From backstage at the Oscars:
When did you feel a tipping point in your favor for this film?Clooney: Michelle Obama.
Ben: When they gave us the trophies I was confident that we would win. I don’t get too much into the Oscar-ology and the pontificating. It doesn’t help me to read up on that stuff.
Backstage at the Oscars with Daniel Day-Lewis:
Was it uncomfortable wearing the beard?What do you mean? No it's just a beard. Do you wear your hair? It was my very own beard.
From HuffPost Los Angeles correspondent Sasha Bronner:
"A bad word. That starts with F."
Here's Awards Daily blogger Sasha Stone just after "Argo" won Best Picture.
| @ AwardsDaily : See, I told you Argo was Crash incarnate. Won the same amount of awards even. |
Have you ever seen a movie where you walk out saying, “That was just a great f--king movie”? That’s Ben Affleck’s Argo. Inexplicably, a film that draws its strength from humor and suspense, winds up being more moving the second time through. Perhaps because once you have been through the suspense part of it you get to know the characters better and therefore care about their outcomes more.
Seth MacFarlane and Kristen Chenoweth sing a song about the losers at the Oscars. Surely this will go over well in the room.
He thanks Ben Affleck, who directed a "helluva film." He then introduces Affleck.
"Thank you very, very much." Affleck acknowledges Steven Spielberg and the other films.
Michelle Obama announces "Argo" as Best Picture.
Jack knows better than to mess with Michelle Obama.
Daniel Day-Lewis bringing jokes to his Best Actor speech.
Day-Lewis wins for "Lincoln." It's his record third Best Actor win. He's the first actor to ever win for a Steven Spielberg movie.
My cherie amour! Jennifer Lawrence wins her first Oscar.
The 2012 Best Actor winner is here to announce Best Actress in 2013.
Sorry, Steven Spielberg. Lee wins Best Director for "Life of Pi." He beat Spielberg, Michael Haneke, Benh Zeitlin and David O. Russell. This is Lee's second Best Director Oscar.
Here's what Sandra Bullock looked like at the Oscars:
Quentin Tarantino wins his second Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. He last won for "Pulp Fiction."
"That's cool, Charlize is my neighbor!" Tarantino said.
The second Oscar win for "Argo" is a big one: It wins Best Adapted Screenplay for Chris Terrio. He thanks the nominees and "the brilliant Tony." Kushner wrote "Lincoln."
Chris Terrio's "Argo" script is favored to win, but the category is loaded: "Lincoln," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Life of Pi" and "Silver Linings Playbook."
Adele, Oscar winner. She wins for "Skyfall." Let it crumble, y'all!
That's how Seth MacFarlane introduced the cast of "Chicago," who are on hand to present Best Original Score. (Richard Gere, Renee Zellweger, Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones are on hand.)
Clooney, staying classy, says, "Thank you for the memories."
Upset! "Anna Karenina" was favored to win Best Production Design, but Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" grabs its first Oscar.
"It came true," Hathaway says while holding her Oscar. She thanked her fellow nominees, then her cast mates, including Hugh Jackman. Hathaway runs down through the usual thank yous, then her "team," her friends, her family and her husband.
"By far and away, the greatest moment of my life was when you walked into it," she said.
Surprise! She wins for "Les Miserables" and the band plays "Can You Hear The People Sing?" and not "I Dreamed A Dream."
He dings Seth MacFarlane for making a few too many "Sound of Music" jokes. Plummer won Best Supporting Actor last year for "Beginners."
The other winner is "Skyfall."
The first Oscar goes to "Zero Dark Thrity" ...
This is what crushing it looks like:
Russell Crowe is singing now.
And, at home, you do too.
Standing ovation for Jennifer Hudson after singing. Now comes the cast of "Les Mis."
Like Zeta-Jones, Hudson also won Best Supporting Actress.
Zeta-Jones won Best Supporting Actress at the 2003 Oscars for her role.
... and Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger. Time for that musical tribute!
"Thank you to my great crew. Thank you to my wife; she was a member of the crew." Haneke also thanked Emmanuelle Riva, who is nominated for Best Actress.
Michael Haneke's "Amour" wins. The film hails from Austria.
The favorite in the category wins Best Documentary Feature. The film is about a '60s rock star named Sixto Rodriguez.
He also hopes that Seth MacFarlane can "turn the show around." Ding!
Seth MacFarlane jokes that the first time he saw Ben Affleck's beard, he thought the "Kardashians made the jump to film." Jokes!
Liam Neeson introduces the second batch of Best Picture nominees: "Argo," "Lincoln," "Zero Dark Thirty." Fun fact: Neeson was originally set to play Lincoln before Daniel Day-Lewis was cast.
Upset! "Open Heart" was favored to win Best Documentary Short Subject.
Shirley Bassey gets a standing ovation after singing "Goldfinger," the title song from "Goldfinger" and one of the most famous James Bond themes ever. More below.
To honor 50 years of James Bond, Oscars producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron put together a special celebration of the famed and fictional secret agent. Singer Shirley Bassey, who recorded the theme songs from Bond favorites "Goldfinger," "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Moonraker," performed on the telecast.
Singing "Goldfinger," bringing the the house down.
Famed Bond Girl Halle Berry introduces the James Bond tribute.
Can you hear the people sing?
This is the second Oscar for "Life of Pi." That tiger looked real, sorry "Marvel's The Avengers" effects team.
Then brings out "The Avengers."
Reese Witherspoon introduces clips from "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild."
"Brave" wins Best Animated Feature, beating "Wreck-It Ralph," "Frankenweenie," "Pirates: Band of Misfits" and "ParaNorman."
The two "This Is 40" stars are here to present Best Animated Short.
Christoph Waltz bows to his fellow nominees, then thanks Quentin Tarantino and his character.
"I thank Jamie Foxx and Leo DiCaprio. Sam Jackson and Kerry Washington," Waltz said.
This is his second Oscar. He also won for "Inglourious Basterds," also written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.