The Results are In!

The 85th annual Academy Awards have come and gone for the 2012 film year and, I have to say, it was definitely an interesting show to see on Sunday.

For those of you who didn't watch the Oscars last night, a lot of very interesting (and some kinda funny) stuff occurred.

The women's bathroom overflowed.  The Jaws theme was played multiple times when the winners went over the time limit for their acceptance speeches.  Adele sang the Skyfall theme.  The cast of Les Miserables sang a number from the movie.  And Jennifer Lawrence tripped on the stage stairs while claiming her Oscar (which was more pitiable than funny, honestly).

All in all, though, it was a very memorable Oscar night.  For me, it wasn't as memorable as the 2009 Oscars (mainly because I was part of the James Cameron camp and had picked Avatar to wipe the awards board, except the Kathryn Bigelow camp got all the bragging rights when The Hurt Locker won the most awards that year), but it was still a show worth watching.

Like in 2009, few of my picks actually won Oscars.  The Hobbit in particular was let down big time (at least, as far as I'm concerned); however, it's still extremely fun to pick who you think should win and then find out live if you're right or wrong.  Nevertheless, I thought it would be (hopefully) fun if I posted my Oscar picks and who the real winners were.

So, without further ado, allow me to present my picks and the real winners of the 2013 Oscars!

Best Original Screenplay

Edessa: Amour

Winner: Django Unchained

Best Adapted Screenplay

Edessa: Beasts of the Southern Wild

Winner: Argo

Best Visual Effects

Edessa: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Winner: Life of Pi

Best Sound Mixing

Edessa: Les Miserables

Winner: Les Miserables

Best Sound Editing

Edessa: Life of Pi

Winner (tie): Skyfall, Zero Dark Thirty

Best Live Action Short Film

Edessa: Henry

Winner: Curfew

Best Animated Short Film

Edessa: Paperman

Winner: Paperman

Best Production Design

Edessa: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Winner: Lincoln

Best Original Song

Edessa: "Suddenly" - Les Miserables

Winner: "Skyfall" - Skyfall

Best Original Score

Edessa: Lincoln

Winner: Life of Pi

Best Make-up and Hairstyling

Edessa: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Winner: Les Miserables

Best Foreign Language Film

Edessa: Amour

Winner: Amour

Best Film Editing

Edessa: Life of Pi

Winner: Argo

Best Documentary Short

Edessa: Redemption

Winner: Inocente

Best Documentary Feature Film

Edessa: 5 Broken Cameras

Winner: Searching For Sugar Man

Best Director

Edessa: Ang Lee - Life of Pi

Winner: Ang Lee - Life of Pi

Best Costume Design

Edessa: Mirror Mirror

Winner: Anna Karenina

Best Cinematography

Edessa: Life of Pi

Winner: Life of Pi

Best Animated Feature Film

Edessa: Brave

Winner: Brave

Best Supporting Actress

Edessa: Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables

Winner: Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables

Best Supporting Actor

Edessa: Tommy Lee Jones

Winner: Christoph Walz

Best Actress

Edessa: Quvenzhane Wallis

Winner: Jennifer Lawrence

Best Actor

Edessa: Hugh Jackman

Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis

Best Picture

Edessa: Les Miserables

Winner: Argo

*whew*  That's a long list.  But even though probably about two-thirds of my picks didn't win any awards at the Oscars this year, it was still definitely a good show this year.  There were a lot of good films nominated this year, and I congratulate all of the winners heartily for a job well done.  I can't wait to see what next year's Oscars will be like!

Did you guys watch the Oscars on Sunday?  Did you pick most of the winners, and were there any films that you thought got robbed of a well-deserved Oscar?

 - Edessa, signing off

The Nominees are in for the 85th Annual Academy Awards

The Academy Awards.

Arguably the most important, head-turning award in the history of filmmaking. Filmmakers the world over try their hardest to get this prestigious award, but very few even pass the nomination session.

Nothing says "Thank you for your amazing contribution to the history, art, and life of filmmaking" quite like being being handed an Oscar onstage in front of the whole world.

Now we are heralding the 85th annual Academy Awards with the recently released nominees list (courtesy of the official Oscars website). Let's hear it for these nominees!


