The 2013 Academy Awards winners
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Mixed messages, thy name is Oscar.
Loath to miss a love-in, in Sunday’s 85th Oscars the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences followed the lead of nearly every other awards show this season, and gave the best picture trophy to the CIA/Canadian Caper movie Argo.
The award was even presented via live feed by First Lady Michelle Obama.
But that’s pretty much where the love stopped. Ben Affleck’s film won only film editing and best adapted screenplay for Chris Terrio. Affleck himself wasn’t even nominated for best director.
The rest of the major awards were a mixed bag of everyone who caught the Academy’s eye. Daniel Day-Lewis won best actor for Lincoln, Jennifer Lawrence best actress for Silver Linings Playbook, Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables) and Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) got the supporting awards, Life of Pi director Ang Lee won best director and Django director Quentin Tarantino won an original script award.
Affleck has taken heat from up North over short-shrifting Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor in his re-telling of the 1980 Iran hostage smuggling tale.
In his acceptance speech as producer, he rushed the words, “I want to thank Canada” out of his mouth.
Interestingly, Canadians seemed to get more props from Life of Pi (based on a Canuck novel by Yann Martel).
Toronto composer Mychael Danna won for best original score, and a visual effects Oscar was given to a team that included Vancouver-based FX artist Guillaume Rocheron (the movie also won a cinematography award).
In his speech, Lee thanked, “my Taiwan (film) team, my Indian team and my Canadian team, I love you.”
Day-Lewis broke a “Spielberg curse” that has seen the director’s actors shut out of awards over the years. He thanked, “the mysteriously beautiful mind, body and spirit of Abraham Lincoln.”
There was one shock and one “awww,” as the Oscars for supporting actor and actress were handed out.
No one was surprised when Hathaway won supporting actress for the role of Fantine in the musical Les Miserables.
“It came true!” said Hathaway who’d performed the song, I Dreamed A Dream in a segment earlier in the evening.
She dedicated the award to a future when poverty-stricken single mothers like Fantine “will only be found in stories and never more in real life.”
But — opposite favourites Robert De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones — it was a definite surprise when Waltz won best supporting actor for his role as a German bounty hunter in Tarantino’s slave-era action film.
He had previously won a supporting nod for his portrayal of a Nazi officer in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
Les Miserables also took two technical awards in the early going, for makeup & hairstyling and sound mixing, while Anna Karenina won for costume design. The abuse-themed short film Curfew won for live action short, while Innocente, about a homeless artistic teen, won documentary short.
As expected, Michael Haneke’s Amour (which was also nominated for best picture) won best foreign-language film, while the acclaimed Searching For Sugar Man, the surprising documentary about a presumed-dead musical legend, took the feature doc Oscar.
In other awards, Pixar’s Brave – a female-centric heroic fairy tale set in the Scottish highlands - won best animated feature, while Disney’s theatrically released short Paperman won best short animated film.
In sound editing, there was a rare tie between Zero Dark Thirty and the James Bond film Skyfall, while Argo took the award for film editing and Lincoln was honoured for production design. Skyfall’s Adele and Paul Epworth - also took the best song Oscar for the movie’s theme.
Nominees for the 85th annual Academy Awards (winner will be coloured in RED:
Best Picture
"Argo"
"Amour"
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
"Les Miserables"
"Lincoln"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Life of Pi"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Django Unchained"
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Daniel Day-Lewis -- "Lincoln"
Bradley Cooper -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
Joaquin Phoenix -- "The Master"
Denzel Washington -- "Flight"
Hugh Jackman -- "Les Miserables"
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain -- "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
Emmanuelle Riva -- "Amour"
Quvenzhane Wallis -- "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Naomi Watts -- "The Impossible"
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Philip Seymour Hoffman -- "The Master"
Tommy Lee Jones -- "Lincoln"
Robert De Niro -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
Alan Arkin -- "Argo"
Christoph Waltz -- "Django Unchained"
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams -- "The Master"
Anne Hathaway -- "Les Miserables"
Sally Field -- "Lincoln"
Helen Hunt -- "The Sessions"
Jacki Weaver -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Director
Michael Haneke -- "Amour"
Steven Spielberg -- "Lincoln"
David O. Russell -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
Ang Lee -- "Life of Pi"
Benh Zeitlin -- "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
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Best Animated Feature
"Brave"
"Frankenweenie"
"Wreck-It Ralph"
"ParaNorman"
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"
Best Animated Short Film
"Adam and Dog"
"Combustible"
"The Simpsons: The Longest Daycare"
"Paperman"
"Tram"
Best Live Action Short Film
"Asad"
"Buzkashi Boys"
"Curfew"
"Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)"
"Henry"
Best Cinematography
Seamus McGarvey -- "Anna Karenina"
Claudio Miranda -- "Life of Pi"
Roger Deakins -- "Skyfall"
Robert Richardson -- "Django Unchained"
Janusz Kaminski -- "Lincoln"
Best Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran -- "Anna Karenina"
Paco Delgado -- "Les Miserables"
Joanna Johnston -- "Lincoln"
Eiko Ishioka -- "Mirror Mirror"
Colleen Atwood -- "Snow White and the Huntsman"
Best Documentary Feature
"The Gatekeepers"
"How to Survive a Plague"
"The Invisible War"
"Searching for Sugar Man"
"5 Broken Cameras"
Best Documentary Short
"Mondays at Racine"
"Inocente"
"Kings Point"
"Open Heart"
"Redemption"
Best Film Editing
William Goldberg -- "Argo"
Michael Kahn -- "Lincoln"
Tim Squyres -- "Life of Pi"
Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg -- "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Foreign Language Film
"Amour"
"Kon-Tiki"
"No"
"A Royal Affair"
"War Witch"
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane -- "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell -- "Les Miserables"
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel -- "Hitchcock"
Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat -- "Argo"
Dario Marianelli -- "Anna Karenina"
Mychael Danna -- "Life of Pi"
John Williams -- "Lincoln"
Thomas Newman -- "Skyfall"
Best Original Song
"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice" -- Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
"Suddenly" from "Les Miserables" -- Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall" -- Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
"Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi" -- Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from "Ted" -- Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
Best Production Design
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer -- "Anna Karenina"
David Gropman and Anna Pinnock -- "Life of Pi"
Rick Carter, Jim Erickson and Peter T. Frank -- "Lincoln"
Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson -- "Les Miserables"
Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent and Simon Bright -- "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
Best Sound Editing
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Skyfall" (tie)
"Django Unchained"
"Zero Dark Thirty" (tie)
Best Sound Mixing
"Argo"
"Les Miserables"
"Skyfall"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
Best Visual Effects
"Marvel's The Avengers"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Life of Pi"
"Prometheus"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"
Best Adapted Screenplay
Tony Kushner -- "Lincoln"
Chris Terrio -- "Argo"
David O. Russell -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
David Magee -- "Life of Pi"
Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar -- "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Best Original Screenplay
Mark Boal -- "Zero Dark Thirty"
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola -- "Moonrise Kingdom"
Michael Hakeke -- "Amour"
Quentin Tarentino -- "Django Unchained"
John Gatins -- "Flight"
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