Last Updated on August 2, 2021
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Welcome to JoBlo.com’s live coverage of the 85th annual Academy Awards! Tonight we come to you live with a running commentary of all the winners of the 2012 Oscars. We will notify you of the winners in each category as they are announced along with tidbits of information regarding the presenters and other goings on throughout the telecast. Stay tuned here and refresh as this story will be continuously added to for the duration of the ceremony. You can also follow along with real time updates on both Facebook and Twitter. All are welcome to add their own take on the awards via the talkback below. So, without further adieu, here comes the show!
7:31 PM EST: Hey there! Starting a little early here everyone! In my tuxedo shirt and boxer shorts with some french onion dip and a lot of beers. Nothing harder to sit through than the red carpet show. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is being asked about his socks. What the f*ck…
7:32 PM: Huge protest is still top news story of the night. Check out the Deadline story about those supporting Rhythym & Hues and their bankruptcy issues.
7:38 PM: Bradley Cooper just helped Kristin Chenoweth with her shoe. What a gentleman.
7:42 PM: Hot damn, Charlize Theron. Hot. Damn.
7:46 PM: I like the Oscars having some young college kids present the statuettes to their precursors who have already sold out to the studio system.
7:50 PM: Ben Affleck still has the ARGO beard. Way to commit, brother!
7:54 PM: This Oscar Mystery box is f*cking stupid. Every person asked looks like they want to shoot themselves.
8:03 PM: Halle Berry may make shitty movies exclusively now, she is still super hot. Wow.
8:06 PM: George Clooney looks like Ernest Hemingway but still super cool.
8:11 PM: Crazy bitch just put Chobani yogurt on chili. Gross.
8:14 PM: The Oscar Mystery is solved! The ruby slippers from THE WIZARD OF OZ. What a letdown,
8:16 PM: Kelly Rowland just cut away from Jamie Foxx giving some details on a directorial effort he is doing with Ron Howard for the Canon Project Imagin8tion. Damn it!
8:18 PM: 12 more minutes of this red carpet fiasco of people with microphones aurally fellating every single star in Hollywood.
8:23 PM: Kristin Chenoweth just played a stupid joke about antacid with the Oscar producers and the dipshits didn’t know what to do as they cut away. Not a good sign.
8:23 PM: WTF happened to Renee Zellweger’s face???
8:26 PM:
8:30 PM: Wow, zero intro. Tommy Lee Jones laughed! Seth for the win!
8:33 PM: So much for Seth MacFarlane doing something different with the opening monologue.
8:35 PM: The Shatner in full Kirk costume. F*ck yeah.
8:38 PM: “We Saw Your Boobs” is my new ringtone.
8:40 PM: I did not see the Channing Tatum/Charlize Theron dance number coming.
8:43 PM: Daniel Radcliffe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt dancing now. What the hell is going on?
8:46 PM: This is taking way too f*cking long.
8:48 PM: Octavia Spencer announcing Supporting Actor.
8:50 PM: Christoph Waltz for the win! Wow!
8:55 PM: Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy look high as hell. Another lame bit.
8:58 PM: Yeah PAPERMAN!
8:59 PM: Here comes Animated Feature as well! BRAVE wins. Should have been PARANORMAN.
9:00 PM: Reese Witherspoon is much hotter as a MILF. Odd that they are introducing three Best Picture nominees at once.
9:05 PM: Almost all of THE AVENGERS main cast on stage. Not used to seeing Robert Downey Jr without the Stark beard.
9:06 PM: Samuel L. Jackson rocking the red velvet smoking jacket. Here comes cinematography!
9:07 PM: Roger Deakins snubbed again. I cry bullshit! Claudio Miranda did do a great job with LIFE OF PI, but come on!
9:08 PM: Claudio Miranda sounds like The Dude on cocaine.
9:09 PM: The cast of THE AVENGERS handing the Visual Effects award to LIFE OF PI. Could we have a Best Picture upset?
9:12 PM: Orchestra played off the VFX guys with the music from JAWS. That was brutal. Even Nicole Kidman looked upset. I think she was upset, but her face never moves so I can’t be 100% sure.
9:15 PM: Channing Tatum and Jennifer Aniston presenting Costume Design. Aniston looks good. Channing Tatum talking about waxing. So funny! Shoot me.
9:17 PM: ANNA KARENINA wins for Costume Design. Shows how weak the category is.
