(CNN) -- It was a rare privilege to sit down with Eric Fellner of Working Title Films just hours after his films Les Miserables and Anna Karenina were nominated for Oscars, and a day after getting a host of BAFTA nods as well. Fellner was all businessDirector Steven Spielberg's historical drama Lincoln earned a leading 12 nominations Thursday for the 85th Annual Academy Awards, followed by Ang Lee's Life of Pi with 11 while the musical Les Misérables, directed by Tom Hooper, and David O. Russell'sPlus, the "Best Actress" category nominated both the oldest and youngest actresses in Oscar history.The Academy Awards are a lively, high-spirited event, but many of the films nominated Thursday morning feature grim topics. From the waterboarding of "Zero Dark Thirty" to the desperation and revolution of "Les Miserables,"They were rendered an official waste of time on Thursday, Jan. 10, when their arch-nemesis (the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) figured out how to squash its pesky competitor. For years, it irked the Oscars people that the Golden Globes
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