My Heroes

I love watching the Oscars to see what and who wins best picture and best performances. The other things I love to watch are actors off-screen being themselves - life of the rich and famous will forever intrigue me - and of course judging the best dressed. But most of all, I like to see which movies and who wins the creative categories. The set design and production, directing, costume, visual effects, audio and sound, cinematography and last but not least the hair and makeup. These people receive as much credit as the actors that rake in all the fame and glory. For those who ask, why design? They are the first on set and last to leave with the longest worked hours. Without them, your fantastic movies would cease to exist.

I pegged the following movies for the nominated creative categories:
Skyfall, Life of Pi and Les Miserables.

The Winners were:

Best Cinematography
Claudio Miranda - Life of Pi

Best Directing
Ang lee - Life of Pi

Best Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran - Anna Karenina 

Best Hair & Makeup
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell - Les Miserables

Best Production Design
Rick Carter (Production Design), Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) - Lincoln

Best Editing
William Goldenberg- Argo

Best Music, Original Song
Adele and Paul Epworth - Skyfall 

Best Music, Orginal Score
Michael Danna - Life of Pi

Best Sound Editing
Per Hallberg and Karen Baker - Skyfall
AND
Paul N. J. Ottosson, Zero Dark Thirty

Best Sound Mixing
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes - Les Miserables

Best Visual Effects
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott - Life of Pi

Best Writing for Adapted Screenplay
Chris Terrio - Argo

Best Writing for Original ScreeplayQuentin Tarantino - Django Unchained

One more thing,

wise words from winner Ben Affleck for Best Picture, Argo ...