Lincoln and Bond go head to head for award

US civil war saga, Lincoln, musical Les Miserables and the Osama bin Laden thriller, Zero Dark Thirty, are among the best picture nominees from the Producers Guild of America.

Other contenders are the Iran hostage-crisis thriller Argo; low-budget critical favourite Beasts of the Southern Wild; slave-turned-bounty-hunter saga Django Unchained; shipwreck story Life of Pi; first-love tale Moonrise Kingdom; lost-souls romance Silver Linings Playbook; and James Bond adventure Skyfall.

Downton Abbey is nominated for best TV drama while Disney dominated the guild’s animation category with three out of the five nominees — Brave, Frankenweenie and Wreck-It Ralph.