Best Picture:

1. Amour
2. Argo
3. Beasts of the Southern Wild
4. Django Unchained
5. Les Miserables
6. Life of Pi
7. Lincoln
8. Silver Linings Playbook
9. Zero Dark Thirty


Best Actor in a Leading Role:

1. Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
2. Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
3. Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
4. Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
5. Denzel Washington - Flight


Best Actress in a Leading Role:

1. Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
2. Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
3. Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
4. Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
5. Naomi Watts - The Impossible


Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

1. Alan Arkin - Argo
2. Rober De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
4. Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
5. Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained


Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

1. Amy Adams - The Master
2. Sally Field - Lincoln
3. Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
4. Helen Hunt - The Sessions
5. Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook


Best Animated Feature Film:

1. Brave
2. Frankenweenie
3. ParaNorman
4. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
5. Wreck-It Ralph


Best Cinematography:

1. Seamus McGarvey - Anna Karenina
2. Robert Richardson - Django Unchained
3. Claudio Miranda - Life of Pi
4. Janusz Kaminski - Lincoln
5. Roger Deakins - Skyfall


Best Costume Design:

1. Jacqueline Durran - Anna Karenina
2. Paco Delgado - Les Miserables
3. Joanna Johnston - Lincoln
4. Eiko Ishioka - Mirror Mirror
5. Colleen Atwood - Snow White and the Huntsman


Best Director:

1. Michael Haneke - Amour
2. Behn Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
3. Ang Lee - Life of Pi
4. Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
5. David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook


Best Documentary Feature Film:

1. 5 Broken Cameras
2. The Gatekeepers
3. How to Survive a Plague
4. The Invisible War
5. Searching for Sugar Man


Best Documentary Short:

1. Inocente
2. Kings Point
3. Modays at Racine
4. Open Heart
5. Redemption


Best Film Editing:

1. William Goldenberg - Argo
2. Tim Squyres - Life of Pi
3. Michael Kahn - Lincoln
4. Jay Cassidy, Crispin Sruthers - Silver Linings Playbook
5. Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg - Zero Dark Thirty


Best Foreign Language Film:

1. Amour (Austria)
2. Kon-Tiki (Norway)
3. No (Chile)
4. A Royal Affair (Denmark)
5. War Witch (Canada)


Best Make-up and Hairstyling:

1. Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, Martin Samuel - Hitchcock
2. Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater, Tami Lane - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
3. Lisa Westcott, Julie Dartnell - Les Miserables


Best Original Score:

1. Dario Marianelli - Anna Karenina
2. Alexandre Desplat - Argo
3. Mychael Danna - Life of Pi
4. John Williams - Lincoln
5. Thomas Newman - Skyfall


Best Original Song:

1. "Before My Time" - Chasing Ice
2. "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" - Ted
3. "Pi's Lullaby" - Life of Pi
4. "Skyfall" - Skyfall
5. "Suddenly" - Les Miserables


Best Production Design:

1. Anna Karenina
2. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
3. Les Miserables
4. Life of Pi
5. Lincoln


Best Animated Short Film:

1. Adam and Dog
2. Fresh Guacamole
3. Head Over Heels
4. Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
5. Paperman


Best Live Action Short Film:

1. Asad
2. Buzkashi Boys
3. Curfew
4. Death of a Shadow
5. Henry


Best Sound Editing:

1. Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn - Argo
2. Wylie Stateman - Django Unchained
3. Eugene Geatry, Philip Stockton - Life of Pi
4. Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers - Skyfall
5. Paul N. J. Ottosson - Zero Dark Thirty


Best Sound Mixing:

1. Argo
2. Les Miserables
3. Life of Pi
4. Lincoln
5. Skyfall


Best Visual Effects:

1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2. Life of Pi
3. Marvel's The Avengers
4. Prometheus
5. Snow White and the Huntsman


Best Adapted Screenplay:

1. Chris Terrio - Argo
2. Lucy Alibar, Behn Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
3. David Magee - Life of Pi
4. Tony Kushner - Lincoln
5. David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook


Best Original Screenplay:

1. Michael Haneke - Amour
2. Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
3. John Gatins - Flight
4. Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom
5. Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty


*whew*

And there we have it: the nominees in every category for the 2013 Academy Awards. There are a few interesting points in this list (mainly the fact that The Avengers was only nominated in one category and The Dark Knight Rises wasn't nominated at all), but the Academy usually has a good eye of what good filmmaking is (whether or not I disagree with some of their choices). Still, I think I'll have fun watching the Awards this year.

Speaking of that, if you would like to watch the Academy Awards live this year, tune into ABC on Sunday February 24th at 7:00 p.m. EST, 4 p.m. Pacific. Seth McFarlane will be hosting the 85th Annual Academy Awards this year, which should be very... interesting, to say the least.

If you're really into the Oscars, then you might want to download the official Oscars App from the App Store. You can get more information on that by clicking this link.

So what did you think of the nominees this year? Would you have picked those films for those categories, or do you think some were over-nominated and others were gyped?


P.S. I haven't forgotten about the Hobbit podcast review. There's been some stuff going on lately, so I just haven't gotten around to recording it. But it will be out ASAP. I promise.




 - Edessa, signing off