BEST PICTURE OSCAR ARGO WINNERS BACKSTAGE (Video) – Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov won the 2013 Oscar for Best Picture for Argo which Affleck also directed.  It beat out Beasts of the Southern Wild, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Amour, and Django Unchained.  This is Affleck’s second Oscar.  He previously shared the Best Screenplay Oscar with Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting in 1998.  This is Clooney’s seventh Oscar nomination.  He previously won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2006 for Syriana.  This is Heslov’s fourth Oscar nomination.

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Transcript and Video Below:

Q.Ben, obviously you put a lot of work in the film as you were making it, but then after it’s taken on this life of its own in your story, it’s been so tied to your personal journey.  Did you think that was something that was going to come out of making this film, this sort of redemptive comeback story that’s been part of the narrative here?

A.(Ben Affleck)  Grant, you take that question.
A.(Grant Heslov)  Yes.
A.(Ben Affleck)  I was excited about making the movie.  These guys had a script, I really liked it, I called them up, [inaudible] will you put me on the movie?  And I wanted to do the movie and I wanted to work with them.  That’s what I thought would happen.  I wanted to work on some quality.  I did the movie, we all worked really hard, I hoped that people would like it.  I didn’t think it had a more meta approach to it than that.  I was excited to make it, I was excited to work with these guys and the cast we had, and I was willing to let the chips kind of fall where they may, as long as we thought we did something we were interested in.

Q.Obviously at certain points we thought that other films might win this.  Could you describe when exactly you felt a tipping point in your favor?

A.(George Clooney)  Michelle Obama.
A.(Grant Heslov)  Tonight.
A.(Ben Affleck)  When they gave us the trophies I was confident that we would win.
A.(George Clooney)  I’m completely confident.
A.(Ben Affleck)  I didn’t second guess, is this a prank?
A.(George Clooney)  He did look at the envelope.
A.(Grant Heslov)  Even as I was giving the speech, I didn’t think we could win.
A.(Ben Affleck)  Once Grant let me talk, I felt good.  I didn’t get too much into the Oscarology and the pontificating.  And the guys who do that stuff and report on it, which is great, and people like it and they’re interested in it.  And I hope people are interested in the Oscars because it helps our industry and helps make better films, but it doesn’t help me to read up on that stuff.  So I was thrilled for Billy, I was thrilled for Chris, and when it came along, I was thrilled for these two guys.

Q.Hello.  I’m from the American Foreign Service Association in Washington.  Your movie and also the comments you’ve made and all of the awards ceremonies has really raised the image and the profile of the Foreign Service, something that we don’t get very often, we don’t get much play.  But I would like to invite you, all three of you to the plaque ceremony that we have in the Department of State on May 3rd where we honor fallen Foreign Service officers.  This year    

Q.[MODERATOR]  I’m sorry, I have to interrupt.  Do you have a question?

Q.Yes.  Can you come?  

A.(George Clooney)  That’s really a personal question.
A.(Ben Affleck)  Do I call you or just
A.(Grant Heslov)  I’m able to, yes.
A.(George Clooney)  There’s a line.  There’s Ben.
A.(Ben Affleck)  I don’t know that we can come, but we do have, all of us, a tremendous respect for what the Foreign Service sacrifices and goes through and that we, I think, gained further appreciation for that as we shot the movie and visited the State Department.  I know Secretary Clinton a little bit and Secretary Kerry a little bit better so we were able to shoot in the    I’m not sure that that’s why, but from my sort of distant acquaintanceship with both of those Secretaries, I’ve really picked up an appreciation for what the State Department does, what our Foreign Service does, what they sacrifice.
A.(George Clooney)  Grant and I will be in Berlin shooting so we won’t make it, but maybe Ben might be in town.
A.(Ben Affleck)  Thanks, George.

Q.How are you?  Congratulations.  

A.(Ben Affleck)  Hi.

Q.How cool was it to have the First Lady announce that you had just won an Oscar?

