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85th
Annual Academy Awards

(2012)


Format: 2 2DVD-R (VHS-Transfer)

Date: February 24, 2013

Total Time: 1 h 21 m, 1 h 32 m

Venue: Dolby Theater in Hollywood, LA

Host: Seth MacFarlane


John Williams
Nominattion for Best Score:
Lincoln

Best Picture: Argo


Seth MacFarlane



William Shatner





Shirley Bassey



Les Misérables







Adele




Barbra Streisand






Michael Douglas and Jane Fonda








Jack Nicholson



Michelle Obama




BEST PICTURE
Amour -- Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, Producers
*    Argo -- Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, 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

DIRECTING
Amour -- Michael Haneke
Beasts of the Southern Wild -- Benh Zeitlin
*  Life of Pi -- Ang Lee
Lincoln -- Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook -- David O. Russell

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Bradley Cooper -- Silver Linings Playbook {"Pat"}
*    Daniel Day-Lewis -- Lincoln {"Abraham Lincoln"}
Hugh Jackman -- Les Misérables {"Jean Valjean"}
Joaquin Phoenix -- The Master {"Freddie Quell"}
Denzel Washington -- Flight {"Whip Whitaker"}
ACTOR -- SUPPORTING ROLE

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alan Arkin -- Argo {"Lester Siegel"}
Robert De Niro -- Silver Linings Playbook {"Pat Sr."}
Philip Seymour Hoffman -- The Master {"Lancaster Dodd"}
Tommy Lee Jones -- Lincoln {"Thaddeus Stevens"}
*    Christoph Waltz -- Django Unchained {"Dr. King Schultz"}
ACTRESS -- LEADING ROLE

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jessica Chastain -- Zero Dark Thirty {"Maya"}
*  Jennifer Lawrence -- Silver Linings Playbook {"Tiffany"}
Emmanuelle Riva -- Amour {"Anne"}
Quvenzhané Wallis -- Beasts of the Southern Wild {"Hushpuppy"}
Naomi Watts -- The Impossible {"Maria"}
ACTRESS -- SUPPORTING ROLE

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams -- The Master {"Peggy Dodd"}
Sally Field -- Lincoln {"Mary Todd Lincoln"}
*    Anne Hathaway -- Les Misérables {"Fantine"}
Helen Hunt -- The Sessions {"Cheryl"}
Jacki Weaver -- Silver Linings Playbook {"Dolores"}

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
*  Brave -- Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Frankenweenie -- Tim Burton
ParaNorman -- Sam Fell and Chris Butler
The Pirates! Band of Misfits -- Peter Lord
Wreck-It Ralph -- Rich Moore
ART DIRECTION

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna 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
*  Lincoln -- Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina -- Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained -- Robert Richardson
*  Life of Pi -- Claudio Miranda
Lincoln -- Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall -- Roger Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN
*  Anna Karenina -- Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables -- Paco Delgado
Lincoln -- Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror -- Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman -- Colleen Atwood

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
5 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
*    
Searching for Sugar Man -- Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)
*  Inocente -- Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Kings 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

FILM EDITING
*  Argo -- William Goldenberg
Life of Pi -- Tim Squyres
Lincoln -- Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook -- Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty -- Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
*  Amour -- Austria
Kon-Tiki -- Norway
No -- Chile
A Royal Affair -- Denmark
War Witch -- Canada

HONORARY AWARD
*  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

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Hitchcock -- Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey -- Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
*  Les Misérables -- Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

MUSIC (Original Score)
Anna Karenina -- Dario Marianelli
Argo -- Alexandre Desplat
*  Life of Pi -- Mychael Danna
Lincoln -- John Williams
Skyfall -- Thomas Newman

MUSIC (Original Song)
"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice -- Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from Ted -- Music by Walter Murphy;