2013’s movie awards season came to a close with the 85th Oscars in Hollywood today. The monumental industry back-slap spread the kudos far and wide – Argo, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Lincoln and Life of Pi all scoring big.
Life of Pi took the most awards with four, including Best Director for Ang Lee – his second having previously won for Brokeback Mountain.
Meanwhile, Daniel Day-Lewis – winning Best Lead Actor for Lincoln – matched Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson’s records for the most acting Oscars ever won (three), and became the only thespian to ever win three Lead Acting awards.
At age 22 (and 193 days), Jennifer Lawrence became the second-youngest Lead Actress winner ever for her role in Silver Linings Playbook. She beat out the youngest-ever Lead Actress nominee Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) and the oldest-ever Emmanuelle Riva (Amour).
But it was Argo that took the top gong, the first Best Picture winner without a director nomination (for Ben Affleck) since 1989’s Driving Miss Daisy.
FULL LIST OF WINNERS:
Ben Affleck accepts the award from host Jack Nicholson. ©A.M.P.A.S.
Best Film: ARGO
“I never thought I’d be back here [after winning Best Screenplay with Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting in 1998]. I’m back because of so many people who extended their help to me when there was no benefit to them. It doesn’t matter that you get knocked down in life, all that matters is you’ve got to get up.”
Nominated: AMOUR, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, DJANGO UNCHAINED, LES MISÉRABLES, LIFE OF PI, LINCOLN, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, ZERO DARK THIRTY
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Best Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, LINCOLN
“I really don’t know how any of this happened. I do know I’ve received so much more than my fair share of good fortune in my life.”
Nominated: Bradley Cooper – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, Hugh Jackman – LES MISÉRABLES, Joaquin Phoenix – THE MASTER, Denzel Washington – FLIGHT
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Best Lead Actress: Jennifer Lawrence,
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
After tripping on her way to the stage and then receiving a standing ovation: “You’re only standing because I tripped and that’s really embarrassing. But thank you.”
Nominated: Jessica Chastain – ZERO DARK THIRTY, Emmanuelle Riva – AMOUR, Quvenzhane Wallis – BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, Naomi Watts – THE IMPOSSIBLE
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Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, DJANGO UNCHAINED
“My unlimited gratitude goes to Dr. King Schultz. That is, his creator and the creator of his awe-inspiring world, Quentin Tarantino. We participated in the hero’s journey, the hero here being Quentin.”
Nominated: Alan Arkin – ARGO, Robert De Niro – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, Philip Seymour Hoffman – THE MASTER, Tommy Lee Jones – LINCOLN
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Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, LES MISÉRABLES
“Here’s hoping in the future that the misfortunes of Fantine will only appear in stories and never more in real life.”
Nominated: Amy Adams – THE MASTER, Sally Field – LINCOLN, Helen Hunt – THE SESSIONS, Jacki Weaver – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
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Best Director: Ang Lee, LIFE OF PI
“Thank you, Movie God.”
Nominated: Michael Haneke – AMOUR, Benh Zeitlin – BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, Steven Spielberg – LINCOLN, David O. Russell – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
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Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino,
DJANGO UNCHAINED
“I would like to say it’s such an honor to get [an Oscar] this year, because the writing is just fantastic. This will be the writer’s year, man. I love the competition.”
Nominated: AMOUR – Michael Haneke, FLIGHT – John Gatins, MOONRISE KINGDOM – Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, ZERO DARK THIRTY – Mark Boal
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Best Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio, ARGO
“Fifteen years ago, you [director Ben Affleck] were up here with the first film you got made, and now I’m up here because of you. It’s a gift I can never repay.”
Nominated: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD – Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin, LIFE OF PI -David Magee, LINCOLN -Tony Kushner, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK -David O. Russell
Directors Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman. ©A.M.P.A.S.
Best Animated Film: BRAVE
“I would like to give a shout out to my wonderful, strong, beautiful daughter,who inspired Brave into being.” (Brenda Chapman)
Nominations: FRANKENWEENIE, PARANORMAN, THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS, WRECK-IT RALPH
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Best Foreign Language Film: AMOUR
“Thank you to my wife. She was also a member of the crew. She has been supporting me for 30 years, and she is the centre of my life.”
Nominated: KON-TIKI, NO, A ROYAL AFFAIR, WAR WITCH
Director Malik Bendjelloul.
Best Documentary: SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN
Nominated: 5 BROKEN CAMERAS, THE GATEKEEPERS, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, THE INVISIBLE WAR
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Best Cinematography: LIFE OF PI – Claudio Miranda
Nominated: ANNA KARENINA – Seamus McGarvey, DJANGO UNCHAINED – Robert Richardson, LINCOLN – Janusz Kaminski, SKYFALL – Roger Deakins
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Best Editing: ARGO – William Goldenberg
Nominated: LIFE OF PI – Tim Squyres, LINCOLN – Michael Kahn, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK – Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, ZERO DARK THIRTY – Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg
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Best Original Song: SKYFALL – Adele and Paul Epworth
“Thank you to Paul Epworth for believing in me all the time. And to my man, I love you baby”.
Nominated: CHASING ICE – J. Ralph, TED – Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane, LIFE OF PI – Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri, LES MISÉRABLES – Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
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Best Original Music: LIFE OF PI – Mychael Danna
Nominated: ANNA KARENINA – Dario Marianelli, ARGO – Alexandre Desplat, LINCOLN – John Williams, SKYFALL – Thomas Newman
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Best Production Design: LINCOLN – Rick Carter, Jim Erickson
Nominated: ANNA KARENINA, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, LES MISÉRABLES, LIFE OF PI, LINCOLN
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Best Costume Design: ANNA KARENINA – Jacqueline Durran
Nominated: LES MISÉRABLES, LINCOLN, MIRROR MIRROR, SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
Westcott and Darntell, with hosts Channing Tatum and Jennifer Aniston. ©A.M.P.A.S.
Best Make Up: LES MISÉRABLES – Lisa Westcott, Julie Dartnell
Nominated: HITCHCOCK, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
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Best Sound Mixing: LES MISÉRABLES – Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Simon Hayes
Nominated: ARGO, LIFE OF PI, LINCOLN, SKYFALL
Paul N.J. Ottosson for Zero Dark Thirty. ©A.M.P.A.S.
Best Sound Editing: SKYFALL and ZERO DARK THIRTY
Nominated: ARGO, DJANGO UNCHAINED, LIFE OF PI
Effects team from Life of Pi. ©A.M.P.A.S.
Best Special Visual Effects: LIFE OF PI – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik De Boer, Donald Elliott
“The irony is not lost on any of us up here that in a film whose central premise is to ask the audience what they believe is real or not real, most of what you see is, well, fake”. (Bill Westenhofer)
Nominated: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, THE AVENGERS, PROMETHEUS, SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
