Oscars Results

Quite predictably, after winning the BAFTA, Cesar, Critics Choice, Golden Globe, Director's Guild, Producer's Guild, SAG, and numerous other critic's accolades Argo has won Best Picture in the 85th Academy Awards - this year officially called The Oscars. Ben Affleck's CIA-thriller saw the Agency turn to Hollywood for help with a rescue/extraction mission in Iran, and given th operation's success, the studios and bigwigs were bound to applause the film's premise. It's not everyday Hollywood studios help resolve a hostage crisis! Of course, cynicism aside, Argo has some terrific performances and is an extremely enjoyable film - I recall giving it 4/5, and Ben Affleck is now one of the most sought-after directors working, so fair play to him. Total shock he wasn't nonimated for Best Director, so implausible in fact, that we can assume he pissed in someone's soup to get so blatantly overlooked.

Daniel Day-Lewis has made Oscar history and won his third award for Best Actor (the first man in history - for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood & Lincoln), and no surprises for Anne Hathaway, Christoph Waltz, Amour, and Skyfall for best song. Slight surprise at the lack of recognition for Zero Dark Thirty which was going to go either way - Oscar clearly weren't so impressed by Bigelow's latest military epic, and also at Ang Lee's Best Director win for Life of Pi which is completely deserved given the overall value of the film. Tarantino's win for best original screenplay for Django Unchained is great news given this reviewer read it over a year ago and loved every word,

The main winners were Life of Pi (with 4) and Argo (with 3).

Anyway, here are all the results:

BEST PICTURE

Argo
Amour

Django Unchained

Les Misérables

Life Of Pi
Lincoln

Zero Dark Thirty

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Silver Linings Playbook

 

BEST DIRECTOR
Life Of Pi - Ang Lee

Lincoln - Steven Spielberg
Amour - Michael Haneke

Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell

Beasts Of The Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
Denzel Washington - Flight

Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook

Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables

Joaquin Phoenix - The Master 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

Alan Arkin - Argo

Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook

Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Naomi Watts - The Impossible

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables 

Amy Adams - The Master
Helen Hunt - The Sessions

Sally Field – Lincoln
Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Brave
Frankenweenie

ParaNorman

The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists

Wreck-it-Ralph

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Chris Terrio - Argo

Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin -Beasts Of The Southern Wild 

David Magee - Life Of Pi

Tony Kushner - Lincoln

David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
Michael Haneke - Amour
Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom

Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty

John Gatins – Flight

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Life Of Pi - Claudio Miranda

Anna Karenina - Seamus McGarvey

Django Unchained - Robert Richardson

Lincoln- Janusz Kaminski

Skyfall - Roger Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN

Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran

Les Misérables - Paco Delgado
Lincoln - Joanna Johnston

Mirror Mirror - Eiko Ishioka

Snow White And The Huntsman - Colleen Atwood

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Searching For Sugar Man
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers 

How To Survive A Plague
The Invisible War


BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Inocente

Kings Point
Mondays At Racine
Open Heart

Redemption

BEST FILM EDITING

Argo - William Goldenberg

Life Of Pi - Tim Squyres

Zero Dark Thirty - Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg

Lincoln - Michael Kahn

Silver Linings Playbook - Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Amour – Austria
Kon-Tiki - Norway

No - Chile

A Royal Affair – Denmark
War Witch – Canada

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Les Misérables - Lisa Westcott, Julie Dartnell
Hitchcock - Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Life Of Pi - Mychael Danna
Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli

Argo - Alexandre Desplat

Lincoln - John Williams
Skyfall - Thomas Newman

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

'Skyfall' from Skyfall

'Before My Time' from Chasing Ice
'Everybody Needs A Best Friend' from Ted
'Pi's Lullaby' from Life Of Pi

'Suddenly' from Les Miserables

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Lincoln
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Paperman
Adam and Dog

Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson In "The Longest Daycare"


BEST LIVE FILM SHORT

Curfew

Asad
Buzkashi Boys

Death Of A Shadow
Henry

BEST SOUND EDITING

Zero Dark Thirty & Skyfall

Argo

Django Unchained
Life Of Pi


BEST SOUND MIXING
Les Miserables
Argo
Life Of Pi
Lincoln

Skyfall

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Life Of Pi


The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Marvel Avengers Assemble 

Prometheus 

Snow White And The Huntsman