2012 (85th Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2012 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). 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 winners from that year.
Best Picture
Argo, Stage 16 Pictures Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers.Actor in a Leading Role
Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India)Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained, Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures Production; The Weinstein Company.Actress in a Supporting Role
Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables, Universal Pictures and Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, USA)Directing
Animated Feature Film
Cinematography
Life of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Claudio Miranda.Costume Design
Documentary
(Feature)
Searching 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)
Film Editing
Foreign Language Film
Amour, Les Films du Losange/X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Austria, France, Germany)Makeup and Hairstyling
Les Misérables, Universal Pictures and Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, USA) Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell.Music
(Original Score)
Life of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada) Mychael Danna.(Original Song)
Skyfall 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.Production Design
Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (USA, India) Production design by Rick Carter; set decoration by Jim Erickson.Short Films
(Animated)
(Live Action)
Sound Editing
Skyfall, 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.Zero Dark Thirty, Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (USA, United Arab Emirates) Paul N. J. Ottosson.Sound Mixing
Les Misérables, Universal Pictures and Working Title Production; Universal. (UK, USA) Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes.Visual Effects
Life 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.Writing
(Adapted Screenplay)
(Original Screenplay)
Django Unchained, Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures Production; The Weinstein Company. Written by Quentin Tarantino.Honorary Award
To Hal Needham an innovator, mentor and master technician who elevated his craft to an art and made the impossible look easy. [ [Statuette]]To D. A. Pennebaker who redefined the language of film and taught a generation of filmmakers to look to reality for inspiration. [ [Statuette]]To George Stevens, Jr. a tireless champion of the arts in America and especially that most American of arts: the Hollywood film. [ [Statuette]]Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Scientific and Technical Award
(Academy Award of Merit)
To 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)
To 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.To 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.To 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)
To 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.To 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.To 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.To 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.To 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.John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation
To Bill Taylor in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.