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85th Academy Awards Official poster Date February 24, 2013 Site Dolby Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA Host Seth MacFarlane Pre-show Jess Cagle Kristin Chenoweth Kelly Rowland Robin Roberts Lara Spencer [1] Producer Neil Meron Craig Zadan Director Don Mischer Highlights Best Picture Argo Most awards Life of Pi (4) Most nominations Lincoln (12) TV in the United States Network ABC Duration 3 hours, 35 minutes [2] Ratings 40.38 million 24.47% (Nielsen ratings) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2012 and took place February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and directed by Don Mischer. [3][4] Actor Seth MacFarlane hosted the show for the first time. [5][6] The ceremony was the first in the Academy's 85-year history to adopt the phrase "The Oscars" as the ceremony's official name during the broadcast and marketing. [7] In related events, the Academy held its 4th annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on December 1, 2012. [8] On February 9, 2013, in a ceremony at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana. [9] Life of Pi won four awards including Best Director for Ang Lee. [10][11] Argo won three awards, including Best Picture, the fourth film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture without its director nominated. [12] Other winners included Les Misérables also with three awards, Django Unchained, Lincoln, and Skyfall with two, and Amour, Anna Karenina, Brave, Curfew, Inocente, Paperman, Searching for Sugar Man, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty with one. The telecast garnered more than 40 million viewers in the United States. 1 Winners and nominees 1.1 Awards 1.2 Honorary Academy Awards 1.2.1 Academy Honorary Award 1.2.2 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 85th Academy Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/85th_Academy_Awards 1 of 22 5/24/2014 12:54 PM

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85th Academy Awards

Official poster

Date February 24, 2013

Site Dolby Theatre

Hollywood, Los Angeles,

California, USA

Host Seth MacFarlane

Pre-show Jess Cagle

Kristin Chenoweth

Kelly Rowland

Robin Roberts

Lara Spencer[1]

Producer Neil Meron

Craig Zadan

Director Don Mischer

Highlights

Best Picture Argo

Most awards Life of Pi (4)

Most nominations Lincoln (12)

TV in the United States

Network ABC

Duration 3 hours, 35 minutes[2]

Ratings 40.38 million

24.47% (Nielsen ratings)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS),honored the best films of 2012 and took place February24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, LosAngeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion PictureArts and Sciences presented Academy Awards(commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. Theceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, wasproduced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and directed by

Don Mischer.[3][4] Actor Seth MacFarlane hosted the

show for the first time.[5][6] The ceremony was the first inthe Academy's 85-year history to adopt the phrase "TheOscars" as the ceremony's official name during the

broadcast and marketing.[7]

In related events, the Academy held its 4th annualGovernors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom ofthe Hollywood and Highland Center on December 1,

2012.[8] On February 9, 2013, in a ceremony at TheBeverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, theAcademy Awards for Technical Achievement were

presented by hosts Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana.[9]

Life of Pi won four awards including Best Director for

Ang Lee.[10][11] Argo won three awards, including BestPicture, the fourth film to win an Academy Award for

Best Picture without its director nominated.[12] Otherwinners included Les Misérables also with three awards,Django Unchained, Lincoln, and Skyfall with two, andAmour, Anna Karenina, Brave, Curfew, Inocente,Paperman, Searching for Sugar Man, Silver LiningsPlaybook, and Zero Dark Thirty with one. The telecastgarnered more than 40 million viewers in the UnitedStates.

