Anne Hathaway of "Les Miserables" and Tommy Lee Jones of "Lincoln" won the supporting-acting honors.
Waltz said his tip for the winner in his category was Tommy Lee Jones' performance in Lincoln.
Lincoln is likely to win Best Director, Best Actor and possibly Best Supporting Actor for Tommy Lee Jones.
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But the Best Supporting Actor category is a race between Tommy Lee Jones and Alan Arkin.
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George Clooney, Tommy Lee Jones and Viggo Mortensen complete the best actor shortlist.
In all fairness, no one except Tommy Lee Jones or Gene Hackman can say that stuff and sound ... human.
The actors in the top four, including Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field, have each won at least one Oscar before.
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But don't count out Alan Arkin ("Argo"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln"), Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained") or even Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master").
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As the resident psychiatrist at a center for mentally disturbed children, Tommy Lee Jones pulls off a keenly modulated change of pace.
Batman Forever was arguably the best of the Batman series redux: We had skinny Val Kilmer, young Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Tommy Lee Jones.
Near Windsor's entrance, there's a polo field where charity events have brought Prince Charles, actor Tommy Lee Jones and Italian hotelier Salvatore Ferragamo to town.
Lincoln allows the radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens, played by Tommy Lee Jones, to engage in his own dishonorable means in pursuit of the most honorable of goals.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt will take on the role of Lincoln's eldest son Robert Todd Lincoln and Tommy Lee Jones will play Thaddeus Stevens, a Republican leader and congressman from Pennsylvania.
Best Supporting Actor nominees are: Adam Arkin for Argo, Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook, Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln, Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master, and Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained.
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The flu epidemic didn't spare Hollywood as actor Tommy Lee Jones reportedly missed out of picking up his statue for outstanding male actor in a supporting role for "Lincoln" because he was sick.
Tommy Lee Jones is Arnold, a crusty accountant who spends his evenings falling asleep in front of his golf shows but doesn't see anything wrong with a marriage that has worked quite efficiently for 31 years.
The deadpan American hipster Tommy Lee Jones gives the performance of a lifetime in this sombre but fascinating movie, playing a former army man, Hank Deerfield, whose son, Mike (Jonathan Tucker), after serving in Iraq, has gone AWOL in America.
The cast, uniformly superb, includes Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Hal Holbrook as Lincoln adviser Preston Blair, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln, David Strathairn as William Seward and James Spader as political operative W.N.
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Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, and Ben Affleck are executives at a big Boston conglomerate, GTX, which is trying to make itself attractive for purchase by a still-larger conglomerate by stripping unproductive divisions in this case, the shipbuilding unit that the three work for.
With Kevin Costner as New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, Sissy Spacek as his wife, Gary Oldman as Oswald, and an all-star cast of witnesses and conspirators: Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci (an abominable performance), Donald Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Jack Lemmon, Ed Asner, John Candy, Walter Matthau.
The murder mystery itself is not particularly artfully assembled -- a series of scrambled video clues are spun out over several days because the technician is "busy, " while jurisdictional squabbling between the cops (Charlize Theron) and military police serves a similar holding purpose -- but Haggis has the real goods in Tommy Lee Jones.
Tommy Bowe, Ryan Jones and Lee Byrne scored tries in the first half hour as the Ospreys scorched into a 24-3 lead against a weakened Edinburgh outfit.
Williams, Gavin Henson, Ryan Jones, James Hook, Mike Phillips, Alun Wyn Jones, Lee Byrne and new-signing Tommy Bowe are all on course for a call to the prestigious Lions tour to South Africa next summer.
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