directors who failed to make the cut are Django Unchained's Quentin Tarantino, Silver Linings Playbook's David O. Russell, The Master's Paul Thomas Anderson -- all previous DGA Award nominees -- and Moonrise Kingdom's Wes Anderson. 
 
 Bigelow, receiving her second nomination, won the award for 2009's The Hurt Locker. Hooper is also a two-time feature nominee, having won the award for 2010's The King's Speech. 
 
 Lee had been nominated three times previously and won for 2005's Brokeback Mountain and 2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Spielberg's nomination was the 11th of his career; he won for 1998's Saving Private Ryan, 1993's Schindler's List and 1985's The Color Purple. 
 
 The 65th annual DGA Awards will be held Feb. 2 in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. Kelsey Grammer will host the event for a second consecutive year. 
 
 The DGA Award usually points the way toward the winner of the Academy Award for best director; only six times since the DGA Awards began in 1948 has the winner has not gone on to score the Oscar. The most recent was Rob Marshall for 2002's Chicago, after which Roman Polanski won the Academy Award for The Pianist. 
 
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 The guild will announce its television and commercial nominees Wednesday. 
 
 Here are the feature nominees and their respective directorial teams: 
 
 BEN AFFLECK 
 
 Argo 
 
 (Warner Bros. Pictures) 
 
 
 
 Mr. Affleck’s Directorial Team: 
 
 · Unit production manager: Amy Herman 
 
 · First assistant director: David Webb 
 
 · Second assistant director: Ian Calip 
 
 · Second Second assistant directors: Clark Credle, Gavin Kleintop 
 
 · First assistant director (Turkey Unit): Belkis Turan 
 
 KATHRYN BIGELOW 
 
 Zero Dark Thirty 
 
 (Columbia Pictures) 
 
 
 
 Ms. Bigelow’s Directorial Team: 
 
 · Unit production manager: Colin Wilson 
 
 · First assistant director: David A. Ticotin 
 
 · Second assistant directors: Ben Lanning, Sarah Hood 
 
 · First assistant director (Jordan Unit): Scott Robertson 
 
 · Second assistant directors (Jordan Unit): Jonas Spaccarotelli, Yanal Kassay 
 
 · Second second assistant director (Jordan Unit): Tarek Afifi 
 
 · Unit production manager (India Unit): Rajeev Mehra 
 
 
 
 TOM HOOPER 
 
 Les Miserables 
 
 (Universal Pictures) 
 
 
 
 Mr. Hooper’s Directorial Team: 
 
 · Unit production manager: Patrick Schweitzer 
 
 · First assistant director: Ben Howarth 
 
 · Second assistant director: Harriet Worth 
 
 · Second second assistant director: Dan Channing Williams 
 
 
 
 ANG LEE 
 
 Life of Pi 
 
 (20th Century Fox) 
 
 
 
 Mr. Lee’s Directorial Team: 
 
 · Unit production manager: Michael J. Malone 
 
 · Unit production manager (Taiwan): Leo Chen 
 
 · First assistant directors: William M. Connor, Cliff Lanning 
 
 · Second assistant directors: Robert Burgess, Ben Lanning 
 
 · Unit production manager (India Unit): Sanjay Kumar 
 
 · First assistant director (India Unit): Nitya Mehra 
 
 · Unit production manager: Susan McNamara 
 
 · First assistant director: Adam Somner 
 
 · Second assistant director: Ian Stone 
 
 · Second second assistant directors: Eric Lasko, Trevor Tavares 
 
 
 
 STEVEN SPIELBERG 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 (DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox) 
 
 
 
 Mr. Spielberg’s Directorial Team: 
 
 · Unit production manager: Susan McNamara 
 
 · First assistant director: Adam Somner 
 
 · Second assistant director: Ian Stone 
 
 · Second second assistant directors: Eric Lasko, Trevor Tavares ||||| The Civil War saga "Lincoln" leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture, director for Steven Spielberg and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones. 
 
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 Also among the nine nominees for best picture Thursday: the old-age love story "Amour"; the Iran hostage thriller "Argo"; the independent hit "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; the slave-revenge narrative "Django Unchained"; the musical "Les Miserables"; the shipwreck story "Life of Pi"; the lost-souls romance "Silver Linings Playbook"; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle "Zero Dark Thirty." 
 
 "Life of Pi" surprisingly ran second with 11 nominations, ahead of "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Les Miserables," which had both been considered potential front-runners. 
 
