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The 85th Annual Academy Awards (2013 Discussion)

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Host: Seth McFarlane

Date & Time: Sunday, February 24th ~ 5:30pm PST (8:30pm EST)

Site: Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

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The 85th Academy Awards are notable for several rare and first-time feats. Amour (French) became the first film in twelve years to be nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film; the last film to do so was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Mandarin) in 2000. Amour also became the first foreign-language film in six years to earn a Best Picture nomination; the last film to do so was Letters from Iwo Jima (Japanese) in 2006.

Several age-related records were set: Emmanuelle Riva, at 85, became the oldest nominee in the Best Actress category. This record was previously held by Jessica Tandy, age 80, who was nominated (and won) for Driving Miss Daisy in 1989. Quvenzhané Wallis, at age 9, became the youngest nominated actress in the Best Actress category. This record was previously held by Keisha Castle-Hughes who was nominated at the age of 13 for Whale Rider in 2003. Jennifer Lawrence, at 22, became the youngest Best Actress two-time nominee, having previously been nominated in 2010 for Winter's Bone.

Silver Linings Playbook became the first film in 31 years to receive nominations in all four acting categories; the last film to do so was Reds in 1981. Silver Linings Playbook also became the first film in eight years to be nominated in the "Big Five" categories; the last film to do so was Million Dollar Baby in 2004.
In regard to acting merits, for the first time in the history of the awards, the Best Supporting Actor category consists only of previous winners. Alan Arkin, Tommy Lee Jones, and Christoph Waltz have each won Best Supporting Actor; Phillip Seymour Hoffman has won Best Actor; and Robert De Niro has won in both award categories. Also, out of the 20 total acting nominations, only 4 of them (Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman, Emmanuelle Riva, and Quvenzhané Wallis) are first time nominees.

Les Misérables became the first movie musical to be not only nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Hugh Jackman) since Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2008, but also for Best Picture since Chicago in 2003.

The Walt Disney Studios hasn't had this much success at the Academy Awards since when Mary Poppins earned thirteen Oscar nominations at the 37th Academy Awards in 1965; Disney earned a record-breaking seventeen Oscar nominations in the studio's history in a single year: twelve for Lincoln and one apiece for The Avengers, Brave, Frankenweenie, Paperman, and Wreck-It Ralph.

Best Motion Picture Nominees:

Amour – Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Michael Katz
Argo – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney
Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, and Michael Gottwald
Django Unchained – Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, and Pilar Savone
Les Misérables – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh
Life of Pi – Gil Netter, Ang Lee, and David Womark
Lincoln – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
Silver Linings Playbook – Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen, and Jonathan Gordon
Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, and Megan Ellison

The rest:

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