BEST PICTURE

• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Lincoln
• Les Miserables
• Life of Pi
• Amour
• Django Unchained
• Argo

BEST ACTOR

• Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
• Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
• Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
• Denzel Washington - Flight
• Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables

BEST ACTRESS

• Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
• Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
• Naomi Watts - The Impossible
• Emmanuelle Riva - Amour

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
• Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
• Alan Arkin – Argo
• Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• Sally Field - Lincoln
• Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
• Jacki Weaver - The Silver Linings Playbook
• Helen Hunt - The Sessions
• Amy Adams - The Master

BEST ANIMATED PICTURE

• Brave
• Frankenweenie
• Wreck-It Ralph
• ParaNorman
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits

BEST DIRECTOR

• David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
• Michael Haneke – Amour
• Ang Lee – Life of Pi
• Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Steven Spielberg – Lincoln

Original Screenplay

• Flight
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Django Unchained
• Amour
• Moonrise Kingdom

Might as well take the source material for your next box office mega-hit directly from your target audience’s bookshelf. 

Variety posted the news today, stating that Cooper is joining the cast of the Weinstein Company’s upcoming August: Osage County. Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts are already on board to star in the picture, which focuses on the Weston family, a group of people who have to get past their personal differences when the alcoholic husband of Streep’s character goes missing. Cooper has signed on to play Streep’s brother-in-law.

With Streep and Roberts already on board, Cooper’s casting is one more especially talented actor added to the growing list. Factor in the Pulitzer Prize winning source material (the play won the award for drama in 2008) and this project, which is expected to go into production this August, the film certainly has a lot going for it already.

Not too shabby, Ridley.