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2012 (85th Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners

Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 2012. TheWinner marker&origin=noms-by-year symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.

Best Picture

Amour, Les Films du Losange/X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Austria, France, Germany) Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, Producers.
Winner markerArgo, Stage 16 Pictures Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers.
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Cinereach and Court 13 Production; Fox Searchlight. Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers.
Django Unchained, Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures Production; The Weinstein Company. Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers.
Les Misérables, Universal Pictures and Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, USA) Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers.
Life of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers.
Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India) Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers.
Silver Linings Playbook, Weinstein Company Production; The Weinstein Company. Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers.
Zero Dark Thirty, Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (USA, United Arab Emirates) Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook, Weinstein Company Production; The Weinstein Company.
Winner markerDaniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India)
Hugh Jackman in Les Misérables, Universal Pictures and Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, USA)
Joaquin Phoenix in The Master, Ghoulardi Film Company/Annapurna Pictures Production; The Weinstein Company.
Denzel Washington in Flight, Paramount Pictures Production; Paramount. (USA, United Arab Emirates)

Actress in a Leading Role

Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty, Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (USA, United Arab Emirates)
Winner markerJennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook, Weinstein Company Production; The Weinstein Company.
Emmanuelle Riva in Amour, Les Films du Losange/X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Austria, France, Germany)
Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild, Cinereach and Court 13 Production; Fox Searchlight.
Naomi Watts in The Impossible, Apaches Entertainment/Telecinco Cinema in association with La Trini, CANAL +, ICAA, IVAC and Generalitat Valenciana Production; Summit Entertainment and Mediaset España. (Spain, USA)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Alan Arkin in Argo, Stage 16 Pictures Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK)
Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook, Weinstein Company Production; The Weinstein Company.
Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master, Ghoulardi Film Company/Annapurna Pictures Production; The Weinstein Company.
Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India)
Winner markerChristoph Waltz in Django Unchained, Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures Production; The Weinstein Company.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams in The Master, Ghoulardi Film Company/Annapurna Pictures Production; The Weinstein Company.
Sally Field in Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India)
Winner markerAnne Hathaway in Les Misérables, Universal Pictures and Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, USA)
Helen Hunt in The Sessions, Such Much Films/Rhino Films Production; Fox Searchlight.
Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook, Weinstein Company Production; The Weinstein Company.

Directing

Amour, Les Films du Losange/X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Austria, France, Germany) Michael Haneke.
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Cinereach and Court 13 Production; Fox Searchlight. Benh Zeitlin.
Winner markerLife of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Ang Lee.
Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India) Steven Spielberg.
Silver Linings Playbook, Weinstein Company Production; The Weinstein Company. David O. Russell.

Animated Feature Film

Winner markerBrave, Pixar Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney. (USA, UK) Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman.
Frankenweenie, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Walt Disney. Tim Burton.
ParaNorman, LAIKA Production; Focus Features. Sam Fell and Chris Butler.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Columbia and Sony Pictures Animation Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (UK, USA) Peter Lord.
Wreck-It Ralph, Walt Disney Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney. Rich Moore.

Cinematography

Anna Karenina, Working Title Films Production; Focus Features. (UK) Seamus McGarvey.
Django Unchained, Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures Production; The Weinstein Company. Robert Richardson.
Winner markerLife of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Claudio Miranda.
Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India) Janusz Kaminski.
Skyfall, Eon Productions Ltd./Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Roger Deakins.

Costume Design

Winner markerAnna Karenina, Working Title Films Production; Focus Features. (UK) Jacqueline Durran.
Les Misérables, Universal Pictures and Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, USA) Paco Delgado.
Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India) Joanna Johnston.
Mirror Mirror, Goldmann Pictures/Relativity Media/RAT Entertainment/Misher Films Production; Relativity Media. (USA, Canada) Eiko Ishioka.
Snow White and the Huntsman, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. (USA, UK) Colleen Atwood.

Documentary

(Feature)

5 Broken Cameras, Guy DVD Films/Burnat Films Palestine; Kino Lorber. (Palestine, Israel, France, Netherlands) Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi.
The Gatekeepers, Les Films du Poisson/Dror Moreh/Cinephil; Sony Pictures Classics. (Israel, France) Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky and Estelle Fialon.
How to Survive a Plague, How to Survive a Plague Production; Sundance Selects. David France and Howard Gertler.
The Invisible War, Chain Camera Pictures Production; Cinedigm/Docurama Films. (USA, France) Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering.
Winner markerSearching for Sugar Man, Red Box Films and Passion Pictures in association with Canfield Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Sweden, UK, Finland) Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn.

(Short Subject)

Winner markerInocente, Shine Global Production. Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine.
Kings Point, Kings Point Documentary Production. Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider.
Mondays at Racine, Cynthia Wade Production. Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan.
Open Heart, Urban Landscapes Production. Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern.
Redemption, Downtown Docs Production. Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill.

