The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2012 and took place on February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time Zone (PST) / 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time Zone (EST). The ceremony was the first in the Academy's 85-year history to adopt the phrase "The Oscars" as the ceremony's official name during the broadcast and marketing. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, and produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and directed by Don Mischer. Actor Seth MacFarlane hosted the show for the first time.
In related events, the Academy held its 4th annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on December 1, 2012. On February 9, 2013, in a ceremony at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Chris Pine and Zoe Saldaña.
Argo won three awards, including Best Picture, the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture without its director nominated since Driving Miss Daisy. Other winners included Life of Pi with four awards, Les Misérables with three, Django Unchained, Lincoln, and Skyfall with two, and Amour, Anna Karenina, Brave, Curfew, Inocente, Paperman, Searching for Sugar Man, Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty with one. The telecast garnered more than 40 million viewers in the United States.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were announced on January 10, 2013, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Seth MacFarlane, host of the ceremony, and actress Emma Stone. Lincoln received the most nominations with twelve total, and Life of Pi came in second with eleven.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 24, 2013. Argo was the fourth film to win Best Picture without a directing nomination, following 1927's Wings, 1932's Grand Hotel, and 1989's Driving Miss Daisy. As co-producer of Argo, George Clooney became the third individual to win Oscars for both acting and producing. By virtue of his nomination for Best Original Song in Ted, host MacFarlane became the sixth person since James Franco, who was a co-host and a Best Actor nominee during the 83rd ceremony in 2011, to host the ceremony while receiving a nomination in the same year. Silver Linings Playbook was the fourteenth film to earn nominations in all four acting categories, and the first since Reds in 1981. At age 22, Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence became the second-youngest winner in that category. With his third win for Best Lead Actor, Daniel Day-Lewis became the first three-time winner in that category. He also was the sixth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. Amour was the fourth film nominated simultaneously for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film in the same year. At age nine, Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest nominee for Best Actress and the youngest female acting nominee overall. Meanwhile, Emmanuelle Riva (aged 85) was the oldest nominee for Best Actress. This marked the first time in Oscar history that all five nominees in an acting category (Best Supporting Actor) were all previous winners. Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirtys joint win in the Best Sound Editing category was the sixth occurrence of a tie in Oscar history. Skyfall won the award for Best Original Song, becoming the first Bond song to win the award.
Awards
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Argo – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, producersAmour – Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, producers Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, producers Django Unchained – Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, producers Les Misérables – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, producers Life of Pi – Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, producers Lincoln – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, producers Silver Linings Playbook – Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, producers Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, producers | valign="top" width="50%" |Ang Lee – Life of Pi Michael Haneke – Amour Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild Steven Spielberg – Lincoln David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
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Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Jr. Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables as Jean Valjean Joaquin Phoenix – The Master as Freddie Quell Denzel Washington – Flight as William "Whip" Whitaker Sr. | valign="top" |
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty as Maya Harris Emmanuelle Riva – Amour as Anne Laurent Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild as Hushpuppy Naomi Watts – The Impossible as Maria Bennett
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Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained as Dr. King Schultz Alan Arkin – Argo as Lester Siegel Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Sr. Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master as Lancaster Dodd Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln as Thaddeus Stevens | valign="top" |
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables as Fantine Amy Adams – The Master as Peggy Dodd Sally Field – Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln Helen Hunt – The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook as Dolores Solitano
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Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino Amour – Michael Haneke Flight – John Gatins Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal | valign="top" |
