4:25pm The VFX team for Life of Pi were played off the stage (by the Jaws theme, no less!), just as they were mourning the loss of VFX powerhouse Rhythm & Hues. Backstage, winner Bill Westenhofer elaborated:
"What I was trying to say up there is that it's at a time when visual effects movies are dominating the box office, that visual effects companies are struggling. And I wanted to point out that we aren't technicians. Visual effects is not just a commodity that's being done by people pushing buttons. We're artists, and if we don't find a way to fix the business model, we start to loses the artistry. If anything, LIFE OF PI shows that we're artists and not just technicians."
4:01pm: Oscar wins by the numbers:
Life of Pi: Four Oscars - Cinematography, Visual Effects, Score and director
Argo: Three Oscars - Film editing, adapted screenplay and best picture
Django Unchained/ Skyfall/ Lincoln/ Les Misérables: Two Oscars each
Silver Linings Playbook / Amour /Zero Dark Thirty : One Oscar each
3:51pm Best Picture
WINNER Argo
Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
Beasts of the Southern Wild Dan Janvey, Josh 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 and David Womark, Producers
Lincoln Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Silver Linings Playbook Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers
3:52pm First Lady Michelle Obama introduced for pre-Best Picture preamble
3:45pm Actor in a Leading Role
WINNER Daniel Day Lewis
NOMINEES Bradley Cooper Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln Hugh Jackman Les Misérables Joaquin Phoenix The Master Denzel Washington Flight
3:40pm Actress in a Leading Role
WINNER Jennifer Lawrence
NOMINEES Jessica Chastain Zero Dark Thirty Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook Emmanuelle Riva Amour Quvenzhané Wallis Beasts of the Southern Wild Naomi Watts The Impossible
Watch our interview with best directing Oscar winner, Ang Lee
3:33pm Directing
WINNER Ang Lee
NOMINEES
Amour Michael Haneke Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin Life of Pi Ang Lee Lincoln Steven Spielberg Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell
3:30pm
3:28pm "This will be the writer's year, man" - Quentin Tarantino
3:26pm Writing (Original Screenplay)
WINNER Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino
NOMINEES Amour Michael Haneke Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino Flight John Gatins Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal
3:23pm Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
WINNER Argo
NOMINEES Argo Chris Terrio Beasts of the Southern Wild Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin Life of Pi David Magee Lincoln Tony Kushner Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell
3:14pm Music (Original Song)
WINNER 'Skyfall' - Adele
NOMINEES ‘Before My Time’ Chasing Ice Music and Lyric by J. Ralph ‘Everybody Needs A Best Friend’ Ted Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane ‘Pi's Lullaby’ Life of Pi Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri ‘Skyfall’ Skyfall Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth ‘Suddenly’ Les Misérables Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
3:09pm Music (Original Score)
WINNER Life of Pi
NOMINEES Anna Karenina Dario Marianelli Argo Alexandre Desplat Life of Pi Mychael Danna Lincoln John Williams Skyfall Thomas Newman
3:06pm Cast of decade-old Chicago takes to the stage - again - to present best score and song.
2:57pm In Memoriam
(and a fascinating piece from the NY Times on the campaign to be featured in this segment)
2:48pm: Production Design
WINNER Lincoln
NOMINEES
Anna Karenina Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright Les Misérables Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson Life of Pi Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock Lincoln Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
2:38pm: Editing award for Argo bodes well for Best Picture. Here's why: Oscar feature: Editing
2:35pm Cue Adele..
2:33pm: Technical issues... where's a musical number when you need one?
2:32pm Film Editing
WINNER Argo William Goldenberg
NOMINEES 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
2:20pm Actress in a Supporting Role
WINNER Anne Hathaway Les Misérables
NOMINEES Amy Adams The Master Sally Field Lincoln Anne Hathaway Les Misérables Helen Hunt The Sessions Jacki Weaver Silver Linings Playbook
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
WINNERS : Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty
NOMINEES
Argo Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn Django Unchained Wylie Stateman Life of Pi Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton Skyfall Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers Zero Dark Thirty Paul N.J. Ottosson
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
WINNER : Les Misérables
NOMINEES
Argo John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia Les Misérables Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes 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
Musical numbers unleash the funny on twitter:
Montage of all musicals....from the last 11 years (?). Chicage, Dreamgirls and inevitably, Les Mis
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
WINNER: Amour
NOMINEES
Amour Austria Kon-Tiki Norway No Chile A Royal Affair Denmark War Witch Canada
Best Documentary, Feature
WINNER: Searching for Sugar Man
NOMINEES 5 Broken Cameras Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi The Gatekeepers How to Survive a Plague The Invisible War Searching for Sugar Man
Best Documentary, Short Subject
WINNER: Inocente
NOMINEES 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
Best Short Film, Live Action
WINNER Curfew
NOMINEES
Asad Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura Buzkashi Boys Sam French and Ariel Nasr Curfew Shawn Christensen Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele Henry Yan England
Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
WINNER Les Misérables
NOMINEES
Hitchcock Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane Les Misérables Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Best Achievement in Costume Design
WINNER Anna Karenina
NOMINEES
Anna Karenina Jacqueline Durran Les Misérables Paco Delgado< br /> Lincoln Joanna Johnston Mirror Mirror Eiko Ishioka Snow White and the Huntsman Colleen Atwood
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
WINNER : Life of Pi
NOMINEES
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
Life of Pi Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
Marvel's 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
Meanwhile, on twitter: #BadOscars is trending
Best Achievement in Cinematography
WINNER Life of Pi
NOMINEES
Anna Karenina Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained Robert Richardson
Life of Pi Claudio Miranda
Lincoln Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall Roger Deakins
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
WINNER : Brave
NOMINEES
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
Best Short Film, Animated
WINNER Paperman
NOMINEES Adam and Dog Minkyu Lee Fresh Guacamole PES Head over Heels Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare David Silverman Paperman John Kahrs
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
WINNER Christoph Waltz
NOMINEES
Alan Arkin Argo Robert De Niro Silver Linings Playbook Philip Seymour Hoffman The Master Tommy Lee Jones Lincoln Christoph Waltz Django Unchained
12:50pm If the quality of the opening has you feeling glum about the hours ahead, you're not alone: Why the Academy Awards can make a person profoundly sad
12:42pm Seth Macfarlane opens with a musical numbner 'We saw your boobs', a sock puppet interpretation of a best actor performance, two showtunes and an overarching Star Trek riff on how terrible the opening has been so far.
12:17pm As we wait for the broadcast to begin, here's a montage of all best picture winners to date.
