The 85th Annual Academy Award winners have been announced with “Life of Pi,” “Argo” and “Les Miserables” dominating the awards.
“Argo” took the top honor of Best Picture along with screenplay and editing. “Life of Pi” took Best Director along with cinematography, score and visual effects.
Meanwhile, “Les Miserables” won for Best Supporting Actress, make-up, sound mixing. Also performing well were “Skyfall,” “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained” with two wins each.
There were only a few unexpected wins. Ang Lee taking the director award for “Life of Pi” catching everyone off guard, but it is a very welcome surprise.
Another was Pixar’s poorly received “Brave” beating out all four other (and frankly far better) nominees in the Best Animated Feature category.
Also, “Skyfall” and “Zero Dark Thirty” were part of a very rare tie for the sound editing award.
Here’s the complete list:
BEST PICTURE
“Argo”
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Daniel Day-Lewis for “Lincoln”
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jennifer Lawrence for “Silver Linings Playbook”
DIRECTING
Ang Lee for “Life of Pi”
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christoph Waltz for “Django Unchained”
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Anne Hathaway for “Les Miserables”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Amour” – Austria
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Brave”
SCREENPLAY (Adapted)
“Argo” by Chris Terrio
SCREENPLAY (Original)
“Django Unchained” by Quentin Tarantino
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Claudio Miranda for “Life of Pi”
COSTUME DESIGN
“Anna Karenina”
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Searching for Sugar Man”
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
“Inocente”
FILM EDITING
“Argo”
MAKEUP
“Les Miserables”
MUSIC (SCORE)
Mychael Danna for “Life of Pi”
MUSIC (SONG)
‘Skyfall’ from “Skyfall”
PRODUCTION DESIGN
“Lincoln”
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
“Paperman”
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
“Curfew”
SOUND EDITING
“Skyfall” (tie)
“Zero Dark Thirty” (tie)
SOUND MIXING
“Les Miserables”
VISUAL EFFECTS
“Life of Pi”
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