1 Winners and nominees

1.1 Awards

1.2 Honorary Academy Awards

1.2.1 Academy Honorary Award

1.2.2 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian

Award

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< 84th Academy Awards 86th > 1.3 Films with multiple nominations and

awards

2 Presenters and performers

2.1 Presenters

2.2 Performers

3 Ceremony information

3.1 Introduction of electronic voting system

3.2 Box office performance of nominated

films

3.3 Visual Effects protest

3.4 Critical reviews

3.5 Ratings and reception

4 In Memoriam

5 See also

6 Notes

7 References

8 External links

The nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were announced on January 10, 2013, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Seth MacFarlane, host of the

ceremony, and actress Emma Stone.[13] Lincoln received the most nominations with twelve total, and Life of

Pi came in second with eleven.[14]

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 24, 2013.[15] Argo was the fourthfilm to win Best Picture without a directing nomination. 1927's Wings, 1932's Grand Hotel, and 1989's

Driving Miss Daisy previously achieved this feat.[16] As co-producer of Argo, George Clooney became the

third individual to win Oscars for both acting and producing.[17] Best Director winner Ang Lee was the

second person to win that category twice for helming non-Best Picture winning films.[18] Silver Linings

Playbook was the fourteenth film to earn nominations in all four acting categories.[19] At age 22, Best

Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence became the second-youngest winner in that category.[20] With his thirdwin for Best Lead Actor, Daniel Day-Lewis became the first three-time winner in that aforementioned

category.[21] He also was the sixth performer to win at least three acting Oscars.[22] Amour was the fourth

film nominated simultaneously for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film in the same year.[23] Atage nine, Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest nominee for Best Actress and the youngest female acting

nominee overall.[24] Meanwhile, Emmanuelle Riva (aged 85) was the oldest nominee for Best Actress.[25]

Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty's joint win in the Best Sound Editing category marked the sixth occurrence of a

tie in Oscar history.[26]

Awards

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Ang Lee, Best Director

winner

Daniel Day-Lewis, Best

Actor winner

Jennifer Lawrence, Best

Actress winner

Winners are listed first and indicated with a double-dagger ( ).[27]

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Christoph Waltz, Best

Supporting Actor winner

Anne Hathaway, Best

Supporting Actress

winner

Quentin Tarantino, Best

Original Screenplay

winner

Best Picture Best Director

Argo – Grant Heslov, Ben

Affleck, and George Clooney

Amour – Margaret

Menegoz, Stefan Arndt,

Veit Heiduschka, and

Michael Katz

Beasts of the Southern

Wild – Dan Janvey, Josh

Penn, and Michael

Gottwald

Django Unchained –

Stacey Sher, Reginald

Hudlin, and Pilar Savone

Les Misérables – Tim

Bevan, Eric Fellner,

Debra Hayward, and

Cameron Mackintosh

Life of Pi – Gil Netter,

Ang Lee, and David

Womark

Lincoln – Steven

Spielberg and Kathleen

Kennedy

Silver Linings Playbook –

Donna Gigliotti, Bruce

Cohen, and Jonathan

Gordon

Zero Dark Thirty – Mark

Boal, Kathryn Bigelow,

and 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

Patrick "Pat Jr." Solitano

Jennifer Lawrence – Silver

Linings Playbook as Tiffany

Maxwell

Jessica Chastain – Zero

Dark Thirty as Maya

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Michael Haneke, Best

Foreign Language Film

winner

Mychael Danna, Best

Original Score winner

Adele, Best Original

Song co-winner

Hugh Jackman – Les

Misérables as Jean

Valjean

Joaquin Phoenix – The

Master as Freddie Quell

Denzel Washington –

Flight as William "Whip"

Whitaker

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

Patrizio "Pat Sr," Solitano

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 Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay

Django Unchained – Quentin

Tarantino

Amour – Michael Haneke

Flight – John Gatins

Moonrise Kingdom – Wes

Anderson and Roman

Coppola

Zero Dark Thirty – Mark

Boal

Argo – Chris Terrio from The

Master of Disguise by Antonio

J. Mendez & 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 by Yann

Martel

Lincoln – Tony Kushner

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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, and Estelle

Fialon

How to Survive a Plague

– David France and

Howard Gertler

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

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The Invisible War – Kirby

Dick and Amy Ziering

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 (Dood

Van Een Schaduw) – 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, and

Alain Boublil

Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing

Skyfall – Per Hallberg and

Karen Baker Landers

Zero Dark Thirty – Paul N. J.

