RhythmChannel: Oscar 2013

The 85th Annual Academy Academy Awards 2013

Daniel-Day Lewis, Christoph Waltz, and Jennifer Lawrence Win!

Method acting genius Daniel-Day Lewis surprised no one with his win for his brilliant, leading role in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, while Christoph Waltz walked away with the statuette for his scene-stealing role of Dr. King Shultz in Django Unchained. Which leaves us to the most talked about win of the evening; Jennifer Lawrence wins best actress in a leading role for Silver Linings Playbook. genuinely shocked when Jennifer took home the statuette, as the award was expected to go to Jessica Chastain for her role in Zero Dark Thirty, a film which has been dipped in controversy all during the awards season for its sensitive topic (the hunt and assassination of Osama Bin Laden) and brutal scenes of torture. Could that have been the reason behind the shift in leading actress favorites? Who knows! The Academy works in mysterious ways…
(All photos by AP)

BEST ACTRESS Jennifer Lawrence

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Anne Hathaway

BEST ACTOR

Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables Joaquin Phoenix – The Master Denzel Washington – Flight

BEST ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

*Daniel Day-Lewis

Jennifer Lawrence

On the whole the awards themselves found reasonable enough homes, even if the Argo fiasco left a strange aftertaste on the cine-palette. The Best Supporting category brought Anne Hathaway and the exceedingly likeable Christoph Waltz recognition for two performances that somewhat outshone the Best Actor & Actress winners. Between Jennifer Lawrence’s tumble upon mounting the stage (with over 2 million hits on YouTube, that topple will no doubt prove as valuable a piece of self-promotion as the Oscar itself), and Daniel Day Lewis’ highly witty speech, the Oscars managed to recaptured some of that unexpected live magic that is guaranteed with even the lamest of hosts at the helm.

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BEST DIRECTOR

David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook Ang Lee – Life of Pi Steven Speilberg – Lincoln Michael Haneke – Amour Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild

BEST MOTION PICTURE

Argo

Amour

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Amy Adams – The Master

Sally Field – Lincoln

Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables

Helen Hunt – The Sessions

Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Alan Arkin – Argo

Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook

Phillip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

Christoph Waltz – Django Unchaine