As was discussed yesterday and like clockwork, the Academy Awards Nominations were announced this morning for the 2013 Ceremony. 

The brightly lit and cheery faces of Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone were on hand to read off the names of this years top recipients of the nominees of which the winners will be announced on Feb 24 at 7 PM EST/6 PM CST. 

The exciting news - from an Independent Film side of things, the industry managed to rack up some nice nominations for Actress, Documentary and Foreign Languages but the most exciting news is the nominations for the 2012 Sundance and Indie-darling Beasts of the Southern Wild to get noms in both Directing and Picture. 

So without further trying your patience…here are the nominees:

PICTURE

Amour

Argo

Beasts of the southern Wild

DjAngo Unchained

Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

ACTOR

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Hugh Jackman,  Les Misérables 

Joaquin Phoenix , The Master 

Denzel Washington, Flight

ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain , Zero Dark Thirty

Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Lining Playbook 

Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Naomi Watts, The Impossible

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Alan Arkin , Argo

Robert De Niro, Silver Lining Playbook

Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln 

Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained  

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams , The Master 

Sally Filed, Lincoln

Anne Hathaway,  Les Misérables 

Helen Hunt, The Sessions 

Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

DIRECTOR

Amour , Michael Haneke 

Beasts of the Southern Wild , Benh Zeitlin 

Life of Pi, Ang Lee

Lincoln, Steven Spielberg 

Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

5 Broken Cameras

The Gatekeepers 

How to Survive A PlAgue

The Invisible War

Searching For Sugar Man

ANIMATED FEATURE

Brave,  Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman 

Frankenweenie, Tim Burton                                                                    

Paranorman, Sam Fell and Chris Butler 

The Pirates! Band of Misfits , Peter Lord 

Wreck-it Ralph , Rich Moore

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE

Amour , Austria

Kon-Tiki, Norway 

No, Chile 

A Royal Affair , Denmark 

War Witch, Canada

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In case you missed the announcement or would like to watch again - check out the video below:

So, there’s the big nine. If you’re a glutton for this kind of thing, we’ll be updating our site in plenty of time to get your picks in for any kind of polls you may be taking part so stay tuned here to Fresh Roasted Films through all of awards season to be up on the latest information and we will see you come the Academy Awards Ceremony on Feb 24!