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Images: The big winners at Oscars 2013

In share-the-wealth mode, Oscar voters spread Sunday's honors among a range of films, with Argo winning three trophies but Life of Pi leading with four.

Oscars 2013: Kickstarter gets shout out thanks to Inocente

Co-directors Andrea Nix and Sean Fine praised the crowd-funding website to reporters backstage. They said it helped them generate community involvement as well as dollars.

Oscars 2013: Kickstarter gets shout out thanks to Inocente

Co-directors Andrea Nix and Sean Fine praised the crowd-funding website to reporters backstage. They said it helped them generate community involvement as well as dollars.

Oscars 2013: Ben Affleck's Argo wins the Best Picture Award

Ben Affleck's Iran rescue thriller Argo has won best picture from the Academy Awards.

Christoph Waltz wins supporting actor prize for Django Unchained

Waltz won his second supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for a Tarantino film, this time as a genteel bounty hunter in the slave-revenge saga Django Unchained.

Oscars 2013: The Academy wants celebrities to tweet during awards

The film organization has expanded its digital outreach for the 85th Academy Awards with a new feature that lets stars to snap photos of themselves backstage during Sunday's ceremony and instantly post them online.

Big studios push for swag-fueled Oscars

Giant coffee table books, iPod Shuffles, signed letters from directors, even "Lincoln" turkey roasting pans. That's just some of the largesse doled out by the studios to voters for awards presented earlier this season.

Why Zero Dark Thirty is unlikely to win Best Picture at Oscars

After a fierce campaign over the movie's depiction of torture that started in Washington and extended to human rights groups, Zero Dark Thirty went from front-runner to also-ran at the Academy Awards.

Oscar 2013: Why Argo, Spielberg and Daniel Day Lewis should win

The West, as expected, has worked itself up to a tizzy over the 85th Academy Awards. With Life of Pi running for several Oscars, here in India, the excitement is palpable. However, we at Firstpost, will put our money on Argo and Lincoln.

Tony Award winner brings Broadway to Oscars

Tony Award-winning designer Derek McLane, much sought-after for his use of unlikely materials in sublime patterns, has been tapped to put together the set for the 85th Academy Awards telecast.