Hosted by Seth MacFarlane, the 85th Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles tonight, a ceremony that included a few surprises along with the expected but equally deserving winners.  Numerous celebrities were on hand to present and accept the awards, as Argo took home Best Picture at the end of the evening and Life of Pi led the charge with a total of four wins, including Best Director for Ang Lee.  All in all, I was happy with who took home the awards.

Best Supporting Actor went to Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained and Anne Hathaway won Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables.  Later on, Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for his mesmerizing work in Lincoln and Jennifer Lawrence took home Best Actress for her brilliant performance in Silver Linings Playbook.  The winner of Best Animated Feature was Brave, and the powerful Austrian film Amour won Best Foreign.  We would like to take a moment to say a big congratulations to all of the winners and nominees.

I tweeted my commentary on the awards throughout the evening, and my full thoughts on everything that happened tonight will be coming tomorrow.  Please see below for a complete list of nominees in all of the 24 categories, with the winners highlighted in bold.

-John C.

BEST PICTURE

Amour

Argo

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Lincoln

Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

BEST DIRECTOR

Ang Lee, Life of Pi

Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

Michael Haneke, Amour

Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

BEST ACTOR

Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Denzel Washington, Flight

Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

BEST ACTRESS

Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook

Alan Arkin, Argo

Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Sally Field, Lincoln

Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables

Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Helen Hunt, The Sessions 

Amy Adams, The Master

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Brave

Frankenweenie

ParaNorman

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Wreck-It Ralph

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Amour

Kon-Tiki

No

A Royal Affair

War Witch

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

5 Broken Cameras

The Gatekeepers 

How To Survive A Plague

The Invisible War

Searching for Sugar Man

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Argo

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Amour

Django Unchained

Flight

Moonrise Kingdom

Zero Dark Thirty

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Anna Karenina

Django Unchained

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Skyfall

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Anna Karenina

Les Misérables

Lincoln

Mirror Mirror

Snow White and the Huntsman

BEST FILM EDITING

Argo

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Hitchcock

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Les Misérables

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Dario Marianelli, Anna Karenina

Alexandre Desplat, Argo

Mychael Danna, Life of Pi

John Williams, Lincoln

Thomas Newman, Skyfall

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Before My Time,” Chasing Ice

“Everybody Needs A Best Friend,” Ted

“Pi’s Lullaby,” Life of Pi

“Skyfall,” Skyfall

“Suddenly,” Les Misérables

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Anna Karenina

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Adam and Dog

Fresh Guacamole

Head Over Heels

Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”

Paperman

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

Asad

Buzkashi Boys

Curfew

Death of a Shadow

Henry

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Inocente

Kings Point

Open Heart

Redemption

Mondays at Racine

BEST SOUND EDITING

Argo

Django Unchained

Life of Pi

Skyfall (tie)

Zero Dark Thirty (tie)

BEST SOUND MIXING

Argo

Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Skyfall

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Life of Pi

The Avengers

Prometheus

Snow White and the Huntsman