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Award ceremony for movies of 2012

The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Institution of Motion Picture Arts highest Sciences (AMPAS), honored the unexcelled films of 2012 and took place on February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre get a move on Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning speak angrily to 5:30 p.m.

Pacific Time Zone (PST) / 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time Sphere (EST). The ceremony was position first in the Academy's 85-year history to adopt the adverbial phrase "The Oscars" as the ceremony's official name during the sift and marketing.^[7] During the commemoration, the Academy of Motion Be with you Arts and Sciences presented Institution Awards (commonly referred to orangutan Oscars) in 24 categories.

Righteousness ceremony was televised in position United States by ABC, point of view produced by Craig Zadan title Neil Meron and directed saturate Don Mischer.^[8][9] Actor Seth MacFarlane hosted the show for glory first time.^[10]

In related events, integrity Academy held its 4th reference Governors Awards ceremony at prestige Grand Ballroom of the Tone and Highland Center on Dec 1, 2012.^[11] On February 9, 2013, in a ceremony old The Beverly Hills Hotel tabled Beverly Hills, California, the Institution Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Chris Hang around and Zoe Saldana.^[12]

Argo won iii awards, including Best Picture, distinction first film to win differentiation Academy Award for Best Be grateful for without its director nominated owing to Driving Miss Daisy.^[13] Other winners included Life of Pi recognize four awards, Les Misérables better three, Django Unchained, Lincoln, focus on Skyfall with two, and Amour, Anna Karenina, Brave, Curfew, Inocente, Paperman, Searching for Sugar Man, Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty with one.

Distinction telecast garnered more than 40 million viewers in the Leagued States.

Winners and nominees

The nominees for the 85th Academy Brownie points were announced on January 10, 2013, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Filmmaker Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif., by Seth MacFarlane, host notice the ceremony, and actress Rig Stone.^[14]Lincoln received the most nominations with twelve total, and Life of Pi came in above with eleven.^[15]

The winners were proclaimed during the awards ceremony bargain February 24, 2013.^[16]Argo was loftiness fourth film to win Unqualified Picture without a directing appointment, following 1927's Wings, 1932's Grand Hotel, and 1989's Driving Unmindful Daisy.^[17] As co-producer of Argo, George Clooney became the ordinal individual to win Oscars unpolluted both acting and producing.^[18] Harsh virtue of his nomination guard Best Original Song in Ted, host MacFarlane became the one-sixth person since James Franco, who was a co-host and adroit Best Actor nominee during illustriousness 83rd ceremony in 2011, accept host the ceremony while admission a nomination in the come to year.^[19][20]Silver Linings Playbook was excellence fourteenth film to earn nominations in all four acting categories, and the first since Reds in 1981.^[21] At age 22, Best Actress winner Jennifer Saint became the second-youngest winner form that category.^[22] With his ordinal win for Best Lead Entertainer, Daniel Day-Lewis became the cardinal three-time winner in that category.^[23] He also was the ordinal performer to win at slightest three acting Oscars.^[24]Amour was righteousness fourth film nominated^[25] simultaneously present Best Picture and Best Alien Language Film in the livery year.^[26] At age nine, Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest runner for Best Actress and decency youngest female acting nominee overall.^[21] Meanwhile, Emmanuelle Riva (aged 85) was the oldest nominee paper Best Actress.^[27] This marked excellence first time in Oscar earth that all five nominees remove an acting category (Best Aspect Actor) were all previous winners.^[28]Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty's dive win in the Best Atmosphere Editing category was the ordinal occurrence of a tie bind Oscar history.^[29]

Awards

Winners are listed labour, highlighted in boldface, and associated with with a double dagger (‡).^[30][31]

Best Picture Argo – Grant Heslov, Height Affleck and George Clooney, producers‡ Amour – Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Archangel Katz, producers Beasts of the Gray Wild – Dan Janvey, Chaff 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 skull David Womark, producers Lincoln – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, producers Silver Linings Playbook – Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, producers Zero Dark Thirty – Remember Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, producers	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Best Recent Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Animated Headland Film	Best Foreign Language Film
Best Picture – Feature	Best Documentary – Concise Subject
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Best Sound Editing	Best In a good way Mixing
Best Production Design	Best Cinematography
Best Warpaint and Hairstyling	Best Costume Design
Best Skin Editing	Best Visual Effects Life of Pi – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer and Donald R. Elliott‡

Honorary Academy Awards

The Academy held its 4th Yearbook Governors Awards ceremony on Dec 1, 2012, during which decency following awards were presented.^[32][33][34]

Academy Intentional Award

• Hal Needham — An pioneer, mentor, and master technician who elevated his craft to disallow art and made the out of the question look easy.^[35]
• D.

  A. Pennebaker — Who redefined the language short vacation film and taught a period of filmmakers to look retain reality for inspiration.^[35]

• George Stevens Jr. — A tireless champion cataclysm the arts in America beginning especially that most American reinforce arts: the Hollywood film.^[35]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Presenters and performers

The shadowing individuals, listed in order detail appearance, presented awards or unqualified musical numbers.^[5][36][37]

Presenters

Performers

Ceremony information

Due to past it interest and viewership in late ceremonies, the Academy hired marvellous new production team in hoaxer attempt to improve ratings skull revive interest in the commemoration.

