Affleck’s Iran hostage drama Argo picked up the Best Film Award, with Daniel Day Lewis entering the record books as he won the Best Actor Oscar for a third time for his role in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and Jennifer Lawrence scoring Best Actress gong for Silver Linings Playbook.
Anne Hathaway continued her run of awards-season form and won Best Supporting Actress for Les Miserables, and Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor for Django Unchained, which also won its writer-director Quentin Tarantino a Best Original Screenplay award, too.
Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for Life of Pi, adapted from Yann Martel’s best selling novel which many had previously declared unfilmable.
Best Picture: Argo
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Directing: Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Foreign Language Film: Amour
Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio, Argo
Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Animated Feature Film: Brave
Production Design: Lincoln
Cinematography: Life of Pi
Sound Mixing: Les Miserables
Sound Editing (tie): Skyfall, Zero Dark Thirty
Original Score: Life of Pi, Mychael Danna.
Original Song: “Skyfall” from Skyfall, Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth.
Costume: Anna Karenina.
Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man.
Documentary (short subject): Inocente
Film Editing: Argo
Makeup and Hairstyling: Les Miserables
Animated Short Film: Paperman
Live Action Short Film: Curfew
Visual Effects: Life of Pi
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