Until we start connecting. Millions of us. To turn this day into a movement. Where the small shop across the street, gets big support across the nation. A day where communities prosper, and main streets start booming. Because when we all come together. Thats the power of all of us. Thats the power of all of us. Thats the power of all of us. Amazing things happen. Welcome back. Next presenters are hollywood legends and remember when this town was nothing but cocaine trees as far as the eye could see. [ laughter ] its late. These two are the children of screen legends who then went on to become screen legends themselves which only goes to prove what everyone says hollywood parents are the best parents in the world. [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome oscar winners jane fonda and michael douglas. [ applause ] the stories these directors brought to the screen are as varied as the nominees themselves. Whether american or foreign born, whether oscar winning legends or first timer, whether bringing to the screen a fantasy, a tragic love story, a magical surreal world, a romantic comedy or a slice of history. Their shared characteristic is their monumental and profound talent. Here are the nominees for achievement in directing. Michael haneke, amour. Benh zeitlin, beasts of the southern wild. Ang lee, life of pi. Steven spielberg, lincoln. David o. Russell, Silver Linings playbook, and the oscar goes to ang lee. [ applause ] including this nomination for best picture for life of pi, this is the Second Academy award nomination for ang lee and his second oscar win. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you so much. Thank you, movie god. [ laughter ] i really need to share this with all 3,000, everybody work with me in life of pi. I want to thank you for i really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this incredible journey with me. I need to thank yann martel for writing this incredibly inspiring book and everyone at fox, thank you for taking the leap with me, jim and elizabeth gabeler. My producers, gil netter, david womark, david lee. Wonderful cast, where are you, youre a miracle. The young pi carrying the movie. Every one of you in the cast, i cannot waste this time talking about them. You hold a golden statue in my heart. I cannot make this movie without the help of taiwan, out there. I want to thank everybody. There that helped us, my indian crew, i love you. My canadian crew, i love you. My family in taiwan. My wife. Well be married 30 years this summer. I love you. [ applause ] my boy, thank you for his support and finally my agent karen sage and lawyer and joe i dipaolo. I have to do that especially for this movie. [ laughter ] great to have your support. Thank you, academy. [ speaking a Foreign Language ] [ applause ] all right, coming up next threetime oscar winner meryl streep and, yes, and the oscars for best picture, best actor and best actress. Will it be Quvenzhane Wallis who is 9, will it be Emmanuelle Riva who was 9 when this show started . Find out right after this. [ applause ] [applause] whaha thanks to everybody wow involved with this car. There are so many people to thank. The, ah, the engineers. The designers, everybody on the line. I know, i know, i know, i get it, i gotta rush here, but theres so many people to thank um. Uh. Thanks to our moms. Thanks to our families uh, you all made the beautifully crafted azera what it is. Just wow that i hit on something in life that i just love to do every single day. Its the way ive made my living for over 30 years. Every time we leave the dock, its an adventure. The one thing people might not realize when theyre going into mcdonalds and they order the filetofish sandwich. This is wild fish. This is where the alaskan pollock starts. Its just that simple. Th s is where the alaskan pollock starts. [ applause ]. We are back. He delighted us in the artist and pulled off a masterful performance without uttering a word. Please welcome jean dujardin. [ speaking french ] good evening. If i were an actress, i would be passionate, sensitive, courageous, sexy, complex, free, strong, funny, intense and graceful. If i were an actress, id be an even better actor. Here are the nominees for actress in leading roles. Jessica chastain, zero dark thirty. But the truth is you dont understand and you dont know al qaeda. Give me the team i need to follow this lead or the other thing youre going to have on your resume is being the first station chief being called for a Congressional Committee for failing to capture or kill bin laden. [ applause ] jennifer lawrence, Silver Linings playbook. You know what, forget i offered to help you. Forget the entire idea because i am so much crazier than you. Keep your voice down. Im just a crazy slut with a dead husband. Ha, ha, ha. Forget it [ applause ] Emmanuelle Riva, amour. [ applause ] Quvenzhane Wallis, beasts of the southern wild. Wow. Youre the man. Who the man . Im the man yeah, you the man. Who the man . Im the man yeah, you the man. Who the man. Im the man. Yeah, you the man [ applause ] naomi watts, the impossible. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. [ applause ] and the oscar goes to jennifer lawrence. Silver linings playbook. This is the first Academy Award and nomination for jennifer lawrence. Previously nominated in the category for winters bone. Thank you. You guys are just standing up because you feel bad that i fell and its really embarrassing. This is nuts. Thank you to the academy and thank you to the women this year. You were so magnificent and so inspiring and not just those of you in that category and its been so amazing getting to know you and youve been so nice and made this experience unforgettable and thank you to the best producering team, bruce that, donna and my team and ivpr and bradley and our entire cast, chris, jacki, bob and our crew. And my family and happy birthday. Emmanuelle, thank you so much. Thanks. