Ang Lee, who won an Oscar for Best Director for Life Of Pi (2012), couldn't help but feel overwhelmed while going up to collect the golden statuette. This was his fifth Academy Award nomination.

Ben Affleck's Iran rescue thriller Argo has won best picture at the 85th Academy Awards while Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence won the best actor and best actress awards respectively. SEE FULL LIST OF WINNERS

Taiwanese-born Ang Lee won his second Oscar (after Brokeback Mountain) for Best Direction on Sunday for Life of Pi, the adaption of Yann Martel's  fantasy adventure novel about an Indian boy who survives a shipwreck but is stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. COMPLETE WINNERS LIST

Ang Lee's Life of Pi, a fantasy adventure drama widely shot in India, won the 85th Academy Award for best cinematography and best visual effects here Sunday night.

Two films - Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty shared the best sound editing award, and Les Miserables clinched the best sound mixing trophy at The Oscars here Sunday night.i

 

Hollywood hit the red carpet Sunday for the Oscars, with Ben Affleck's Iran hostage drama Argo bidding to edge out Steven Spielberg's Lincoln in one of the most open races in years.

Christoph Waltz on Sunday won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in four years under the direction of Quentin Tarantino, this time as a German bounty hunter in the slave revenge tale Django Unchained.

Anne Hathaway took home the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role of a mother-turned-prostitute, Fantine, in Tom Hooper's musical Les Miserables. The 30-year-old was a favourite to win the trophy for the difficult role, which saw her chopping off her tresses and losing about 25lb.

Multiple Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman will present at this year's Oscars ceremony, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today.

In the animated feature film category at this year's Oscars, there's a film set in medieval Scotland, another that features old-school video game characters, one that relies heavily on dry British humor, while the other two take inspiration from the supernatural.

Seth MacFarlane, who is all-setfor his first stint as a host at Sunday's Oscars ceremony says he won't host the Academy Awards next time.

Beasts of the Southern Wild, nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture, is one the most unlikely contenders ever for Hollywood's top honors.

Actor Ajaz Khan is a happy man, and rightfully so. He is the only Indian actor who was selected to be featured in the Oscars promo, and calls his selection a stroke of good luck and good wishes.

Director Ang Lee wanted to offer filmgoers an immersive experience with Life of Pi, his Oscar-nominated 3D fable about an Indian boy trapped on a boat with a tiger. Claudio Miranda helped him do it.

Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook has won over the critcs with its 'bipolar swings between passionate highs and intentionally painful lows'. Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro and even Anupam Kher live up to the roles.