Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild David Magee, Life of Pi Tony Kushner, Lincoln David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Winner: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Michael Haneke, Amour John Gatins, Flight Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Winner: Skyfall from Skyfall, music and lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice, music and lyrics by J. Ralph "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from TED, music by Walter Murphy, lyrics by Seth MacFarlane "Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi, music by Mychael Danna, lyrics by Bombay Jayashri "Suddenly" from Les Misérables, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Winner: Life of Pi
Anna Karenina Argo Lincoln Skyfall
Winner: Brave
Frankenweenie Paranorman The Pirates! Band of Misfits Wreck-It Ralph