Argo – Chris Terrio; Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin; Life of Pi – David Magee; Lincoln – Tony Kushner; Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell; |- | valign="top" |Brave – Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda ChapmanFrankenweenie – Directed by Tim Burton ParaNorman – Directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler The Pirates! Band of Misfits – Directed by Peter Lord Wreck-It Ralph – Directed by Rich Moore | valign="top" |Amour (Austria) in French – Directed by Michael HanekeKon-Tiki (Norway) in English and Norwegian – Directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg No (Chile) in Spanish – Directed by Pablo Larraín A Royal Affair (Denmark) in Danish – Directed by Nikolaj Arcel War Witch (Canada) in French – Directed by Kim Nguyen
| valign="top" |Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi The Gatekeepers – Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky and Estelle Fialon How to Survive a Plague – David France and Howard Gertler The Invisible War – Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering | valign="top" |Inocente – Sean Fine and Andrea Nix FineKings Point – Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider Mondays at Racine – Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan Open Heart – Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern Redemption – Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill |- | valign="top" |Curfew – Shawn ChristensenAsad – Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura Buzkashi Boys – Sam French and Ariel Nasr Death of a Shadow (Dood Van Een Schaduw) – Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele Henry – Yan England | valign="top" |Paperman – John KahrsAdam and Dog – Minkyu Lee Fresh Guacamole – PES Head over Heels – Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" – David Silverman |- | valign="top" |Life of Pi – Mychael DannaAnna Karenina – Dario Marianelli Argo – Alexandre Desplat Lincoln – John Williams Skyfall – Thomas Newman | valign="top" |"Skyfall" from Skyfall – Music and lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice – Music and lyrics by J. Ralph "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted – Music by Walter Murphy; lyrics by Seth MacFarlane "Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi – Music by Mychael Danna; lyrics by Bombay Jayashri "Suddenly" from Les Misérables – Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil |- | valign="top" |Skyfall – Per Hallberg and Karen Baker LandersZero Dark Thirty – Paul N. J. OttossonArgo – Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn Django Unchained – Wylie Stateman Life of Pi – Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton | valign="top" |Les Misérables – Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon HayesArgo – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and José Antonio García Life of Pi – Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin Lincoln – Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins Skyfall – Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson |- | valign="top" |Lincoln – Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim EricksonAnna Karenina – Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright Les Misérables – Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson Life of Pi – Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock | valign="top" |Life of Pi – Claudio MirandaAnna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey Django Unchained – Robert Richardson Lincoln – Janusz Kamiński Skyfall – Roger Deakins |- | valign="top" |Les Misérables – Lisa Westcott and Julie DartnellHitchcock – Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane | valign="top" |Anna Karenina – Jacqueline DurranLes Misérables – Paco Delgado Lincoln – Joanna Johnston Mirror Mirror – Eiko Ishioka (posthumous nomination) Snow White and the Huntsman – Colleen Atwood |- | valign="top" |Argo – William GoldenbergLife of Pi – Tim Squyres Lincoln – Michael Kahn Silver Linings Playbook – Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers Zero Dark Thirty – Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg | valign="top" |Life of Pi'' – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer and Donald R. ElliottThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher WhiteMarvel's The Avengers – Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan SudickPrometheus – Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin HillSnow White and the Huntsman – Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson
Governors Awards The Academy held its 4th Annual Governors Awards ceremony on December 1, 2012, during which the following awards were presented:
Honorary Awards To Hal Needham, an innovator, mentor, and master technician who elevated his craft to an art and made the impossible look easy. To D. A. Pennebaker, who redefined the language of film and taught a generation of filmmakers to look to reality for inspiration. To George Stevens Jr., a tireless champion of the arts in America and especially that most American of arts: the Hollywood film.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Jeffrey Katzenberg who has led our community in enlightened philanthropy by his extraordinary example.
Films with multiple nominations and awards
The following 15 films received multiple nominations:
Nominations Film 12 Lincoln 11 Life of Pi 8 Les Misérables Silver Linings Playbook 7 Argo 5 Amour Django Unchained Skyfall Zero Dark Thirty 4 Anna Karenina Beasts of the Southern Wild 3 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey The Master 2 Flight Snow White and the Huntsman
The following six films received multiple awards:
Awards Film 4 Life of Pi 3 Argo Les Misérables 2 Django Unchained Lincoln Skyfall
Presenters and performers
The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.
Presenters