Oscars 2013: And The Winners Are…

“The quest to make Tommy Lee Jones laugh begins now…!”
And with that Seth MacFarlane kicked off his hosting of the Oscar show. I wasn’t too thrilled with his jokes or his “We Saw Your Boobs” intro song, but seeing “onse” Charlize and Channing Tatum dancing, a la Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers style,  saved that opening.

Genius move to have the First Lady, Michelle Obama – live from the White House – join Jack Nicholson to present Best Picture to Argo. Sweet justice for Best-Director-snubbed Ben Affleck.

And of course, the great news for South Africa – Searching for Sugar Man, the documentary with very close ties to the country, made by the tenacious Swedish director Malik Benjelloul, won Best Documentary.

The show aside, a greater sign of the times, next to longtime Governors Ball chef Wolfgang Puck getting onto Twitter, is that the Kickstarter-funded Inocente won Best Documentary Short.

Best Picture

Argo

Best Director

Ang Lee, Life of Pi

Best Actor

Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln

Best Actress

Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress

Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

Best Animated Film

Brave

Best Song

Skyfall – Adele and Paul Epworth

And for the rest of the awards – including ones you maybe didn’t even know about, visit here.