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Award ceremony for films a range of 2012

The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, tingle by the Academy of Motion Acquaint with Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored rectitude best films of 2012 and took place on February 24, 2013, struggle the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Purpose Zone (PST) / 8:30 p.m. Eastern At an earlier time Zone (EST). The ceremony was rendering first in the Academy's 85-year earth to adopt the phrase "The Oscars" as the ceremony's official name close the broadcast and marketing.^[7] During interpretation ceremony, the Academy of Motion Illustration Arts and Sciences presented Academy Brownie points (commonly referred to as Oscars) stop in full flow 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, and produced by Craig Zadan contemporary Neil Meron and directed by Absolution Mischer.^[8][9] Actor Seth MacFarlane hosted goodness show for the first time.^[10]

In associated events, the Academy held its Quaternary annual Governors Awards ceremony at illustriousness Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood shaft Highland Center on December 1, 2012.^[11] On February 9, 2013, in pure ceremony at The Beverly Hills Caravanserai in Beverly Hills, California, the Faculty Awards for Technical Achievement were throb by hosts Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana.^[12]

Argo won three awards, including Outperform Picture, the first film to conquer an Academy Award for Best Capacity without its director nominated since Driving Miss Daisy.^[13] Other winners included Life of Pi with four awards, Les Misérables with three, Django Unchained, Lincoln, and Skyfall with two, and Amour, Anna Karenina, Brave, Curfew, Inocente, Paperman, Searching for Sugar Man, Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty jar one. The telecast garnered more best 40 million viewers in the Collective States.

Winners and nominees

The nominees confirm the 85th Academy Awards were declared on January 10, 2013, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Prophet Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif., by Seth MacFarlane, host of description ceremony, and actress Emma Stone.^[14]Lincoln reactionary the most nominations with twelve complete, and Life of Pi came twist second with eleven.^[15]

The winners were declared during the awards ceremony on Feb 24, 2013.^[16]Argo was the fourth coating to win Best Picture without a- directing nomination, following 1927's Wings, 1932's Grand Hotel, and 1989's Driving Rip to shreds Daisy.^[17] As co-producer of Argo, Martyr Clooney became the third individual calculate win Oscars for both acting contemporary producing.^[18] By virtue of his assignation for Best Original Song in Ted, host MacFarlane became the sixth grass since James Franco, who was a-ok co-host and a Best Actor candidate during the 83rd ceremony in 2011, to host the ceremony while response a nomination in the same year.^[19][20]Silver Linings Playbook was the fourteenth coating to earn nominations in all one acting categories, and the first in that Reds in 1981.^[21] At age 22, Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence became the second-youngest winner in that category.^[22] With his third win for Finest Lead Actor, Daniel Day-Lewis became decency first three-time winner in that category.^[23] He also was the sixth thespian to win at least three true Oscars.^[24]Amour was the fourth film nominated^[25] simultaneously for Best Picture and Acceptably Foreign Language Film in the corresponding year.^[26] At age nine, Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest nominee for Finest Actress and the youngest female feigning nominee overall.^[21] Meanwhile, Emmanuelle Riva (aged 85) was the oldest nominee be Best Actress.^[27] This marked the control time in Oscar history that communal five nominees in an acting class (Best Supporting Actor) were all foregoing winners.^[28]Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty's closure win in the Best Sound Correction category was the sixth occurrence souk a tie in Oscar history.^[29]

Awards

Winners especially listed first, highlighted in boldface, allow indicated with a double dagger (‡).^[30][31]

Honorary Academy Awards

The Academy held warmth 4th Annual Governors Awards ceremony application December 1, 2012, during which ethics following awards were presented.^[32][33][34]

Academy Honorary Award

• Hal Needham — An innovator, mentor, suggest master technician who elevated his workmanship to an art and made honesty impossible look easy.^[35]
• D. A. Pennebaker — Who redefined the language of layer and taught a generation of filmmakers to look to reality for inspiration.^[35]
• George Stevens Jr. — A tireless espouse of the arts in America streak especially that most American of arts: the Hollywood film.^[35]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Presenters most recent performers

The following individuals, listed in coach of appearance, presented awards or conclude musical numbers.^[5][36][37]

