BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present Honorary Awards to Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin and Piero Tosi, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Angelina Jolie. All four awards will be presented at the Academy's 5th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 16, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center®.

“The Governors Awards pay tribute to individuals who’ve made indelible contributions in their respective fields,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “We couldn’t be more excited for this year’s honorees and look forward to bringing their peers and colleagues together to celebrate their extraordinary achievements.”

Lansbury has received three Academy Award® nominations for her supporting performances on film – the first in her 1944 feature debut in Gaslight, followed by The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Her numerous other credits include The Long, Hot Summer, Blue Hawaii, The World of Henry Orient, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Death on the Nile and Mr. Popper’s Penguins, as well as voice work for the first animated feature to receive a Best Picture nomination, Beauty and the Beast.

Martin, who got his start in television, is a versatile actor, writer, comedian and musician who began to display the breadth of his big-screen talent as the screenwriter and star of the 1977 Oscar®-nominated short film The Absent-Minded Waiter. He wrote and starred in The Jerk, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, Three Amigos, Roxanne, L.A. Story, The Pink Panther series and Shopgirl, which he adapted from his critically acclaimed book of the same name. His other acting credits include All of Me, Parenthood, Father of the Bride and It’s Complicated. He also is a three-time host of the Oscars®, most recently in 2010 with Alec Baldwin.

Tosi rose to prominence through his collaborations with Italian director Luchino Visconti on such films as White Nights and Rocco and His Brothers, and continued to work with him on several other features, including the Costume Design nominees The Leopard, Death in Venice and Ludwig. Tosi received two more nominations for his designs for La Cage aux Folles and La Traviata. His other notable credits include Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, a Foreign Language Film winner, and Marriage Italian Style, a Foreign Language Film nominee, both directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Jolie, who won an Oscar for her supporting performance in Girl, Interrupted, has been an impassioned advocate for humanitarian causes, traveling widely to promote organizations and social justice efforts such as the Prevent Sexual Violence Initiative. Staking out a career at the nexus of entertainment and philanthropy, Jolie has worked for a number of global advocacy groups including the Council on Foreign Relations and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), for which she was appointed Special Envoy of High Commissioner António Guterres in 2012 after twelve years of service. Her dedication to these causes has also shaped her work in films that tackle global humanitarian issues including “A Mighty Heart” and her feature film directorial debut “In the Land of Blood and Honey.”

The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given “to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy.”

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, also an Oscar statuette, is given “to an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.”

So what did you all think of the show?  Here are my general thoughts plus my best and worst moments (remember this is just my opinion which means nothing and may differ from yours):

Seth McFarland was eh ok. His jokes were eh ok. A few funny moments but most of his jokes he just didn't sell them like he should have. I don't mind some pot shots at the hollywood elite (in good taste that is) but his were a bit awkward, again not selling them properly. His musical numbers were great and I give him big kudos for that. I am one of the few that doesn't mind the show running long but yeah I was kind of at the end, yelling stop going to commercial, get this sucker over with...hahahahaha.

Best Moments

• Skyfall Performance: See my first comment under Worst Moments.
• Daniel Day-Lewis: Who knew he was funny? Loved his acceptance speech. He made fun of himself on how he (well known for) staying in character until a movie is finished and how his wife has to live with all these men. Very nice funny and endearing speech.
• Shirley Bassey: Wow, her performance of Goldfinger was one of my big highlights of the evening. She sounded and looked fantasti and age 76. Loved it.
• Les Miserables medley: Wow, loved it, loved it loved. It flowed well, it was choreographed well and was a big big number done right. My fave part was when Russell Crowe came out and there were cheers....ok ok, I'm partial to Crowe, he's a great actor and I thought he did really good plus I don't think he really cares what we think.,,hahahaha.
• Adele's Acceptance Speech: How can you not just love this wholesome down to earth young woman who was so excited and just so darn cute.
• Barbara Streisand: She still got it.
• Joaquin Phoenix: The I don't five a *@!~ look was hilarious. Made me chuckle but that's Joaquin.
• Jennifer Lawrence: First his trip, makes her like one of us somehow. Another wholesome so down to earth young woman that is hard to not just love.

