Argo, Amour, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, and Silver Linings Playbook all scored major awards.

By Gabrielle Pantera

Hollywood CA (Hollywood Today) 2013/2/25

Argo wins Best Picture at the 85th Academy Awards Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and Georgre Clooney

Best Picture Argo –WINNER

“My life is good because of the great work my wife does,” says Argo best picture winner Ben Affleck “I want to thank all the actors who worked on the movie especially the Persian actors.”

We worked on the script for five year and then hired Ben Affleck to direct it,” says Argo best picture winner George Clooney.

Amour                                                                                                                                                                  Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best actor winner Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence, Best Supporting actress winner Anne Best Actor winner Christoph Waltz

Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln – WINNER

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook –WINNER

“You only stood up because I fell on the stairs getting up here,” says Silver Lining Playbook best actress winner Jennifer Lawrence. “Thank you Harvey Weinstein and the Weinstein company Sorry I forgot.”

Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained –– WINNER

“I can only add to thanking Quinten again and this team and all these friends we worked with,” says Django Unchained best supporting actor winner Christoph Waltz. “It was hard work and intense work and things happened that could have happened differently. I made friends for life.”

Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Anne Hathaway

Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables –WINNER

I had a dream and it came true,” says Les Misérables best supporting actress winner Anne Hathaway. “Brian Lord, Brian Lord, Brian Lord excuse me you are such an incredible friend to the team and I know how honored and luck I am to work with you. Thank you thank you, thank you so much. I’ve never really done this before but I’d really like to thank my fans. I’m a luck person and I received a tremendous amount of love and I want you to know even thought I’m not on social media I do receive it from you guys. I want to thank you for your kindness.”

Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Ang Lee

Best Director Ang Lee, Life of Pi–WINNER

“Thank you movie god,” says Life of Pi best director winner Ang Lee.

Michael Haneke, Amour
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Original Screenplay Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino–WINNER

“ I want to thank the producers from the studio who helped us make this movie,” says Django Unchained best original screenplay winner Quentin Tarantino. “It’s a touchy subject and a combustible script and I want to thank you guys a lot.”

Amour, Michael Hankie
Flight, John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal

Best Adapted Screenplay Argo, Chris Terrio–WINNER

Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin,
Life of Pi, David Magee
Lincoln, Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

Adel

Best Original Song Skyfall from Skyfall, music and lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth–WINNER

Before My Time from Chasing Ice, music and lyric by J. Ralph
Everybody Needs A Best Friend from Ted, music by Walter Murphy; lyric by Seth MacFarlane
Pi’s Lullaby from Life of Pi, music by Mychael Danna; lyric by Bombay Jayashri
Suddenly from Les Misérables, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Best Original Score Life of Pi, Mychael Danna–WINNER

Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas Newman

Best Production Design Lincoln, Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson–WINNER

Anna Karenina, Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
Les Misérables, Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
Life of Pi, Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock

Best Film Editing Argo, William Goldenberg–WINNER

Life of Pi, Tim Squyres
Lincoln, Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook, Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty, Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

Best Sound Editing **A Tie

Skyfall, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers–WINNER                                      Zero Dark Thirty, Paul N.J. Ottosson–WINNER

Argo, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
Django Unchained, Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi, Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
Best Sound Mixing Les Misérables, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes–WINNER

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 Foreign Language Film Amour, Austria–WINNER

Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
War Witch, Canada

Best Documentary Feature Searching for Sugar Man – WINNER

5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War

Best Documentary Short Inocente – WINNER

Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption

Best Live Action Short Curfew – WINNER

Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Death of a Shadow
Henry

Best Animated Short Paperman – WINNER

“I’d like to thank Patrick Osborn the animation supervisor and all the people in production,” says Paperman director of the best animated short winner John Kahrs. “My head is spinning right now.”

Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head over Heels
Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”

Best Animated Feature Brave – WINNER

Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Cinematography Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda–WINNER

Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained, Robert Richardson
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins

Best Visual Effects Life of Pi, Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott–WINNER

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
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

Best Costume Design Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran–WINNER

Les Misérables, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood

Best Makeup and Hairstyling Les Misérables, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell–WINNER

Hitchcock, Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane