Best Motion Picture of the Year

WINNER

Argo: Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney

NOMINEES

Amour: Stefan Arndt, Margaret Ménégoz, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz

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Beasts of the Southern Wild: Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, Michael Gottwald

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Django Unchained: Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone

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Les Misérables: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh

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Life of Pi: Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark

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Lincoln: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy

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Silver Linings Playbook: Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen, Jonathan Gordon

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Zero Dark Thirty: Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis became the sixth performer to win more than two Academy Awards and the first male performer to win three awards for lead roles.

NOMINEES

Silver Linings Playbook: Bradley Cooper

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Les Misérables: Hugh Jackman

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The Master: Joaquin Phoenix

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Flight: Denzel Washington

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

Silver Linings Playbook: Jennifer Lawrence

NOMINEES

Zero Dark Thirty: Jessica Chastain

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Amour: Emmanuelle Riva
At age 85, Emmanuelle Riva became the oldest Best Actress nominee of all time.

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Beasts of the Southern Wild: Quvenzhané Wallis
At the age of 9, Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role in Academy Awards history.

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The Impossible: Naomi Watts

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Django Unchained: Christoph Waltz

NOMINEES

Argo: Alan Arkin

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Silver Linings Playbook: Robert De Niro

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The Master: Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Lincoln: Tommy Lee Jones

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Les Misérables: Anne Hathaway

NOMINEES

The Master: Amy Adams

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Lincoln: Sally Field

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The Sessions: Helen Hunt

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Silver Linings Playbook: Jacki Weaver

Best Achievement in Directing

WINNER

Life of Pi: Ang Lee

NOMINEES

Amour: Michael Haneke

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Silver Linings Playbook: David O. Russell

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Lincoln: Steven Spielberg

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Beasts of the Southern Wild: Benh Zeitlin

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

WINNER

Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino

NOMINEES

Amour: Michael Haneke

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Flight: John Gatins

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Moonrise Kingdom: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola

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Zero Dark Thirty: Mark Boal

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

WINNER

Argo: Chris Terrio

NOMINEES

Beasts of the Southern Wild: Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin

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Life of Pi: David Magee

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Lincoln: Tony Kushner

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Silver Linings Playbook: David O. Russell

Best Achievement in Cinematography

WINNER

Life of Pi: Claudio Miranda

NOMINEES

Anna Karenina: Seamus McGarvey

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Django Unchained: Robert Richardson

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Lincoln: Janusz Kaminski

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Skyfall: Roger Deakins

Best Achievement in Costume Design

WINNER

Anna Karenina: Jacqueline Durran

NOMINEES

Les Misérables: Paco Delgado

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Lincoln: Joanna Johnston

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Mirror Mirror: Eiko Ishioka
Posthumously.

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Snow White and the Huntsman: Colleen Atwood

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

WINNER

Les Misérables: Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Simon Hayes

NOMINEES

Argo: John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, José Antonio García

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Life of Pi: Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Drew Kunin

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Lincoln: Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, Ron Judkins

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Skyfall: Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Stuart Wilson

Best Achievement in Film Editing

WINNER

Argo: William Goldenberg

NOMINEES

Life of Pi: Tim Squyres

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Lincoln: Michael Kahn

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Silver Linings Playbook: Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers

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Zero Dark Thirty: William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

WINNERS

Skyfall: Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers
Tied with Paul N.J. Ottosson for Zero Dark Thirty.

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Zero Dark Thirty: Paul N.J. Ottosson
Tied with Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers for Skyfall.

NOMINEES

Argo: Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn

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Django Unchained: Wylie Stateman

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Life of Pi: Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

WINNER

Life of Pi: Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik De Boer, Donald Elliott

NOMINEES

The Avengers: Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, Daniel Sudick

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White

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Prometheus: Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley, Martin Hill

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Snow White and the Huntsman: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Phil Brennan, Neil Corbould, Michael Dawson

Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

WINNER

Les Misérables: Lisa Westcott, Julie Dartnell

NOMINEES

Hitchcock: Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, Martin Samuel

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Peter King, Rick Findlater, Tami Lane

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

WINNER

Skyfall: Adele, Paul Epworth
For the song "Skyfall".

