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now, I want to take a moment

to acknowledge three people

who have worked very,

very hard to make tonight's show great.

Our brilliant producers Craig zadan

and Neal meron.

Whose skill and talents

are only exceeded by their good nature

and masterful director don michener.

Watching this legendary guy

at work is an experience,

frankly, everyone in show

business should have.

And now please welcome

our next two presenters.

They are the stars of "django unchained,"

gentlemen, kerry Washington

and Oscar winner, Jamie foxx.

This is the first year that the academy

has made available to the membership,

on DVD, all the nominated

live action shorts.

So pay attention.

Because where do you think Spielberg

and scorsese came from?

Where did they come from?

- They made short films.

- Right.

They made short films.

So our future a-listers

are right here in this envelope.

Here are the nominees

for best live action short film.

"Asad," Bryan Buckley and mino jarjoura.

"Buzkashi boys," Sam French and Ariel nasr.

"Curfew," Shawn christensen.

"Death of a shadow,","

tom van avermaet and Ellen de waele.

"Henry," yan england.

And the Oscar goes to -

"curfew," Shawn christensen.

This is the first academy award

and nomination for Shawn christensen.

Thanks.

Wow, a big thank you to the academy

for supporting short films.

This has been wonderful and I only

have t-minus two seconds to do it.

My producer in crime,

Damon Russell, I love you, man,

we would not be here without you, brother.

My co-star,

your performance was so incredible.

Nobody even remembers I'm

in the film because of you.

You are incredible.

Mary and Andrew, thank you so much.

The incredible cinematography

from Daniel katz

and putting together the wonderful crew,

Friends, family

and crew in New York and France,

My beautiful mother.

My devilishly handsome father.

And the center of my un ver,

my dearest Nina.

Thank you. I love you all.

And here are the nominees

for best documentary short subject.

"Inocente," Sean fine and Andrea nix fine.

"Kings point," sari gilman and jedd wider.

"Mondays at racine," Cynthia

wade and Robin honan.

"Open heart,"

kief Davidson and cori Shepherd stern.

"Redemption," jon Alpert

and Matthew O'Neill.

And the Oscar goes to -

"inocente. " Sean fine and Andrea nix fine.

This is the first academy award

and second nomination

for Sean fine and Andrea nix fine

and received the first

for their film "war bath"

in the documentary short subject category.

Thank you so much for this.

We just want to

thank quickly our amazing crew,

arvie and Susan

And Ryan and Jeff,

incredible editor with us

and all artistic exploits.

And most of all this young lady

was homeless a year ago

and now standing in front of all of you

and Is an artist

and all of you are artists

and we feel like we need

to start supporting the ors.

They're dying in our community

and all of our artists need to stand up

and help girls like her be seen and heard.

That's so important. Thank you.

In the hugely successful movies

our next presenter plays

a middle age man looking for a girl.

Go down. Harvey weinstein - joked -

okay, we didn't write that one yet

but will work on it.

He has become the definition of

a modern American superhero.

Please welcome Mr. Liam neeson.

Good evening. Our fourth film nominated

for best picture is "argo,"

blending together elements of a thriller,

a realistic Hollywood satire,

and a drama,

making us long for the

hostages to be rescued

by the one intrepid

agent who could.

Our next nominated film,

##Our 16th president was brought

to life as a flawed,

magnificent magnificent human being

struggling against an all-too-familiar

tide of congressional gridlock.

Fifth nominee for best picture, "Lincoln. "

The sixth nominated best picture,

"zero dark thirty,"

allows us to eavesdrop on one of the

great procedurals of the 21st century

leaving with an almost

unprecedented feeling

that what we are watching

or not watching a film but real life.

- Big shot.

-

- We're not actually doing anything.

- No.

No.?

- Jim brought some books to read.

- No.

Somebody's responsible when things happen.

I'm responsible.

I'm taking them.

True north from where you're standing

but got no advice about the swamps,

deserts and chasms

that you'll encounter along the way

and you plunge aheed heedless of obstacles

and achieve nothing more

than sink in a swamp.

What's the use of knowing true north?

Abolishing slavery

by constitutional provision

settles the fate of all coming time,

not only of the millions now in bondage,

but of unborn millions to come.

Okay, fine, 95% because I know certainty

freaks you guys out but it's 100%.

How do you evaluate the risk

of not doing something?

Huh? The risk of potentially letting

bin laden slip through your fingers?

It's her against the world.

Oh, yeah.

here they are, our second

batch of best picture nominees.

You know, this is interesting.

Daniel day-Lewis, not the first

actor to be nominated for playing Lincoln.

Ray mon massey portrayed him in

This is true.

I would argue, however, that the actor

who really got inside Lincoln's head

was John wilkes booth.

Really, 150 years and

it's still too soon, huh?

I guess Napoleon jokes

coming you'll be so mad.

Oh, my God.

How about Ben affleck, "argo"?

Fast-paced, gripping,

nominated for best picture.

This man has gone from starring

in "gigli" to becoming

one of the most respected

filmmakers of this generation.

I feel like we're six months away

from having to call himle Benjamin affleck.

I thought we'd cut this joke

but really, want to do it?

First time I saw him with all

that dark facial hair I thought,

Okay. All right. So it worked.

Which is why it's live.

And how great was Jessica

chastain in "zero dark thirty"?

Yeah.

Playing a woman who spends almost

and also a celebration

of every woman's

innate ability to never

ever let anything go.

All right.

Our next presenter is a

gifted writer and director,

please welcome Oscar winner,

the mul multitalented Ben affleck.

Thank you. Thank you, Seth.

I actually thought the show had

been going pretty well, but

maybe you can turn it around.

The documentary filmmaker

uses the camera to show real life

and real people in a way that's

inciteful, astonishing but above truthful.

Those living in the west bank,

behind the scenes operatives

working in secret in that same land.

The life and death battle

waged 30 years ago by

activists trying to stop

the spread of aids,

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