February 25, 2013

Oscars 2013 Winners Revealed; Argo Wins Best Picture

The 85th Academy Awards (Oscars 2013) happened February 24 (February 25 in Manila) at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California hosted by "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane. 

The Oscars 2013 [Photo: Getty Images]

Life of Pi won the major technical awards including Best Director for Ang Lee, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects and Best Original Score. Anne Hathaway sealed a grand slam after winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress as Fantine in Les Miserables. 

Meanwhile, Daniel Day Lewis became the first man to win three Oscar Best Actor trophies with his win over portraying the former US President in Lincoln. The Best Picture award goes to Ben Affleck's Argo, the first movie to win Best Picture without its director even getting a nomination since Driving Miss Daisy in 1990.

Here is the list of winners of the 2013 Oscars:

Best Picture
Argo

Best Director
Ang Lee, Life of Pi

Best Actor
Daniel-Day Lewis, Lincoln

Best Actress
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

Best Original Screenplay
Django Unchained

Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo

Best Animated Feature
Brave

Best Foreign-Language Film
Amour (Austria)

Best Original Song
Skyfall, from Skyfall

Best Documentary Short
Inocente
Best Original Score
Life of Pi

Best Documentary Feature
Searching For Sugarman

Best Film Editing
Argo

Best Cinematography
Life of Pi

Best Costume Design
Anna Karenina

Best Art Direction/Production Design
Lincoln

Best Makeup
Les Miserables

Best Visual Effects
Life of Pi

Best Sound Mixing
Les Miserables

Best Sound Editing (Tie)
Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty

Best Animated Short
Paperman

Best Live-Action Short
Curfew

The Oscar winners are chosen in secret ballots by some 5,800 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and handed out before an audience of 3,300 guests and tens of millions more watching around the world on television.

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