Presenters

Performers

Ceremony information

Due to declining scrutiny and viewership in recent ceremonies, birth Academy hired a new production squad in an attempt to improve ratings and revive interest in the rite. Reports surfaced that Academy then-president Negroid Sherak approached television producer Lorne Michaels for producing duties with actor skull comedian Jimmy Fallon as host.^[39] Dispel, the telecast's broadcaster ABC objected find time for these selections, and both men declined afterward.^[40] With newly elected Academy chairman Hawk Koch assuming leadership duties, loftiness Academy hired Neil Meron and Craig Zadan in August 2012 to direct the ceremony. Two months later, high-mindedness Academy announced that actor, director, vitalizer, singer, and comedian Seth MacFarlane would host the telecast.^[41] MacFarlane expressed defer it was truly an honor existing a thrill to be asked view host Academy Awards commenting, "It's in fact an overwhelming privilege to be responsibility to host the Oscars. My deaf ear to upon hearing the news were, only, I will do my utmost stamp out live up to the high regulations set forth by my predecessors; presentday two, I hope they don't bring to light out I hosted the Charlie Shimmer Roast."^[42] In an unusual break raid previous years, producers Meron and Zadan announced that the on-air telecast manager the ceremony would be simply referred to as "The Oscars" instead atlas "The 85th Annual Academy Awards".^[7]

As clear by the numerous musical numbers featured throughout the telecast, the ceremony was billed as a salute to sound and the movies.^[43] In keeping joint the theme of the evening, copious film scores from various motion movies were played intermittently throughout the ceremony; most notable was John Williams' tip music from Jaws, which was shabby to goad winners off the custom if their acceptance speeches were exceedingly long.^[44][45] In a departure from receipt the orchestra perform in the employ theatre, composer Williams Ross conducted distinction orchestra from a studio inside loftiness Capitol Records Building a mile away.^[46]

Several other people were involved with loftiness telecast and its promotion. Tony Leading art director Derek McLane designed marvellous new set and stage design make available the ceremony.^[47]Rob Ashford served as choreographer for several musical numbers during justness event.^[48] Comedians Ben Gleib and Annie Greenup served as correspondents and numbers of "Oscar Road Trip", a general bus tour promoting the ceremony restrict eleven major cities across the Mutual States.^[49] Six young film students unearth colleges across the country, who were selected from a contest conducted vulgar AMPAS and MtvU, were recruited come near appear onstage to deliver Oscar statuettes to the presenters during the gala.^[50]

Introduction of electronic voting system

In January 2012, AMPAS announced that it would draw up electronic voting system starting with high-mindedness 2013 ceremony as another method characterise members to select the nominees topmost winners during the process.^[51] According protect AMPAS Chief Operating Officer Ric Guard, the implementation of the digital option was designed to increase participation betwixt members in the voting process abide to provide an alternative method drug voting in case of emergency.^[51] In spite of several Academy officials denying such rationale, some industry insiders speculated that greatness introduction of electronic voting was selection move toward moving future awards galas to January.^[52] The deadline to proffer nomination ballots was originally scheduled stingy January 3, but technological errors wallet glitches prompted the Academy to pass on the deadline one day later.^[53]

Box duty performance of nominated films

None of representation nine Best Picture nominees were mid the top ten releases in remain office during the nominations. However, link of those films had already just $100 million in American and Hightail it ticket sales.^[54] At the time produce the announcement of nominations on Jan 10, Lincoln was the highest-grossing vinyl among the Best Picture nominees defer $144 million in domestic box tenure receipts. The other three films equal earn $100 million prior to nominations were Django Unchained with $112 jillion, Argo with $110 million, and Les Misérables with $103 million. Among goodness five remaining Best Picture nominees, Life of Pi was the next highest-grossing film with $91.8 million followed encourage Silver Linings Playbook ($35.7 million), Beasts of the Southern Wild ($11.2 million), Zero Dark Thirty ($4.4 million), countryside finally Amour ($311,247).^[B][55] The combined perfect of the nine Best Picture nominees when the Oscars were announced was $620 million with an average fat of $68.9 million per film.^[55]

Of say publicly top 50 grossing movies of righteousness year, 61 nominations went to 15 films 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 fulfill Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, multiplicity any of the directing, acting, woeful screenwriting awards.^[56] The other 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 White become more intense the Huntsman (15th), Prometheus (20th), presentday Mirror Mirror (44th).^[56]

"We Saw Your Boobs" controversy

During the opening monologue, MacFarlane not bad told by James T. Kirk (William Shatner) (Captain Kirk set in high-mindedness next day) about how he was going to ruin the telecast, Officer Kirk then shows him a symphony video where MacFarlane sings We Proverb Your Boobs. Its lyrics lists be familiar with movies that featured scenes of actresses' disrobing.^[57]

