Jennifer Lawrence is crowned Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook... but falls while collecting it
Best original screenplay goes to Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained
Best adapted screenplay goes to Argo... with a tearful tribute to snubbed director Affleck
Adele adds an Oscar to her collection by winning Best Song for Skyfall
Christoph Waltz bags Best Supporting Actor gong for Tarantino's Django Unchained
Ang Lee's sumptuous Life of Pi is recognised for cinematography, visual effects and original score
The 85th Academy Award winners have been chosen, the red carpet has been brightened by a cacophony of colourful gowns and the golden Oscar statues are all handed to their happy recipients.
With the great, good and exquisitely preened of Hollywood filed into the Dolby theatre it was time for dreams to made... or broken.
Anne Hathaway summed up the magic of the night for those that won when she accepted the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as the doomed Fantine in Les Miserables by exclaiming: 'It came true!' as she clasped the gold statuette.
She dreamed a dream: Anne Hathaway was inspired to become an actress by watching her mother play Fantine in a production of Les Miserables 24 years ago; now she's got the Oscar for the same role
Because she really did dream a dream... and it really did come true.
Hathaway, who looked incredible in Prada, wanted to star in Les Misérables aged six, and it set her on the path to becoming an actress... so it was a doubly poignant moment.
She made a point of thanking her co-star Hugh Jackman, and her husband Adam Shulman. 'It was the best moment of my life when you walked into it,' she told the man she married in California's Big Sur last year.
The Oscar win is the apogee of a winning streak for the 30-year-old actress, who has won a plethora of honors for her short performance in the musical.
Hathaway beat Sally Field from Lincoln,who was considered her closest rival in the category.
Hathaway, who starred in The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada and Love and Other Drugs was inspired to act after watching her mother, Kate, star as Fantine in a stage production.
Special thanks: Anne gave a big shout out to her Les Mis co-star Hugh Jackman
She did it! Anne Hathaway won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and showed just how good she is in the role in the earlier Les Mis performance
Her other leading man: Anne gave a her husband Adam Shulman a kiss after the announcement
VIDEO Anne Hathaway collects her Oscar
Her moment: Jennifer Lawrence, 22, accepted the Best Actress Award in her Dior gown... she stunned in Silver Linings Playbook
Congratulations: Lawrence got a warm hug from her co-star in Silver Linings
Too much emotion: Jennifer took a tumble as she headed to the stage
To play the role of the impoverished seamstress, Hathaway lost over 25 pounds.
Argo, the popular choice for Best Picture romped home.
'I know what you're thinking - three sexiest producers in Hollywood,' joked Argo producer Grant Heslov, standing with Ben Affleck on his right and George Clooney to his left.
'You directed a hell of a picture,' he added to Affleck, who was snubbed in the Best Director category.
The first award of the night brought forth a distinguished quintet of nominees all vying for the Best Supporting Actor Award.
What a team: Director Ben Affleck and producer George Clooney embrace after their movie Argo is named as Best Picture
Hollywood's most successful failure: After dating J-Lo and starring in Michael Bay films, Affleck looked to be finished in critical terms but Argo has been a massive comeback
Proud: Ben's wife Jennifer looked on proudly as her husband sniffled his way through his speech
Here's Jaaaacky: Mr Nicholson cruised onto the stage to present the Best Picture Award, well, seemingly
But look who's here! The actual honour went to Michelle Obama, who broke the news to the Argo crew
It doesn't get much better than Tommy Lee Jones, Robert De Niro, Alan Arkin, Phillip Seymour Hoffman but the gong went to Tarantino's darling, Christoph Waltz for Quentin's Django Unchained.
It's his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in four years under the direction of Tarantino, this time as a German bounty hunter in the slave revenge tale.
'We participated in a hero's journey, the hero here being Quentin,' Waltz said as he accepted his award.
The Austrian actor first impressed the academy as a charming yet black hearted Nazi in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
He was nominated while Django co-stars Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio were not.
Genius: Director Ang Lee brought best-seller Life of Pi to the big screen and made it work, something nobody thought could be done
VIDEO Christophe Waltz picks up his Oscar
Cult legend: Quentin Tarantino won Best Original Screenplay for Django Unchained, he scored the award in 1994 for Pulp Fiction
Dark horse: Christoph Waltz beat Robert De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones to bag the Best Supporting Award for his role in Tarantino's Django Unchained
What a partnership: Waltz gets a hug from the director who paved the way to his two Academy Awards
Proud moment: Waltz bagged the Best Supporting Actor Tarantino's last movie, Inglorious Basterds, and has been recoginsed for Django... and the director looked delighted and later bagged Best Original Screenplay for the same movie
Good sport: Tommy Lee Jones took losing to Waltz well, and was cheerier than he appeared to be at the Golden Globes
Preened and styled to within an inch of their lives, the stars have undergone weeks of strenuous preparation for tonight's event.
They've starved themselves, stood starkers for the spray-tan, had the Hollywood smile teeth touched up, the Botox injected and brutal facials that knock their cheekbones into tip top shape; and that's just the men.
Former Bond girl Halle Berry needs no such help and looked stunning as she introduced the 007 tribute by saying: 'Bond music is a genre, all its own. Guaranteed to make your heart beat faster and take your breath away.'