Les Misérables – Andy Nelson,

Mark Paterson, and Simon

Hayes

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Ottosson

Argo – Erik Aadahl and

Ethan Van der Ryn

Django Unchained –

Wylie Stateman

Life of Pi – Eugene

Gearty and Philip

Stockton

Argo – John Reitz, Gregg

Rudloff, and Jose Antonio

Garcia

Life of Pi – Ron Bartlett,

D. M. Hemphill, and

Drew Kunin

Lincoln – Andy Nelson,

Gary Rydstrom, and

Ronald Judkins

Skyfall – Scott Millan,

Greg P. Russell, and

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,

and 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

Kamiński

Skyfall – Roger Deakins

Best Makeup and Hairstyling Best Costume Design

Les Misérables – Lisa Westcott

and Julie Dartnell

Hitchcock – Howard

Berger, Peter Montagna,

and Martin Samuel

The Hobbit: An

Unexpected Journey –

Anna Karenina – Jacqueline

Durran

Les Misérables – Paco

Delgado

Lincoln – Joanna

Johnston

Mirror Mirror – Eiko

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Peter Swords King, Rick

Findlater, and Tami Lane

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, and Donald R. Elliott

The Hobbit: An

Unexpected Journey – Joe

Letteri, Eric Saindon,

David Clayton, and R.

Christopher White

The Avengers – Janek

Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy

Williams, and Dan Sudick

Prometheus – Richard

Stammers, Trevor Wood,

Charley Henley, and

Martin Hill

Snow White and the

Huntsman – Cedric

Nicolas-Troyan, Philip

Brennan, Neil Corbould,

and Michael Dawson

Honorary Academy Awards

The Academy held its 4th Annual Governors Awards ceremony on December 1, 2012 during which the

following awards were presented.[28][29][30]

Academy Honorary Award

Hal Needham

D.A. Pennebaker

George Stevens, Jr.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

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First Lady Michelle Obama

announces Best Picture, awarded to

Argo, live from the Diplomatic Room

of the White House

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following 15 films received multiplenominations:

Nominations Film

12 Lincoln

11 Life of Pi

8Les Misérables

Silver Linings Playbook

7 Argo

5

Amour

Django Unchained

Skyfall

Zero Dark Thirty

4Anna Karenina

Beasts of the Southern Wild

3The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Master

2Flight

Snow White and the Huntsman

The following 6 films received multiple awards:

Awards Film

4 Life of Pi

3Argo

Les Misérables

2

Django Unchained

Lincoln

Skyfall

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented

awards or performed musical numbers.[2]

Presenters

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Name(s) Role

Cedering Fox Announcer for the 85th annual Academy Awards

Octavia Spencer Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor

Melissa McCarthyPaul Rudd

Presenters of the awards for Best Animated Short Film and Best AnimatedFeature

Reese WitherspoonPresenter of the films Les Misérables, Life of Pi, and Beasts of the SouthernWild on the Best Picture segment

Robert Downey, Jr.Chris EvansSamuel L. JacksonJeremy RennerMark Ruffalo

Presenters of the awards for Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects

Jennifer AnistonChanning Tatum

Presenters of the awards for Best Costume Design and Best Makeup andHairstyling

Halle Berry Presenter of the "Fifty Years of Bond" tribute and performance of "Goldfinger"

Jamie FoxxKerry Washington

Presenters of the awards for Best Live Action Short and Best DocumentaryShort Subject

Liam NeesonPresenter of the films Argo, Lincoln, and Zero Dark Thirty on the Best Picturesegment

Ben Affleck Presenter of the award for Best Documentary Feature

Jessica ChastainJennifer Garner

Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film

John Travolta Presenter of "Celebration of Musicals of the Last Decade" musical number