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, our next presenter needs no introduction. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Im walking on my dress. This year each of the nominees the leading actors has brought to the big screen some of the most inspired and harrowing work that ef we ever seen in this category. In a normal year, any one of these performances would have stood out as the most challenging, imaginative an ambitious of the year so tonight the academy has had the difficult task of honoring the finest among equals. The nominees for leading actor in a Motion Picture are Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings playbook. Im not calming down. I dont im not calming down. Anybody can wake up. Im not ashamed of it. Im not ashamed of it. Let the whole neighborhood wake up. I dont care. Its my wedding. Its my wedding video. [ cheers and applause ] daniel daylewis, lincoln. Upon the world stage now, now. The fate of Human Dignity in our ha hands. Bloods been spilt to afford us this moment, now, now, now [ applause ] hugh jackman, les miserables. Escape now from that world but the world theres nothing now let it begin [ cheers and applause ] joaquin phoenix, the master. The love of your life. Yes, sir. Why arent you with her . Yes, you do. Tell me why. I told her id come back and never went back and now i got to get back to her. Why dont you go back. I dont know. Why dont you i dont know [ applause ] denzel washington, flight. October 11th, october 12th and 13th and 14th i was intoxicated. I drank all of those days. I drank. And accept. On the morning of the accident i was drunk. And im drunk now. [ applause ] and the oscar goes to daniel daylewis. [ cheers and applause ] daniel daylewis is the first actor to win three oscars in the lead actor category. [ cheers and applause ] i really dont know how any of this happened. I i do know that ive received so much more than my fair share of good fortune in my life and im so grateful to the academy for this huge honor. Its a strange thing because three years ago, before we decided to do a straight swap, i had actually been committed to play margaret thatcher. [ laughter ] and [ applause ] and meryl was was stevens first choice for lincoln, and id like to see that version. [ laughter ] and steven didnt have to persuade me to play lincoln but i had to persuade him perhaps if i do it, lincoln shouldnt be a musical. [ laughter ] my fellow nominees, my equals, im so proud to have been included as one amongst you. When we got married 16 years ago or since we got married 16 years ago, my wife rebecca has lived with some very strange men. [ laughter ] i mean they were strange as individuals and probably stranger if taken as a group, but luckily shes the versatile one in the family and shes been the perfect companion to all of them. [ applause ] id like to thank kathy kennedy, our producer and through you, kathy and [ applause ] and through you our mighty team of coconspirators. At the apex of that human pyramid, there are three men who whom i owe this and a great deal more, tony kushner, our beloved skipper, steven spielberg, and the mysteriously beautiful mind, body and spirit of abraham lincoln. [ cheers and applause ] for my mother, thank you so much. [ applause ] and now, ladies and gentlemen, here comes the big one. Please welcome the star of chinatown one flew over the cuckoos nest, as good as it gets, the incomparable mr. Jack nicholson. [ applause ] thank you very much for that. I dont suppose any of you have ever noticed that traditionally the best picture award is presented solo, probably because they want some guy like me messing around making comments about sequins, chiffon, rouge, ringlets. Howe however, tonight, it is my great pleasure to introduce live from the white house, the first lady of the united states, michelle obama. [ applause ] thank you, jack. And welcome to the white house, everyone. I am so honored to help introduce this years nominees for best picture and to help celebrate the movies that lift our spirits, broaden our minds and transport us to places we have never imagined. This has been an exciting year for movies, and i want to congratulate all the nominees on their tremendous work. These nine movies took us back in time and all around the world they made us laugh, they made us weep and they made us grip our armrests just a little tighter. They taught us that love can endure against all odds and transform our lives in the most surprising ways, and they reminded us that we can overcome any obstacle if we dig deep enough and fight hard enough and find the courage to believe in ourselves. These lessons apply to all of us no matter who we are or what we look like or where we come from or who we love, but they are especially important for our young people, every day through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imaginations to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams. And i want to thank all of you here tonight for being part of that vitally important work, and now im going to turn it back over to you, jack, to give us the nominees. [ applause ] well, nobody is going to mess around with that, are they . [ laughter ] well, lets recap the outstanding nine nominees for tonights best picture. Amou amour, argo, beasts of the southern wild, django unchained, les miserables, life of