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The 85th Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Life of Pi took four awards, including best director for Ang Lee, while Les Misérables and Argo won three gongs apiece.
Blowing past the distant Civil War history of "Lincoln" and the more controversial recent history of "Zero Dark Thirty," director and star Ben Affleck's rousing, reassuringly apolitical thriller "Argo" won Sunday's Academy Award for best picture. This was a rebuke to the very academy bestowing the prize: Affleck failed to receive a directing nomination for "Argo," joining "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow as the evening's most conspicuous snubs.
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The Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the 70th in the history of the awards show, was held on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, and are considered to be a barometer for the Oscars.
"Argo," the retelling of the dramatic rescue of American diplomats during the Iran hostage crisis, and "Les Miserables," a big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, were the big winners at this year's Golden Globes. But the night truly belonged to co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler whose good-natured irreverence was a welcome balance after the last three years when British comedian Ricky Gervais turned the show into a roast. The annual honors by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association unofficially launches the movie industry's awards season.
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The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards Ceremony took place Sunday, June 10, 2012 T 8/7C. Every year the Tony Awards is the most glamorous night of the Broadway season - and 2012 was no exception. Dozens of stage and screen stars joined host Neil Patrick Harris in saluting excellence in Broadway theatre.
The star studded show included as presenters: Nick Jonas, Amanda Seyfried, Tyler Perry, Jessica Chastain, Jim Parsons, Paul Rudd, Ellen Barkin, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Candice Bergen, Christopher Plummer, James Marsden, Mandy Patinkin, Sheryl Crow, Trey Parker and Matt Stone among others. Performances included the 2012 Tony-Nominated Best Musicals "Newsies," "Nice Work If You Can Get It," "Evita," "Follies," "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Leap of Faith" and "Once" the big winner of the night with eight Tony Awards including Best Musical Direction, Best Lead Actor in a Musical and the top award of the night: Best Musical. The innovative play "Peter and the Starcatcher" was awarded five Tony Awards and "Clybourne Park" the Pulitzer Price-winning play about race and real estate, won Best Play.
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Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people to have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film with The Apartment.
Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of Nazi Party, Wilder, who was Jewish, left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. He relocated to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay to the screwball comedy Ninotchka. Wilder established his directorial reputation after helming Double Indemnity (1944), a film noir he co-wrote with mystery novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost Weekend, about alcoholism. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Sunset Boulevard.
