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. 

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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Oscars 2013 Airs Live and Complete on Velvet this February 25

The much-awaited 85th Academy Awards, more prominently known as the Oscars, will once again set the stage to honor the best in cinema. It will air live and complete from Dolby Theater on Velvet, the premier channel for red carpet events in the Philippines.

Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” led the field with nominations for best director, picture, actor (Daniel Day-Lewis), supporting actress (Sally Field) and supporting actor (Tommy Lee Jones). The historical film is about the 16th president’s attempt to pass an anti-slavery amendment to the Constitution before the end of the Civil War.

Coming next with 11 nods was the visually stunning “Life of Pi”, Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s award-winning novel about an Indian teenager and a Bengal tiger adrift in a lifeboat. The story of their struggle for survival in the open sea was nominated for best picture, best director, and best cinematography.

Tom Hooper’s musical “Les Miserables”, after Victor Hugo’s classic novel, earned 7 nominations including best picture, best actor (Hugh Jackman), and best supporting actress (Anne Hathaway).

Real-life mission stories “Argo” by Ben Affleck received seven nods including best picture, and best supporting actor (Alan Arkin) and “Zero Dark Thirty” by Kathryn Bigelow received five nods including best picture, best actress (Jessica Chastain), and best original screenplay. Affleck’s political thriller tells the story of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis while Oscar-winner Bigelow shows her take on the decade-long Osama bin Laden manhunt.

David O. Russell’s dark romantic-comedy “Silver Linings Playbook” snatched major award nominations such as best picture, best director, best actor (Bradley Cooper), best actress (Jennifer Lawrence), best supporting actor (Robert de Niro), and best supporting actress (Jacki Weaver).

Other notable nominations include the best picture award for Quentin Tarantino’s Western tale “Django Unchained”, the powerful “Amour”, and the magical “Beasts of the Southern Wild”. Also, the oldest and the youngest nominee will compete in the best actress category: 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva (“Amour”) and 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis (“Beasts”).

The 85th Academy Awards will include a tribute to the James Bond movie franchise, which is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year. It has been a celebratory year generally for Bond, with “Skyfall” earning spectacular reviews and grossing more than $1 billion worldwide, the first time the franchise has crossed that mark.

Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Daniel Radcliffe join a stellar list of previously announced Oscar presenters including “The Avengers” cast members Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo; returning 2012 Oscar winners Jean Dujardin, Christopher Plummer, Octavia Spencer and Meryl Streep; and co-stars Mark Wahlberg and the teddy bear Ted.

Hosted by “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane, the live and complete telecast of the 85th Academy Awards will premiere on Philippine television via Velvet Channel on February 25 starting at 6:00 a.m. with the red carpet/arrivals special followed by the main ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Velvet (SkyCable Channel 53) is available on SkyCable Platinum, SkyCable Gold, SkyCable Silver and other quality cable operators nationwide. For updates, log-on to http://www.velvet.com.ph/ and http://www.facebook.com/VelvetChannel.

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Oscars 2013 Nominations: Full List of Nominees

The 85th Academy Awards (Oscars 2013) nominations were revealed in Los Angeles on Thursday, presented by Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone. This year's nominees for the Oscar Awards is led by Lincoln with 12 nods followed by Life of Pi with 11 nominations.

The 2013 Oscars will also be a tough battle when it comes to Best Actress as we have the oldest and youngest nominees in history—Emmanuelle Riva, 85, for Amour and Quvenzhane Wallis, 9, for Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Nine films will be battling for Best Picture including the abovementioned films plus Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty, Les Miserables, Django Unchained and Argo.

Here is the full list of nominees for the 85th Academy Awards (Oscars 2013):

Best Picture Beasts of the Southern Wild Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Lincoln Les Miserables Life of Pi Amour Django Unchained Argo Best Director David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook Ang Lee, Life of Pi Steven Spielberg, Lincoln Michael Haneke, Amour Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Actor Daniel-Day Lewis, Lincoln Denzel Washington, Flight Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook Joaquin Phoenix, The Master Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables Best Actress Naomi Watts, The Impossible Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook Emmannuelle Riva, Amour Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook Alan Arkin, Argo Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln Best Supporting Actress Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook Amy Adams, The Master Helen Hunt, The Sessions Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables Sally Field, Lincoln Best Original Screenplay Flight Zero Dark Thirty Django Unchained Amour Moonrise Kingdom Best Adapted Screenplay Beasts of the Southern Wild Argo Lincoln Silver Linings Playbook Life of Pi Best Animated Feature Frankenweenie The Pirates: Band of Misfits Brave Wreck-It Ralph ParaNorman Best Foreign-Language Film Amour NO War Witch A Royal Affair Kon-Tiki Best Original Song Before My Time, from Chasing Ice Everybody Needs A Best Friend, from Ted Skyfall from Skyfall Pi’s Lullaby, from Life of Pi Suddenly, from Les Miserables Best Documentary Short Inocente Mondays at Racine Kings Point Open Heart Redemption

Best Original Score Anna Karenina Life of Pi Skyfall Lincoln Argo Best Documentary Feature 5 Broken Cameras The Gatekeepers How to Survive a Plague The Invisible War Searching For Sugarman Best Film Editing Argo Life of Pi Lincoln Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Best Cinematography Anna Karenina Django Unchained Life of Pi Lincoln Skyfall Best Costume Design Anna Karenina Les Miserables Lincoln Mirror Mirror Snow White and the Huntsman Best Art Direction/Production Design Anna Karenina The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Les Miserables Life of Pi Lincoln Best Makeup Hitchcock The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Les Miserables Best Visual Effects The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Life of Pi The Avengers Prometheus Snow White and the Huntsman Best Sound Mixing Argo Les Miserables Life of Pi Lincoln Skyfall Best Sound Editing Argo Django Unchained Life of Pi Skyfall Zero Dark Thirty Best Animated Short Adam and Dog Fresh Guacamole Head over Heels Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare’ Paperman Best Live-Action Short Asad Buzkashi Boys Curfew Death of a Shadow Henry The Oscars 2013 awarding ceremony is scheduled for February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. Seth MacFarlane will be hosting the event.

