{"id":26786,"date":"2013-02-25T00:37:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T05:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=26786"},"modified":"2018-12-05T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:34:00","slug":"argo-wins-best-picture-oscar-life-of-pi-top-winner-with-4-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/25\/argo-wins-best-picture-oscar-life-of-pi-top-winner-with-4-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"ARGO Wins Best Picture Oscar, LIFE OF PI Top Winner With 4 Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"life-of-pi\"<\/a>Ang Lee\u2019s tale of survival on the open seas Life Of Pi<\/strong> was the big winner at this evening\u2019s Academy Awards, taking home four Oscar statues including Best Director. Ben Affleck\u2019s Argo<\/strong>, a telling of the real-life CIA operation that extracted a handful of US embassy workers at the beginning of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, won three Oscars including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.<\/p>\n

This year was one of those where no one film swept a majority of the Oscar categories. The adaptation of the Broadway musical Les Miserables<\/em> also won three Academy Awards while Steven Spielberg\u2019s historical drama Lincoln<\/strong>, Quentin Tarantino\u2019s tale of revenge and slavery Django Unchained<\/strong> and the latest James Bond adventure Skyfall<\/strong> all won two Oscars.<\/p>\n

Animation studio Pixar continued its domination in the animation category, scooping up the award for Best Animated Feature for Brave<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As always, there were a number of memorable moments and historic firsts during the three-and-a-half hour telecast. With his win for portraying the 16th president in Lincoln<\/strong>, Daniel Day-Lewis becomes the first actor to earn three Oscar statues in the Best Actor category, while documentary Short Subject winner Inocente<\/strong> is the first film to have been funded by Kickstarter to win an Oscar.<\/p>\n

For only the sixth time in Oscar history, there was a tie in one of the categories, with both Zero Dark Thirty<\/strong> and Skyfall<\/strong> getting awards for Sound Editing. Previous ties in Academy history include the one in 1932 in the Best Actor category and 1968’s Best Actress dual win. There have also been two ties in the short film categories and once in the feature documentary category in 1986 with Artie Shaw: Time Is All You\u2019ve Got<\/strong> and Down And Out In America<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Tarantino, upon receiving his Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Django Unchained<\/strong> magnanimously saluted all the nominees in both writing categories declaring 2012 as \u201cthe Year of the Writer!\u201d<\/p>\n

The complete list of winners is as follows \u2013<\/p>\n

Picture \u2013 Argo
\nDirector \u2013 Ang Lee, Life Of Pi
\nActor \u2013 Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
\nActress \u2013 Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
\nSupporting Actor \u2013 Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
\nSupporting Actress – Ann Hathaway, Les Miserables
\nOriginal Screenplay \u2013 Django Unchained, Written by Quentin Tarantino
\nAdapted Screenplay \u2013 Argo, Screenplay by Chris Terrio
\nAnimated Feature Film – Brave
\nAnimated Short Film – Paperman
\nCinematography \u2013 Claudio Miranda, Life Of Pi
\nCostume Design \u2013 Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina
\nDocumentary Feature \u2013 Searching for Sugar Man
\nDocumentary Short Subject – Inocente
\nFilm Editing \u2013 William Goldenberg, Argo
\nForeign Language Feature – Amour
\nLive Action Short Film – Curfew
\nMakeup And Hairstyling \u2013 Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell, Les Miserables
\nOriginal Score \u2013 Mychael Danna, Life Of Pi
\nOriginal Song \u2013 \u201cSkyfall,\u201d Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
\nProduction Design – Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson, Lincoln
\nSound Editing \u2013 (Tie) Paul N J Ottosson, Zero Dark Thirty and Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers, Skyfall
\nSound Mixing \u2013 Andy Nelson, Mark Peterson and Simon Hayes, Les Miserables
\nVisual Effects \u2013 Life Of Pi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was no runaway winner this year.<\/div>\n

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