Lincoln has led this year's Baftas with 10 nominations including best film and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis. Day-Lewis's co-stars Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field have been shortlisted for best supporting actor and actress.
Musical adaptation Les Miserables and Ang Lee's Life of Pi have both received nine nominations.
Bond film Skyfall is close behind with eight nominations, including best British film and best supporting actor for Javier Bardem.
It will battle it out with four other titles to be named outstanding British film at the awards ceremony on 10 February.
They are The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, and Seven Psychopaths.
The nominations were announced by Alice Eve and Jeremy Irvine at the The British Academy of Film and Television Arts headquarters in London on Wednesday.
Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman have been recognised in the lead actor and actress categories in Tom Hooper's big-screen adaptation of Les Miserables.
Ben Affleck's Argo has received seven nominations with Affleck in the running for best director and best actor.
Other American movies to feature in the shortlist for this year's Bafta awards are Zero Dark Thirty with five nominations, including best director for Kathryn Bigelow and The Master which received four.
Silver Linings Playbook has nods for Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in the best actress and best actor categories. The romantic comedy-drama has also been nominated for best adapted screenplay.
Dame Helen Mirren has been nominated for best actress for her role as Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville in Hitchcock.
There were some notable exclusions with the Oscar-winning British director of The King's Speech, Tom Hooper, who missed a director's nod for Les Miserables and another British Oscar-winner, Sam Mendes, who was left out of the same category for Skyfall.
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