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70th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2013) Nominations

Check out the list of nominees for the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2013). Lincoln led the pack with seven nominations, followed by Django Unchained and Argo with five apiece. Zero Dark Thirty and Les Miserables earned four.

Organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the awards night will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 13, 2012, to be hosted by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.

Here are the nominees for the 2013 Golden Globe Awards:

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Best Picture, Drama: "Argo" "Django Unchained" "Life of Pi" "Lincoln" "Zero Dark Thirty"	Best Picture, Musical or Comedy: "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" "Les Misérables" "Moonrise Kindgom "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" "Silver Linings Playbook"	Best Director: Ben Affleck, "Argo" Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty" Ang Lee, "Life of Pi" Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln" Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained"
Best Actor, Drama: Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln" Richard Gere, "Arbitrage" John Hawkes, "The Sessions" Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master" Denzel Washington, "Flight"	Best Actress, Drama: Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty" Marion Cotillard, "Rust and Bone" Helen Mirren, "Hitchcock" Naomi Watts, "The Impossible" Rachel Weisz, "The Deep Blue Sea"	Best Actor, Musical or Comedy: Jack Black, "Bernie" Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook" Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables" Ewan McGregor, "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" Bill Murray, "Hyde Park on Hudson"
Best Actress, Musical or Comedy: Emily Blunt, "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" Judi Dench, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook" Maggie Smith, "Quartet" Meryl Streep, "Hope Springs"		Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, "The Master" Sally Field, "Lincoln" Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables" Helen Hunt, "The Sessions" Nicole Kidman, "The Paperboy"
Best Screenplay: Mark Boal, "Zero Dark Thirty" Tony Kushner, "Lincoln" David O'Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook" Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained" Chris Terrio, "Argo"	Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, "Argo" Leonardo DiCaprio, "Django Unchained" Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master" Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln" Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"	Best Animated Feature Film: "Brave" "Frankenweenie" "Hotel Transylvania" "Rise of the Guardians" "Wreck-It Ralph"
Best Original Song: "For You" - "Act of Valor" "Not Running Anymore" - "Stand Up Guys" "Safe & Sound" - "The Hunger Games" "Skyfall" - "Skyfall" "Suddenly" - "Les Miserables	Foreign Language Film: "Amour" "A Royal Affair" "The Intouchables" "Kon-Tiki" "Rust and Bone"	Best Original Score: Mychael Danna, "Life of Pi" Alexandre Desplat, "Argo" Dario Marianelli, "Anna Karenina" Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, "Cloud Atlas" John Williams, "Lincoln"
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Best Television Series, Drama: "Breaking Bad" "Boardwalk Empire" "Downton Abbey: Season 2" "Homeland" "The Newsroom"	Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical: "The Big Bang Theory" "Episodes" "Girls" "Modern Family" "Smash"	Best Miniseries or Television Movie: "Game Change" "The Girl" "Hatfields & McCoys" "The Hour" "Political Animals"
Best Actor, Television Drama: Steve Buscemi, "Boardwalk Empire" Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad" Jeff Daniels, "The Newsroom" Jon Hamm, "Mad Men" Damian Lewis, "Homeland"	Best Actress, Television Drama: Connie Briton, "Nashville" Glenn Close, "Damages" Claire Danes, "Homeland" Michelle Dockery, "Downton Abbey" Juliana Margulies, "The Good Wife"	Best Actor, Television Comedy or Musical: Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock" Don Cheadle, "House of Lies" Louis C.K., "Louie" Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes" Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory"
Best Actress, Television Comedy or Musical: Zooey Deschanel, "New Girl" Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep" Lena Dunham, "Girls" Tina Fey, "30 Rock" Amy Poehler, "Parks and Recreation"	Best Actress, Television Movie or Mini-Series: Nicole Kidman, "Hemingway & Gellhorn" Jessica Lange, "American Horror Story: Asylum" Sienna Miller, "The Girl" Julianne Moore, "Game Change" Sigourney Weaver, "Political Animals"
Best Actor, Television Movie or Mini-Series: Kevin Costner, "Hatfields & McCoys" Benedict Cumberbatch, "Sherlock" Woody Harrelson, "Game Change" Toby Jones, "The Girl" Clive Owen, "Hemingway & Gellhorn"	Best Supporting Actor: Max Greenfield, "New Girl" Ed Harris, "Game Change" Danny Huston, "Magic City" Mandy Patinkin, "Homeland" Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family"	Best Supporting Actress: Hayden Panettiere, "Nashville" Archi Panjabi, "The Good Wife" Sarah Paulson, "Game Change" Maggie Smith, "Downtown Abbey" Sofia Vergara, "Modern Family"

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