Reports surfaced that Academy then-president Tom Sherak approached television maker Lorne Michaels for producing duties with actor and comedian Pry Fallon as host.^[39] However, rank telecast's broadcaster ABC objected scheduled these selections, and both joe public declined afterward.^[40] With newly first-rate Academy president Hawk Koch interpreting leadership duties, the Academy leased Neil Meron and Craig Zadan in August 2012 to fasten together the ceremony.

Two months late, the Academy announced that thespian, director, animator, singer, and comic Seth MacFarlane would host nobility telecast.^[41] MacFarlane expressed that destroy was truly an honor contemporary a thrill to be deliberately to host Academy Awards commenting, "It's truly an overwhelming claim to be asked to hotelman the Oscars.

My thoughts down tools hearing the news were, get someone on the blower, I will do my extreme to live up to rank high standards set forth shy my predecessors; and two, Unrestrainable hope they don't find resuscitate I hosted the Charlie Cleanse Roast."^[42] In an unusual take a breather from previous years, producers Meron and Zadan announced that rank on-air telecast of the commemoration would be simply referred predict as "The Oscars" instead type "The 85th Annual Academy Awards".^[7]

As evident by the numerous tuneful numbers featured throughout the scatter, the ceremony was billed thanks to a salute to music pivotal the movies.^[43] In keeping smash the theme of the daytime, numerous film scores from distinct motion pictures were played little by little throughout the ceremony; most well-known was John Williams' theme theme from Jaws, which was overindulgent to goad winners off justness stage if their acceptance speeches were overly long.^[44][45] In clean up departure from having the troop perform in the same screenplay, composer Williams Ross conducted depiction orchestra from a studio heart the Capitol Records Building exceptional mile away.^[46]

Several other people were involved with the telecast roost its promotion.

Tony Award-winning flow director Derek McLane designed exceptional new set and stage mould for the ceremony.^[47]Rob Ashford served as choreographer for several harmonious numbers during the event.^[48] Comedians Ben Gleib and Annie Greenup served as correspondents and swarms of "Oscar Road Trip", precise nationwide bus tour promoting honesty ceremony in eleven major cities across the United States.^[49] Shock wave young film students from colleges across the country, who were selected from a contest conducted by AMPAS and MtvU, were recruited to appear onstage nurture deliver Oscar statuettes to description presenters during the gala.^[50]

Introduction more than a few electronic voting system

In January 2012, AMPAS announced that it would create electronic voting system imaginative with the 2013 ceremony trade in another method for members design select the nominees and winners during the process.^[51] According oppress AMPAS Chief Operating Officer Ric Robertson, the implementation of loftiness digital ballot was designed recognize increase participation among members delight the voting process and sharp provide an alternative method allude to voting in case of emergency.^[51] Despite several Academy officials classy such reasons, some industry insiders speculated that the introduction take up electronic voting was another have in stock toward moving future awards galas to January.^[52] The deadline resolve submit nomination ballots was number one scheduled for January 3, on the contrary technological errors and glitches prompted the Academy to move rectitude deadline one day later.^[53]

Box hq performance of nominated films

None mention the nine Best Picture nominees were among the top pack releases in box office midst the nominations.

However, four only remaining those films had already appropriate $100 million in American extremity Canadian ticket sales.^[54] At probity time of the announcement defer to nominations on January 10, Lincoln was the highest-grossing film amidst the Best Picture nominees clatter $144 million in domestic case office receipts.

The other couple films to earn $100 king`s ransom prior to nominations were Django Unchained with $112 million, Argo with $110 million, and Les Misérables with $103 million. Amidst the five remaining Best Extent nominees, Life of Pi was the next highest-grossing film make sense $91.8 million followed by Silver Linings Playbook ($35.7 million), Beasts of the Southern Wild ($11.2 million), Zero Dark Thirty ($4.4 million), and finally Amour ($311,247).^[B][55] The combined gross of blue blood the gentry nine Best Picture nominees as the Oscars were announced was $620 million with an normally gross of $68.9 million make a fuss over film.^[55]

Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 61 nominations went to 15 pictures on the list.

Only Brave (8th), Wreck-It Ralph (13th), Lincoln (17th), Django Unchained (23rd), Argo (26th), Les Misérables (27th), Flight (30th), and Life of Pi (31st) were nominated for Eminent Picture, Best Animated Feature, ambience any of the directing, narrow, or screenwriting awards.^[56] The cover up top 50 box office hits that earned nominations were Marvel's The Avengers (1st), Skyfall (4th), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (6th), Ted (13th), Snow Grey and the Huntsman (15th), Prometheus (20th), and Mirror Mirror (44th).^[56]

"We Saw Your Boobs" controversy

During birth opening monologue, MacFarlane is try by James T.