Chris PineZoe Saldana

Presenters of the segment of the Academy Awards for Technical Achievementand Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Mark WahlbergTed, the Teddy bear

Presenters of the awards for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing

Christopher Plummer Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress

Hawk Koch (AMPASpresident)

Special presentation acknowledging the creation of the Academy Museum ofMotion Pictures

Sandra Bullock Presenter of the award for Best Film Editing

Jennifer Lawrence Introducer of the performance of Best Song nominee "Skyfall"

Nicole KidmanPresenter of the films Silver Linings Playbook, Django Unchained, and Amouron the Best Picture segment

Daniel RadcliffeKristen Stewart

Presenters of the award for Best Production Design

Salma HayekPresenter of the segment of the Honorary Academy Awards and Irving G.Thalberg Memorial Award

George Clooney Presenter of In Memoriam tribute

Richard GereQueen LatifahRenée Zellweger

Introducer of the performance of Best Song nominee "Everybody Needs a BestFriend"Presenters of the awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song

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Name(s) Role

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Dustin HoffmanCharlize Theron

Presenters of the awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best OriginalScreenplay

Michael DouglasJane Fonda

Presenters of the award for Best Director

Jean Dujardin Presenter of the award for Best Actress

Meryl Streep Presenter of the award for Best Actor

Jack NicholsonMichelle Obama

Presenters of the award for Best Picture

Performers

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Name(s) Role Performed

William RossMusicalArrangerConductor

Orchestral

Seth MacFarlaneWilliam Shatner

Performers Opening segment

Seth MacFarlaneGay Men's Chorus of LosAngeles

Performers "We Saw Your Boobs" during the opening segment[31]

Naomi WattsCharlize TheronJennifer Lawrence

CameoAppeared performing pre-taped comedic reactions toMacFarlane's "We Saw Your Boobs" skit.

Seth MacFarlaneChanning TatumCharlize Theron

Performers "The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time

Joseph Gordon-LevittSeth MacFarleneDaniel Radcliffe

Performers"High Hopes" from A Hole in the Head"Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast

Shirley Bassey Performer"Goldfinger" from Goldfinger during the "Fifty Years of Bond"tribute

Catherine Zeta-Jones Performer "All That Jazz" from Chicago

Jennifer Hudson Performer "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls

Samantha BarksSacha Baron CohenHelena Bonham CarterRussell CroweAnne HathawayJennifer HudsonHugh JackmanEddie RedmayneAmanda SeyfriedAaron Tveit

Performers "Suddenly" and "One Day More" from Les Misérables

Adele Performer "Skyfall" from Skyfall

Barbra Streisand Performer "The Way We Were" during the tribute to Marvin Hamlisch

Norah Jones Performer "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted

Kristin ChenowethSeth MacFarlane

Performers "Here's To The Losers" during the closing credits

Due to declining interest and viewership in recent ceremonies, the Academy hired a new production team inan attempt to improve ratings and revive interest in the ceremony. Reports surfaced that Academythen-president Tom Sherak approached television producer Lorne Michaels for producing duties with actor

and comedian Jimmy Fallon as host.[32] However, the telecast's broadcaster ABC objected to these

selections, and both men declined afterward.[33] With newly elected Academy president Hawk Koch

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Seth MacFarlane hosted the 85th

Academy Awards

assuming leadership duties, the Academy hired Neil Meron andCraig Zadan in August 2012 to produce the ceremony. Two monthslater, the Academy announced that actor, director, cartoonist and

comedian Seth MacFarlane would host the telecast.[34] In an unusualbreak from previous years, producers Meron and Zadan announcedthat the on-air telecast of the ceremony would be simply referred to

as "The Oscars" instead of "The 85th Annual Academy Awards".[7]

