Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar - The Master
Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Megan Ellison - Zero Dark Thirty
Bruce Cohen, Donna Gigliotti, Jonathan Gordon - Silver Linings Playbook
Tim Kirk - Room 237
Martine Marignac, Albert Prévost, Maurice Tinchant - Holy Motors
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
Leos Carax - Holy Motors
Michael Haneke - Amour
Steven Soderbergh - Haywire
Best Actor
Jack Black - Bernie
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Denis Lavant - Holy Motors
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
Best Actress
Gina Carano - Haywire
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Kara Hayward - Moonrise Kingdom
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
Best Supporting Actor
Jason Clarke - Zero Dark Thirty
Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook
James Gandolfini - Killing Them Softly
Matthew McConaughey - Magic Mike
Scoot McNairy - Killing Them Softly
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams - The Master
Ann Dowd - Compliance
Shirley MacLaine - Bernie
Frances McDormand - This Must Be the Place
Jackie Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook
Best Original Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty
Leos Carax - Holy Motors
Phil Johnston, Jennifer Lee, Sam J. Levine, Rich Moore, Jim Reardon, John C. Reilly, Jared Stern - Wreck-It Ralph
Best Adapted Screenplay
John August - Frankenweenie
Andrew Dominik - Killing Them Softly
Skip Hollandsworth, Richard Linklater - Bernie
Pedro Peirano - No
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
Best Cinematography
Yves Cape, Caroline Champetier - Holy Motors
Roger Deakins - Skyfall
Greig Fraser - Zero Dark Thirty
Mihai Malaimare Jr. - The Master
Gokhan Tiryaki - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Best Editing
Rodney Ascher - Room 237
Mary Ann Bernard - Haywire
William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor - Zero Dark Thirty
Leslie Jones, Peter McNulty - The Master
Nelly Quettier - Holy Motors
Best Production Design
Rick Carter - Lincoln
David Crank, Jack Fisk - The Master
Dennis Gassner - Skyfall
Sarah Greenwood, Kate Spencer - Anna Karenina
Arthur Max - Prometheus
Best Costume Design
Mark Bridges - The Master
Jacqueline Durran - Anna Karenina
Joanna Johnston - Lincoln
Kasia Walicka-Maimone - Moonrise Kingdom
Mary Zophres - Gangster Squad
Best Makeup
Lois Burwell - Lincoln
Bernard Floch - Holy Motors
Best Sound
Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Stuart Wilson - Skyfall
Jean-Paul Hurier, Brigitte Taillandier, Pascal Villard - Rust and Bone
Kenneth L. Johnson, Richard King - The Dark Knight Rises
Paul N.J. Ottosson - Zero Dark Thirty
Gary Rydstrom - Wreck-It Ralph
Best Score
Alexandre Desplat - Zero Dark Thirty
Jonny Greenwood - The Master
David Holmes - Haywire
William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes - Room 237
Dan Romer, Behn Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Song
“Skyfall” written by Adele, Paul Epworth from Skyfall
“Sugar Rush” written by Yasushi Akimoto, Jamie Houston from Wreck-It Ralph
“100 Black Coffins” written by Jamie Foxx, Rick Ross from Django Unchained
Best Foreign Language Film
Jacques Audiard - Rust and Bone
Leos Carax - Holy Motors
Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Michael Haneke - Amour
Pablo Larrain - No
Best Documentary
Rodney Ascher - Room 237
Malik Bendjelloul - Searching for Sugarman
Kirby Dick - The Invisible War
David France - How to Survive a Plague
Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin - Undefeated
Best Animated Film
Rich Moore - Wreck-It Ralph
Tim Burton - Frankenweenie
Lifetime Achievement Award: Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland broke into Hollywood playing roles in popular entertainments. Her pairing with fellow young actor Errol Flynn lead to great success for both over the course of 8 films, most notably The Adventures of Robin Hood, the finest adaptation of the Robin Hood tale yet produced. While not given challenging roles, she was a charming and luminescent screen presence onscreen, such as her performance as Maid Marion in Robin Hood. In the late 30s and early 40s, she was about the only thing I liked about Gone with the Wind and did two films with her good friend Bette Davis, John Huston's familial melodrama In This Our Life and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. During this period she became unhappy with Warner Brothers refusal to let her take the serious, challenging roles she desired to play. Feeling she had more than paid her dues over the previous decade she entered into litigation against the studio arguing that specific performance could not be enforced 7 calendar years after commencement of her contract--the law at the time allowed studios to suspend performers for rejecting roles and add suspensions to lengthen their contracts, which Warner Brothers had done to de Havilland. The California Supreme Court ruled in her favor; the ruling loosened the studios' grip on the performers they employed. This law is known as the de Havilland law and is seen as one of the most significant and far-reaching rulings in Hollywood.
With newfound freedom to pursue the roles she'd wanted all along, she found she was blacklisted by the studios due to the lawsuit, despite admiration from her peers. She wouldn't appear again in a film until over two years later. She came back with a fury, delivering the most critically-acclaimed period of her career, winning two Best Actress Oscars in 4 years. No longer inhibited by Warner, she finally played the risky and unglamorous roles she desired such as a paranoid schizophrenic patient in The Snake Pit--Hollywood's first attempt at realistically depicting mental illness--and an unwed mother forced to give up her child in To Each His Own, the performance which won her first Oscar. She exhibited great range, even within a single film; this is evident in her masterful work in The Dark Mirror, The Heiress and Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte. From the 50s onward she relished her freedom working sporadically, at her own pace, most notably with Richard Burton in My Cousin Rachel. She remarried to a French journalist in 1955 and subsequently moved to Paris. In 1965, she became the first woman to preside over the Cannes Film Festival Jury.
Surprisingly, I've gotten this far without mentioning Joan Fontaine; Olivia would be happy. Much is made of her sibling feud with her sister, Joan Fontaine. The two had never gotten along since childhood; Fontaine alleged that de Havilland was their mother's favorite and received special treatment. The two became bitter rivals and never once appeared in a film together, despite being the only siblings in history to both win Best Actress Oscars, and supposedly stopped speaking to each other in 1975. Fontaine summed their rivalry up succinctly: "I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she’ll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!”
Due to her significant contributions to Hollywood both on-screen and off, and her tenacious desire to challenge herself and bring new, complex female characterizations to the screen, I proudly present Olivia de Havilland with the Lifetime Achievement Drew award.