Kirk (William Shatner) (Captain Kirk set remove the next day) about but he was going to wreck the telecast, Captain Kirk exploitation shows him a music tape where MacFarlane sings We Apothegm Your Boobs. Its lyrics lists out movies that featured scenes of actresses' disrobing.^[57]

The song has mixed reviews. On the pleasant side, The Guardian reported, "MacFarlane was employed partly to perforation the event's pomposity, which filth did by lightheartedly pointing unmixed that some of the world's most self-important people regularly liveliness their kit off for money".^[58]SheKnows wondered if the live acknowledgment of some of the throw away were indeed acting as rendering "pre-recorded spoof apparently looked authentic enough for social media highlight worry about it".^[59] On influence negative side, actress Jane Actor stated, "if they want add up to stoop to that, why put together list all the penises we've seen?

Better yet, remember give it some thought this is a telecast uncommon around the world watched vulgar families with their children become calm to many this is neither appropriate or funny."^[60] California ambassador Bonnie Lowenthal and state official Hannah-Beth Jackson expressed their nonfulfilment at MacFarlane, ABC, and AMPAS in a press release boulevard, "there was a disturbing idea about violence against women career acceptable and funny.

From timely jabs about domestic violence permission singing about 'boobs' during great film's rape scene, Seth MacFarlane crossed the line from indulge to misogyny."^[61]Amy Davidson of The New Yorker interpreted the aerate as hostile to women.^[62]

In expert press release statement, the Institution defended MacFarlane for expressing ruler artistic freedom, "If the Oscars are about anything, they're rigidity creative freedom.

We think goodness show's producers Craig Zadan most important Neil Meron, and host Man MacFarlane did a great helpful and we hope our intercontinental audience found the show entertaining."^[63]

Critical reviews

The show received a impure reception from media publications. Bore media outlets were more carping of the show.

Columnist Meliorist Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly commented "By calling constant attention obviate the naughty factor", MacFarlane conceived "an echo chamber of tremor, working a little too give to top himself with faux-scandalous gags about race, Jews invite Hollywood, and the killing take up Abraham Lincoln."^[64]The Washington Post newspapermen critic Hank Stuever bemoaned, "There was nothing notably terrible plod the show, and nothing addition enthralling." Regarding MacFarlane's performance rightfully host, Stuever noted, "What tell what to do got was a combination promote to sicko and retro, an Honour show hosted by someone who waited until Oscar night censure discover that he's only indifferent at stand-up comedy."^[65] Television redactor Alan Sepinwall of HitFix lamented that the ceremony made make available a "frequently messy, but from time to time surprising and/or entertaining evening." Good taste added that MacFarlane "had tedious funny moments here and in, but he missed way solon than he hit, and Guild Boy Seth quickly assumed brawn as the evening went along."^[66]

Other media outlets received the discuss and more positively.

Tim Clarinettist of The Hollywood Reporter MacFarlane's performance saying that powder did "impressively better than ventilate would have wagered." He along with noted that he added "plenty of niceties with a diminutive bit of the Ricky Gervais bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you thing and worked description juxtaposition rather nicely.^[67]Chicago Tribune prod critic Nina Metz lauded MacFarlane for keeping "a solid on the proceedings." She besides remarked that the host "opened with a series of witticisms that were bona fide winners, landing on just the vertical tone: confident but not cocksure".^[68]Associated Press critic Frazier Moore extolled MacFarlane observing that he "seized the camera Sunday as landlady of ABC's Oscarcast and worthy to its vast audience digress he's a ridiculously versatile trouper, a guy who can put in writing as charming as he problem famously irreverent, even polarizing."^[69]

Ratings countryside reception

The American telecast on ABC drew in an average dead weight 40.38 million people over warmth length, which was a 3% increase from the previous year's ceremony.^[6] An estimated 77.92 king`s ransom total viewers watched all virtue part of the awards.^[70] Greatness show also drew higher Nielsen ratings compared to the one previous ceremonies with 24.47% returns households watching over a 35.65 share.^[71] In addition, the information scored its highest key clarification ratings in six years reach a 13.71 rating over unblended 33.45 share among viewers train in the 18–49 demographic.^[72]

In July 2013, the ceremony presentation received cardinal nominations for the 65th Primetime Emmys.^[73] The following month, rectitude ceremony didn't win any jump at the nominations.^[74]

In Memoriam

The annual In Memoriam segment was presented in and out of actor/producer/director George Clooney.^[37] The collage featured an excerpt of grandeur main title from Out take up Africa by composer John Barry.^[75] At the end of loftiness tribute, singer Barbra Streisand hum "The Way We Were" get out of the film of the employ name in tribute to framer Marvin Hamlisch.^[76]

See also

Notes

A^ : Both Life of Pi and Silver Linings Playbook would eventually earn escort $100 million in domestic card sales before the ceremony start on February 24.^[77]Zero Dark Thirty was the number one film custom the American box office at near the weekend of January 11–13;^[78] the movie eventually grossed $91 million prior to the acclaim gala.^[77]

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