As evident by the numerous musical numbers featured throughoutthe telecast, the ceremony was billed as a salute to music and the

movies.[35] In keeping with the theme of the evening, numerous filmscores from various motion pictures were played intermittentlythroughout the ceremony; most notable was John Williams' thememusic from Jaws, which was used to goad winners off the stage if

their acceptance speeches were overly long.[36][37] ComposerWilliams Ross conducted the orchestra from a studio inside the

nearby Capitol Records Building.[38]

Several other people were involved with the telecast and its promotion. Tony Award-winning art director

Derek McLane designed a new set and stage design for the ceremony.[39] Rob Ashford served as

choreographer for several musical numbers during the event.[40] Comedians Ben Gleib and Annie Greenupserved as correspondents and hosts of "Oscar Road Trip", a nationwide bus tour promoting the ceremony in

eleven major cities across the United States.[41] Six young film students from colleges across the country,who were selected from a contest conducted by AMPAS and MtvU, were recruited to appear onstage to

deliver Oscar statuettes to the presenters during the gala.[42]

Introduction of electronic voting system

In January 2012, AMPAS announced that it would create electronic voting system starting with the 2013

ceremony as another method for members to select the nominees and winners during the process.[43]

According to AMPAS Chief Operating Officer Ric Robertson, the implementation of the digital ballot wasdesigned to increase participation among members in the voting process and to provide an alternative

method of voting in case of emergency.[43] Despite several Academy officials denying such reasons, someindustry insiders speculated that the introduction of electronic voting was another move toward moving

future awards galas to January.[44] The deadline to submit nomination ballots was originally scheduled forJanuary 3, but technological errors and glitches prompted the Academy to move the deadline one day

later.[45]

Box office performance of nominated films

None of the nine Best Picture nominees were among the top ten releases in box office during thenominations. However, four of those films had already earned $100 million in American and Canadian

ticket sales.[46] At the time of the announcement of nominations on January 10, Lincoln was the highest-grossing film among the Best Picture nominees with $144 million in domestic box office receipts. The otherthree films to earn $100 million prior to nominations were Django Unchained with $112 million, Argo with$110 million, and Les Misérables with $103 million. Among the five remaining Best Picture nominees, Lifeof Pi was the next highest-grossing film with $91.8 million followed by Silver Linings Playbook ($35.7million), Beasts of the Southern Wild ($11.2 million), Zero Dark Thirty ($4.4 million), and finally Amour

($311,247).[A][47] The combined gross of the nine Best Picture nominees when the Oscars were announced

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was $620 million with an average gross of $68.9 million per film.[47]

Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 61 nominations went to 15 films 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 Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, or any of the directing,

acting, or screenwriting awards.[48] The other top 50 box office hits that earned nominations were Marvel'sThe Avengers (1st), Skyfall (4th), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (6th), Ted (13th), Snow White and the

Huntsman (15th), Prometheus (20th), and Mirror Mirror (44th).[48]

Visual Effects protest

Prior to the ceremony, an estimated 400 visual effects artists staged a protest on Hollywood Boulevard. Theartists were protesting what they perceived to be the mistreatment of their industry by the studio system. Theevent that sparked the protest occurred when Rhythm & Hues visual effects studio, whose work would win

the Oscar for Life of Pi, filed for bankruptcy in the weeks before the Oscars.[49] The visual effects industrywas also upset when the winners for Best Visual Effects were drowned out by the Jaws theme music and hadtheir microphones shut off during their acceptance speech right as they began speaking about the

controversy.[50]

Critical reviews

The show received a mixed reception from media publications. Some media outlets were more critical of theshow. Columnist Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly commented "By calling constant attention tothe naughty factor," MacFarlane created "an echo chamber of outrage, working a little too hard to top

himself with faux-scandalous gags about race, Jews in Hollywood, and the killing of Abraham Lincoln."[51]

The Washington Post television critic Hank Stuever bemoaned, "There was nothing notably terrible aboutthe show, and nothing particularly enthralling." Regarding MacFarlane's performance as host, Stuever noted,"What you got was a combination of sicko and retro, an Oscar show hosted by someone who waited until

