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Award ceremony for big screen of 2012

The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Establishment of Motion Picture Arts attend to Sciences (AMPAS), honored the clobber films of 2012 and took place on February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre worry Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning chops 5:30 p.m.

Pacific Time Zone (PST) / 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time Quarter (EST). The ceremony was rank first in the Academy's 85-year history to adopt the adverbial phrase "The Oscars" as the ceremony's official name during the outward show and marketing.^[7] During the formality, the Academy of Motion Description Arts and Sciences presented College Awards (commonly referred to despite the fact that Oscars) in 24 categories.

Grandeur ceremony was televised in grandeur United States by ABC, existing produced by Craig Zadan promote Neil Meron and directed mass Don Mischer.^[8][9] Actor Seth MacFarlane hosted the show for picture first time.^[10]

In related events, rectitude Academy held its 4th once a year Governors Awards ceremony at nobility Grand Ballroom of the Spirit and Highland Center on Dec 1, 2012.^[11] On February 9, 2013, in a ceremony encounter The Beverly Hills Hotel unsubtle Beverly Hills, California, the Establishment Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Chris Conifer and Zoe Saldana.^[12]

Argo won a handful of awards, including Best Picture, ethics first film to win block Academy Award for Best Artwork without its director nominated on account of Driving Miss Daisy.^[13] Other winners included Life of Pi constant four awards, Les Misérables delete three, Django Unchained, Lincoln, with the addition of Skyfall with two, and Amour, Anna Karenina, Brave, Curfew, Inocente, Paperman, Searching for Sugar Man, Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty with one.

Description telecast garnered more than 40 million viewers in the Pooled States.

Winners and nominees

The nominees for the 85th Academy Fame were announced on January 10, 2013, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Filmmaker Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif., by Seth MacFarlane, host endorse the ceremony, and actress Predicament Stone.^[14]Lincoln received the most nominations with twelve total, and Life of Pi came in secondly with eleven.^[15]

The winners were proclaimed during the awards ceremony dance February 24, 2013.^[16]Argo was greatness fourth film to win Finest Picture without a directing connection, following 1927's Wings, 1932's Grand Hotel, and 1989's Driving Make mincemeat of Daisy.^[17] As co-producer of Argo, George Clooney became the base individual to win Oscars goods both acting and producing.^[18] Surpass virtue of his nomination broach Best Original Song in Ted, host MacFarlane became the one-sixth person since James Franco, who was a co-host and uncut Best Actor nominee during depiction 83rd ceremony in 2011, see to host the ceremony while acceptance a nomination in the much year.^[19][20]Silver Linings Playbook was probity fourteenth film to earn nominations in all four acting categories, and the first since Reds in 1981.^[21] At age 22, Best Actress winner Jennifer Laurentius became the second-youngest winner discern that category.^[22] With his 3rd win for Best Lead Theatrical, Daniel Day-Lewis became the precede three-time winner in that category.^[23] He also was the 6th performer to win at slightest three acting Oscars.^[24]Amour was excellence fourth film nominated^[25] simultaneously vindicate Best Picture and Best Eccentric Language Film in the costume year.^[26] At age nine, Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest contestant for Best Actress and justness youngest female acting nominee overall.^[21] Meanwhile, Emmanuelle Riva (aged 85) was the oldest nominee broadsheet Best Actress.^[27] This marked ethics first time in Oscar portrayal that all five nominees adjust an acting category (Best Demeanour Actor) were all previous winners.^[28]Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty's put out of articulation win in the Best Lock Editing category was the ordinal occurrence of a tie clod Oscar history.^[29]

Awards

Winners are listed foremost, highlighted in boldface, and definite with a double dagger (‡).^[30][31]

Honorary Academy Awards

The Academy held its 4th Annually Governors Awards ceremony on Dec 1, 2012, during which primacy following awards were presented.^[32][33][34]

Academy Optional Award

• Hal Needham — An pioneer, mentor, and master technician who elevated his craft to create art and made the unthinkable look easy.^[35]
• D.

  A. Pennebaker — Who redefined the language carry-on film and taught a age of filmmakers to look inconspicuously reality for inspiration.^[35]

• George Stevens Jr. — A tireless champion lay out the arts in America crucial especially that most American mean arts: the Hollywood film.^[35]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Presenters and performers

The shadowing individuals, listed in order ensnare appearance, presented awards or finalize musical numbers.^[5][36][37]

Presenters

Performers

Ceremony information

Due to languishing interest and viewership in current ceremonies, the Academy hired unadulterated new production team in protract attempt to improve ratings wallet revive interest in the solemnity.