9:18 PM: Now that was a short speech! Here comes Make-up and Hairstyling.
9:20 PM: First win for LES MISERABLES.
9:21 PM: Halle Berry starting the Bond tribute!!
9:24 PM: And here’s Shirley Bassey singing GOLDFINGER!
9:27 PM: That better have not been the entire Bond tribute.
9:32 PM: Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington looking hot. Live Action Short film winner is CURFEW. Man, this guy breaths pretty hard.
9:35 PM: Best Documentary Short is next.
9:36 PM: INOCENTE wins.
9:37 PM: Liam Neeson is introduced with a TAKEN reference. So glad he hasn’t appeared in any Oscar winning movies. Here come three more Best Picture nominees.
9:41 PM: Wow, a Lincoln assassination joke. Nice one, Seth MacFarlane.
9:42 PM: Hi, Ben Affleck. Sorry people still reference GIGLI. Here comes Best Documentary.
9:45 PM: SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN wins. Not a shock. And definitely not the best documentary.
9:46 PM: JAWS music again.
9:47 PM: Fun fact; INOCENTE is the first Kickstarter project to win an Oscar. Nice job!
9:50 PM: Jennifer Garner and Jessica Chastain. Now that is two-thirds of a threesome I would not mind. They are announcing Best Foreign Film.
9:51 PM: AMOUR wins. Of course.
9:52 PM: Michael Haneke looks like Christopher Lee‘s twin.
9:53 PM: Wait, the orchestra isn’t even there???
9:53 PM: Here comes Travolta. Masseuses: cover your dicks!
9:53 PM: Travolta just f*cked up saying LES MISERABLES.
9:54 PM: Wow, Catherine Zeta-Jones still looks pretty good.
9:55 PM: Just went to take a piss. Did I miss anything?
9:57 PM: 90 minutes in. 11 awards down, 13 to go.
9:59 PM: Jennifer Hudson scares me. Her mouth opens so wide, I expect a xenomorph to pop out.
10:01 PM: Wolverine is singing.
10:02 PM: I love that they shoehorned Anne Hathaway into the best song from LES MISERABLES. Plus shitty Russell Crowe.
10:04 PM: If LES MISERABLES wins Best Picture, I will eat my f*cking hat.
10:06 PM: The 900th OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL commercial. We get it, you are coming out.
10:09 PM: Chris Pine looks like Chia Kirk.
10:11 PM: Ted and Mark Wahlberg. Wow, he looks pretty damn real!
10:12 PM: Best Sound Mixing goes to LES MISERABLES.
10:13 PM: Ted’s real name is Theodore Shapiro and he is Jewish.
10:14 PM: Sound Editing goes to…..wait, a tie? Both ZERO DARK THIRTY and…
10:16 PM: …SKYFALL. Yeah!
10:18 PM: Even Seth MacFarlane couldn’t keep a straight face through that SOUND OF MUSIC joke. This is getting rough.
10:19 PM: Chistopher Plummer is announcing the Best Supporting Actress award.
10:22 PM: Anne Hathaway wins in the least shocking category of the night,
10:24 PM: Wow, Anne. Lamest speech ever.
10:25 PM: Ten awards to go. Any chance of something exciting happening tonight?
10:26 PM: Just in case you were wondering, LIFE OF PI has 2 awards, LES MISERABLES has 3, and ARGO, LINCOLN, and SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK have zero.
10:29 PM: Academy President to deliver a speech. Bathroom break!
10:31 PM: Sandra Bullock can barely walk, but here she has the Film Editing Oscar.
10:32 PM:
10:34 PM: ARGO finally gets a win!
10:35 PM: Jennifer Lawrence introducing Adele.
10:38 PM: The SKYFALL theme sounds just as amazing live as it did during the opening credits except for the fact the shitty sound just blew out the speakers on my TV.
10:43 PM: Nicole Kidman has become the ultimate butterface.
10:47 PM: Danielle Radcliffe and Kristen Stewart presenting together to the Harry Potter theme. And Kristen keeps grunting.
10:48 PM: A win for LINCOLN! Best Production Design.
10:50 PM: Damn you, Salma Hayek! I was banking on a cleavage shot for my spank bank! Oh, I can’t stay mad at you. So, friggin hot.