Oscar night to discover that he's only so-so at stand-up comedy."[52] Television editor Alan Sepinwall ofHitFix lamented that the ceremony made for a "frequently messy, but occasionally surprising and/orentertaining evening." He added that MacFarlane "had some funny moments here and there, but he missed

way more than he hit, and Frat Boy Seth quickly assumed dominance as the evening went along."[53]

Other media outlets received the broadcast and more positively. Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporterpraised MacFarlane's performance saying that he did "impressively better than one would have wagered."He also noted that he added "plenty of niceties with a little bit of the Ricky Gervais bite-the-hand-that-

feeds-you thing and worked the juxtaposition rather nicely.[54] Chicago Tribune television critic Nina Metzlauded MacFarlane for keeping "a solid handle on the proceedings." She also remarked that the host "openedwith a series of jokes that were bona fide winners, landing on just the right tone: confident but not

cocksure".[55] Associated Press critic Frazier Moore extolled MacFarlane observing that he "seized thecamera Sunday as host of ABC's Oscarcast and proved to its vast audience that he's a ridiculously versatile

entertainer, a guy who can be as charming as he is famously irreverent, even polarizing."[56]

Ratings and reception

The American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 40.38 million people over its length, which was a 3%

increase from the previous year's ceremony.[57] An estimated 77.92 million total viewers watched all or part

of the awards.[58] The show also drew higher Nielsen ratings compared to the two previous ceremonies with

24.47% of households watching over a 35.65 share.[59] In addition, the program scored its highest key demo

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ratings in six years with a 13.71 rating over a 33.45 share among viewers in the 18–49 demographic.[60]

The annual In Memoriam segment was presented by actor George Clooney.[61] The montage featured an

excerpt of the main title from Out of Africa by composer John Barry.[62] At the end of the tribute, singerBarbra Streisand sang "The Way We Were" from the film of the same name in tribute to composer Marvin

Hamlisch.[63]

Ernest Borgnine

Eiko Ishioka

Ralph McQuarrie

Jack Klugman

Celeste Holm

Adam Yauch

Michael Clarke Duncan

Charles Durning

Carlo Rambaldi

Erland Josephson

Richard Robbins

Stephen Frankfurt

Harris Savides

Tonino Guerra

J. Michael Riva

Ulu Grosbard

Herbert Lom

Bruce Surtees

Andrew Sarris

George A. Bowers

Tony Scott

Theodore Soderberg

Lois W. Smith

Geoffrey G. Ammer

Neil Travis

Michael Hopkins

John D. Lowry

Hal David

Nora Ephron

Charles Rosen

Jake Eberts

Michael Kohut

Frank Pierson

Chris Marker

Charles C. Washburn

Ray Bradbury

Richard Rodney Bennett

Robert B. Sherman

Richard D. Zanuck

Matthew Yuricich

Marvin Hamlisch

19th Screen Actors Guild Awards

33rd Golden Raspberry Awards

55th Grammy Awards

65th Primetime Emmy Awards

66th British Academy Film Awards

67th Tony Awards

70th Golden Globe Awards

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List of submissions to the 85th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

A^ : Both Life of Pi and Silver Linings Playbook would eventually earn over $100 million in domestic

ticket sales before the ceremony on February 24.[64] Zero Dark Thirty was the number one film at the

American box office during the weekend of January 11–13;[65] the movie eventually grossed $91

million prior to the awards gala.[64]

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Academy Awards 2013 (http://www.peoplestylewatch.com/people/stylewatch/package/redcarpet

/0,,20658247,00.html) People

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2012 Academy Awards Winners and History (http://www.filmsite.org/aa2012.html) Filmsite

Academy Awards, USA: 2013 (http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/2013) Internet Movie

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Pronunciation Guide to the 85th Academy Award Nominees (http://inogolo.com/guides/85th+oscars)

The 85th Annual Academy Awards (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2461862/) at the Internet Movie

Database

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