Argo Wins Big At The 2013 Academy Awards, Ben Affleck Gives Emotional Acceptance Speech
Posted on Sun Feb 24th, 2013 8:27pm PDT By X17 Staff
The 85th Academy Awards were held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday in Hollywood, and while host Seth MacFarlane wasn't nearly as awful as James Franco back in 2011, the Family Guy creator's jokes weren't anywhere near as good as his many musical numbers.
The telecast ran nearly 30 minutes over, but from Jennifer Lawrence tripping on her way to the podium to Joaquin Phoenix getting caught on camera being a bad sport, there was plenty of entertainment!
Of course, the big moment of the evening was when Ben Affleck finally took the stage with George Clooney and Grant Heslov to accept the Best Picture Oscar for Argo. Ben may have gotten snubbed after he failed to receive a Best Director nomination, but it looks like the Academy may have felt a bit remorseful over that decision, as the film also won Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing. Check out his speech below ... it was truly the highlight of the show for us!
Life of Pi took home four awards, including Best Director (Ang Lee), Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Visual Effects. Despite being nominated in 12 categories, Lincoln only won two awards, for Daniel Day-Lewis as Best Actor in a Leading Role and for Achievement in Production Design.
As expected, Anne Hathaway won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing Fantine in Les Miserables and Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress in a Lead Role for Silver Linings Playbook, and Django Unchained picked up awards for Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino) and Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz).
Click thru for the complete winners list ... and check out the gallery below for more red carpet photos!
Performance by an actor in a leading role: 
Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
: Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained
Performance by an actress in a leading role: 
Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
: Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables
Achievement in directing
: Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
Best animated feature film of the year
: Brave (Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman)
Achievement in cinematography
: Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)
Achievement in costume design
: Anna Karenina (Jacqueline Durran)
Best documentary feature
: Searching for Sugar Man

Best documentary short subject
: Inocente (Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine)
Achievement in film editing
: Argo (William Goldenberg)
Best foreign language film: Amour (Austria)
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
: Les Miserables (Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell)


Best Original Score: Life of Pi (Mychael Danna)
Best Original Song: "Skyfall" from Skyfall (
Music and Lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth)
Achievement in production design
: Lincoln (Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson)
Best animated short film
: Paperman (John Kahrs)
Best live action short film: Curfew (Shawn Christensen)
Achievement in sound editing (tie)
: Zero Dark Thirty (Paul N.J. Ottosson) and Skyfall (Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers)
Achievement in sound mixing: Les Miserables (Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes)
Achievement in visual effects
: Life of Pi (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott)
Adapted screenplay
: Argo (Chris Terrio)
Original screenplay
: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
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