NOMINEES

Ted: Walter Murphy (music), Seth MacFarlane (lyrics)
For the song "Everybody Needs A Best Friend".

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Life of Pi: Mychael Danna (music), Bombay Jayashri (lyrics)
For the song "Pi's Lullaby".

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Les Misérables: Claude-Michel Schönberg (music), Herbert Kretzmer (lyrics), Alain Boublil (lyrics)
For the song "Suddenly".

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Chasing Ice: J. Ralph
For the song "Before My Time".

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

WINNER

Life of Pi: Mychael Danna

NOMINEES

Anna Karenina: Dario Marianelli

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Argo: Alexandre Desplat

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Lincoln: John Williams

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Skyfall: Thomas Newman

Best Short Film, Animated

WINNER

Paperman: John Kahrs

NOMINEES

Adam and Dog: Minkyu Lee

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Fresh Guacamole: PES

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Head Over Heels: Timothy Reckart, Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly

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The Longest Daycare: David Silverman

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER

Curfew: Shawn Christensen

NOMINEES

Asad: Bryan Buckley, Mino Jarjoura

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Buzkashi Boys: Sam French, Ariel Nasr

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Death of a Shadow: Tom Van Avermaet, Ellen De Waele

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Henry: Yan England

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER

Inocente: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix

NOMINEES

Kings Point: Sari Gilman, Jedd Wider

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Mondays at Racine: Cynthia Wade, Robin Honan

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Open Heart: Kief Davidson, Cori Shepherd Stern

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Redemption: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER

Searching for Sugar Man: Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn

NOMINEES

5 Broken Cameras: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

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The Gatekeepers: Dror Moreh, Estelle Fialon, Philippa Kowarsky

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How to Survive a Plague: David France, Howard Gertler

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The Invisible War: Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

WINNER

Amour
- Austria

NOMINEES

War Witch
- Canada

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No
- Chile

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A Royal Affair
- Denmark

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Kon-Tiki
- Norway

Best Animated Feature

WINNER

Brave: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
Brenda Chapman became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year.

NOMINEES

Frankenweenie: Tim Burton

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ParaNorman: Sam Fell, Chris Butler

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The Pirates! Band of Misfits: Peter Lord

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Wreck-It Ralph: Rich Moore

Best Achievement in Production Design

WINNER

Lincoln: Rick Carter (production designer), Jim Erickson (set decorator)

NOMINEES

Anna Karenina: Sarah Greenwood (production designer), Katie Spencer (set decorator)

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Dan Hennah (production designer), Ra Vincent (set decorator), Simon Bright (set decorator)

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Les Misérables: Eve Stewart (production designer), Anna Lynch-Robinson (set decorator)

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Life of Pi: David Gropman (production designer), Anna Pinnock (set decorator)

WINNERS

D.A. Pennebaker

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George Stevens Jr.

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Hal Needham

WINNER

Bill Taylor

WINNER

Jeffrey Katzenberg

WINNER

(Cooke Optics)
For their continuing innovation in the design, development and manufacture of advanced camera lenses that have helped define the look of motion pictures over the last century.

WINNERS

Simon Clutterbuck, James Jacobs, Richard Dorling
For the development of the Tissue Physically-Based Character Simulation Framework.

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Ross Shain
Dr. Philip McLauchlan, Allan Jaenicke, John-Paul Smith and Ross Shain -For the creation of the Mocha planar tracking and rotoscoping software at Imagineer Systems Ltd.

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Joe Murtha, William Frederick and Jim Markland -For the design and creation of the CINE VCLX Portable Power System.

WINNERS

Lawrence Kesteloot, Drew Olbrich, Daniel Wexler
For the creation of the Light system for computer graphics lighting at PDI/DreamWorks.

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Steve LaVietes, Brian Hall, Jeremy Selan
For the creation of the Katana computer graphics scene management and lighting software at Sony Pictures Imageworks.

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Nils Thuerey
Theodore Kim, Nils Thuerey, Dr. Markus Gross and Doug James -For the invention, publication and dissemination of Wavelet Turbulence software.

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Richard Mall
For the design and development of the Matthews Max Menace Arm