A.(Ben Affleck)  I was sort of hallucinating when that was happening.  In the course of hallucination, it doesn’t    you know what I mean?  It doesn’t seem that odd when some other    oh, look, a purple elephant, you know, Michelle Obama.  But it’s natural because the whole thing is so unnatural.  Honestly, I was just asking these two guys outside, was that Michelle Obama?  The whole thing kind of alarmed me at the time, but in retrospect, the fact that it was the First Lady was an enormous honor and the fact that she surrounded herself by service men and women was special and I thought appropriate.  Anyway, it was very cool.
A.(Grant Heslov)  And I’m a big fan of the bangs.

Q.Congratulations, gentlemen.  Ben, throughout the awards season you’ve been very humble about what we feel    

A.(Ben Affleck)  Yeah, forget that.  No more humility.

Q.Being left off the Best Director docket and through that, how has that changed with all of the recognition that you’ve received and where are you with that now?

A.(Grant Heslov)  I wasn’t aware you were left off.  Were you left off?
A.(Ben Affleck)  I didn’t get nominated as a director.  Grant, you didn’t…
A.(George Clooney) I wasn’t nominated as an actor in a movie.
A.(Ben Affleck)  No shit.  That’s a crime, folks.  Honestly, you know how I feel about that?  Naturally I was disappointed, and a lot of people said, this is something that’s going to happen.  But when I look at the directors who were    people who weren’t nominated as well, Paul Thomas Anderson and Kathryn Bigelow, just amazing, Tom Hooper and Quentin Tarantino, these are all directors who I admire enormously.  So, it was a very tough year.
A.(George Clooney)  You were in good company not to be nominated.
A.(Ben Affleck)  Exactly.  I was on the bench.
A.(Grant Heslov)  You’re glad you weren’t nominated.
A.(Ben Affleck)  You know what, you’re not entitled to anything.  I’m honored to be here.  I’m honored to be among these extraordinary movies, and I’m really, really honored to win an Academy Award.  So this is not [inaudible] I’ve spent a lot of time second guessing or worried about it.

Q.Hi there, Ben.  I wonder if you have any reflection at this point about making films about true life events?  In your movies you played a cameo of President Carter and the politics that was involved there, yet the film drew a little bit of flack for some of its treatments of New Zealanders and blending characters and the run down the runway at the end.  Do you have any thoughts about how to approach these things now?

A.(Ben Affleck)  Let me start by saying I love New Zealand and I love New Zealanders.  And I’m tempted to end there.  I think that it’s tricky, you walk a fine line.  You do a historical movie, naturally you have to make some creative choices about how you’re going to condense it into a three act structure.  It’s not an easy thing to do.  You try to honor the truth of the essence, the sort of basic truth of the story that you’re telling.  You know, I’m really proud of the movie, I’m proud of the people that worked on the movie, the story that we were telling was true and that we told was true.  It’s not an easy thing, but it’s, I think, constructed as well as it could possibly be.  But the complete credit goes to Chris Terrio rather than me.

Producers of Argo backstage of the 2013 Oscars

MONSTERS UNIVERSITY ‘LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON’ CLIP (Video) – Monsters University star John Goodman appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and revealed the first clip from the Pixar prequel. Goodman and Jimmy Fallon also discussed Argo going for the Best Picture Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards and Goodman’s newest role in The Hangover 3 as “a guy who likes to kill people and dress in track clothes.” Watch more from the interview and the clip below. Monsters University also stars Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Dave Foley, Kelsey Grammer, Joel Murray, Ken Jeong, Charlie Day, Sean Hayes, and Helen Mirren.

PLOT: A look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at the University of Fear — when they weren’t necessarily the best of friends.

RELEASE DATES:

• US – June 21
• Australia & Germany – June 20
• UK – July 12

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MONSTERS UNIVERSITY - John Goodman as Sulley and Bill Crystal as Mike

65TH ANNUAL DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS (Exclusive Video) – Good news keeps on coming for Ben Affleck and his Argo as he wins his first DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film. Although he is not nominated for an Oscar for his directing, Argo is still up for Best Picture in the upcoming Academy Awards. Other winners included Jay Roach, who won the DGA award in miniseries for Game Change, Rian Johnson in dramatic series for Breaking Bad, and Lena Dunham in comedy series for Girls. Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, and Bryan Cranston were among the many stars who attended the event.

