By Osagie Alonge
Anne Hathaway accepts the award for best actress in a supporting role (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
The 85th annual Academy Awards aka The Oscars was held on Sunday, February 24, 2013 at the Dolby Theatre in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California and was hosted by ‘Family Guy‘ creator Seth MacFarlane for the first time.
The ceremony kicked off with the usual red carpet session which got social network Twitter buzzing for hours, recording over 200 tweets per second.
The 2012 3D adventure drama film ‘Life of Pi‘ turned out the biggest winner of the night taking home four awards including the ‘Best Directing’, and ‘Best Cinematography’.
The Ben Affleck directed drama thriller ‘Argo’ was also a big winner stealing the award for ‘Best Picture’ along with two other awards. Film director Quentin Tarantino also walked away with an award for ‘Original Screenplay’ for his ‘Django Unchained‘ movie.
The best actor and actress of the night went to Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln and Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Silver Linings Playbook‘ respectively while Christoph Waltz and Anne Hathaway won best supporting acts.
Check out the full list below…
1. Best Picture: ‘Argo.’
2. Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, ‘Lincoln.’
3. Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, ‘Silver Linings Playbook.’
4. Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, ‘Django Unchained.’
5. Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, ‘Les Miserables.’
6. Directing: Ang Lee, ‘Life of Pi.’
7. Foreign Language Film: ‘Amour.’
8. Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio, ‘Argo.’
9. Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, ‘Django Unchained.’
10. Animated Feature Film: ‘Brave.’
11. Production Design: ‘Lincoln.’
12. Cinematography: ‘Life of Pi.’
13. Sound Mixing: ‘Les Miserables.’
14. Sound Editing (tie): ‘Skyfall,’ ”Zero Dark Thirty.’
15. Original Score: ‘Life of Pi,’ Mychael Danna.
16. Original Song: ‘Skyfall’ from ‘Skyfall,’ Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth.
17. Costume: ‘Anna Karenina.’
18. Documentary Feature: ‘Searching for Sugar Man.’
19. Documentary (short subject): ‘Inocente.’
20. Film Editing: ‘Argo.’
21. Makeup and Hairstyling: ‘Les Miserables.’
22. Animated Short Film: ‘Paperman.’
23. Live Action Short Film: ‘Curfew.’
24. Visual Effects: ‘Life of Pi.’
Oscar winners previously presented this season
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Jeffrey Katzenberg
Honorary Award: Hal Needham
Honorary Award: D.A. Pennebaker
Honorary Award: George Stevens Jr.
Award of Merit: Cooke Optics
Additional reports from Associated Press
