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Will it be Argo? Or Lincoln? Or will Resident Evil: Retribution have launched a furious write-in campaign that puts it up on the podium? These are the questions that exactly no one is asking because anyone who’s reading this post has already scrolled beyond this to check out who won. We get it, and we don’t take it personally.
But here’s something fun to remember tonight and heading into tomorrow: there have now been 85 Oscar winning Best Pictures, but there are far more than 85 iconic movies. This is a shining awards show with an undeniable power to propel films into the cultural conversation, but it’s only one avenue to do so. Granted, it’s got a pretty solid track record (Driving Miss Daisy notwithstanding), but these names tonight are more about celebrating excellent work than choosing movies that will echo for eternity.
And the Oscar goes to…:
BEST PICTURE
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Amour
Django Unchained
Argo
BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Denzel Washington – Flight
Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Naomi Watts – The Impossible
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Alan Arkin – Argo
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables
Jacki Weaver – The Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Amy Adams – The Master
BEST ANIMATED PICTURE
Brave
Frankenweenie
Wreck-It Ralph
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
BEST DIRECTOR
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Michael Haneke – Amour
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
Adapted Screenplay
Chris Terrio – Argo
Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
David Magee – Life of Pi
Tony Kushner – Lincoln
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Original Screenplay
John Gatins – Flight
Mark Boal – Zero Dark Thirty
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
Michael Haneke – Amour
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom
Best Foreign Language Film
Amour, Austria
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
The War Witch, Canada
Production Design
Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) – Anna Karenina
Dan Hennah (Production Design); Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decoration) – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Eve Stewart (Production Design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decoration) – Les Miserables
David Gropman (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) – Life of Pi
Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) – Lincoln
Achievement in Cinematography
Seamus McGarvey – Anna Karenina
Robert Richardson – Django Unchained
Claudio Miranda – Life of Pi
Janusz Kaminski – Lincoln
Roger Deakins – Skyfall
Achievement in 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
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man
Best Documentary Short Subject
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption
Achievement in Film Editing
William Goldenberg – Argo
Tim Squyres – Life of Pi
Michael Kahn – Lincoln
Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers – Silver Linings Playbook
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg – Zero Dark Thirty
Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel – Hitchcock
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell – Les Miserables
Best Original Score
Dario Marianelli – Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat – Argo
Mychael Danna – Life of Pi
John Williams – Lincoln
Thomas Newman – Skyfall
Best Original Song
“Before My Time” from Chasing Ice
“Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from Ted
“Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi
“Skyfall” from Skyfall
“Suddenly” from Les Miserables
Best Animated Short Film
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”
Paperman
Best Live Action Short Film
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death of a Shadow
Henry
Achievement in Sound Editing
Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn – Argo
Wylie Stateman – Django Unchained
Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton – Life of Pi
Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers – Skyfall (tie)
Paul N.J. Ottosson – Zero Dark Thirty (tie)
Achievement in Sound Mixing
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia – Argo
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes – Les Miserables
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin – Life of Pi
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins – Lincoln
Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson – Skyfall
Achievement in Visual Effects
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott – Life of Pi
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick – The Avengers
Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill – Prometheus
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson – Snow White and the Huntsman
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