“You’re not entitled to win anything. You’re not entitled to anything in life. I’m thrilled and honored that the Academy nominated me as a producer for the movie…and taking me out of it maybe helps give us purpose because it’s just about that movie… I’m really lucky – I’m in a great place.” – Ben Affleck

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65TH ANNUAL DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS - Ben Affleck Wins for Feature Film for ARGO

2013 PGA AWARDS RED CARPET (Exclusive Video) – The 2013 Producers Guild of America Awards was held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles this past weekend. For the last five years, the winner of the PGA Award for best film has went on to win the Oscar, so this may be good news for Ben Affleck and his Argo. On the red carpet, Affleck expressed his excitement for all the buzz that Argo has been receiving. Tom Hooper was also present for his nominated film, Les Misérables. Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph won the PGA Award for best animated feature, Homeland won best TV drama, and Modern Family won best TV comedy. Other stars in attendance included Amanda Seyfried, Naomi Watts, Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba, J. J. Abrams, Kerry Washington, Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee, and Bryan Cranston.

“It really is exciting! I honestly feel like it is a win to be here, to be nominated. I know it’s an incredible cliché, but if anybody said you’ll get the chance to be nominated, I would be shocked.” – Ben Affleck

“A good producer is somebody who is a problem solver and a person who is willing to think outside the box to support the artists around them.” – Kerry Washington

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2013 PRODUCERS GUILD AWARDS - Ben Affleck Wins for ARGO

19TH SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS CEREMONY (Video) – The award season is still going strong with the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards taking place this past Sunday. The nominees and winners are chosen by their peers, and they get a chance to honor them in both film and television. In addition to his recent Golden Globe, Daniel Day-Lewis picked up his statuette for his performance in Lincoln. Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway each won their statuettes for Silver Linings Playbook and Les Misérables, respectively. The hot streak for Ben Affleck continued with Argo winning the ensemble cast award. In television, Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin each won for 30 Rock, while Modern Family took home the award for best ensemble cast in a comedy series. Don’t miss the 85th Academy Awards next Monday to see who wins the prestigious Oscars.

“This has nothing to do with me. It has to do with the incredible people who are in this movie. We had more than 150 actors; they spoke in English, they spoke in Farsi, and the one thing they had in common was they came to work every single day whether they had a line or a look to somebody…and they wanted to kill it to make the movie better because that’s what actors do…” – Ben Affleck

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19th SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS - Bradley Cooper and Jessica Chastain

ARGO WINS GOLDEN GLOBE FOR BEST DRAMA – Check out the acceptance speech by producer Grant Heslov after Argo won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama. Afterwards, Ben Affleck, Heslov, and co-producer George Clooney answered several questions backstage about Affleck’s Golden Globe for best director, Oscar nominations, and developing the movie.

Acceptance Speech:

GRANT HESLOV:  Thank you.  Wow.  On behalf of the whole cast and crew, I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for this.  Thank you.  Victor Garber, ladies and gentlemen.

(Applause.)

Ben thanked a lot of people.  I want to thank all the folks at Warner Bros.  They’ve supported us through this whole thing, and they’ve been amazing and thank you guys very much.  We want to thank Ben Affleck, our fearless leader.

(Applause.)

And he’s also a producer.  I want to thank all the thousands of people that work in our diplomatic services that are putting their lives on the line every day of the week.  This is for them.

(Applause.)

I want to thank the folks from the clandestine services who don’t always get the credit that they deserve, but they do a lot of great work.  And thank you to them as well.  I’m getting a wrap up.  So thank you.  Thank you very much.  And love to my wife, Lysa, and my kids, Maya and Olivia.

(Applause.)

