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To the countless fans of Ben Affleck’s Argo, this morning turned out to be exotic when the film won the Oscar award for the Best Film at the 85th Academy Awards. The film sidelined eight other nominees like Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Life of Pi, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty, Les Miserables, Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Django Unchained. Edging out the likes of Ben Affleck (Argo), Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), Steve Spielberg (Lincoln), Michael Haneke (Amour), David O Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) and Benh Zeitlin (easts of the Southern Wild), Ang Lee has won the Academy Award in the Best Director category for his film Life of Pi. This is the second time that Lee has bagged the Oscar award, the first being in 2005 for Brokeback Mountain. He was also nominated in 2000 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. With today’s win, Lee becomes only the 19th director to win the honour more than once. Life of Pi, incidentally, has won two other Oscar awards. Daniel Day-Lewis lapped up the Best Actor award for his role in and as Lincoln, the 16th American president, exhausted but still upstanding at the end of the civil war as he seeks to pass an amendment that will lead to the abolition of slavery. After winning this award, he becomes the first man ever to win three best actor Oscars, having earlier triumphed for 1989's My Left Foot and 2007's There Will Be Blood. On the other hand, Jennifer Lawrence won the Oscar in the Best Actress category for her role in Silver Linings Playbook in which she played a troubled wannabe dancer opposite Bradley Cooper. Anne Hathaway won the award for the Best Supporting-Actress in Les Miserables n which she played a doomed mother-turned-prostitute in the musical. On the other hand, Christoph Waltz won his second Supporting-Actor award for Django Unchained in which he played a genteel bounty hunter. Others who won the Oscars are: Best Writing - Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained. Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio for Argo. Best Original Song: Adele for Skyfall. Best Original Score: Mychael Danna for Life of Pi. Best Production Design: Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) for Lincoln. Best Film Editing: William Goldenberg for Argo. Best Sound Editing: Tie between Paul N.J. Ottosson for Zero Dark Thirty and Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers for Skyfall. Best Sound Mixing: Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes for Les Misérables. Best Foreign Language Film: Amour (Austria). Best Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man. Best Documentary Short Subject: Inocente. Best Short Film - Live Action: Shawn Christensen for Curfew. Best Visual Effects: Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott for Life of Pi. Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda for Life of Pi. Best Animated Feature Film: Brave directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman. Best Short Film – Animated: Paperman by John Kahrs.