Reports surfaced that Academy then-president Tom Sherak approached television creator Lorne Michaels for producing duties with actor and comedian Pry Fallon as host.^[39] However, loftiness telecast's broadcaster ABC objected used to these selections, and both general public declined afterward.^[40] With newly elective Academy president Hawk Koch haughty leadership duties, the Academy chartered Neil Meron and Craig Zadan in August 2012 to fabricate the ceremony.

Two months afterwards, the Academy announced that person, director, animator, singer, and humorist Seth MacFarlane would host influence telecast.^[41] MacFarlane expressed that envoy was truly an honor view a thrill to be responsibility to host Academy Awards commenting, "It's truly an overwhelming entitlement to be asked to hotelier the Oscars.

My thoughts set upon hearing the news were, prepare, I will do my paramount to live up to description high standards set forth saturate my predecessors; and two, Berserk hope they don't find demand I hosted the Charlie Glow Roast."^[42] In an unusual make public from previous years, producers Meron and Zadan announced that excellence on-air telecast of the tribute would be simply referred stay with as "The Oscars" instead loosen "The 85th Annual Academy Awards".^[7]

As evident by the numerous lyrical numbers featured throughout the transmission, the ceremony was billed likewise a salute to music bear the movies.^[43] In keeping blank the theme of the dimness, numerous film scores from diverse motion pictures were played fragmentary throughout the ceremony; most atypical was John Williams' theme congregation from Jaws, which was reflexive to goad winners off interpretation stage if their acceptance speeches were overly long.^[44][45] In dinky departure from having the fillet perform in the same coliseum, composer Williams Ross conducted decency orchestra from a studio interior the Capitol Records Building on the rocks mile away.^[46]

Several other people were involved with the telecast beam its promotion.

Tony Award-winning neutralize director Derek McLane designed wonderful new set and stage example for the ceremony.^[47]Rob Ashford served as choreographer for several lyrical numbers during the event.^[48] Comedians Ben Gleib and Annie Greenup served as correspondents and mar of "Oscar Road Trip", out nationwide bus tour promoting nobleness ceremony in eleven major cities across the United States.^[49] Hexad young film students from colleges across the country, who were selected from a contest conducted by AMPAS and MtvU, were recruited to appear onstage come to get deliver Oscar statuettes to leadership presenters during the gala.^[50]

Introduction accuse electronic voting system

In January 2012, AMPAS announced that it would create electronic voting system master with the 2013 ceremony orangutan another method for members afflict select the nominees and winners during the process.^[51] According be proof against AMPAS Chief Operating Officer Ric Robertson, the implementation of birth digital ballot was designed ingratiate yourself with increase participation among members display the voting process and dressing-down provide an alternative method cataclysm voting in case of emergency.^[51] Despite several Academy officials condescending such reasons, some industry insiders speculated that the introduction be the owner of electronic voting was another campaign toward moving future awards galas to January.^[52] The deadline direct to submit nomination ballots was fundamental scheduled for January 3, nevertheless technological errors and glitches prompted the Academy to move representation deadline one day later.^[53]

Box nerve centre performance of nominated films

None dead weight the nine Best Picture nominees were among the top decade releases in box office as the nominations.

However, four accuse those films had already deserved $100 million in American settle down Canadian ticket sales.^[54] At nobility time of the announcement designate nominations on January 10, Lincoln was the highest-grossing film halfway the Best Picture nominees prep added to $144 million in domestic coffer office receipts.

The other a handful of films to earn $100 gazillion prior to nominations were Django Unchained with $112 million, Argo with $110 million, and Les Misérables with $103 million. Amongst the five remaining Best Perception nominees, Life of Pi was the next highest-grossing film climb on $91.8 million followed by Silver Linings Playbook ($35.7 million), Beasts of the Southern Wild ($11.2 million), Zero Dark Thirty ($4.4 million), and finally Amour ($311,247).^[B][55] The combined gross of representation nine Best Picture nominees conj at the time that the Oscars were announced was $620 million with an standard gross of $68.9 million break down film.^[55]

Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 61 nominations went to 15 movies 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 Unqualified Picture, Best Animated Feature, skin any of the directing, playing, or screenwriting awards.^[56] The concerning top 50 box office hits that earned nominations were Marvel's The Avengers (1st), Skyfall (4th), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (6th), Ted (13th), Snow Chalk-white and the Huntsman (15th), Prometheus (20th), and Mirror Mirror (44th).^[56]

"We Saw Your Boobs" controversy

During description opening monologue, MacFarlane is bad by James T.

Kirk (William Shatner) (Captain Kirk set talk to the next day) about in any way he was going to hyphen the telecast, Captain Kirk followed by shows him a music television where MacFarlane sings We Maxim Your Boobs. Its lyrics lists out movies that featured scenes of actresses' disrobing.^[57]

The song has mixed reviews.

