“Life of Pi”, “Argo” and “Les Miserables” score big at Oscars

Adele, who took home an award for “Skyfall”, performs at the gala(L). Daniel-Day Lewis scored Best Actor in a Leading role for “Lincoln” (R).

The 85th Annual Academy Awards had little surprise in store for film-lovers across the globe, as all the top-reviewed films of 2012 shared the honours at the grand gala in Los Angeles, USA yesterday morning (local time). “Life of Pi” scored the highest -- four Oscars, including best director for Ang Lee. Ben Affleck's thriller “Argo” was not far behind, with three wins including best film. “Lincoln”, the film with the highest nods -- 12, took home two trophies, including the big one of best actor for Daniel-Day Lewis. “Les Miserables”, the multi-starrer musical that scored eight nominations, also took home three awards including Anne Hathaway for best actress in a supporting role. “Silver Linings Playbook”, the Bradley Cooper-starrer that had raised much speculation with eight nominations, took home just one win -- Jennifer Lawrence, best actress. “Django Unchained”, the Quentin Tarantino film that also stirred up some discussion with five nods, took home best original screenplay for Tarantino and best actor in a supporting role for Christoph Waltz.
The groundbreaking Bond film “Skyfall” that had also scored five nominations, ended up taking two awards -- best original song and sound editing. However, “Zero Dark Thirty”, the action thriller that was also in the running in five categories, shared the sound editing prize with “Skyfall”.
Australian film “Amour” took home the award for best foreign language film, “Searching for Sugar Man” took the best documentary feature, and the best animated feature film award went to “Brave”.
The night, however, was a disappointment for “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (four nominations), “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” and “The Master” (three nominations each) that went home empty handed.