10:52 PM: Hal Needham winning an honorary award is pretty cool. Jeffrey Katzenberg got one to, but that guy already has everything.
10:53 PM: The John Williams library is getting quite the workout tonight.
10:57 PM: Every woman in the front row of the ceremony just got pregnant as George Clooney took the stage.
10:58 PM: In Memorian time. I always forget how many we lost; Ralph McQuarrie, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Klugman, Adam Yauch, Michael Clarke Duncan, Charles Durning, Carlo Rambaldi, Tony Scott, Nora Ephron, Chris Marker, Ray Bradbury, Richard Zanuck, Marvin Hamlisch, and more. R.I.P.
11:02 PM: Barbra Streisand showed up to do a weird half-sung, half-spoken tribute to Marvin Hamlisch.
11:07 PM: This ABC diving reality show is the dumbest f*cking thing I have ever seen.
11:08 PM: The 10 year reunion of the CHICAGO win for Best Picture. What a travesty.
11:10 PM: LIFE OF PI wins Best Score. It was pretty damn good.
11:12 PM: Everyone except for LES MISERABLES and SKYFALL are lumped into a pre-recorded nominees montage.
11:14 PM: Scratch that, here comes Norah Jones singing the song from TED.
11:17 PM: SKYFALL. Is anyone surprised?
11:22 PM: Dustin Hoffman and Charlize Theron are here to present the screenwriting awards. Seriously, Charlize makes Dustin look like a troll. No one should be allowed to be that f*cking sexy.
11:24 PM: Adapted Screenplay to Chris Terrio for ARGO. I think LIFE OF PI should have won, but kudos to Terrio!
11:25 PM: And Original Screenplay goes to…
11:26 PM: Quentin Motherf*cking Tarantino! DJANGO UNCHAINED!
11:28 PM: Tarantino defies the orchestra and gets another word in! Hell yeah!
11:29 PM: Tim Burton in the Samsung Galaxy SIII commercial makes me wish he would really make a Unicorn Apocalypse movie.
11:31 PM: The four biggest awards are left and I am on GreyPoupon.com after seeing that commercial.
11:33 PM: Michael Douglas and Jane Fonda are presenting Best Director.
11:34 PM: Ang Lee for the win!
11:35 PM: Could LIFE OF PI upset ARGO?
11:37 PM: Another commercial break? What the shit, ABC!
11:40 PM: Jean Dujardin to present Best Actress. I liked him better when he didn’t talk.
11:42 PM: Jennifer Lawrence gets Best Actress. That will make for an odd HUNGER GAMES poster billing,
11:45 PM: Meryl Streep walks out with no intro to give us Best Actor. Who will it be?
11:48 PM: Daniel Day-Lewis sets the record. Three Best Actor wins.
11:49 PM: Daniel Day-Lewis is a funny bastard. Streep as Lincoln and DDL as Margaret Thatcher. Still chuckling.
11:51 PM: Jack Nicholson is coming on out, King of the Badasses, to present Best Picture. LIFE OF PI upset? ARGO still got it?
11:52 PM: Michelle Obama is presenting Best Picture? What???
11:56 PM: Best Picture is ARGO!
11:57 PM: Grant Heslov is honoring Ben Affleck for directing ARGO. A very well deserved win for all involved. Actually a pretty decent spread of awards this year.
11:59 PM: Speech of the night goes to Affleck. Bravo, man.
12:00 AM: Wait, it is now Tuesday and Seth MacFarlane just told us the show is not over yet. What is left?
12:01 AM: Seth MacFarlane will not be back next year. Bring on Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. Thanks to everyone who followed this liveblog! Have a good night! Congrats to all the winners!