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Backstage Interview:

Q. A lot of people are saying it is your year, kind of like a comeback story, because in the press, you know, you not only did well as an actor, but as a director. Can you kind of tell us what it feels like having the buzz around you and coming back and solidifying that you are a director?

MR. AFFLECK: You know, I do not know about all of that. I do know, you know, I did a movie with a lot of really talented people who worked really hard and I am really proud of it and had great producers who were standing next to me. And can I just purely have a wonderful night to enjoy that and be so grateful that we are honored?

Q. Ben, hard question. What — after you didn’t get the Oscar nomination for best director, what the hell your consolation is? I mean, I don’t get it, what is it, what went — what are their reasons to you?

MR. AFFLECK: I don’t know what you imagine my life is like. It sounds a lot cooler than it is.

MR. CLOONEY: I don’t think he’s going to make it, kid.

MR. AFFLECK: I don’t look too far for those recaps. We got nominated for seven Oscars, including best picture. I mean, if you can’t be happy with that, your future — your prospects for long-term happiness are pretty sad.

Q. Good for you.

MR. AFFLECK: Thank you.

Q. I guess what was the tough thing, what was the toughest thing to shoot?

MR. AFFLECK: Probably the hardest thing, directorily, anyway, has to do with trying to have three different tones and make them work together as one movie. I was lucky. I was supported by a great cast and had really good producers who helped me organize. It was a bit of a — for me, anyway, kind of a leviathan. A continent, different cities, a lot of extras, all that kind of — you know, we were kind of the poor man’s David Lee movie, but, you know, I got lucky, and I am really pleased.

Q. How did All the President’s Men influence your shooting style?

MR. AFFLECK: Whoa. Sounds like you got us. Heavy. That was a big influence with the CIA stuff. We emulated everything from the way they used the — moved the dolly to some of the color tones to that sort of texture of the ’70s to sort of tone, the way the men kind of talked to one another. It was an era where it was basically male-dominated offices, whether it was “Washington Post” or the CIA. You know, CIA, at that time, there was not one woman that worked anywhere except a secretary for the whole place. So it was a very different feel, and we used All the President’s Men because it was the most perfect, you know, well-done example of that.

Q. Online, people are freaking out and so happy for you. Is there honestly no part of you that’s like in-your-face happy, like you feel good tonight, come on?

MR. AFFLECK: Listen, I am a member of the Academy. I — we got nominated for awards by the Academy. The Academy is made up of all the great movies that we talk about and love, so I am an enormous admirer of the Academy. I am, you know, also thrilled to get the — to get this acknowledgment, but I take it acknowledgment of the eclectic work that I have done.

MR. HESLOV: Which Academy are you talking about?

Q. Grant, George, can you talk about what you saw in him as a director and the business of him going from actor to director, how — all three of you, how was that relationship?

MR. CLOONEY: It was cheap, right?

MR. HESLOV: And available.

MR. CLOONEY: And available. Cheap and available, that’s why we like him. He’d done a couple of really great movies. You know, it is a funny thing when you look at Ben, and part of the reason why there’s such a great admiration for him from this stage of his career is because, you know, he had — he was in an actor jail for a couple of years. We have all done it. I did Batman and Robin, trust me, I know. And just a lot of times it is how you handle yourself when things are not going particularly well. That’s what creates a career as opposed to just, you know, you had a good run. He directed his way out of this. He got in it, he did Gone Baby Gone, terrific film; it made money. Then he did The Town; it was a big hit and a really good film. And this is a step in the right direction. And he continues to make money. Movies that make money, you get to make more movies like this. That’s what he did and what — that’s what he brought to this film. And I can’t tell you how proud we are to have worked with Ben and how much I hate him.

MR. AFFLECK: I think the thing for me about this, about coming into the project, very hard project to do, hard to navigate, hard to sell. And George and Grant have used their kind of – their weight, their talent, their commitment to make these kinds of movies. So I felt like I wasn’t just adrift. That I was in a place where these kinds of movies had been successful before, not just George directing himself as an actor, but also, you know, trying to make movies that are tricky, you know. So I thought, you know, when I need help, it will very likely be there. That’s actor George Clooney. This is Tony Mendez, the guy I play in the movie. Chris Terrio, kind of created the whole thing behind him, Victor Garber, extraordinary man played Ken Taylor in the film and married me, among other stains to his character, and this is Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Tate Donovan and Grant Heslov.

