The 85th Academy Awards ceremony (referred to as The Oscars), honouring the best films of 2012 in the United States, took place February 24, 2013.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presented its annual Academy Awards to honor the best films of 2012 in the United States. The ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California.
Seth MacFarlane hosted the Academy Awards for the first time
This marks the first time since 1973 (when Charlton Heston hosted) that the ceremony’s host also announced the award nominations. The film receiving the most nominations was Lincoln with twelve, followed by Life of Pi with eleven.
Oscards 2013 Award Winners List
Winners are listed first
Best Picture
Best Director
Argo– Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney
Amour– Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Michael Katz
Beasts of the Southern Wild– Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, and Michael Gottwald
Django Unchained– Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, and Pilar Savone
Les Misérables– Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh
Life of Pi– Gil Netter, Ang Lee, and David Womark
Lincoln– Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
Silver Linings Playbook– Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen, and Jonathan Gordon
Zero Dark Thirty– Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, and Megan Ellison
Ang Lee– Life of Pi
Michael Haneke– Amour
David O. Russell– Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg– Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin– Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Actress
Best Actor
Jennifer Lawrence– Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell
Jessica Chastain– Zero Dark Thirty as Maya
Emmanuelle Riva– Amour as Anne Laurent
Quvenzhané Wallis– Beasts of the Southern Wild as Hushpuppy
Naomi Watts– The Impossible as Maria Bennett
Daniel Day-Lewis– Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
Bradley Cooper– Silver Linings Playbook as Pat Solitano, Jr.
Hugh Jackman– Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
Joaquin Phoenix– The Master as Freddie Quell
Denzel Washington– Flight as William “Whip” Whitaker
Best Supporting Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Anne Hathaway– Les Misérables as Fantine
Amy Adams– The Master as Peggy Dodd
Sally Field– Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln
Helen Hunt– The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene
Jacki Weaver– Silver Linings Playbook as Dolores Solitano
Christoph Waltz– Django Unchained as Dr. King Schultz
Alan Arkin– Argo as Lester Siegel
Robert De Niro– Silver Linings Playbook as Pat Solitano, Sr.
Philip Seymour Hoffman– The Master as Lancaster Dodd
Tommy Lee Jones– Lincoln as Thaddeus Stevens
Best Writing– Original Screenplay
Best Writing– Adapted Screenplay
Django Unchained– Quentin Tarantino
Amour– Michael Haneke
Flight– John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom– Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty– Mark Boal
Argo– Chris Terrio from The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez & The Great Escape by Joshuah Bearman
Beasts of the Southern Wild– Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin from Juicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar
Life of Pi– David Magee from Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lincoln– Tony Kushner from Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Silver Linings Playbook– David O. Russell from The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Best Animated Feature
Best Foreign Language Film
Brave– Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Frankenweenie– Tim Burton
ParaNorman– Sam Fell and Chris Butler
The Pirates! Band of Misfits– Peter Lord
Wreck-It Ralph– Rich Moore
Amour (Austria)
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
No (Chile)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
War Witch (Canada)
Best Documentary– Feature
Best Documentary– Short Subject
Searching for Sugar Man– Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn
5 Broken Cameras– Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers– Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, and Estelle Fialon
How to Survive a Plague– David France and Howard Gertler
The Invisible War– Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
Inocente– Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Kings Point– Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine– Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
Open Heart– Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption– Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
Best Live Action Short Film
Best Animated Short Film
Curfew– Shawn Christensen
Asad– Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys– Sam French and Ariel Nasr
Death of a Shadow (Dood Van Een Schaduw)– Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
Henry– Yan England
Paperman– John Kahrs
Adam and Dog– Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole– PES
Head over Heels– Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
The Longest Daycare– David Silverman
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Life of Pi– Mychael Danna
Anna Karenina– Dario Marianelli
Argo– Alexandre Desplat
Lincoln– John Williams
Skyfall– Thomas Newman
“Skyfall” from Skyfall– Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
“Before My Time” from Chasing Ice– J. Ralph
“Everybody Needs a Best Friend” from Ted– Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane
“Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi– Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri
“Suddenly” from Les Misérables– Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, and Alain Boublil
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Skyfall– Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers1
Zero Dark Thirty– Paul N. J. Ottosson1
Argo– Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
Django Unchained– Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi– Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
Les Misérables– Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, and Simon Hayes
Argo– John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, and Jose Antonio Garcia
Life of Pi– Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill, and Drew Kunin
Lincoln– Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, and Ronald Judkins
Skyfall– Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, and Stuart Wilson
Best Production Design
Best Cinematography
Lincoln– Rick Carter and Jim Erickson
Anna Karenina– Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey– Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent, and Simon Bright
Les Misérables– Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson
Life of Pi– David Gropman and Anna Pinnock
Life of Pi– Claudio Miranda
Anna Karenina– Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained– Robert Richardson
Lincoln– Janusz Kamiński
Skyfall– Roger Deakins
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Costume Design
Les Misérables– Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Hitchcock– Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey– Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater, and Tami Lane
Anna Karenina– Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables– Paco Delgado
Lincoln– Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror– Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman– Colleen Atwood
Best Film Editing
Best Visual Effects
Argo– William Goldenberg
Life of Pi– Tim Squyres
Lincoln– Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook– Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty– Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg
Life of Pi– Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer, and Donald R. Elliott
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey– Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, and R. Christopher White
Marvel’s The Avengers– Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, and Dan Sudick
Prometheus– Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley, and Martin Hill
Snow White and the Huntsman– Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould, and Michael Dawson
Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty tied for the Academy Award in Best Sound Editing. This was only the sixth tie vote in the history of the Academy that resulted in two awards being presented. The Oscars were presented to both Per Hallberg for Skyfall and Karen Baker Landers and Paul N. J. Ottosson for Zero Dark Thirty.
The other ties were for the 1968 Best Actress Award, which went to both Katherine Hepburn in The Lion In Winter and Barbara Streisand in Funny Girl, the 1931 Best Actor Award, when Oscars were awarded to both Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wallace Beery in The Champ, and the Best Live-Action Short Award in 1994 between Franz Kafka’s It’s A Wonderful Life and Trevor.
The 85th Academy Awards are notable for several rare and first-time feats. Argo became the first Best Picture winner in 23 years not to have a Best Director nomination. Amour (French) became the first film in twelve years to be nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film; the last film to do so was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Mandarin) in 2000. Amour also became the first foreign-language film in six years to earn a Best Picture nomination; the last film to do so was Letters from Iwo Jima (Japanese) in 2006.
Several age-related records were set: Emmanuelle Riva, at 85, became the oldest nominee in the Best Actress category. This record was previously held by Jessica Tandy, age 80, who was nominated (and won) for Driving Miss Daisy in 1989. Quvenzhané Wallis, at age 9, became the youngest nominated actress in the Best Actress category. This record was previously held by Keisha Castle-Hughes who was nominated at the age of 13 for Whale Rider in 2003. Jennifer Lawrence, at 22, became the youngest Best Actress two-time nominee, having previously been nominated in 2010 for Winter’s Bone.
Silver Linings Playbook became the first film in 31 years to receive nominations in all four acting categories; the last film to do so was Reds in 1981. Silver Linings Playbook also became the first film in eight years to be nominated in the “Big Five” categories; the last film to do so was Million Dollar Baby in 2004.
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