 More surprising were snubs in the directing category, where three favorites missed out: Ben Affleck for "Argo" and past Oscar winners Kathryn Bigelow for "Zero Dark Thirty" and Tom Hooper for "Les Miserables." 
 
 Two-time winner Spielberg earned his seventh directing nomination, and also in the mix are past winner Ang Lee for "Life of Pi" and past nominee David O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook." The other slots went to surprise picks who are first-time nominees: Michael Haneke for "Amour" and Benh Zeitlin for "Beasts of the Southern Wild." 
 
 Chronicling Abraham Lincoln's final months as he engineers passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, "Lincoln" stars best-actor contender Day-Lewis in a monumental performance as the 16th president, supporting-actress nominee Field as the notoriously headstrong Mary Todd Lincoln and supporting-actor prospect Jones as abolitionist firebrand Thaddeus Stevens. 
 
 Joining Day-Lewis in the best-actor field are Bradley Cooper as a psychiatric patient trying to get his life back together in "Silver Linings Playbook"; Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo's tragic hero Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables"; Joaquin Phoenix as a Navy vet who falls in with a cult in "The Master"; and Denzel Washington as a boozy airline pilot in "Flight." 
 
 Nominated for best actress are Jessica Chastain as a CIA operative hunting bin Laden in "Zero Dark Thirty"; Jennifer Lawrence as a troubled young widow struggling to heal in "Silver Linings Playbook"; Emmanuelle Riva as an ailing woman tended by her husband in "Amour"; Quvenzhane Wallis as a spirited girl on the Louisiana delta in "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; and Naomi Watts as a mother caught up in a devastating tsunami in "The Impossible." 
 
 Along with Field, supporting-actress nominees are Amy Adams as a cult leader's devoted wife in "The Master"; Anne Hathaway as an outcast mother reduced to prostitution in "Les Miserables"; Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate in "The Sessions"; and Jacki Weaver as an unstable man's doting mom in "Silver Linings Playbook." 
 
 Besides Jones, the supporting-actor contenders are Alan Arkin as a wily Hollywood producer in "Argo"; Robert De Niro as a football-obsessed patriarch in "Silver Linings Playbook"; Philip Seymour Hoffman as a dynamic cult leader in "The Master"; and Christoph Waltz as a genteel bounty hunter in "Django Unchained." 
 
 The Oscars feature a best-picture field that ranges from five to 10 films depending on a complex formula of ballots from the 5,856 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 
 
 Winners for the 85th Oscars will be announced Feb. 24 at a ceremony aired live on ABC from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre. 
 
 "Family Guy" creator and vocal star Seth MacFarlane _ a versatile performer whose work includes directing and voicing for the title character of last summer's hit "Ted" and a Frank Sinatra-style album of standards _ is the Oscar host. 
 
 Thursday's nominees were announced by "The Amazing Spider-Man" star Emma Stone and MacFarlane, the first time that an Oscar show host has joined in the preliminary announcement since 1972, when Charlton Heston participated on nominations day. 
 
 MacFarlane also got his own nod for writing the lyrics to "Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from his movie "Ted." 
 
 "That's kind of cool I got nominated," MacFarlane deadpanned. "I get to go to the Oscars." 
 
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– A nice bit of schadenfreude for Twilight haters: Breaking Dawn Part 2, the merciful final installment in the vampire saga, leads this year's nominations for the Golden Raspberry Awards (aka Razzies), which honor the year's worst films. It managed to grab a nomination in each of the 10 categories, plus an 11th nomination because it was nominated twice in the Worst Screen Couple category, E! reports. Lead actress Kristen Stewart scored a second Worst Actress nomination too, for Snow White and the Huntsman. Other much-dishonored films: Adam Sandler's That's My Boy, with nine nominations, and Rihanna's Battleship, with seven. Awards are handed out the day before the Oscars, Feb. 23. On a more serious note, BAFTA nominations also came out today, and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln dominated that field with 10 nominations, the Los Angeles Times reports. Tom Hooper's Les Miserables and Ang Lee's Life of Pi came in second with nine nominations each, followed by James Bond flick Skyfall with eight. All of the above except Skyfall were nominated for best film, along with Ben Affleck's Argo and Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. Those five best film nominees also made up the five Director's Guild of America Award nominees that were announced yesterday, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The DGA Awards will be held Feb. 2; the BAFTAs are Feb. 10.