LATINOS Shine In OSCAR’s Big Night

25 Feb 2013 by admin in Film

An irreverent Academy Awards came to a close with “Argo” selected as the year’s Best Film. Other top winners were Daniel Day Lewis (third win) for Best Actor, Jennifer Lawrence as Best Actress and Ang Lee for Best Director. Latinos had a big night. Zoe Saldana and Salma Hayek were presenters and Claudio Miranda won for Best Cinematography for “Life of Pi.” The Best Short Subject Documentary “Inocente” is about a Latina artist and the Documentary Feature winner “Searching for Sugar Man” follows musician Sixto Rodriguez. Jose Antonio Garcia won for for Sound Mixing “Argo”, and of course, the Best Picture itself is based on the story of Spanish American CIA operative Antonio ‘Tony’ Mendez. Here’s the complete list of winners:

Airing live from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, the event was hosted by “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane who received mixed reviews.

Chilean cinematographer Claudio Miranda won his first Academy Award for his awe inspiring work in Ang Lee’s ‘Life of Pi”. While best documentary “Incocente” is a personal coming of age story about a young artist’s determination never to surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by being an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. ‘Inocente’ is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children.

Here’s the complete list of nominees:

BEST PICTURE
Argo
Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers

DIRECTING
Ang Lee, Life Of Pi

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables


CINEMATOGRAPHY
Claudio Miranda, Life Of Pi

ANIMATED FEATURE
Brave
Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Paperman
John Kahrs

ORIGINAL SONG
“Skyfall” from Skyfall
Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio, Argo

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

VISUAL EFFECTS
Life Of Pi
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott

COSTUME DESIGN
Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina

MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Les Misérables
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Curfew
Shawn Christensen

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Inocente
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Searching For Sugar Man
Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour (Austria)
Michael Haneke, director; Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, Producers

SOUND MIXING
Les Misérables
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes

SOUND EDITING
(tie)
Zero Dark Thirty
Paul N.J. Ottosson

Skyfall
Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers

FILM EDITING
Argo
William Goldenberg

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Lincoln
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

ORIGINAL SCORE
Life Of Pi
Mychael Danna

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