Aussie actors miss out on Oscar nomination
AUSTRALIAN actors Naomi Watts, Mia Wasikowska and Joel Edgerton have all missed out on Oscar nominations.
It was not a complete whitewash for Australia when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed its nominees for next month's 84th Academy Awards ceremony.
Film editor Kirk Baxter is in the hunt for his second consecutive Oscar after he was nominated for his work on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Baxter won a gold statuette last year for editing The Social Network.
Australian producer Grant Hill is also in line to pick up a best picture Oscar after Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life was a surprise best picture nominee.
Australian sound mixer Andy Nelson scored the 15th Oscar nomination of his career for the Steven Spielberg-directed World War I drama, War Horse. Nelson won an Oscar in 1999 for another Spielberg war film, Saving Private Ryan.
Watts, for J Edgar, Wasikowska, for Jane Eyre, and Edgerton, for Warrior, were all considered long shots for acting Oscar nominations.
In other categories, The Descendants, The Artist, The Help, Hugo and Midnight in Paris were nominated for best picture with The Tree of Life.
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Martin Scorsese (Hugo), Alexander Payne (The Descendants) and Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) will battle for the directing Oscar.
The nominees for best actress are: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady); Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn); Viola Davis (The Help); Mara Rooney (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs).
The Oscar nominees were announced at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences headquarters in Beverly Hills.
The winners will be revealed at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on February 26.
Aussie actors miss out on Oscar nomination
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