After a 3 and a half hour long telecast the 85th annual Academy Awards aka the Oscars finally wrapped with a special guest announcing what we already knew, Argo is the Best Picture of 2012 as voted for by The Academy.
The Oscars a whole this year had its ups and down like every year, and while host Seth MacFarlane had an above average opening monologue, which high points included a dancing Channing Tatum and dancing/singing Daniel Radcliffe, he failed at keeping the telecast on time.
The theme this year was a celebration of music, and celebrate it did with more musical numbers than the past 5 years combined. This included a tribute to movie musicals but was really just an excuse for the cast of Les Miserables to sing live on stage (but also included Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jennifer Hudson), Shirley Bassey singing the theme from “Goldfinger”, Norah Jones performing “Everyone Needs a Best Friend” from Ted, Barbra Streisand sang “The Way We Were” during the In Memoriam section, and Adele bringing down the house with “Skyfall”. We did find it amusing that the theme from “Jaws” was used to tell award winners their time was up on stage.
As for the who won and who is going home empty handed, it was Argo‘s big night as the film took home the Best Picture award, the win was slightly overshadowed on twitter thanks to the special appearance of First Lady Michelle Obama who announced the win live from the White House. Ang Lee took home the Best Directing award for “Life of Pi” while Adele got halfway to a G.O.T.E. with her Oscar, all she needs now is a Tony and Emmy award for a full set.
In the Best Acting categories, Christoph Waltz was the wild card winner (and only prediction we got wrong) for Best Supporting Actor in
“Django Unchained” while Anne Hathaway continued her clean sweep in the Supporting Actress category for her role in “Les Miserable”. Daniel Day Lewis became the first actor to ever win three Academy Awards in the same category by winning Best Actor for his role as President Lincoln in “Lincoln” and Jennifer Lawrence also continued her sweep in the Best Actress category for her role in “Silver Linings Playbook”.
You can see all the winners below and be sure to see our picks for Oscars 2013 Best Dressed. If you missed any of the Oscars telecast or want to watch it again you’re in luck; for the first time ever the full broadcast will be available starting February 25th on ABC’s video player, Hulu, Hulu Plus and ABC On Demand.
Winners of the 85th Annual Academy Awards
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz in “Django Unchained”
Best Animated Short Film
“Paperman,” John Kahrs
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
”Brave,” Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Achievement in Cinematography
“Life of Pi,” Claudio Miranda
Achievement in Visual Effects
“Life of Pi,” Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
Achievement in Costume Design
”Anna Karenina,” Jacqueline Durran
Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
“Les Miserables,” Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Best Live-Action Short Film
“Curfew,” Shawn Christensen
Best Documentary Short Subject
”Inocente,” Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Best Documentary Feature
“Searching for Sugar Man,” Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn
Best Foreign-Language Film
”Amour,” Austria
Achievement in Sound Mixing
“Les Miserables,” Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
Achievement in Sound Editing (tie)
“Skyfall,” Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
“Zero Dark Thirty,” Paul N.J. Ottosson
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Anne Hathaway in “Les Miserables”
Achievement in Film Editing
”Argo,” William Goldenberg
Achievement in Production Design
“Lincoln,” production design: Rick Carter; set decoration: Jim Erickson
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
“Life of Pi,” Mychael Danna
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
“Skyfall,” from “Skyfall”; music and lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Adapted Screenplay
“Argo,” screenplay by Chris Terrio
Original Screenplay
“Django Unchained,” written by Quentin Tarantino
Achievement in Directing
“Life of Pi,” Ang Lee
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Jennifer Lawrence in “Silver Linings Playbook”
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln”
Best Motion Picture
“Argo,” Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, producers
Images via ABC
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