Life Of Pi Grabs 4 Oscar Awards!

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The 85th Academy Awards is one of the most prestigious award functions. Commonly known as Oscars, the glitzy and glamorous event is not just about style and fashion. This award function mainly recognises and honours talents & skills of celebrities in fields of acting, direction, music etc.

Many movies and songs have been nominated for Oscars 2013. To give you a last minute update on the Academy awards 2013, these are the nominations. The most favourite categories for nominations in Oscar 2013 are best picture, best actor, best actress, best director and best foreign language film.

The award function is going on and several nominations have been credited with the award. The Oscars 2013 winners list includes, Christoph Waltz (The actor won the Oscars award for Best Supporting Actor for Django Unchained), Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman (Best animation award for Brave), Jacqueline Durran (Best Costume Design for Anna Karenina), Anne Hathaway (Best Supporting Actress for Les Miserables) to name a few.

However, Oscar Nominated movie, Life of Pi has already grabbed 4 Oscar Awards. The American 3D fantasy adventure drama by Ang Lee grabbed Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Original Score and Best Visual Effects Oscar Awards. Life Of Pi earned eleven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score and The Best Director Oscar Award.

Claudio Miranda won the Best Cinematography Oscar Award. Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer grabbed the Best Visual Effects Oscar Award for Life of Pi. Director Ang Lee won the The Best Director Oscar Award. Music director Mychael Danna won an Oscar for the Best Original Score. Even after having strong competitors like The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Marvel's The Avengers, Prometheus, Snow White and the Huntsman, Skyfall and Lincoln, Life of Pi grabbed 2 Oscars!

Shot in India, Life of Pi is an adaptation of Canadian author Yann Martel's Man Booker Prize-winning eponymous novel of the same name. Irfan Khan, Tabu and Suraj Sharma are the Bollywood actors who have been starred in this brilliant movie.

Life of Pi was also nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture - Drama and Best Director. The movie won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.

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