85th Annual Academy Award Winners -Monday Feb 25,2013

 

The 85th Annual Academy Award Winners Announced on Monday Feb25,2013 in Los Angeles 

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS) presented its Annual Academy Awards to honor the Best Films of the Year 2012  in the United States of America. 

The Award Ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre  in Hollywood, California. 

 

^{Seth Macfarlane hosted the Academy Awards} 

   

The film -

'Life of Pi' won 4 Awards

'Argo' won 3 Awards

'Les Miserables' won 3 Awards

'Django Unchained' won 2 Awards

'Skyfall' won 2 Awards 

Oscars 2013 -Winners

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.'

Daniel Day-Lewis completed a historic hat-trick as he took home the Best Actor Oscar for his poignant portrayal of a battle weary Abraham Lincoln(16th president  of USA) in Steven Spielberg's civil-war set biopic 'Lincoln'. He had already collected the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and British BAFTA awards, in the long award season of Hollywood ahead of Oscars.

Daniel Day-Lewis plays Lincoln prior to his assassination in 1865. As the four-year-old Civil War continues to rage, the president struggles to bring a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery and end the carnage on the battlefield

Daniel Day-Lewis is a five time Academy-award nonmiee. With his latest trophy, he has become the first man to win three Oscars in the leading actor category. He has previously won the Oscars for playing cerebral palsy suffering author and painter Christy Brown in 'My Left Foot' (1989) and in 2007 for portraying an ambitious and misanthropic oil baron in 'There Will Be Blood'.

Daniel Day-Lewis was alson ominated for 'In The Name of the Father' (1993) and 'Gangs of New York' in 2002.

Daniel Day-Lewis  was born in London on April 29, 1957, to poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon. Day-Lewis picked up acting from his mother's side.Day-Lewis made his debut with a small part in John Schlesinger's 'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' (1971)
Daniel Day-Lewis made his second appearance as a street thug in 'Gandhi' (1982).

Daniel Day Lewis best actor winner for 'Lincoln,' Jennifer Lawrence, best actress winner for 'Silver Linings Playbook,' Anne Hathaway, best supporting actress winner for 'Les Miserables' and Christoph Walz, best supporting actor winner for 'Django Unchained,' pose with their Oscars