Best Picture — Argo
Best Director — Ang Lee for Life of Pi
Best Actor — Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln
Best Actress — Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook
Best Supporting Actor — Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained
Best Supporting Actress — Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables
Best Adapted Screenplay — Argo
Best Original Screenplay — Django Unchained
Best Animated Feature Film — Brave
Best Documentary Feature — Searching For Sugar Man.
Best Foreign Language Film — Amour
Best Cinematography — Life of Pi
Best Costuming — Anna Karenina
Best Editing — Argo
Best Makeup and Hair-Styling — Les Miserables
Best Original Score — Life of Pi
Best Original Song — “Skyfall” in Skyfall
Best Production Design — Lincoln
Best Sound Editing — Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall
Best Sound Mixing — Les Miserables
Best Visual Effects — Life of Pi
Best Live-Action Short Film — Curfew
Best Animated Short Film — Paperman
Best Documentary Short Film — Innocente
By the numbers:
Life of Pi — 4
Argo — 3
Les Miserables — 3
Django Unchained — 2
Lincoln — 2
Skyfall — 2
Amour — 1
Anna Karenina — 1
Brave — 1
Curfew — 1
Innocente — 1
Paperman — 1
Searching for Sugar Man — 1
Silver Linings Playbook — 1
Zero Dark Thirty — 1
I liked all the Best Picture nominees this year, unfortunately I liked seven of them more than ‘Argo’ so I can’t really say I am happy with the final result.
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I’m a little torn. Argo was good. They managed to take the footage of the actual events and splice it in to tie all in well, and those last 30 minutes were really intense. I’m happy for Affleck and his group, but it bothers me that the Academy could go and say..”This is the Best Film this year, but it wasn’t the Best Filmed one.” That could be just me. I have yet to see Life of Pi, so there’s information I don’t fully have. I agree with Duke on the notion that there were a some better films out there.
What was with the Twitter grumbling about Jennifer Lawrence’s win? That confuses me. It wasn’t like it wasn’t deserved. She did a great job in SLP.
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I think it’s more of Jennifer Lawrence overload reaction. The same goes with Jessica Chastain. The public has a tendency to raise these people up, especially new stars, then pull them down when they think they’re getting beyond that new star freshness they first fell in love with. I didn’t mind Lawrence winning though I thought Chastain had the best performance of any actress in 2012. She was the one who didn’t just acted out of her mind, but had the most complex character growth and arc from start to finish.
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