25/02/2013 - Life Of Pi sails away with four statuettes. Argo wins three

Life Of Pi was the leader in a year when honours where evenly distributed at the Academy Awards, winning four Oscars including Best Director for Ang Lee, Cinematography for Claudio Miranda, Music – Original Score for Michael Danna and Visual Effects for Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott.

Michael Haneke’s Amour [+see also:
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Producers Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney collected Best Picture for Argo, directed by Affleck. Affleck, who previously won an Oscar for co-writing Good Will Hunting (1997), said, “I never thought I'd be back here. I'm back because of so many people who extended their help to me when there was no benefit to them. It doesn’t matter that you get knocked down in life, all that matters is you’ve got to get up.” Argo also won Film Editing for William Goldenberg and Adapted Screenplay for Chris Terrio.

British actor Daniel Day-Lewis continued his triumphal awards march for Lincoln, duly winning Actor in a Leading Role, in a category where there was no doubt who would be the winner. Jennifer Lawrence won Actress in a Leading Role for Silver Linings Playbook. Austrian Christoph Waltz added the Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar to his bulging awards kitty for his role in Django Unchained. Anne Hathaway took home the Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for Les Misérables [+see also:
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Winners 

Best Picture
Argo

Director
Ang Lee, Life of Pi

Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Actress
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Supporting Actress
Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables

Animated Feature
Brave, Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman

Cinematography
Life of Pi - Claudio Miranda

Visual Effects
Life of Pi - Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer andDonald R. Elliott

Costume Design
Anna Karenina [+see also:
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Makeup/Hairstyling
Les Misérables, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

Short Film, Live Action
Curfew, Shawn Christensen

Short Film, Animated
Paperman, John Kahrs

Documentary Short
Inocente, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine

Documentary Feature
Searching for Sugar Man [+see also:
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Sound Mixing
Les Misérables, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes

Sound Editing
Shared by Zero Dark Thirty, Paul N.J. Ottosson and Skyfall [+see also:
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Film Editing
Argo, William Goldenberg

Production Design
Lincoln - Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Original Score
Mychael Danna, Life of Pi

Original Song
Adele - Skyfall

Adapted Screenplay
Chris Terrio, Argo

Original Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained