For the third straight year, a Hollywood film that screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival has garnered the biggest prize of the night at the Academy Awards. At the 2013 edition Sunday night, Ben Affleck's Argo, which made its U.S. premiere at the Smith Rafael Film Center last October in an event that featured actor Bryan Cranston and Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Chris Terrio, won for Best Picture, besting a field that included a slew of heavy hitters.
Argo's victory comes on the heels of Best Picture wins for MVFF faves The Artist in 2012 and The King's Speech in 2011.
ln addition, both Silver Linings Playbook and Life of Pi, which opened and closed the 35th Mill Valley Film Festival, respectively, took home Best Director (Ang Lee and Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence).
Here are the Oscar winners among the complete nominations list for the 2013 Academy Awards:
Best Motion Picture
Argo — Winner
Amour
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Achievement in Directing
Ang Lee, Life of Pi — Winner
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Michael Haneke, Amour
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln — Winner
Denzel Washington, Flight
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook — Winner
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin, Argo
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained — Winner
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams, The Master
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables — Winner
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
Sally Field, Lincoln
Best Animated Feature Film
Brave — Winner
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Original Screenplay
Amour, Michael Haneke
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino — Winner
Flight, John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal
Adapted Screenplay
Argo, Chris Terrio — Winner
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi, David Magee
Lincoln, Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell
Best Foreign-Language Film
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
Amour (Austria) — Winner
No (Chile)
War Witch (Canada)
Kontiki (Norway)
Original Score
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi, Mychael Danna —Winner
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas Newman
Original Song
"Before My Time," J. Ralph; Chasing Ice
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend," Walter Murphy and Seth McFarlane; Ted
"Pi's Lullaby," Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri; Life of Pi
"Skyfall," Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth; Skyfall — Winner
"Suddenly," Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boulil; Les Misérables
Achievement in Production Direction
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln — Winner
Achievement in Cinematography
Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained, Robert Richardson
Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda — Winner
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins
Achievement in Costume Design
Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran — Winner
Les Misérables, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood
Best Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for a Sugar Man — Winner
Best Documentary Short Subject
Inocente — Winner
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption
Achievement in Film Editing
Argo — Winner
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Achievement in Makeup & Hairstyling
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables — Winner
Best Animated Short Film
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
Paperman — Winner
Best Live-Action Short Film
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew — Winner
Death of a Shadow
Henry
Achievement in Sound Editing
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall — Winner
Zero Dark Thirty — Winner
Achievement in Sound Mixing
Argo
Les Misérables — Winner
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Achievement in Visual Effects
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi — Winner
Marvel's The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman
