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Oscar-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran combined 1950s styling with 19th century fashion for Keira Knightley in “Anna Karenina,” pictured here. Laurie Sparham/FOCUS FEATURES

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See Here for The Dresses! On the Red Carpet 

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11:56 p.m. -- “Argo” - Winner Best Picture

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11:46 p.m. -- Daniel Day Lewis - Winner Best Actor

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11:42 p.m. -- Jennifer Lawrence - Winner Best Actress 

Jennifer Lawrence, who will hopefully not only be remembered for tripping while getting onstage, won Best Actress for her role in “Silver Linings Paybook”

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11:34 p.m. -- Ang Lee for Life of Pi - Winner Best Director 

Ang Lee thanks the “movie God” as he accepts his Oscar.

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11:26 p.m. -- Quentin Tarantino for D'Jango Unchained - Winner Best Original Screenplay

“This will be the writers year, man,” said Tarantino as he accepted his award.

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11:24 p.m. --“Argo” - Winner Adapted Screenplay

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11:16 p.m. -- Adele and “Skyfall” - Winner Best Original Song

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11:09 p.m. -- “Life of Pi” - Winner Best Original Score

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Barbra Streisand’s Oscars Performance Honors Deceased

Barbra Streisand sings “The Way We Were” during a memorial segment of the Oscars, a tribute to those in the industry who have recently passed.

Likely to be included this year are Ernest Borgnine, Charles Durning, and Nora Ephron, according to the New York Times.

Borgnine won an Academy Award for playing a sensitive butcher in “Marty” in 1955—winning out against Frank Sinatra and James Dean. At the age of 82 he became Mermaid Man in “SpongeBob SquarePants.” 

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10:48 p.m. -- “Lincoln” - Winner Achievement in Production Design

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10:33 p.m. -- William Goldenberg for “Argo” - Winner Best FIlm Editing

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10:19 p.m. -- Anne Hathaway - Winner Best Supporting Actress

This is Anne Hathaway’s first Oscar win - for “Les Miserables.”

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10:14 p.m. -- “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Skyfall” - Winners Best Sound Editing

The last #oscars tie was in 1969, when Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn tied for Best Actress.

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10:11 p.m. -- “Les Miserables” - Winner Best Sound Mixing

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9:54 p.m. -- Celebrating Musicals

Catherine Zeta-Jones heats up the stage with “All That Jazz” from “Chicago.” 

Then a huge cast from Les Miserables sang a great medley from the movie. 

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9:46 p.m. -- “Amour” - Winner Best Foreign Language Film

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9:42 p.m. -- “Searching for Sugar Man” - Winner Best Documentary Feature

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 9:36 p.m. -- “Inocente” - Winner Best Documentary Short Subject

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9:33 p.m. -- “Curfew” - Winner Best live Action Short Film

“Curfew” was made in New York. 

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9:22 p.m. -- A Tribute to 50 Years of James Bond

Halle Berry introduces a ride through the five decades of the film franchise.

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9:20 p.m. -- “Les Miserables” - Winner Makeup and Hair Styling

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9:19 p.m. -- “Anna Karenina” - Winner Achievement in Costume Design

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9:10 p.m. -- “Life of Pi” - Winner Achievement in Visual Effects

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9:07 p.m. -- “Life of Pi” - Winner Best Cinematography

Claudio Miranda picked up the Oscar and was almost speechless. 

Claudio Miranda up now for LIFE OF PI backstage
Miranda: “It’s great to be from Chile. I would love to do something small and intimate there.”
Miranda: “My favorite thing is to get involved with a director where you push each other up. You go further and further.”

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9:01 p.m. -- “Brave” - Winner Best Animated Feature Film

Mark Andrew and@brenda_chapman up now for BRAVE
Andrews: “We wanna stay busy because we’re storytellers, that what we’ve gotta be doing. I can’t tell you what it is!”
Chapman: “The film took 8 years from beginning to end. I was in a year all by myself coming up with the basic plot.”
Andrews: Animation “fragile, delicate process every step of the way. If you stick with it, hopefully by the end you have something special.”

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8:58 p.m. -- “Paperman” - Winner Best Animated Short Film

Kahrs: Like other Disney animation, PAPERMAN “has magic in it, appealing characters, the plausible impossible.”
John Kahrs: “The hand-drawn line is still a relevant way of telling stories.”

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 8:51 p.m. -- Christoph Waltz - Winner of Actor in a Supporting Role

 

Christoph Waltz in “Django Unchained,” directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Waltz: “When I read the script for the first time, I realized there was something really special about this film.”
Waltz on #DjangoUnchained - “I love it because it’s a fabulous, exciting piece of entertainment with a really deep message.”

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 8:46 p.m. -- Seth McFarlane

 

Seth McFarlane starts with a few laughs. William Shatner, Captain Kirk, from the Starship Enterprise pops in to help save the day.

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8:17 p.m. -- Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis is as humble as ever - looking clean cut in his tux. 

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8:13 p.m. -- Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway is doing an Audrey Hepburn impersonation with her hair and style - and pulling it off very well. Hathaway is nominated for Best Supporting Actress in “Les Miserables.”

