Everything You Need To Know About The Best Picture Nominees

Ready to check off your Oscar ballot? Catch up on coverage of the best picture nominees from the 85th annual Academy Awards with reviews, interviews and features from across the NPR network. And come back to NPR.org/oscars on the big night for our annual live blog and more.

Best Picture Nominees

Project Credits

February 20, 2013

Movie Clips: Amour / Sony Pictures Classics, Argo / Warner Bros. Pictures, Beasts of the Southern Wild / Fox Searchlight, Django Unchained / The Weinstein Company, Les Miserables / Universal Pictures, Life of Pi / Twentieth Century Fox, Lincoln / Twentieth Century Fox, Silver Linings Playbook / The Weinstein Company, Zero Dark Thirty / Sony Pictures via EPK.tv

Movie Stills: Amour - Sony Pictures Classics; Argo - Keith Bernstein / Warner Bros. Entertainment; Beasts of the Southern Wild - Fox Searchlight Pictures; Django Unchained - Andrew Cooper / The Weinstein Company; Les Miserables - Laurie Sparham / Universal Pictures; Lincoln - David James/DreamWorks; Life of Pi - Twentieth Century Fox; Silver Linings Playbook - The Weinstein Company; Zero Dark Thirty - Jonathan Olley

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