85th Academy Awards Winners:
Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin – ARGO
Robert De Niro – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Philip Seymour Hoffman – THE MASTER
Tommy Lee Jones – LINCOLN
WINNER: Christoph Waltz – DJANGO UNCHAINED
Short Film (Animated)
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
WINNER: PAPERMAN, John Kahrs
Animated Feature Film
WINNER: BRAVE (Disney•Pixar), Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
FRANKENWEENIE (Walt Disney Pictures), Tim Burton
PARANORMAN (Focus Features), Sam Fell and Chris Butler
THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (Sony), Peter Lord
WRECK-IT RALPH (Walt Disney Pictures), Rich Moore
Cinematography
Seamus McGarvey – ANNA KARENINA
Robert Richardson – DJANGO UNCHAINED
WINNER: Claudio Miranda – LIFE OF PI
Janusz Kaminski – LINCOLN
Roger Deakins – SKYFALL
Visual Effects
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
WINNER: 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
Costume Design
WINNER: Jacqueline Durran – ANNA KARENINA
Paco Delgado – LES MISERABLES
Joanna Johnston – LINCOLN
Eiko Ishioka – MIRROR MIRROR
Colleen Atwood – SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
Makeup & Hairstyling
HITCHCOCK, Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
WINNER: LES MISERABLES, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Short Film (Live Action)
ASAD, Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
BUZKASHI BOYS, Sam French and Ariel Nasr
WINNER: CURFEW, Shawn Christensen
DEATHS OF A SHADOW (Dood van een Schaduw), Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
HENRY, Yan England
Documentary (Short Subject)
WINNER: 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
Documentary (Feature)
5 BROKEN CAMERAS (Kino Lorber), Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
THE GATEKEEPERS (Sony Pictures Classics), Nominees to be determined
HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (Sundance Selects), Nominees to be determined
THE INVISIBLE WAR (Docurama Films), Nominees to be determined
WINNER: SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (Sony Pictures Classics), Nominees to be determined
Foreign Language Film
WINNER: AMOUR (Sony Pictures Classics), Austria
KON-TIKI (The Weinstein Company), Norway
NO (Sony Pictures Classics), Chile
A ROYAL AFFAIR (Magnolia Pictures), Denmark
WAR WITCH (Tribeca Film), Canada
Sound Mixing
ARGO, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
WINNER: LES MISERABLES, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
LIFE OF PIi, 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
Sound Editing
ARGO, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
DJANGO UNCHAINED, Wylie Stateman
LIFE OF PI, Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
WINNER (TIE): SKYFALL, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
WINNER (TIE): ZERO DARK THIRTY, Paul N.J. Ottosson
Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams – THE MASTER
Sally Field – LINCOLN
WINNER: Anne Hathaway – LES MISERABLES
Helen Hunt – THE SESSIONS
Jacki Weaver – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Film Editing
WINNER: William Goldenberg – ARGO
Tim Squyres – LIFE OF PI
Michael Kahn – LINCOLN
Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg – ZERO DARK THIRTY
Production Design
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 MISERABLES, Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
LIFE OF PI, Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
WINNER: LINCOLN, Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Music (Original Score)
Dario Marianelli – ANNA KARENINA
Alexandre Desplat – ARGO
WINNER: Mychael Danna – LIFE OF PI
John Williams – LINCOLN
Thomas Newman – SKYFALL
Music (Original Song)
“Before My Time” from CHASING ICE, Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
“Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from TED, Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
“Pi’s Lullaby” from LIFE OF PI, Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
WINNER: “Skyfall” from SKYFALL, Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
“Suddenly” from LES MISERABLES, Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
WINNER: ARGO, Written by Chris Terrio
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, Written by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
LIFE OF PIi, Written by David Magee
LINCOLN, Written by Tony Kushner
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, Written by David O. Russell
Writing (Original Screenplay)
AMOUR, Written by Michael Haneke
WINNER: DJANGO UNCHAINED, Written by Quentin Tarantino
FLIGHT, Written by John Gatins
MOONRISE KINGDOM, Written by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
ZERO DARK THIRTY, Written by Mark Boal
Directing
Michael Haneke – AMOUR
Benh Zeitlin – BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
WINNER: Ang Lee – LIFE OF PI
Steven Spielberg – LINCOLN
David O. Russell – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain – ZERO DARK THIRTY
WINNER: Jennifer Lawrence – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Emmanuelle Riva – AMOUR
Quvenzhané Wallis – BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
Naomi Watts – THE IMPOSSIBLE
Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis – LINCOLN
Hugh Jackman – LES MISERABLES
Joaquin Phoenix – THE MASTER
Denzel Washington – FLIGHT
Best Picture
AMOUR (Sony Pictures Classics), Nominees To Be Determined
WINNER: ARGO (Warner Bros.), Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Fox Searchlight), Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
DJANGO UNCHAINED (The Weinstein Company), Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
LES MISERABLES (Universal), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
LIFE OF PI (20th Century Fox), Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
LINCOLN (DreamWorks), Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (The Weinstein Company), Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
ZERO DARK THIRTY (Sony), Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers
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