Julie Dartnell on Anne Hathaway’s hair cutting: “It was completely her decision. She was absolutely clear she wanted to do this thing.”
Julie Dartnell: “The whole crew were as emotional” as Anne Hathaway when her hair was chopped on camera.

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8:08 p.m. -- Stacy Kiebler and George Clooney

Stacy Kiebler and George Clooney swept onto the red carpet - the best looking couple so far. Clooney is ready to party, “Win or lose, I'll be drinking, that’s the good news,” he said.

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8:06 p.m. -- Adele

Adele looks great in a dress that she says weighs 15kgs! Adele, who is performing tonight, is wearing Jenny Packham, a British designer. The dress is black with beading,long-sleeved, and has a nipped-in waistline. Her hair is half up, half down, and her makeup is perfect as always.

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8:05 p.m. -- Halle Berry

Halle Berry always looks good, but this is not her best choice. She looks trendy and metallic in her Versace gown. 

Halle Berry, is wearing a Donatella-designed Versace dress that is she wanted to make her look like a “Bond Girl”. The dress is a long-sleeved, black and white striped, sequined column dress.

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7:48 p.m. -- Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston is wearing a bold color choice (red/orange), but it works on her. A simple design, and she pulls it off well. 

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7:42 p.m. -- Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman looks chic in a figure-hugging sparkly black dress chosen by her husband, Keith Urban. 

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7:35 -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt looks fantastic, showing us his mismatched socks - one with bicycles and the other with a neon pattern. 

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7:21 p.m. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones sparkled in a golden dress by Zuhair Murad and chandelier earrings. On her arm was hubby Michael Douglas looking dashing. 

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7:19 p.m. -- Zoe Saldana

Zoe Saldana, looks exceptional in a sculptured silver ensemble. She is wearing a Alexis Mabille Couture dress, Neil Lane jewelry, Roger Vivier shoes, and a Salvatore Ferragamo clutch.

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7:12 p.m. -- Amanda Seyfried

Amanda Seyfried looks elegant in her beaded gown. Her hair and makeup artists should win an award. She mentioned the difficulty in sitting down in the dress designed by Alexander McQueen.

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7:08 p.m. -- Jessica Chastain

Jessica Chastain looks great, and she should, because she is nominated for Best Leading Actress--and should win according to the Epoch Times’ picks.

Jessica Chastain is one of the first to arrive on the E! Live Academy Awards show. She is wearing a custom copper-toned, mermaid strapless gown by Armani Prive. The gown is made even more special because it has an overlay of white sequins and crystals, so she is sparkling down the red carpet.

With her hair down and softly waved, she has a statement red lip and Harry Winston diamond earrings and a 1960’s diamond bracelet. Jessica is accompanied by her grandmother, who is wearing Michael Kors and Harry Winston jewels. Chastain is nominated for Best Actress for her role in “Zero Dark Thirty.” Marykate Torley

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6:54 p.m. -- Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence does it again. She has never had a flop of a frock. The nominee for Best Actress is looking stunning in a classic ivory number from Dior. 

So far one of the biggest trends I’m seeing is the strapless dress. Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Kerry Washington, Zoe Saldana, Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Chastain all strapless dresses. Most of them are wearing their dresses with no necklaces, rather accenting them with large earrings and Hollywood glamour hair, deeply parted with soft waves.

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6:49 p.m. -- Barbra Streisand’s Oscars Performance to Honor Deceased

Barbra Streisand will sing “The Way We Were” during a memorial segment of the Oscars, a tribute to those in the industry who have recently passed.

Likely to be included this year are Ernest Borgnine, Charles Durning, and Nora Ephron, according to the New York Times.

Borgnine won an Academy Award for playing a sensitive butcher in “Marty” in 1995—winning out against Frank Sinatra and James Dean. At the age of 82 he became Mermaid Man in “SpongeBob SquarePants.”

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6:42 p.m. -- Navy is In

Navy dresses abound on the red carpet tonight. Quvenzhané Wallis, star of “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” looked older than her 11 years. Reese Witherspoon is in navy, as is TV personality Robin Roberts.

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 6:29 p.m. -- Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon looks classy in her form-fitting navy dress by Louis Vuitton. Witherspoon said her daughter picked her dress out for her.

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 Oscars Trivia: The Oscar Statuette

Since the first Oscars in 1929, over 2,800 statuettes have been presented. The first ever recipient of one was Emil Jannings, a German actor, named Best Actor for his performances in “The Last Command” and “The Way of All Flesh” in 1929. 

Jannings had an unsuccessful career in Hollywood after his win. He later went on to act in Nazi propaganda films.

Cedric Gibbons, an Irish American art director and production designer, designed the statuette in 1928. Gibbons was one of the original 36 founding members of The Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences. Gibbons was later nominated numerous times for an award himself taking home a handful over the next three decades.

The statuette design is a knight holding a crusader’s sword, standing on a reel of film. The film reel features five spokes, signifying the five original branches of the Academy (actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers).

