With awards season finally up and running, one of the lesser prestiged groups have continued to set the ball rolling with the announcement of their nominations.

The Annual Satellite Awards revealed their list of predictable (and strange) nominees for 2012 with Tom Hooper’s upcoming musical epic Les Misérables leading the way with ten nods including Motion Picture as well as acting mentions for Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne and Samantha Barks. Bizarrely though, Hooper was snubbed for Best Director.

Other big Oscar players including Argo, Lincoln (without a Supporting Actress mention for NYFCC winner Sally Field), Silver Linings Playbook and NYFCC Best Picture winner Zero Dark Thirty also did well with nominations. Box-office smash Skyfall earned several nods including the Motion Picture category.

Bradley Cooper, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, Jessica Chastain, Keira Knightley, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Javier Bardem, Amy Adams and Judi Dench are amongst the large group of well-known names short-listed in the four acting categories. Some strange nominees include Laura Linney for the disappointing Hyde Park on Hudson and a trio of unknown actresses getting unlikely attention.

The full list of nominations are below:

MOTION PICTURE
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
The Sessions
Silver Linings Playbook
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
John Hawkes – The Sessions
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Omar Sy – The Intouchables
Denzel Washington – Flight

ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE
Laura Birn – Purge
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Emilie Dequenne – Our Children
Keira Knightley – Anna Karenina
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Laura Linney – Hyde Park on Hudson
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Javier Bardem – Skyfall
John Goodman – Argo
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Eddie Redmayne – Les Misérables

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams – The Master
Samantha Barks – Les Misérables
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Helene Florent – Café De Flore
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Helen Hunt – The Sessions

DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck – Argo
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Kim Ki-Duk – Pieta
Ben Lewin – The Sessions
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Flight
The Intouchables
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Pieta
Zero Dark Thirty

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Anna Karenina
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Sessions
Silver Linings Playbook

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina
Beasts of the Sputhern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
Skyfall

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina
The Dark Knight Rises
Les Miserables
Lincoln
The Master
A Royal Affair

COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Farewell, My Queen
Les Miserables
A Royal Affair
Snow White and the Huntsman

FILM EDITING
Cloud Atlas
Flight
Les Miserables
The Sessions
The Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

SOUND DESIGN
Flight
Kon-Tiki
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

VISUAL EFFECTS
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
Flight
Life of Pi
Prometheus
Skyfall

ORIGINAL SCORE
Argo
Anna Karenina
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Lincoln
The Master
Skyfall

ORIGINAL SONG
Brave – “Learn Me Right”
Lawless – “Fire in the Blood/Snake Song”
Les Miserables – “Suddenly”
Madagascar 3 – “Love Always Comes as a Surprise”
Paul Williams: Still Alive  – “Still Alive”
Skyfall – “Skyfall”

MOTION PICTURE, INTERNATIONAL FILM
Amour
Beyond the Hills
Caesar Must Die
The Intouchables
Kon-Tiki
Our Children
Pieta
A Royal Affair
War Witch

MOTION PICTURE, ANIMATED OR MIXED MEDIA
Brave
Frankenweenie
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
ParaNorman
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph

MOTION PICTURE, DOCUMENTARY
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
The Central Park Five
Chasing Ice
The Gatekeepers
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
The Pruitt-Igoe, Myth
Searching for Sugar Man
West of Memphis

The 2012 Satellite Awards – which are chosen by the International Press Academy – will be handed out on December 16th in Century City, CA.

Source: Screen Daily