Joy: Adele was gobsmacked by her award and thanked Queen Latifah who presented it to her
Shocked: Presenter Renee Zellweger seemed unprepared for Adele's unaffected exhuberance
Moved: Adele looked blown away despite being the favourite for the award
The girl done well: London's finest Adele picked up an Oscar to add to her collection for Skyfall, the latest Bond theme
First, Dame Shirley Bassey belted out Goldfinger wearing a golden gown and won a standing ovation.
Adele took the stage later for a stunning performance of Skyfall, and then accepted the award for Best Song with typically self-deprecating candour.
Quentin Tarantino won the best orginal screenplay Oscar for his film Django Unchained.
'How nice to get it from you' Tarantino said to presenter Charlize Theron and then explained to the audience that Theron is his neighbour.
Bandeau beauties: Jennifer Garner and Jessica Chastain presented an award... and themselves beautifully
What a pair: Jennifer Aniston and Channing Tatum presented the hairstyling and make up award, aptly
America's sweetheart: Reese Witherspoon wasn't nominated but she was happy to help with tonight's presentation
Gold figure: Dame Shirley Bassey sang her classic Bond tune as part of the night's tribute to 007's 50th birthday
The long and the short of it: Charlize Theron and Dustin Hoffman made for an arresting presenting duo
Host Seth MacFarlane joked that the Oscar show now in its third hour was going so slowly that they would soon start presenting the 2014 Oscars.
Ang Lee's sumptuous Life of Pi was then recognised for cinematography and visual effects, and Disney's Brave awarded the laurels for Best Animated Feature Film... Paperman got the nod for Short Animation.
Amour, written and directed by Michael Haneke, surprised nobody by winning Best Foreign Film.
Haunting: Barbara Streisand sent a shiver down everyone's spine with her rendition of the hit song of 1973's The Way We Were
Owning the stage: Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for Marc Forster's Monsters Ball
Man of the night: Ben Affleck might not be nominated for Best Director but his film Argo is on everyone's hit list
All that Jazz: Catherine Zeta-Jones was impressive in a reprise of her Chicago performance
Stunning: The cast of Les Miserables brought the house down with a compelling Hugh Jackman at the centre of the performance
A French-language drama about an elderly married couple whose lives are shattered when one has a stroke, Amour has won a brace of awards.
Amour has four other nominations including best original screenplay and best director for Haneke, best picture, and best actress for 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva.
The atmosphere is always tense inside the strangely ordinary theatre on the seedy end of Hollywood Boulevard at this award show of award shows, and the fact that all alcohol is banned during the ceremony - unlike the Golden Globes - only adds to the jagged sense of anticipation in the stuffy air.
Funny guys: Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy did their bit to cheer up proceedings
America's sweetheart: Reese Witherspoon wasn't nominated but she was happy to help with tonight's presentation
Let me entertain you: Seth MacFarlane brought his cheeky brand of humour to proceedings
Ready to go: The stars discover who will take home 2013's coveted Oscars
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's stewardship went some way to combating the inescapable stress of a night that makes and breaks careers like no other but as the roll call of winners (and therefore even more losers) got underway on Hollywood's biggest night of the year... there were plenty of rigid smiles and disappointed eyes.
Argo headed into Sunday's Oscars as almost everyone's favourite for best picture, and took home the laurels with a tearful speech from Ben Affleck.
Ben Affleck's 1970s Iran hostage drama was also produced by George Clooney.
Argo f*** yourself? Ben Affleck's directorial debut is the first film to win Best Picture without earning a director's nomination since 1989's Driving Miss Daisy
Going for gold: Spielberg's Lincoln had twelve nominations and Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor as predicted
Barbra Streisand also gave a wonderful rendition of The Way We Were.
Affleck’s Argo had won most of the big awards in the run up on to the big night; including the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Picture which is thought to be the clearest indicator of Oscar success.
The critically acclaimed movie - which was also a massive box office hit - also walked away with the Producers Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America, which gave Affleck its top prize for directing the film.
But Affleck didn't pick up the directing trophy as he wasn't nominated, meaning that Argo is the first film to win without its director being nominated since 1989's Driving Miss Daisy.
This years films have been more popular than the Academy is used to, six of the nine nominees have grossed more than $100 million the US and they're hoping that they can draw in a younger audience with the hit movies, and the edgy hosting fulcrum that is MacFarlane.
Ladies' night: Anne Hathaway won Supporting Actress while Jennifer Lawrence while Jennifer Lawrence bagged the Best Actress award for Silver Linings Playlist
Names in the frame: Hugh Jackman was nominated for Best Actor for his sterling work in Les Miserables while favourite Robert De Niro has a Best Supporting nod for Silver Linings Playbook but Christop Waltz walked away with the prize
ACADEMY AWARDS 2013 WINNERS
Original Score: Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Original Song: Skyfall from Skyfall, Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Costume: Anna Karenina
Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man
Documentary (short subject): Inocente
Film Editing: Argo
Makeup and Hairstyling: Les Miserables
Animated Short Film: Paperman
Live Action Short Film: Curfew
Visual Effects: Life of Pi
Best Picture: Amour
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Directing: Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Foreign Language Film: Amour, Austria
Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio, Argo
Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Animated Feature Film: Brave
Production Design: Lincoln
Cinematography: Life of Pi
Sound Mixing: Les Miserables
Sound Editing: Life of Pi, Skyfall (tie)
