Oscars – No Surprises

You already know the Awards, nothing new today. I just want to say it was not a surprise for Best Directing going to Ang Lee, artistically speaking it was as an arrangement for all that to happen. If Argo or Django Unchained were nominated, one of these two would have received the vote. A nice ceremony was what everybody expected and the live performances were up to our hopes. Considering the numbers and the procedures, the business was good as well, all investors had much more than they spent. If Beasts of the Southern Wild made almost twelve times the pot, it was good for an indie. I’ve heard that the three million gained for Amour were more than all the other Haneke films put together and felt sorry for European cinema. With some brains, they would pull much better by reversing the flow, only they feel sorry for themselves or they’re just not taking this business seriously enough. Just for the sake of it, the Awards are as follow:

Actor in a leading Role

• Daniel Day-Lewis — Lincoln {“Abraham Lincoln”}

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Christoph Waltz — Django Unchained {“Dr. King Schultz”}

Actress in a Leading Role

• Jennifer Lawrence — Silver Linings Playbook {“Tiffany”}

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Anne Hathaway — Les Misérables {“Fantine”}

Animated Feature Film

• Brave — Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman

Cinematography

• Life of Pi — Claudio Miranda

Costume Design

• Anna Karenina — Jacqueline Durran

Directing

• Life of Pi — Ang Lee

Documentary (Feature)

• Searching for Sugar Man — Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn

Documentary (Short Subject)

• Inocente — Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine

Film Editing

• Argo — William Goldenberg

Foreign Language Film

• Amour — Austria

Makeup and Hairstyling

• Les Misérables — Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

Music (Original Score)

• Life of Pi — Mychael Danna

Music (Original Song)

• “Skyfall” from Skyfall — Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth


Argo Producers: George Clooney, Grant Heslow and Ben Affleck


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Best Picture

• Argo — Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers

Production Design

• Lincoln — Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Short Film (Animated)

• Paperman — John Kahrs

Short Film (Live Action)

• Curfew — Shawn Christensen

Sound Editing

• Skyfall — Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
  [NOTE: A tie. The other winning film in this category was Zero Dark Thirty.]
• Zero Dark Thirty — Paul N.J. Ottosson
  [NOTE: A tie. The other winning film in this category was Skyfall.]

Sound Mixing

• Les Misérables — Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes

Visual Effects

• Life of Pi — Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

• Argo — Screenplay by Chris Terrio

Writing (Original Screenplay)

• Django Unchained — Written by Quentin Tarantino

 
The Awards in this order are taken from The Academy Awards Database.

Here you have the Red Carpet footage:
 

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