Q. You have come a long way since the last time you won an award. What would you say is the most important thing that you have learned about show business and what’s up next for you as a director?

MR. AFFLECK: I am not sure what’s up for me. I have probably learned not a lot. I don’t know. I notice these are a different shade 15 years later. But other than that, it’s — you know, I have learned that you are — to try to pick things wisely and pick your collaborators wisely. And think what’s good about the movie is reflected on — by all the people that you see standing behind me. And that’s not bullshit. I genuinely, truly believe you work with people that make you better, and I did that on this movie.

Q. You are talking about something that happened in the past, talking about politics, but it is not something so controversial or something I told you or anything like that, do you think it should be seen as a different movie that took a different perspective that respect some of the things or just like you see as a part of a movie conversation about finish it like in times, different times?

MR. AFFLECK: No, I think this is a movie for all audiences, I mean, beyond a certain age. I wouldn’t take my kid, but that’s because I don’t want her saying the F-word around the house. This is a movie I believe — that I hope that I made for everybody to see, not for America, not for international and not one that carried a political agenda or one to be didactic in any way, but rather like just presented the facts of our history and involvement with Iran, what happened with the Islamic revolution in Iran, what happened when Tony Mendez went into Iran and helped these six diplomats to get out. And what I rarely, carefully tried not to do is do a lot of editorializing about it, but rather, just by telling the simple, startling, astonishing facts of this story, the audience would reflect something of themselves on that, and then the movie would resonate with them.

Q. Thank you.

MR. AFFLECK: You’re welcome.

Q. George, what’s your take on Ben not being nominated by the Academy for best director?

MR. CLOONEY: This will work out well. I am disappointed. I was disappointed. I think that he gave — that he did a phenomenal film, job with the film, and I thought he should have been nominated, but you can’t figure out what goes on with the Academy. And he’s still nominated for best picture, and we still have a shot at that. And I really do believe that — we talked about this for — the next day for a while. And we got seven nominations out of this film. He did a wonderful job, and it all happened because of what he put together. So it is disappointing, but we are not out of the water yet, so we are not dead yet.

MR. AFFLECK: So, I mean, George is really, honestly and truly the smartest guy about what’s going on with politics, Hollywood, Hollywood politics, you know, a lot of different things. He’s a very strategic, bright, wise guy. I just said that to embarrass him. But, you know, I really, really agree with what he’s saying about, you know, you have to remember we got these nominations. It is a wonderful thing, wonderful, exciting thing. To frame it as — to be about like the nomination I didn’t get, like I also didn’t get the acting nomination. Nobody’s saying I got snubbed there. We are really proud of this. One of the nice things about taking me out of it as the director is that it doesn’t make it about me, it makes it about the movie. And I agree with George, you know, we are trying our best and we think we still have something left in us and we love and admire and respect the other films that are out there. I mean, there are — so in that spirit, we believe we can still go forward.

Q. George, you have a reputation about doing really great movies. Why didn’t you do this? If you produced it, why didn’t you keep it for yourself?

MR. CLOONEY: Well, had I known he was going to do such a good job, I probably would have tried. We were doing Ides of March. We sent Ben the script and he read it and then said he wanted to do it. One of us wanted to do it. And he – from the minute that happened, Grant and I had a long conversation and had a couple meetings with Ben, and his take automatically, it was just so good, you know. But the thing you have to understand, Chris’ script, you — you know, when you commission a script, usually the first draft doesn’t work very well. In fact, I have never seen one work well. This was — Chris’ first draft was a great first draft, great first draft, beautiful first draft. And it only got better than that. And we changed — when Ben came along, the tone of it somewhat changed, which was good, and it was better. So it was his take on it.

