85° Academy Awardsand the Oscar goes to ..."Argo" di Ben Affleck

Best Picture	Best Director
Argo Grant Heslov,Ben Affleck,George Clooney Amour Margaret Menegoz,Stefan Arndt,Veit Heiduschka,Michael Katz Beasts of the Southern Wild Dan Janvey,Josh Penn,Michael Gottwald Django Unchained Stacey Sher,Reginald Hudlin,Pilar Savone Les Misérables Tim Bevan,Eric Fellner,Debra Hayward,Cameron Mackintosh Life of Pi Gil Netter,Ang Lee,David Womark Lincoln Steven Spielberg,Kathleen Kennedy Silver Linings Playbook Donna Gigliotti,Bruce Cohen,Jonathan Gordon Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal,Kathryn Bigelow,Megan Ellison	Ang Lee Life of Pi Michael Haneke - Amour David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook Steven Spielberg - Lincoln Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Actor	Best Actress
Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook as Pat Solitano Jr. Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables as Jean Valjean Joaquin Phoenix - The Master as Freddie Quell Denzel Washington - Flight as William "Whip" Whitaker	Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty as Maya Emmanuelle Riva - Amour as Anne Laurent Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild as Hushpuppy Naomi Watts - The Impossible as Maria Bennett
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Christoph Waltz Django Unchained as Dr. King Schultz Alan Arkin - Argo as Lester Siegel Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook as Pat Solitano Sr. Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master as Lancaster Dodd Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln as Thaddeus Stevens	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
Best Writing - Original Screenplay	Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay
Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino Amour - Michael Haneke Flight - John Gatins Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson,Roman Coppola Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal	Argo Chris Terrio from The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez from The Great Escape by Joshuah Bearman Beasts of the Southern Wild - Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin from Juicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar Life of Pi - David Magee from Life of Pi byYann Martel Lincoln - Tony Kushner from Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell from The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Best Animated Feature	Best Foreign Language 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	Amour (Austria) in French Michael Haneke Kon-Tiki (Norway) in English and Norwegian - Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg No (Chile) in Spanish - Pablo Larraín A Royal Affair (Denmark) in Danish - Nikolaj Arcel War Witch (Canada) in French - Kim Nguyen
Best Documentary - Feature	Best Documentary - Short Subject
Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn 5 Broken Cameras - Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi The Gatekeepers - Dror Moreh,Philippa Kowarsky,Estelle Fialon How to Survive a Plague - David France and Howard Gertler The Invisible War - Kirby Dick andAmy Ziering	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
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
Curfew Shawn Christensen Asad - Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura Buzkashi Boys - Sam French and Ariel Nasr Death of a Shadow - Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele Henry - Yan England	Paperman John Kahrs Adam and Dog - Minkyu Lee Fresh Guacamole - PES Head over Heels - Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly The Longest Daycare - David Silverman
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Life of Pi Mychael Danna Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli Argo - Alexandre Desplat Lincoln - John Williams Skyfall - Thomas Newman	"Skyfall" from Skyfall Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth "Before My Time" from Chasing Ice - J. Ralph "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted - Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane "Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi - Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri "Suddenly" from Les Misérables - Claude-Michel Schönberg,Herbert Kretzmer,Alain Boublil
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
Skyfall Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers Zero Dark Thirty - Paul N. J. Ottosson Argo - Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn Django Unchained - Wylie Stateman Life of Pi - Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton	Les Misérables Andy Nelson,Mark Paterson,Simon Hayes Argo - John Reitz,Gregg Rudloff,Jose Antonio Garcia Life of Pi - Ron Bartlett,D. M. Hemphill,Drew Kunin Lincoln - Andy Nelson,Gary Rydstrom,Ronald Judkins Skyfall - Scott Millan,Greg P. Russell,Stuart Wilson
Best Production Design	Best Cinematography
Lincoln Rick Carter and Jim Erickson Anna Karenina - Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Dan Hennah,Ra Vincent,Simon Bright Les Misérables - Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson Life of Pi - David Gropman and Anna Pinnock	Life of Pi Claudio Miranda Anna Karenina - Seamus McGarvey Django Unchained - Robert Richardson Lincoln - Janusz Kaminski Skyfall - Roger Deakins
Best Makeup and Hairstyling	Best Costume Design
Les Misérables Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell Hitchcock - Howard Berger,Peter Montagna,Martin Samuel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Swords King,Rick Findlater,Tami Lane	Anna Karenina Jacqueline Durran Les Misérables - Paco Delgado Lincoln - Joanna Johnston Mirror Mirror - Eiko Ishioka Snow White and the Huntsman - Colleen Atwood
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
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	Life of Pi Bill Westenhofer,Guillaume Rocheron,Erik-Jan de Boer,Donald R. Elliott The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Joe Letteri,Eric Saindon,David Clayton,R. Christopher White Marvel's The Avengers Janek Sirrs,Jeff White,Guy Williams,Dan Sudick Prometheus Richard Stammers,Trevor Wood,Charley Henley,Martin Hill Snow White and the Huntsman Cedric Nicolas-Troyan,Philip Brennan,Neil Corbould,Michael Dawson