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Can Oscars Host MacFarlane Fill Billy Crystal’s Shoes?
Seth MacFarlane’s humorous and solemn reflections

If Seth MacFarlane finds it tough to follow Billy Crystal as Oscars host, it’s no surprise, since Billy Crystal had trouble following his own act.

“Can I be better than I was last year? … That’s a hard thing to do,” Crystal said in an interview with Larry King in December. He was describing the worry he faced during his nine appearances as host of the Academy Awards, newly branded as simply “the Oscars,” including his performance in 2012. But there’s hope for MacFarlane.

Crystal added, “Then I realized I don’t have to.”

The humor that made MacFarlane’s “Family Guy” animated series a pop culture hit may ensure some laughs at the Oscars. MacFarlane tweeted a promise for Oscars night: no “cheap” dirty jokes, only “expensive” dirty jokes.

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The Oscars 2013 Nominees & Epoch Times Picks

Here is the list of this year’s nominees in the most watched categories with our votes for the winners.

Best Picture

“Amour,” directed by Michael Haneke
The producers are Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz.

“Argo,” directed by Ben Affleck*
The producers are Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney.

“Beasts of the Southern Wild,” directed by Benh Zeitlin
The producers are Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald.

“Django Unchained,” directed by Quentin Tarantino
The producers are Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone.

“Les Misérables,” directed by Tom Hooper
The producers are Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh.

“Life of Pi,” directed by Ang Lee
The producers are Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark.

“Lincoln,” directed by Steven Spielberg
The producers are Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy.

“Silver Linings Playbook,” directed by David O. Russell
The producers are Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon.

“Zero Dark Thirty,” directed by Kathry Bigelow
The producers are Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison.

Best Director

Michael Haneke, for “Amour”

Benh Zeitlin, for “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

Ang Lee, for “Life of Pi”

Steven Spielberg, for “Lincoln”

David O. Russell, for “Silver Linings Playbook”

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow

Jennifer Lawrence in “Silver Linings Playbook,” directed by David O. Russell

Emmanuelle Riva in “Amour,” directed by Michael Haneke

Quvenzhané Wallis in “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” directed by Benh Zeitlin

Naomi Watts in “The Impossible,” Juan Antonio Bayona

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook,” directed by David O. Russell

Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” directed by Steven Spielberg

Hugh Jackman in Les Misérables, directed by Tom Hooper

Joaquin Phoenix in “The Master,” directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Denzel Washington in “Flight,” Robert Zemeckis

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams in “The Master,” directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Sally Feild in “Lincoln,” directed by Steven Spielberg

Anne Hathaway in “Les Misérables,” directed by Tom Hooper

Helen Hunt in “The Sessions,” directed by Ben Lewin

Jacki Weaver in “Silver Linings Playbook,” directed by David O. Russell

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Alan Arkin in “Argo,” directed by Ben Affleck

Robert De Niro in “Silver Linings Playbook,” directed by David O. Russell

Philip Seymour Hoffman in “The Master,” directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Tommy Lee Jones in “Lincoln,” directed by Steven Spielberg

Christoph Waltz in “Django Unchained,” directed by Quentin Tarantino

Best Animated Feature Film

“Brave,” by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman

Frankenweenie, by Tim Burton

“ParaNorman,” by Sam Fell and Chris Butler

“The Pirates! Band of Misfits,” by Peter Lord

“Wreck-It Ralph,” by Rich Moore

Best Cinematography

Seamus McGarvey, for “Anna Karenina,” directed by Joe Wright

Robert Richardson, for “Django Unchained,” directed by Quentin Tarantino

Claudio Miranda, for “Life of Pi,” directed by Ang Lee

Janusz Kaminski, for “Lincoln,” directed by Steven Spielberg

Roger Deakins, for “Skyfall,” directed by Sam Mendes

Best Documentary Feature

“5 Broken Cameras,” by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi

“The Gatekeepers,” by Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky and Estelle Fialon.

“How to Survive a Plague,” by David France and Howard Gertler

“The Invisible War,” by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering

“Searching for Sugar Man,” by Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

“Hitchcock,” Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel, directed by Sacha Gervasi

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane, directed by Sir Peter Jackson

“Les Misérables,” Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell, directed by Tom Hooper

Best Music—Original Song

“Before My Time” from “Chasing Ice,”music and lyrics are by J. Ralph, directed by Jeff Orlowski

“Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from “Ted,” music by Walter Murphy and lyrics are by Seth MacFarlane, directed by Seth MacFarlane

“Pi’s Lullaby” from “Life of Pi,” music by Mychael Danna and lyrics are by Bombay Jayashri, directed by Ang Lee

“Skyfall” from “Skyfall,” music and lyrics are by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth, directed by Sam Mendes

“Suddenly” from “Les Misérables,” music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyrics are by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil, directed by Tom Hooper

Best Music—Original Score

“Anna Karenina” - Dario Marianelli

“Argo” - Alexandre Desplat

“Life of Pi” - Mychael Danna

“Lincoln” - John Williams

“Skyfall” - Thomas Newman

Best Visual Effects