Film Editing

Winner markerArgo, Stage 16 Pictures Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) William Goldenberg.
Life of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Tim Squyres.
Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India) Michael Kahn.
Silver Linings Playbook, Weinstein Company Production; The Weinstein Company. Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers.
Zero Dark Thirty, Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (USA, United Arab Emirates) Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg.

Foreign Language Film

Winner markerAmour, Les Films du Losange/X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Austria, France, Germany)
Kon-Tiki, Nordisk Film Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden)
No, Fabula Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Chile, France, Mexico, USA)
A Royal Affair, Zentropa Production; Magnolia Pictures. (Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany)
War Witch, Item 7 Production; Tribeca Film. (Canada)

Makeup and Hairstyling

Hitchcock, Montecito Picture Company/Barnette/Thayer Production; Fox Searchlight. (USA, UK) Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, New Line and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Production; Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (USA, New Zealand) Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane.
Winner markerLes Misérables, Universal Pictures and Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, USA) Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell.
NOTE: The ‘Makeup’ category was renamed ‘Makeup and Hairstyling’ in 2012.

Music

(Original Score)

Anna Karenina, Working Title Films Production; Focus Features. (UK) Dario Marianelli.
Argo, Stage 16 Pictures Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Alexandre Desplat.
Winner markerLife of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Mychael Danna.
Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India) John Williams.
Skyfall, Eon Productions Ltd./Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Thomas Newman.

(Original Song)

Before My Time from Chasing Ice, Exposure Production; Submarine Deluxe. Music and lyric by J. Ralph.
Everybody Needs A Best Friend from Ted, Media Rights Capital Production; Universal. Music by Walter Murphy; lyric by Seth MacFarlane.
Pi’s Lullaby from Life of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Music by Mychael Danna; lyric by Bombay Jayashri.
Winner markerSkyfall from Skyfall, Eon Productions Ltd./Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Music and lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth.
Suddenly from Les Misérables, Universal Pictures and Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, USA) Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil.

Production Design

Anna Karenina, Working Title Films Production; Focus Features. (UK) Production design by Sarah Greenwood; set decoration by Katie Spencer.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, New Line and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Production; Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (USA, New Zealand) Production design by Dan Hennah; set decoration by Ra Vincent and Simon Bright.
Les Misérables, Universal Pictures and Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, USA) Production design by Eve Stewart; set decoration by Anna Lynch-Robinson.
Life of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Production design by David Gropman; set decoration by Anna Pinnock.
Winner markerLincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India) Production design by Rick Carter; set decoration by Jim Erickson.
NOTE: The ‘Art Direction’ category was renamed ‘Production Design’ in 2012.

Short Films

(Animated)

Adam and Dog, Lodge Films Production. Minkyu Lee.
Fresh Guacamole, PES Production. PES.
Head over Heels, National Film and Television School Production; National Film and Television School. (UK) Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly.
Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”, Gracie Films Production; 20th Century Fox Animation. David Silverman.
Winner markerPaperman, Disney Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney. John Kahrs.

(Live Action)

Asad, Hungry Man Production. (South Africa, USA) Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura.
Buzkashi Boys, Afghan Film Project Production. (Afghanistan, USA) Sam French and Ariel Nasr.
Winner markerCurfew, Fuzzy Logic Pictures Production; Ouat Media. Shawn Christensen.
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw), Serendipity Films Production; Premium Films. (Belgium, France) Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele.
Henry, Yan England Production. (Canada) Yan England.

Sound Editing

Argo, Stage 16 Pictures Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn.
Django Unchained, Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures Production; The Weinstein Company. Wylie Stateman.
Life of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton.
Winner markerSkyfall, Eon Productions Ltd./Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers.
Winner markerZero Dark Thirty, Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (USA, United Arab Emirates) Paul N. J. Ottosson.

Sound Mixing

Argo, Stage 16 Pictures Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia.
Winner markerLes Misérables, Universal Pictures and Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, USA) Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes.
Life of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin.
Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India) Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins.
Skyfall, Eon Productions Ltd./Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson.

Visual Effects

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, New Line and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Production; Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (USA, New Zealand) Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White.
Winner markerLife of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott.
Marvel’s The Avengers, Marvel Studios Production; Walt Disney. Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick.
Prometheus, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, UK) Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill.
Snow White and the Huntsman, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. (USA, UK) Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson.

Writing

(Adapted Screenplay)

Winner markerArgo, Stage 16 Pictures Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Screenplay by Chris Terrio.
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Cinereach and Court 13 Production; Fox Searchlight. Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin.
Life of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Screenplay by David Magee.
Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India) Screenplay by Tony Kushner.
Silver Linings Playbook, Weinstein Company Production; The Weinstein Company. Screenplay by David O. Russell.