Q. What did you do?

MR. CLOONEY: We leaned a little harder on the comedy in the first draft because there was some funny stuff that went on in Hollywood at, you know, the Beverly Hilton, actually. And when Ben came on, his take was, you know, much straighter, much straighter forward about the drama, the thriller part of it, and he was absolutely right. It was great. It was really fun to work with him on it. So it really was — we were very happy with the choice, and I have no regret at all.

ARGO & BEN AFFLECK WIN GOLDEN GLOBES – Ben Affleck won his second Golden Globe tonight, but not for his work in acting; instead, he beat out Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow, and Ang Lee for the Best Director award for Argo. But the good news didn’t stop there – Argo went on to win the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama. The political thriller had a total of five Golden Globe nominations and received seven nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards. Affleck is not nominated for the Oscar for Best Director, but Argo is in competition for the best film of the year.

Source: Golden Globes

SCREENSLAM MOVIE WEEK 1 - On this episode of ScreenSlam’s Movie Week we go to the 24th Palm Springs International Film Festival, join Seth McFarlane and Emma Stone at the Academy Awards Nomination Ceremony, talk to Ben Affleck about his film Argo, sit down with Anne Hathaway, Russel Crow, and Amanda Seyfried about their film, Les Miserables, attend the premiere of Zero Dark Thirty and show you the hottest trailer of the week, Broken City.

SHOW DESCRIPTION: ScreenSlam’s Movie Week is a 20-minute weekly HD TV show reporting on the latest movie and TV news, including coverage of premieres, festivals, and awards shows. It is a production of screenslam.com, an online video destination dedicated to movies and TV. For more information about the program please contact sales@screenslam.com

RUNDOWN:

• Palm Springs International Film Festival
• Academy Award Nominations
• Ben Affleck and Argo
• Les Miserables
• Premiere of Zero Dark Thirty
• Weekly trailer: Broken City

ScreenSlam’s Movie Week #1 – 11/1/03 from ScreenSlam on Vimeo.

85TH ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINEES – The Oscar nominations are finally released with Lincoln leading the pack with 12 total nominations, including Best Picture. The 85th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on February 24 with Seth MacFarlane hosting. Here are some of the nominees competing for the Oscars this year:

BEST PICTURE
Amour 
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild 
Django Unchained 
Les Misérables 
Life of Pi 
Lincoln 
Silver Linings Playbook 
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST DIRECTOR
Michael Haneke - Amour
Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
Denzel Washington - Flight

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts - The Impossible

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin - Argo
Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams - The Master
Sally Field - Lincoln
Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Argo, Written by Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Written by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi, Written by David Magee
Lincoln, Written by Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, Written by David O. Russell

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Amour, Written by Michael Haneke
Django Unchained, Written by Quentin Tarantino
Flight, Written by John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Written by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Written by Mark Boal

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Brave 
Frankenweenie 
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

Source: The Oscars

24th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PALM SPRINGS FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS GALA (Exclusive Video) – Many stars were gathered at the 24th Annual International Palm Springs Film Festival to celebrate another year of cinema and its acclaimed stars. Bradley Cooper, Richard Gere, and Helen Hunt were among the talented few who received awards for their performances, while the cast of Argo received the Ensemble Performance award for best cast. The Awards Gala also marks the beginning of the award show season, which leads up to the 85th Academy Awards. Other stars in attendance included Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Diane Lane, and Bryan Cranston.

“All over the world people love movies, and they love actors. It’s their world; it’s how we all communicate. It’s music and movies, and you can see this in the faces of people who’ve been touched by our movies, been touched by movies in general…they just want to be a part of the whole experience and that’s all great.” – Richard Gere

“I’m very, very old, but I still of myself as that little girl that I was when I was 13 or 14 years old and dreaming of being an actress. I didn’t dream as high of being an Hollywood film star…and I never imagined at that point   that this was waiting for me later on in my life.” – Helen Mirren

“I actually love talking about this movie. I love talking to people who’ve watched it and who have personal connections to it. In that way, it’s a very gratifying experience.” – Bradley Cooper

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