Well the 85th Annual Academy Awards in the books, it was an exciting night for movie fans everywhere. Questions were answered and awards were given as Seth MacFarlane hosted the biggest night in film. The show was pretty solid and a decent hosting job was done by Seth. His sometimes "edgy" jokes and one-liners about every aspect of Hollywood were pretty good. Of course some jokes did fall flat, but it was a lighthearted night all around. The original songs done by Seth were good as well, with one of the most memorable ones have Seth list out whose boobs we've seen in films over the years.
Speaking of singing there was a ton of it throughout the night. Jennifer Hudson tore down the house while Adele followed suit as she won the Best Original Song Oscar. The cast of Les Miserables did a pretty solid performance of one of their songs from the movie as did Catherine Zeta Jones with her song from Chicago. Also the Goldfinger theme after The 50 Years of Bond tribute was nice. With Barbra Streisand and her nose giving a good performance during the In Memoriam section. The song and numbers were in full force all night, but none of it was bad or out of place.
There were a lot of surprises when it came to winning tonight as well. There was also a lot of predictability. I did a write up and straight up predicted 11 out of the 14 categories I went over correctly. With me getting 13 out of the 14 categories correct in either (or both) "Who I Wanted To Win" and "Who Would Win" predictions. There is only one I got completely wrong ant that was the Best Original Screenplay category. Boy was I glad I did. I wanted Moonrise Kingdom to win but picked Zero Dark Thirty to take it. To my excitement, Quentin Tarantino blew everyone away and took the Oscar for Django Unchained!
Most of the rest of the night went as expected. While many thought Lincoln would take best picture easily, Argo had been considered a contender for months now. So after a rousing introduction by First Lady Michelle Obama, Argo was awarded the Best Picture Oscar. Prompting one of Ben Affleck's finest moments as he gave a great speech accepting the award as star, director and co-producer of Argo. Daniel Day Lewis won the Best Actor Oscar for his leading role in Lincoln. Following the win with one of the best and funniest acceptance speeches of the night. While Jennifer Lawrence won the Best Actress Oscar for her leading role in Silver Linings Playbook and was in a bit of shock as she stumbled on the steps as she went to get her award.
Argo also won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay and it was well deserved as well. Adding onto Argo's accolades. Best Director was a toss up between Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg. In the end Ang Lee added a fourth award to Life of Pi's accolades. There was a tie (yes a tie) in one of the categories with BOTH Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty winning the Best in Sound Editing Oscar. The Best Animated film category came and gone as Brave beat out Wreck-It Ralph among others to win. With the Best Animated Short Oscar going home with Paperman this year. Finally we come to the last of the "big" awards. The Best Supporting Actress Oscar went to Anne Hathaway for her performance in Les Miserables. She beat out her only other real competition in Amy Adams for The Master. Last but certainly not least Christoph Waltz beat out Tommy Lee Jones' Lincoln performance with his one as Dr. Schultz in Django Unchained. It gives him his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar from a role in a Quentin Tarantino film.
It was a great night, and I'm highly sick of writing about the Oscars this year haha. I'm already looking forward to the Oscars next year and what the rest of 2013 in film has in store for us. Below I'll be giving you a complete list of winners tonight. So thanks for reading, and I can't wait to write about all this again next year. So until then, this is Fat Jesus saying "Deuces" to the 85th Annual Academy Awards.
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BEST PICTURE
"Argo"
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln"
BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained"
BEST DIRECTOR
Ang Lee for "Life of Pi"
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
"Argo"
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"Django Unchained"
BEST ANIMATED FILM
"Brave"
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Amour"
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall" (Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth)
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Mychael Danna for "Life of Pi"
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
"Lincoln"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
"Life of Pi"
BEST DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
"Searching for Sugar Man"
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
"Life of Pi"
BEST MAKEUP
"Les Miserables"
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
"Anna Karenina"
BEST FILM EDITING
"Argo"
BEST SOUND EDITING
"Skyfall"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
BEST SOUND MIXING
"Les Miserables"
BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
"Paperman"
BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
"Curfew"
BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
"Inocente"
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