pi, lincoln, Silver Linings playbook, zero dark thirty. [ applause ] mrs. Obama, do you have your envelope . Not yet, jack. Im about to. Good. And now for the moment we have all been waiting for, and the oscar goes to argo. Congratulations. [ cheers and applause ] argo has seven Academy Award nominations this year winning three oscars, film editing, adaptive screenplay and best picture. [ applause ] ah. [ applause ] i know youre thinking, three sexiest producers alive. [ laughter ] i want to thank the academy. This is this is god, this is truly an honor. There are literally thousands of people to thank so thankfully im not going to thank them now. Im going to thank everybody personally in the next few weeks, but there are a couple of people i want to acknowledge. I want to acknowledge my partner in crime and my great friend, george clooney, who [ applause ] everybody should be so lucky to have a partner who is talented and as humorous and who has as much integrity so thank you, george. I want to thank my beautiful wife lisa, who you make you make everything better. And to our kids maya and olivia, i love you guys. Hope your old man is not embarrassing you up here. The reason i wanted to speak first i want to speak for ben was ben is a producer on the film and he is also our director and i thought it would be awkward for ben to thank himself, but its not awkward for me. So on behalf of george and myself i want to thank you, ben. You directed a hell of a film. [ applause ] couldnt be more proud of the film, couldnt be more proud of ben so, ladies and gentlemen, our coproducer and the director of argo, ben affleck. Thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you very, very much. I know eventually that things will start to go. Forgive me if this is quick. Steven spielberg, i want to acknowledge, i feel is a genius and a towering talent among us and acknowledge the other eight films. There are eight great films who have as much a right to be up here. Acknowledge them and thank them for what they did and many who didnt get nominated this year. I want to thank, you know, i mean jack and marty and my brother and mom and dad and patrick and tony mendes who let us do his story, thank you and i just imgoer to thank everyone in the movie, worked on the mchd, did anything with this movie gets thanked. Canada and our friends in iran living in a terrible circumstance right now and my wife who i dont normally associate with iran, but [ laughter ] i want to thank you for working on our marriage for you know, ten its good. It has worked but its the best kind of work. [ laughter ] theres no one id rather work with. And i just want to say, you know, i was here 15 years ago or something, and, you know, i had no idea what i was doing. Stood out here in front of you. Really just a kid and i went out, you know, and i never thought that i would be back here and i am, because so many of you are here tonight because of this academy because of so many wonderful people who extended themselves to me when they had nothing to benefit from it in hollywood. You know what i mean . I couldnt get them a job. I want to thank them and i want to thank what they taught me which is you have to work harder than you think you possibly can, cant hold grudges, its hard but you cant hold grudges. [ laughter ] and it doesnt matter how you get knocked down in life because thats going to happen. All that matters is you got to get up. I love you. [ cheers and applause ] yes all right, folks. We hope everyone had a great time this evening. I certainly did. Well be back in a moment to say a proper good night but first heres whos paying for all this stuff. Hotel accommodations provided by air transportation provided by video projection in part provided by se nchlsenovva. There are a lot of winners and plenty of you disappointed and upset so we want to kind of cheer you up here so she opened the red carpet show and now shell close with me because youre all sick to death of this guy. The lovely kristin chenoweth. How are you . Good. We just want to say heres to the losers. Yes, the losers. Argo. We love that argo. We do. Its a long one. Heres to all the losing works of art from lincoln to amour to the disappointed actor s wondering what they dressed up for now the real performance starts with phony smiles at the ball heres to the losers losers bless them all amen heres to nominee quvenzhane lift up that little head youll be at the future oscars when the rest of us are dead you have all tom cruises talent and youre equally as tall heres to the losers bless them all oh poor Bradley Cooper get your chin off the floor heres your Silver Lining youll do hangover 4 amy adams, jacki weaver, sally field and helen hunt hathaway just took your oscar dont you think that girls adorable time to pour a glass of 90proof and curl up in a ball heres to the losers bless them all hey, seth. Okay. All those movies will still be remembered forever. Chicago. And heres to Seth Macfarlane lincoln and oscar farewell boy, we messed that up. Heres the last toast of the evening heres to those who still believe all the losers will be winners all the givers shall receive heres to troublefree tomorrows oh, yes may your sorrows all be small heres to the losers heres to the losers heres to the losers bless them all thank you very much. Good night, everybody. [ applause ] announcer go to abc. Com right now for highlights of tonights show. And later tonight, its Jimmy Kimmel Live after the oscars with Bradley Cooper, jessica chastain, jamie foxx, Channing Tatum and more of hollywoods alist. Then tomorrow, its gmas oscar party, live in la, the best place to wrap up oscar sunday