85th Academy Awards Results
by Josh on February 25th 2013 at 4:48 pm
The 85th annual Academy Awards took place last night and the stars flocked to the event, presented by Family Guy and American Dad creator Seth MacFarlane. Life of Pi was the biggest winner, taking home four gongs, closely followed by Argo and Les Misérables with three.
Did your favorites win? Find out below.
Best Picture
- Winner: 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)
Best Director
- Winner: 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 Actor
- Winner: 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 Actress
- Winner: 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)
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner: 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 Supporting Actress
- Winner: 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)
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
Amour (Michael Haneke)
Flight (John Gatins)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola)
Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal)
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner: 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
- Winner: 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)
Best Foreign Language Film
- Winner: Amour (Austria) in French (Michael Haneke)
Kon-Tiki (Norway) in English and Norwegian (Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg)
No (Chile) in Spanish (Pablo Larraín)
A Royal Affair (Denmark) in Danish (Nikolaj Arcel)
War Witch (Canada) in French (Kim Nguyen)
Best Documentary
- Winner: 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)
Best Documentary Short
- Winner: 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
- Winner: 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)
Best Animated Short
- Winner: 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
- Winner: Life of Pi (Mychael Danna)
Anna Karenina (Dario Marianelli)
Argo (Alexandre Desplat)
Lincoln (John Williams)
Skyfall (Thomas Newman)
Best Original Song
- Winner: "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
- Winner: Skyfall (Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers)
- Winner: Zero Dark Thirty (Paul N. J. Ottosson)
Argo (Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn)
Django Unchained
(Wylie Stateman)
Life of Pi (Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton)
Best Sound Mixing
- Winner: 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
- Winner: 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)
Best Cinematography
- Winner: Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)
Anna Karenina (Seamus McGarvey)
Django Unchained (Robert Richardson)
Lincoln (Janusz Kamiński)
Skyfall (Roger Deakins)
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
- Winner: 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)
Best Costume Design
- Winner: 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
- Winner: 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)
Best Visual Effects
- Winner: 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)

Django Unchained is the best move ever!
you know, I was embarrassed to put up lights outside for christmas becuz it's a waste of money and over use of energy. How do the stars feel when they flaunt their good looks, good luck and huge bankrolls on oscar night? There are so many that are down on their luck right now and it seems wrong. And no stars, we do not live through you vicariously. We only see the unattainable.
I think it is a real disconnect.