Hugo, led the pack with 11 nods, George Clooney was honored twice, and Bridesmaids sneaked into the Best Supporting Actress category. See the nominees in all the big races. The Artist (pictured) War Horse Moneyball The Descendants The Tree of Life Midnight in Paris The Help Hugo Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Courtesy of The Weinstein Company Martin Scorsese, Hugo (pictured) Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Alexander Payne, The Descendants Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life Paramount Pictures George Clooney, The Descendants (pictured) Demian Bachir, A Better Life Jean Dujardin, The Artist Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Brad Pitt, Moneyball Fox Searchlight Meryl Streep, Iron Lady (pictured) Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Viola Davis, The Help Courtesy of Pathe Productions Ltd / The Weinstein Company Christopher Plummer, Beginners (pictured) Max Von Sydow, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn Nick Nolte, Warrior Jonah Hill, Moneyball Focus Features Octavia Spencer, The Help Bérénice Bejo, The Artist Jessica Chastain, The Help Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids (pictured) Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs Suzanne Hanover / Universal Studios Moneyball, Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian (pictured) The Descendants, Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne, and Jim Rash Hugo, John Logan The Ides of March, George Clooney and Grant Heslov Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen (pictured) Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo Margin Call, J. C. Chandor A Separation, Asghar Farhadi Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics A Cat in Paris Chico & Rita Kung Fu Panda 2 Puss in Boots Rango (pictured) Bullhead (Belgium) Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) A Separation (Iran, pictured) Footnote (Israel) In Darkness (Poland) Habib Madjidi / Sony Pictures Classics Hell and Back Again If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Pina (pictured) Undefeated Donata Wenders The Artist Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan Hugo Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo Midnight in Paris Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil War Horse Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales (pictured) Andrew Cooper, SMPSP / Dreamworks The Artist Guillaume Schiffman The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Jeff Cronenweth (pictured) Hugo Robert Richardson The Tree of Life Emmanuel Lubezki War Horse Janusz Kaminski MGM Anonymous Lisy Christl (pictured) The Artist Mark Bridges Hugo Sandy Powell Jane Eyre Michael O'Connor W.E. Arianne Phillips Reiner Bajo / Columbia TriStar-Sony Pictures The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin (pictured) God Is the Bigger Elvis Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson Incident in New Baghdad James Spione Saving Face Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen The Artist Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius (pictured) The Descendants Kevin Tent The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall Hugo Thelma Schoonmaker Moneyball Christopher Tellefsen The Weinstein Company Albert Nobbs Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle (pictured) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin The Iron Lady Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland The Adventures of Tintin John Williams The Artist Ludovic Bource Hugo Howard Shore Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Alberto Iglesias War Horse John Williams Paramount Pictures "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets; Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie "Real in Rio" from Rio; Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett Scott Garfield / Disney Dimanche/Sunday Patrick Doyon The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg (pictured) La Luna Enrico Casarosa A Morning Stroll Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe Wild Life Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby Pentecost Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane Raju Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren The Shore Terry George and Oorlagh George (pictured) Time Freak Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey Tuba Atlantic Hallvar Witzø Drive Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis (pictured) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Ren Klyce Hugo Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty Transformers: Dark of the Moon Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl War Horse Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom Everett Collection The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson Hugo Tom Fleischman and John Midgley Moneyball Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick (pictured) Transformers: Dark of the Moon Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin War Horse Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson Melinda Sue Gordon / Sony Pictures Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson Hugo Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning Real Steel Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg Rise of the Planet of the Apes Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett Transformers: Dark of the Moon Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier (pictured) Paramount Pictures