Video: Oscar Noms Are Finally Here!

Director Seth MacFarlane and Emma Watson announced the Oscar nominations today, putting to rest weeks of anxious speculation. The ceremony will take place next month on February 24. Seth MacFarlane, creator of "Family Guy," will be hosting. Save for a few exceptions, the nominations pretty evenly matched up with critics' expectations.

The nominations are as follows:

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

Best Actress:
Naomi Watts for The Impossible
Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva for Amour (oldest nominee in this category in Oscar history)
Quvenzhane Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild (youngest nominee in this category in Oscar history)

Best Supporting Actor:
Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln
Christopher Waltz for Django Unchained
Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master
Alan Arkin for Argo

Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams for The Master
Sally Fields for Lincoln
Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables
Jackie Weaver for Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Hunt for The Sessions

Best Animated Film:
Wreck-It Ralph
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
ParaNorman
Brave
Frankenweenie

Best Cinematography:
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Best Costume Design:
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Snow White and the Huntsman

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

Best Documentary Feature:
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man

Best Documentary Short:
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption

Best Film Editing:
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Foreign Language Film:
Amour, Austria
War Witch, Canada
A Royal Affair, Denmark
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables

Best Original Score:
Dario Marianelli for Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat for Argo
Mychael Danna for Life of Pi
John Williams for Lincoln
Thomas Newman for Skyfall

Best Original Song:
"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted
"Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi
"Skyfall" from Skyfall
"Suddenly" from Les Miserables

Best Production Design:
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln

Best Short Animated Film:
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head over Heels
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
Paperman

Best Short Film:
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)
Henry

Best Sound Editing:
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Sound Mixing:
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Best Visual Effects:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Marvel's The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Life of Pi
Silver Linings Playbook
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Argo
Lincoln

Best Original Screenplay:
Flight
Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained
Amour
Moonrise Kingdom

Whew! May the next round of intense speculation begin!