Biggest Surprises & Snubs from 85th Academy Award Nominations

The nominations for the 85th Annual Academy Awards arrived this morning, and while many films and performances that were expected to get recognized ended up on the list, there were still plenty of surprises and snubs in the the spectacular year of film that was 2012. While we’ll be talking about the potential winners for the weeks to come leading up to the live broadcast of the show on on Sunday, February 24th, 2013, now is the time to talk about the most surprising nominations and also the most frustrating snubs by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. There are quite a few wild cards this year. More below! Beasts of the Southern Wild and Amour It’s a sad truth, but because of all the campaigning that must take place before the Oscars, many times foreign language films and indies don’t usually make it too far in awards season (that’s …