85th Academy Awards

The Oscars 2013 or the 85th Academy Awards ceremony took place on 24 February 2013. The annual Academy Awards were presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in order to honour the best films of the previous years, i.e., 2012. The Oscars 2013 ceremony was held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. The awards were hosted by Seth MacFarlane. This is said to be the most viewed ceremony since Academy Awards 2004.

The main winners of the Oscars 2013 were Life of Pi, with four awards;Argo with three awards; Les Miserables with three awards and Django Unchained, Lincoln, Skyfall with two awards each. The list of the awardees of 85th Academy Awards is as follows:

List of the awardees of 85th Academy Awards:

• Best Picture: Argo
• Best Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
• Best Actress in a Leading Role: Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables
• Best Animated Feature Film: Brave
• Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda for Life of Pi
• Best Costume Design: Anna Karenina
• Best Directing: Ang Lee for Life of Pi
• Best Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man
• Best Documentary Short: Inocente
• Best Film Editing: William Goldenberg for Argo
• Best Foreign Language Film: Amour (Austria)
• Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell for Les Misérables
• Best Music-Original Score: Mychael Danna for Life of Pi
• Best Music-Original Song: Skyfall from Skyfall (Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth)
• Best Production Design: Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) for Lincoln
• Best Short Film-Animated: Paperman
• Best Short Film-Live Action: Curfew
• Best Sound Editing: Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers for Skyfall
• Best Sound Mixing: Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes for Les Misérables
• Best Visual Effects: Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott for Life of Pi
• Best Writing-Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio for Argo
• Best Writing-Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained