According to latest news from the Oscar awards, filmmaker Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage drama “Argo” grabs the Best Picture award during the Oscar awards 2013, in a different presentation done by Jack Nicholson in Hollywood and First Lady Michelle Obama by videolink.
The Hollywood film “Argo” tops the list beating eight other film , which were “Amour,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Django Unchained,” “Les Miserables,” “Life of Pi,” ” Lincoln,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Talking to media after receiving the award, Ben Affleck said, “I want to thank Canada. I want to thank our friends in Iran, who live under terrible circumstances.”
The film “Argo” was based on a story that how a group of US diplomats who took refuge in the Canadian embassy in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis were spirited out of the Islamic republic as members of a bogus movie crew.
Further, there is something to cheer for Bollywood as well, as director Ang Lee’s ‘Life of Pi’ has won the best director award second time at the 85th Academy Awards. His ‘Life of Pi’, a fantasy adventure drama widely shot in India, has also won four Oscars, including best cinematography, best visual effects and best original score.
Here are the winners:
Best Picture: Argo
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis – Lincoln
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Best Director: Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour
Best Short Film (animated): Paperman
Best Feature Film (animated): Brave
Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
Best Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio – Argo
Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi
Best Visual Effects: Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R Elliott – Life of Pi
Best Original Score: Mychael Danna – Life of Pi
Best Original Song: Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth – Skyfall
Best Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran- Anna Karenina
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell- Les Miserables
Best Documentary (Feature): Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn – Searching for Sugar Man
Best Live Action Short Film – Curfew
Best Documentary (Short Film): Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine – Inocente
Best Sound Mixing: Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes – Les Miserables
Best Sound Editing: Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall
Best Production Design: Rick Carter and Jim Erickson – Lincoln
Best Film Editing: William Goldenberg – Argo
