As enthusiastic film fans (including myself) await the Oscar nominations tomorrow afternoon, our own awards group have built up the anticipation by announcing their nominees for 2013.

The BAFTAs (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) have placed the historical drama Lincoln as their leading frontrunner with ten nods including Best Film, Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis), Best Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones) and Best Supporting Actress (Sally Field). Surprisingly though, director Steven Spielberg was snubbed from his own category.

Newly-released musical epic Les Miserables and fantasy adventure Life of Pi are joint second with nine mentions. Les Mis was nodded for Best Film (and Best British Film), Best Actor (Hugh Jackman) and Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway) though director Tom Hooper also missed out a nod like Spielberg did. Pi was nominated in the likes of Best Film and Best Director (Ang Lee).

James Bond-blockbuster Skyfall also did well with eight nominations including Best British Film, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem), Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench) and a variety of technical nods.

Political-thriller Argo (with seven nominations including Best Director for Ben Affleck) and war-drama Zero Dark Thirty (with five nominations including Best Actress for Jessica Chastain) completed the Best Film line-up.

Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow (ZD30), Michael Haneke (Amour), Lee and Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) all compete with each for Best Director.

Les Mis and Skyfall are part of the Best British Film line-up which also features Anna Karenina, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Seven Psychopaths.

In the acting-categories, Day-Lewis is targeting a fourth win in Best Actor for his role in Lincoln and is up against Jackman, Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook), Joaquin Phoenix (The Master) and shock nominee Ben Affleck (Argo).

Chastain is hoping to win Best Actress but is competing with Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone), Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook), Helen Mirren (Hitchcock) and Emmanuelle Riva (Amour).

In Supporting Actor, Bardem and Jones battle it out with Alan Arkin (Argo), Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) and Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) while Hathaway, Field and Dench square up in Best Supporting Actress against Amy Adams (The Master) and Helen Hunt (The Sessions).

The full-list of nominations are below (with my winner predictions):

BEST FILM
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall

DIRECTOR
Michael Haneke – Amour
Ben Affleck – Argo
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty

LEADING ACTOR
Ben Affleck – Argo
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day Lewis – Lincoln
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master

LEADING ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Mirren – Hitchcock
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin – Argo
Javier Bardem – Skyfall
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – The Master
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Helen Hunt – The Sessions

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Michael Haneke – Amour
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal – Zero Dark Thirty

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio – Argo
Benh Zeitlin & Lucy Alibar – Beasts of the Southern Wild
David Magee – Life of Pi
Tony Kushner – Lincoln
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Dario Marianelli – Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat – Argo
Mychael Danna – Life of Pi
John Williams – Lincoln
Thomas Newman – Skyfall

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

EDITING
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina
Great Expectations
Les Misérables
Lincoln
Snow White and the Huntsman

MAKEUP & HAIR
Anna Karenina
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Lincoln

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Prometheus

ANIMATED FILM
Brave
Frankenweenie
Paranorman

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH DIRECTOR, PRODUCER OR WRITER
Tina Gharavi (director/writer) – I Am Nasrine
Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) – The Imposter
David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) – McCullin
James Bobin (director) – The Muppets
Dexter Fletcher (director/writer), Danny King (writer) – Wild Bill

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Amour
Headhunters
The Hunt
Rust and Bone
Untouchable

DOCUMENTARY
The Imposter
Marley
McCullin
Searching for Sugarman
West of Memphis

SHORT ANIMATION
Here to Fall
I’m Fine, Thanks
The Making of Longbird

SHORT FILM
The Curse
Good Night
Swimmer
Tumult
The Voorman Problem

EE RISING STAR AWARD
Elizabeth Olsen
Juno Temple
Suraj Sharma
Andrea Riseborough
Alicia Vikander