French-language "War Witch" (also known as "Rebelle") is the only Canadian Academy Award feature film nomination for 2013. (Toronto-based composer Mychael Danna is also up for two Academy Awards -- for Best Song and Best Original Score for his work on “Life of Pi”; Canadian Yan England also got nominated for Live Action Short Film for "Henry.")

Written and directed by Kim Nguyen, the film is nominated for Best Foreign Feature. The movie centres around 12-year-old African Komona (Rachel Mwanza), who's forced to kill her parents when she's abducted from her tiny village by a group of rebels. She undergoes horrendous abuse and is trained as a soldier; under the influence of hallucinogenic tree sap, she starts to see ghosts and miraculously survives a sudden ambush, so the leader of the rebel army concludes that she's a witch.

The film was in competition for the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012. At Berlin, Mwanza won the Silver Bear for Best Actress. She also won the award for Best Actress at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.

Nguyen became the first Canadian director in 13 years to have a film selected for the main competition, and this is his first Academy Award nomination.

As "Rebelle," the film screened at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival to rave reviews.

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• Best Picture

  "Django Unchained"

• Best Picture

  "Life of Pi"

• Best Picture

  "Lincoln"

• Best Picture

  "Argo"

• Best Picture

  "Zero Dark Thirty"

• Best Picture

  "Silver Linings Playbook"

• Best Picture

  "Les Miserables"

• Best Picture

  "Beasts of the Southern Wilde"

• Best Picture

  "Amour"

• Best Actor

  Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln."

• Best Actor

  Denzel Washington for "Flight."

• Best Actor

  Joaquin Phoenix for "The Master."

• Best Actor

  Hugh Jackman for "Les Miserables"

• Best Actor

  Bradley Cooper for "Silver Linings Playbook."

• Quvenzhane Wallis

  Quvenzhane Wallis for "Beasts of the Southern Wild."

• Best Actress

  Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty."

• Best Actress

  Naomi Watts for "The Impossible."

• Best Actress

  Emmanuelle Riva for "Amour"

• Best Actress

  Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook"

• Best Supporting Actor

  Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln."

• Best Supporting Actor

  Robert De Niro for "Silver Linings Playbook"

• Best Supporting Actor

  Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained."

• Best Supporting Actor

  Phillip Seymour Hoffman for "The Master."

• Best Supporting Actor

  Alan Arkin for "Argo."

• Best Supporting Actress

  Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables."

• Best Supporting Actress

  Amy Adams for "The Master."

• Best Supporting Actress

  Sally Field for "Lincoln."

• Best Supporting Actress

  Jacki Weaver for "Silver Linings Playbook"

• Best Supporting Actress

  Helen Hunt for "The Sessions."

• Best Director

  Ang Lee for "Life of Pi."

• Best Director

  David O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook"

• Best Director

  Benh Zeitlin for "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

• Best Director

  Michael Haneke for "Amour"

• Best Director

  Steven Spielberg for "Lincoln."

• Best Animated Feature

  "Brave"

• Best Animated Feature

  "Frankenweenie"

• Best Animated Feature

  "Paranorman"

• Best Animated Feature

  "The Pirates! Band of Misfits"

• Best Animated Feature

  "Wreck-It Ralph"

• Best Original Screenplay

  "Zero Dark Thirty"

• Best Original Screenplay

  "Amour"

• Best Original Screenplay

  "Flight"

• Best Original Screenplay

  "Moonrise Kingdom"

• Best Original Screenplay

  "Django Unchained"

• Best Adapted Screenplay

  "Lincoln"

• Best Adapted Screenplay

  "Life of Pi"

• Best Adapted Screenplay

  "Argo"

• Best Adapted Screenplay

  "Silver Linings Playbook"

• Best Adapted Screenplay

  "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

• Best Original Song

  Adele ("Skyfall" for "Skyfall")

• Best Original Song

  Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane

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