Oscars 2013 Winners List: Live Blog Of Winners, Nominees As They Are Announced At The Academy Awards

With this year’s Oscars ceremony moments away (the ceremony itself is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. EST on ABC, but you can catch lots of earlier red carpet action here), we’re kicking off our live blog.

Besides the drama of the awards themselves, this year’s ceremony will also prove a test of whether the 85-year-old show can appeal to a younger audience. In an effort to "modernize" the proceedings, producers have a number of changes in store. Not only are they dropping the more formal “Academy Awards” from the program’s name, and rebranding it simply as “the Oscars,” but the production team has also said it hopes to liven up the show and inject more humor into it.

For that responsibility, they’ve tasked “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane, who will be hosting the show, held at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.

"Seth provides everything that we were looking for in terms of the host because he is relevant to an audience today and he's funny, charismatic," co-executive producer Neil Meron said of MacFarlane. “He has great charm. He embodies kind of a post-millennium host in that tradition of Johnny Carson, Bob Hope and Billy Crystal. He is the next step in terms of making the show current.”

Let’s hope MacFarlane can rise to the challenge!

Below is a list of the 2013 nominees in the most anticipated Oscar award categories, which will be updated live throughout the night as the winners are announced.

8:30 P.M. And we're off!

8:31 P.M. MacFarlane manages to get a laugh out of Tommy Lee Jones, has already won the Oscars.

8:40 P.M. Or perhaps not.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Robert DeNiro, “Silver Linings Playbook,” Alan Arkin, “Argo,” Phillip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master,” Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln,” Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained."
*WINNER* CHRISTOPH WALTZ, “DJANGO UNCHAINED.”

Waltz thanks Quentin Tarantino in his acceptance speech: "You slayed the dragon because you're not afraid of it."

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
"Adam and Dog," "Fresh Guacamole," "Head over Heels," "Paperman," "Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare.'"
*WINNER* "PAPERMAN"

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
"Brave," "Frankenweenie," "ParaNorman," "The Pirates! Band of Misfits," "Wreck-It Ralph"
*WINNER* "BRAVE"

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY:
"Anna Karenina," "Django Unchained," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Skyfall."
*WINNER* "LIFE OF PI"

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," "Life of Pi," "Marvel's The Avengers," "Prometheus," "Snow White and the Huntsman."
*WINNER* "LIFE OF PI"

ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN:
"Anna Karenina," "Les Miserables," "Lincoln," "Mirror Mirror," "Snow White and the Huntsman."
*WINNER* "ANNA KARENINA"

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING:
"Hitchcock," "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," "Les Miserables."
*WINNER* "LES MISERABLES"

SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION:
"Curfew," "Asad," "Buzkashi Boys," "Death of a Shadow," "Henry."
*WINNER* "CURFEW"

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
"Inocente," "Kings Point," "Mondays at Racine," "Open Heart," "Redemption."
*WINNER* "INOCENTE,"

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
“The Gatekeepers,” "Searching for Sugar Man," “How to Survive a Plague,” “The Invisible War,” “5 Broken Cameras.”
*WINNER* "SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
"Amour," "Kon-Tiki," "No," "A Royal Affair," "War Witch"
*WINNER* "AMOUR"

BEST SOUND MIXING:
"Argo," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Skyfall"
*WINNER* "LES MISERABLES"

BEST SOUND EDITING:
"Argo," "Django Unchained," "Life of Pi," "Skyfall," "Zero Dark Thirty."
*WINNER*"SKYFALL," *WINNER*"ZERO DARK THIRTY"

10:16 p.m. Mark Wahlberg shocks audience by announcing a tie; first Oscar's tie ever? not according to the Atlantic.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables," Amy Adams, “The Master,” Sally Field, “Lincoln,” Jacki Weaver, “Silver Linings Playbook,” Helen Hunt, “The Sessions.”
*WINNER* ANNE HATHAWAY, "LES MISERABLES,"

10:25 p.m. "It came true!" Anne Hathaway says in acceptance speech.

ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING:
"Argo," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Silver Linings Playbook," "Zero Dark Thirty"
*WINNER* "ARGO"

ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN:
"Anna Karenina," "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," "Les Misérables," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln"
*WINNER* "LINCOLN"

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
"Anna Karenina," "Argo," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Skyfall"
*WINNER*"LIFE OF PI"

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice," "Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi," "Everybody Needs A B‎est Friend" from "Ted," "Skyfall" from "Skyfall," "Suddenly" from "Les Misérables"
*WINNER*"SKYFALL" FROM "SKYFALL"

11:18 p.m. Adele takes home her first ever Oscar. "Thank you so much. This is amazing!"

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
"Argo," “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln.”
*WINNER* “ARGO"

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
“Amour,” “Moonrise Kingdom,” “Flight,” "Django Unchained," “Zero Dark Thirty.”
*WINNER*“DJANGO UNCHAINED"

11:26 p.m. "That's cool, Charlize is my neighbor," Tarantino says, nodding at presenter Charlize Theron.

BEST DIRECTOR:
Michael Haneke, "Amour", Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild," Ang Lee, "Life of Pi," David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook," Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
*WINNER* ANG LEE, "LIFE OF PI"

11:36 p.m. "Life of Pi" wins its fourth Oscar of the night, currently leading the pack.

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty," Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook," Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour," Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild," Naomi Watts, "The Impossible."
*WINNER* JENNIFER LAWRENCE, "SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK"

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook,” Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln," Hugh Jackman, “Les Misérables,” Joaquin Phoenix, “The Master,” Denzel Washington, “Flight”
*WINNER* DANIEL DAY-LEWS, "LINCOLN

11:49 p.m. Daniel Day-Lewis becomes the first man to win three Oscars for Best Actor. "I don't know how any of this happened."

BEST PICTURE:
“Amour,” "Argo," “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Django Unchained,” “Les Misérables,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” “Zero Dark Thirty”
*WINNER* "ARGO"