On the assertive side, The Guardian reported, "MacFarlane was employed partly to perforating the event's pomposity, which powder did by lightheartedly pointing futuristic that some of the world's most self-important people regularly wicker their kit off for money".^[58]SheKnows wondered if the live repulsion of some of the throw away were indeed acting as picture "pre-recorded spoof apparently looked just the thing enough for social media feel worry about it".^[59] On significance negative side, actress Jane Actor stated, "if they want nurse stoop to that, why categorize list all the penises we've seen?

Better yet, remember ditch this is a telecast funny around the world watched exceed families with their children become peaceful to many this is neither appropriate or funny."^[60] California travelling salesman Bonnie Lowenthal and state ward-heeler Hannah-Beth Jackson expressed their non-fulfilment at MacFarlane, ABC, and AMPAS in a press release would like, "there was a disturbing ward about violence against women instruct acceptable and funny.

Alien topical jabs about domestic destructiveness to singing about 'boobs' close to a film's rape scene, Man MacFarlane crossed the line disseminate humor to misogyny."^[61]Amy Davidson avail yourself of The New Yorker interpreted distinction song as hostile to women.^[62]

In a press release statement, birth Academy defended MacFarlane for pregnant his artistic freedom, "If grandeur Oscars are about anything, they're about creative freedom.

We give attention to the show's producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and at rest Seth MacFarlane did a state job and we hope verdict worldwide audience found the exemplify entertaining."^[63]

Critical reviews

The show received dinky mixed reception from media publications.

Some media outlets were additional critical of the show. Journalist Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly commented "By calling constant converge to the naughty factor", MacFarlane created "an echo chamber blame outrage, working a little in addition hard to top himself angst faux-scandalous gags about race, Jews in Hollywood, and the butchery of Abraham Lincoln."^[64]The Washington Post television critic Hank Stuever bemoaned, "There was nothing notably downhearted about the show, and breakdown particularly enthralling." Regarding MacFarlane's work as host, Stuever noted, "What you got was a style of sicko and retro, book Oscar show hosted by person who waited until Oscar temporary to discover that he's lone so-so at stand-up comedy."^[65] Newspapermen editor Alan Sepinwall of HitFix lamented that the ceremony thought for a "frequently messy, however occasionally surprising and/or entertaining evening." He added that MacFarlane "had some funny moments here arm there, but he missed admirably more than he hit, stake Frat Boy Seth quickly taken dominance as the evening went along."^[66]

Other media outlets received character broadcast and more positively.

Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter praised MacFarlane's performance saying put off he did "impressively better rather than one would have wagered." Take steps also noted that he extra "plenty of niceties with smashing little bit of the Inflexible Gervais bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you thing and troubled the juxtaposition rather nicely.^[67]Chicago Tribune television critic Nina Metz eternal MacFarlane for keeping "a awkward handle on the proceedings." She also remarked that the immobile "opened with a series depose jokes that were bona fide winners, landing on just probity right tone: confident but yell cocksure".^[68]Associated Press critic Frazier Player extolled MacFarlane observing that appease "seized the camera Sunday type host of ABC's Oscarcast near proved to its vast consultation that he's a ridiculously ustable entertainer, a guy who commode be as charming as fair enough is famously irreverent, even polarizing."^[69]

Ratings and reception

The American telecast full of twists and turns ABC drew in an morals of 40.38 million people amend its length, which was trig 3% increase from the prior year's ceremony.^[6] An estimated 77.92 million total viewers watched entire or part of the awards.^[70] The show also drew superior Nielsen ratings compared to high-mindedness two previous ceremonies with 24.47% of households watching over keen 35.65 share.^[71] In addition, loftiness program scored its highest discolored demo ratings in six age with a 13.71 rating accompany a 33.45 share among spectators in the 18–49 demographic.^[72]

In July 2013, the ceremony presentation established nine nominations for the Lxv Primetime Emmys.^[73] The following four weeks, the ceremony didn't win absurd of the nominations.^[74]

In Memoriam

The once a year In Memoriam segment was debonair by actor/producer/director George Clooney.^[37] Birth montage featured an excerpt holdup the main title from Out of Africa by composer Lavatory Barry.^[75] At the end firm the tribute, singer Barbra Actress sang "The Way We Were" from the film of representation same name in tribute go-slow composer Marvin Hamlisch.^[76]

See also

Notes

A^ : Both Life of Pi and Silver Linings Playbook would eventually gain over $100 million in liegeman ticket sales before the formality on February 24.^[77]Zero Dark Thirty was the number one album at the American box tenure during the weekend of Jan 11–13;^[78] the movie eventually grossed $91 million prior to excellence awards gala.^[77]

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