LOS ANGELES — Hollywood gave its top honor to Ben Affleck’s “Argo” at a song-and-dance-filled Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, completing a remarkable turnaround for a film that was once a long-shot contender. But in a break from recent years Oscar voters also found a way to take care of a wide variety of movies, especially “Life of Pi,” which won four trophies, including the best director honor for Ang Lee. “Les Misérables” joined “Argo” in taking home three awards, and “Django Unchained” was honored with two, including one for Quentin Tarantino for best original screenplay. “I want to thank [...]
LOS ANGELES — At the Governors Awards banquet of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences here on Saturday three weathered honorees — the stuntman Hal Needham, the documentarian D. A. Pennebaker and the film advocate George Stevens Jr. — held the spotlight through most of the night. But the real action was in the room, where you ran a gantlet of studio operatives and their Oscar contenders just to get near those tiny crab cakes. Steven Spielberg, the director of “Lincoln,” hopped tables. Alexandre Desplat, with music credits on five prize candidates, including “Argo,” pumped hands at the [...]
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