All the Oscar Wieners of this year -oop I meant Oscar winners! Or did I?
So seriously, who won? Good question…
BEST PICTURE GOES TO ARGO (obviously…ahem)
Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers (That’s Oscar number 4 for Heslov)
When six Americans take refuge in the Canadian embassy in Tehran during the 1979 hostage crisis, U.S. government agent Tony Mendez turns to Hollywood for help. Working with a producer and a makeup artist, he devises a rescue mission that centers on the creation of a fake film production company scouting locations in Iran.
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE GOES TO DANIEL DAY-LEWIS (obviously…)
Lincoln (That’s Oscar number 5 for Mr Lewis)
Daniel Day-Lewis portrays Abraham Lincoln in the months prior to his assassination, as he works to persuade Congress to pass a Constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery.
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE GOES TO JENNIFER LAWRENCE (well yeah…)
Silver Linings Playbook (Second nomination but first Oscar for JLaw)
Jennifer Lawrence plays Tiffany, a troubled young widow who begins a complex relationship with a man recently released from a psychiatric facility.
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE GOES TO CHRISTOPH WALTZ (duh)
Django Unchained (Second nomination and Oscar for good ‘ole Christoph)
Christoph Waltz portrays Dr. King Schultz, a German bounty hunter in the pre-Civil War South who buys a slave to assist him with his work.
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE GOES TO ANNE HATHAWAY (seriously, who else was up for it?)
Les Misérables (second nomination but first Oscar for Anne)
As Fantine, Anne Hathaway plays a young mother who loses her job in a factory and struggles to find money to support her daughter. Basically if you didn’t see it – she’s in it for 15 minutes or less and dies but it’s really realyl sad and everyone cried. Twas good.
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM GOES TO BRAVE (yay for Scotland)
Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman (2nd nom for Mark, 1st nom for Brenda)
Merida is a high-spirited Scottish princess who resists her mother’s efforts to transform her into a more ladylike young woman. Faced with an arranged marriage she doesn’t want, Merida runs away into the forest, where she encounters a witch who teaches her a dangerous spell.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHYGOES TO LIFE OF PI (what you didn’t see it?)
Claudio Miranda (2nd nomination)
Young Pi, the son of zookeepers in Pondicherry, India, finds the world he knows swept away when his family sells the zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few of its remaining animals. A storm capsizes the ship and only Pi escapes, set adrift in a lifeboat that is also the refuge of an enormous Bengal tiger.
BEST COSTUME DESIGN GOES TO ANNA KARENINA (keira knightley, keira knightley, keira knightley blah)
Jacqueline Durran (3rd nom – all Keira Knightley films…so all her mannequins are tiny basically)
As the wife of a highly placed government minister, Anna Karenina occupies a secure position within the upper reaches of Russian society, although the chief source of happiness in her marriage is her eight-year-old son. Her meeting with Count Vronsky, a handsome cavalry officer, offers Anna the passionate love her marriage is lacking, but places her at the center of a devastating scandal.
BEST DIRECTING GOES TO LIFE OF PI (shouldn’t it be the director not the film? Whatever..)
Life of Pi (5th Oscar nom for Ang Lee, 1 Oscar win for Brokeback Mountain)
No point putting a synopsis, it’s up there somewhere – go back and read it if you weren’t paying attention?!
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE GOES TO SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (much like the bafta…)
Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn (1 nom for Malik, 2nd nom but second win for Simon)
n the early 1970s, A&M released two albums by a singer-songwriter known only as Rodriguez, who dropped out of sight and was rumored to have died after the records failed to sell. When Rodriguez unexpectedly attracted a cult following in South Africa, however, two of his ardent fans decided to track down the truth behind his disappearance from the music scene.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT GOES TO INOCENTE (so it’s innocent spelt wrong really)
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine (ew a couple – second nom for both, both for the same film…)
Fifteen-year-old Inocente, a homeless, undocumented immigrant, clings to her determination to become an artist in the face of a bleak future.
BEST FILM EDITING GOES TO ARGO (obvs)
William Goldenberg (fourth nomination – includes Zero Dark Thirty. Someone’s keeping busy)
Argo synopsis up-a there-a some-a where-a…
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM GOES TO AMOUR (did you really need to be told that? no.)
Austria (I did need to be told that – thought it was french…either way fourth nom for Austria, WOO!)
In the final months of her life, a retired music teacher and her husband of sixty years struggle with the debilitating effects of two strokes on both her health and her quality of life. As Georges cares for the increasingly unhappy Anne, the pair finds the nature of their life together irrevocably changed.
BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIR GOES TO LES MIS (not Honey Boo Boo?)
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell (3rd nom for Westcott but 1st nom for Dartnell)
Les Mis synopysissy is further up than this m’afraid…
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) GOES TO LIFE OF PIE (didn’t mean to put pie, am I hungry perhaps?)
Mychael Danna (2nd nomination for Danna)
No synopsis here.
BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) CLEARLY GOES TO SKYFALL (or as Oscars reminded us “Skyfall from Skyfall”)
Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth (obviously it’s a first nomination for both)
First time a Bond theme has ever one an Oscar. Thank you very much America. It’s only been going for 50 years…
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN GOES TO LINCOLN (I don’t know what this means…shhh)
Rick Carter for Production Design; Jim Erickson for Set Decoration (4th nom for Carter and 2nd win, 2nd nom for Erickson and 1st win – other nomination for Jim Erickson was Daniel Day Lewis movie There will be Blood)
You know what I’m going to say about a synopsis.
BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) THANKFULLY GOES TO PAPERMAN (which was amazing and adorable)
John Kahrs (1st nom for Kahrs and a good one at that)
A young man working in an office tries desperately to attract the attention of a girl in the building across the street.
BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) GOES TO CURFEW (I don’t know).
Shawn Christensen
BEST SOUND EDITING WAS A DRAW/TIE. OSCARS CAN’T DO THAT IT’S UNPROFESSIONAL. EITHER WAY ZERO DARK THIRTY IS SHARING IT WITH SKYFALL. EQUAL VOTES APPARENTLY.
Skyfall: Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
Zero Dark Thirty: Paul N.J. Ottosson
BEST SOUND MIXING GOES TO LES MISERABLES (they’re gonna need a bigger boat, I mean…shelf)
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS GOES TO LIFE OF PI (four for you life of pi, you go life of pi aaaand none for the hobbit cos it sucked)
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
Well done to these guys because it was a very pretty film and it’s really late right now. I should sleep but then, only two awards left…
BEST WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) GOES TO ARGO (no comment? Er, yay Argo!)
Woo for Chris Terrio, apparently – although I have not read the book, it is a lot like the book. I trust this view. I do not know who’s view it is but what can you do.
BEST WRITING (LAST ONE?! I MEAN, ORIGINAL SCREEENPLAY) GOES TO DJANGO UNCHAINED
Written by Quentin Tarantino
There is a lovely article in Vanity fair about him, you should all go buy and read about him and Pulp Fiction whilst I take a nap.
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