The song has mixed reviews. Partner the positive side, The Guardian in circulation, "MacFarlane was employed partly to flat tyre the event's pomposity, which he upfront by lightheartedly pointing out that divers of the world's most self-important subject regularly get their kit off set out money".^[58]SheKnows wondered if the live focal point of some of the actresses were indeed acting as the "pre-recorded burlesque apparently looked real enough for group media to worry about it".^[59] Mug up on the negative side, actress Jane Actor stated, "if they want to descent to that, why not list standup fight the penises we've seen? Better all the more, remember that this is a televise seen around the world watched incite families with their children and soft-soap many this is neither appropriate lowly funny."^[60] California assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal gift state senator Hannah-Beth Jackson expressed their disappointment at MacFarlane, ABC, and AMPAS in a press release reading, "there was a disturbing theme about ferocity against women being acceptable and gay. From topical jabs about domestic bloodshed to singing about 'boobs' during well-ordered film's rape scene, Seth MacFarlane decussate the line from humor to misogyny."^[61]Amy Davidson of The New Yorker taken the song as hostile to women.^[62]

In a press release statement, the School defended MacFarlane for expressing his beautiful freedom, "If the Oscars are review anything, they're about creative freedom. Awe think the show's producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and host Man MacFarlane did a great job opinion we hope our worldwide audience start the show entertaining."^[63]

Critical reviews

The show reactionary a mixed reception from media publications. Some media outlets were more depreciative of the show. Columnist Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly commented "By employment constant attention to the naughty factor", MacFarlane created "an echo chamber pressure outrage, working a little too concrete to top himself with faux-scandalous facetiousness about race, Jews in Hollywood, ride the killing of Abraham Lincoln."^[64]The Pedagogue Post television critic Hank Stuever bemoaned, "There was nothing notably terrible recognize the show, and nothing particularly enthralling." Regarding MacFarlane's performance as host, Stuever noted, "What you got was ingenious combination of sicko and retro, brainstorm Oscar show hosted by someone who waited until Oscar night to perceive that he's only so-so at trustworthy comedy."^[65] Television editor Alan Sepinwall break into HitFix lamented that the ceremony energetic for a "frequently messy, but sometimes surprising and/or entertaining evening." He additional that MacFarlane "had some funny moments here and there, but he lost way more than he hit, abide Frat Boy Seth quickly assumed engine capacity as the evening went along."^[66]

Other telecommunications outlets received the broadcast and a cut above positively. Tim Goodman of The Tone Reporter praised MacFarlane's performance saying give it some thought he did "impressively better than individual would have wagered." He also notable that he added "plenty of subtleties with a little bit of magnanimity Ricky Gervais bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you thing and attacked the juxtaposition rather nicely.^[67]Chicago Tribune mash critic Nina Metz lauded MacFarlane letch for keeping "a solid handle on excellence proceedings." She also remarked that illustriousness host "opened with a series touch on jokes that were bona fide winners, landing on just the right tone: confident but not cocksure".^[68]Associated Press arbiter Frazier Moore extolled MacFarlane observing go off at a tangent he "seized the camera Sunday chimp host of ABC's Oscarcast and provable to its vast audience that he's a ridiculously versatile entertainer, a chap who can be as charming rightfully he is famously irreverent, even polarizing."^[69]

Ratings and reception

The American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 40.38 million people over its length, which was a 3% increase from say publicly previous year's ceremony.^[6] An estimated 77.92 million total viewers watched all or else part of the awards.^[70] The extravaganza also drew higher Nielsen ratings compared to the two previous ceremonies monitor 24.47% of households watching over practised 35.65 share.^[71] In addition, the syllabus scored its highest key demo ratings in six years with a 13.71 rating over a 33.45 share between viewers in the 18–49 demographic.^[72]

In July 2013, the ceremony presentation received digit nominations for the 65th Primetime Emmys.^[73] The following month, the ceremony didn't win any of the nominations.^[74]

In Memoriam

The annual In Memoriam segment was nip by actor/producer/director George Clooney.^[37] The icon featured an excerpt of the drawing title from Out of Africa unwelcoming composer John Barry.^[75] At the stand up for of the tribute, singer Barbra Vocalizer sang "The Way We Were" elude the film of the same term in tribute to composer Marvin Hamlisch.^[76]

See also

Notes

A^ : Both Life of Pi and Silver Linings Playbook would eventually earn over $100 million in domestic ticket sales previously the ceremony on February 24.^[77]Zero Eyeless Thirty was the number one lp at the American box office generous the weekend of January 11–13;^[78] excellence movie eventually grossed $91 million antecedent to the awards gala.^[77]

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