(Original Screenplay)

Amour, Les Films du Losange/X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Austria, France, Germany) Written by Michael Haneke.
Winner markerDjango Unchained, Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures Production; The Weinstein Company. Written by Quentin Tarantino.
Flight, Paramount Pictures Production; Paramount. (USA, United Arab Emirates) Written by John Gatins.
Moonrise Kingdom, Indian Paintbrush Production; Focus Features. Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola.
Zero Dark Thirty, Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (USA, United Arab Emirates) Written by Mark Boal.

Honorary Award

Winner markerTo Hal Needham an innovator, mentor and master technician who elevated his craft to an art and made the impossible look easy. [ [Statuette]]
Winner markerTo D. A. Pennebaker who redefined the language of film and taught a generation of filmmakers to look to reality for inspiration. [ [Statuette]]
Winner markerTo George Stevens, Jr. a tireless champion of the arts in America and especially that most American of arts: the Hollywood film. [ [Statuette]]
NOTE: The Honorary Awards were presented at the 4th Governors Awards ceremony on December 1, 2012, in the Ray Dolby Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Winner markerJeffrey Katzenberg
NOTE: The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was presented at the 4th Governors Awards ceremony on December 1, 2012, in the Ray Dolby Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center.

Scientific and Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

Winner markerTo Cooke Optics Limited for their continuing innovation in the design, development and manufacture of advanced camera lenses that have helped define the look of motion pictures over the last century. Since their first series of motion picture lenses, Cooke Optics has continued to create optical innovations decade after decade. Producing what is commonly referred to as the "Cooke Look," these lenses have often been the lens of choice for creative cinematographers worldwide.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

Winner markerTo Simon Clutterbuck, James Jacobs and Dr. Richard Dorling for the development of the Tissue Physically–Based Character Simulation Framework. This framework faithfully and robustly simulates the effects of anatomical structures underlying a character’s skin. The resulting dynamic and secondary motions provide a new level of realism to computer–generated creatures.
Winner markerTo Dr. Philip McLauchlan, Allan Jaenicke, John–Paul Smith and Ross Shain for the creation of the Mocha planar tracking and rotoscoping software at Imagineer Systems Ltd. Mocha provides robust planar–tracking even when there are no clearly defined points in the image. Its effectiveness, ease of use, and ability to exchange rotoscoping data with other image processing tools have resulted in widespread adoption of the software in the visual effects industry.
Winner markerTo Joe Murtha, William Frederick and Jim Markland of Anton/Bauer, Inc. for the design and creation of the CINE VCLX Portable Power System. The CINE VCLX provides extended run–times and flexibility, allowing users to power cameras and other supplementary equipment required for production. This high–capacity battery system is also matched to the high–demand, always–on digital cinema cameras.

(Technical Achievement Award)

Winner markerTo J. P. Lewis, Matt Cordner and Nickson Fong for the invention and publication of the Pose Space Deformation technique. Pose Space Deformation (PSD) introduced the use of novel sparse data interpolation techniques to the task of shape interpolation. The controllability and ease of achieving artistic intent have led to PSD being a foundational technique in the creation of computer–generated characters.
Winner markerTo Lawrence Kesteloot, Drew Olbrich and Daniel Wexler for the creation of the Light system for computer graphics lighting at PDI/DreamWorks. Virtually unchanged from its original incarnation over 15 years ago, Light is still in continuous use due to its emphasis on interactive responsiveness, final–quality interactive render preview, scalable architecture and powerful user–configurable spreadsheet interface.
Winner markerTo Steve LaVietes, Brian Hall and Jeremy Selan for the creation of the Katana computer graphics scene management and lighting software at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Katana’s unique design, featuring a deferred evaluation procedural node–graph, provides a highly efficient lighting and rendering workflow. It allows artists to non–destructively edit scenes too complex to fit into computer memory, at scales ranging from a single object up to an entire detailed city.
Winner markerTo Theodore Kim, Nils Thuerey, Markus Gross and Doug James for the invention, publication and dissemination of Wavelet Turbulence software. This technique allowed for fast, art–directable creation of highly detailed gas simulation, making it easier for the artist to control the appearance these effects in the final image.
Winner markerTo Richard Mall for the design and development of the Matthews Max Menace Arm. Highly sophisticated and well–engineered, the Max Menace Arm is a safe and adjustable device that allows rapid, precise positioning of lighting fixtures, cameras or accessories. On–set or on location, this compact and highly portable structure is often used where access is limited due to restrictions on attaching equipment to existing surfaces.
NOTE: The Scientific and Technical awards were presented at their own ceremony on February 9, 2013, in the Crystal Ballroom of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation

Winner markerTo Bill Taylor in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
NOTE: The John A. Bonner Award was presented at the Scientific and Technical awards ceremony on February 9, 2013, in the Crystal Ballroom of the Beverly Hills Hotel.