The 85th Academy Awards ceremony (referred to as
The Oscars), honoring the best films of 2012 in the United States, took place
February 24, 2013. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presented its annual Academy Awards to honor the best films of 2012 in the United States.
The ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. Seth MacFarlane hosted the Academy Awards for the first time.
Life of Pi won four awards (the most for the evening), including Best Director for Ang Lee, and Argo won three awards, including Best Picture. Les Misérables also won three awards; Django Unchained, Lincoln and Skyfall won two awards each.
Other winners were Silver Linings Playbook, Brave, Zero Dark Thirty, Anna Karenina, Searching for Sugar Man, Inocente, Curfew, and Paperman with one award. Jennifer Lawrence won the Best Actress award for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, and proved the second youngest winner in the category.
Daniel Day-Lewis won a third Best Actor award (the most for any actor) for portraying the titular character in Lincoln.
The nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were announced on January 10, 2013, at 5:30 am PST (13:30 UTC) (8:30 am EST) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Seth MacFarlane, host of the 85th annual Academy Awards, and actress Emma Stone. This marks the first time since 1973 (when Charlton Heston hosted) that the ceremony's host also announced the award nominations.
The film receiving the most nominations was Lincoln with twelve, followed by Life of Pi with eleven.
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