The Oscar Winners
Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 9:05PM 
Previously: Arrivals
Next: Tomorrow begins the extensive post-mortem mania!
And The Oscars Go To...
SUPPORTING ACTOR Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
"Respect" to the fellow nominees... "Unlimited Gratitude" to Tarantino
Three Best Pics introduced
ANIMATED SHORT John Kahrs, Paperman
ANIMATED FEATURE Brenda Chapman & Mark Andrews, Brave
CINEMATOGRAPHY Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi
VISUAL EFFECTS Life of Pi
COSTUME DESIGN Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina
MAKEUP Les Miserables
James Bond Tribute -Dame Shirley Bassey killed it.
LIVE ACTION SHORT Shawn Christensen, Curfew
DOCUMENTARY SHORT Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine for Inocente
Three more best pics introduced
If I know Haneke & Chastain, she was more excited by this win & kiss than he was! #oscars twitter.com/nathanielr/sta…
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) February 25, 2013
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Searching for Sugar Man
FOREIGN FILM Michael Haneke for Austria with Amour
Musicals Tribute with performances from Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Hudson, and the cast of Les Misérables
SOUND MIXING Les Miserables
SOUND EDITING (TIE !!!) Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall
It came true."
-Anne Hathaway's opening words
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
FILM EDITING Argo
Adele Performs "Skyfall"
Last three Best Pictures introduced
PRODUCTION DESIGN Rick Carter, Lincoln
Governor's Award Clips
In Memoriam & Babs "The Way We Were"
ORIGINAL SCORE Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
ORIGINAL SONG Adele & Paul Epworth (hello!) for "Skyfall" from Skyfall
With this prize, Skyfall's second of the evening the Bond franchise doubles its Oscar win tally. It had only won two Oscar previously, one for Sound Effects for Goldfinger (1964) and one for visual effects for Thunderball (1965).
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Chris Terrio, Argo
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
DIRECTOR [drumroll...] Ang Lee, Life of Pi
I'm not into that movie at all but I love him. I'ma just pretend it's a prize for Crouching Lust Hidden Caution. For what it's worth Ang Lee is both the first and the second (and therefore the only) non-caucasian director to win this prize. He is not however the only director to win twice despite having never directed a Best Picture winner. That trick was also performed by Frank Borzage in the late 20s/early 30s (his two wins: Bad Girl lost to Grand Hotel, and Seventh Heaven lost to Wings), George Stevens in the 50s (his two wins: Giant lost to Around the World in Eighty Days and A Place in the Sun lost to An American in Paris). [Note: John Ford actually won Best Director without winning Best Picture THREE times. But for How Green Was My Valley he won Best Director and the film also won Best Picture]
ACTRESS Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
ACTOR (Meryl Streep should just give this Best Actor Oscar to herself to get #4 overwith) And the Oscar goes to ... Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
Finally... Jack Nicholson came out to present Best Picture which led to a weird and shocking moment when The First Lady appeared via satellite to congratulate the nominees and talk about art teaching us to overcome our problems. Fun tweets followed:
If the First Lady presents Best Picture, does that count as crossing the boundary between Church and State?
— Nick's Flick Picks (@NicksFlickPicks) February 25, 2013
Pigeons. They make such a mess. RT: @guylodge Due respect, Mrs Obama, but what obstacles did AMOUR teach us we can overcome?
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) February 25, 2013
PICTURE Argo
Grant Henslov spoke first cracking up about the three sexiest producers as he stood between George Clooney & Ben Affleck. Ben spoke second, teared up with a speech that was kind of endearing kind of annoying and all over the place (more on the speeches tomorrow). George Clooney never spoke.
And hey, to everyone reading. You survived another Oscar Year.
You da man!
Good night!
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Reader Comments (57)
Thank you, Quentin, for mentioning your fellow writers and proclaiming this "The Year of the Writer". Sad about Moonrise Kingdom, but oh well. Quentin's characters will live on in movie lore.
Best dress: Helen Hunt's dark blue H&M with million dollar jewels. Love it!
Best presenting duo: Charlize and Dustin. They were having fun.
Worst presenting duo: Oh dear, there were too many to name, but I really hated Daniel Radcliff and Kristen Stewart. He is such a charming, poised young man, and she, well, she should not be invited to award shows or be interviewed, or asked to speak, EVER.
Next movie I want to see: Daniel Day Lewis and Meryl Streep in a film directed by Ang Lee.
Next Oscar host: No one. Just have the voice on the loudspeaker announce the next presenter(s).Spare us the tasteless humor and ridiculous banter.
James T, not true at all. She is actually a huge fan of his films (even though she is vegan and a PETA supporter) and constantly references his work as among her favorite foreign language films. I am guessing she is more of an admirer of The Piano Teacher since she is also a huge fan of Isabelle Huppert than The Seventh Continent or Cache.
And I feel like actors should choose their clips. Chastain actually is really uncomfortable with that Bradley scene and Denzel's whole off attitude during the announcement may have come from the fact his scene spoiled a major plot point in the film. But I also find it a little humorous that in a year where some of the best scenes by the nominees seemed a little too hot for the telecast (Adams, Hoffman, Chastain) is that Helen Hunt's clip appeared and it was probably the cleanest clip of her in the film yet incredibly racy.
@ajnrules I thought the same thing (the major six split) until i found out it happened in 2006 when Picture went to Crash, Director Brokeback Mountain, Actor Kapote, Actress Walk the Line, Supporting Actor Syriana and Supporting Actress The Constant Gardener.
Rami - are you kidding me? QUVENZHANÉ WALLIS adorable? She was annoying as fuck.
CMG - I did say "would/should". Your argument doesn't really stand. I am a big fan of The Piano Teacher too and I was just recommending the movie to someone today but that doesn't mean I care to meet Haneke himself.
I do understand that Jessica probably chooses to focus on the positive side of people.
Pam, second that movie with DDL, the Streep, and Ang Lee! Either something light like "Romancing the Stones" (Adventure! People in Distress!) or my favorite biopic in my head, the Schumanns (Robert and Clara of course).
I felt like Moonrise Kingdom should've gotten the prize. The problem with Tarantino's script is the structure, especially the closing act happens so fast, making the film unbalanced. Yes, his script will always have memorable characters and dialogue, but without the structure, it doesn't work as effectively.
I am mortified that Tarantino won the prize over Boal. The best part of the script for Django were the concept and the dialogue. Structurally and thematically it was a mess. Boal's script was a brilliant distillation of 10 years of disparate events, brimming with political and moral complexity. This Oscar win was criminal.