Worst Moments

• Skyfall Performance: For me this first moment, is a best and worst. Adele's peformance of the winning song "Skyfall". It was underwhelming to say the least and at no fault of Adele's. The orchestra was way too loud and drowned her out big time and that woman has some powerful pipes. I was so looking forward to this performance and it was a bit of let down.
• 15 Minute Opener: Um, parts were good but uh sorry Seth you are no Hugh Jackman ok? He's a nice singer and dancer and I liked the musical routines. This could have worked but without the Captain Kirk and future prediction thing. Just wrong way to go with it.
• Catherine Zeta-Jones Lyp-Syncing: I actually felt bad for her, the routine was great, the dancing, she looked pretty good accept for the old lady skinny legs but her many missteps in the lip-syncing were painfully obvious and sort of ruined the whole moment.
• Ted: Well, I wasn't a fan of the movie, not my kind of humor. Keep the raunchy for MTV Movie Awards, this is the Oscars.
• Michelle Obama: I find this completely inappropriate for a First Lady who is still in the White House, not like she is a past First Lady, to be doing this kind of thing. It's undignified. Keep politics in Washington and Hollywood in Hollywood, PLEASE.
• The Avengers routine: Boy that was awkward and just did not work.
• Bond 007 Tribute: Did this just seem like a total missed opportunity or no thought put into it? I mean if you're going to do a tribute then do one. Showing scenes and the one great moment of Shirley Bassey coming out and singing "Goldfinger" was well strange that no medley's followed, no Paul McCartney, Carly Simon and even Adele's performance kept separate. No actors who played bond there...no Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton, Roger Moore (is he alive?)...no Bond girls...poor poor tribute.
• Jaws music: Ok Ok, I know they have time restraints and need to hurry along speeches but that was just rude to play the Jaws theme? Really? Who thought that was a good idea. I felt bad for the guy who won and was trying to talk about a fellow winner not there due to financial difficulties. I wished someone had brought him back up to finish was he had to say.
• Blatant Musical Tribute omissions: Ok so this was the oscars to celebrate Music in Films. Great, I love musical numbers, the amount of them did not bother me like some but when they blatantly left out routines or numbers from some of the great musicals...it seemed odd. They only chose a couple. Les Mis made sense, it's nominated and then we got Chicago..ok, not one of my favorites but good choice...where was Grease? Moulin Rouge? West Side Story? Sound of Music? the list could go on and on, to only choose a couple? Why not at least make a film anthology of them. The tributes were all weird.
• In Memoriam: Wow, major omissions from there. I know there were over 100 deaths of film professionals but I thought there were some glaring omissions from the televised version (there is an online version that includes others but still not all). Most notable omissions for me were: Norman Alden, Andy Griffith, Harry Carey, Jr., Larry Hagman, Ann Rutherford, Gore Vidal and tons more. I personally feel they should all be shown, they could do it quicker and leave out the video/talking moments in the film.

Well my worst is more than my best but I may be forgetting some things. Should have written this right after the show.

Congratulations to a "Home Town" boy who made it big! You make Cornwall proud :)

by Josh Grossberg 1/2/2013 8:15 AM PST

Some unexpected glitches with its new electronic voting system have prompted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to extend the voting deadline for nominees for the 85th Annual Oscars by 24 hours.

The Academy originally told its 5,700 members to have their online or paper ballots submitted by Thursday, Jan. 3, at 5 p.m. PT. But because of problems with the new computerized voting method it recently deployed to making the process easier, the folks behind Hollywood's biggest night will keep online voting open until 5 p.m. PT on Jan. 4.

"By extending the voting deadline we are providing every opportunity available to make the transition to online balloting as smooth as possible," said Ric Robertson, the Academy's chief operating officer, in a statement. "We're grateful to our global membership for joining us in this process."

Traditionally, Academy Award nominations have been decided by paper ballots mailed in. But the addition of online voting has caused numerous issues, with some industry folks having trouble obtaining the necessary passwords to register their vote and having to wait to receive a new password via regular mail.

That's prompted concerns, as The Hollywood Reporter notes, that older, less tech-savvy members might not have their voices heard, resulting in a skewed crop of nominations that could hurt some of this year's big contenders like Les Misérables and Lincoln in favor of edgier fare like Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom or Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master.

Several filmmakers, such as Super Size Me documentarian Morgan Spurlock, have even called the Academy asking for assistance.

"The password they sent didn't work for my log-in – and they couldn't email me a new log in, only snail mail," the 42-year-old director tweeted.

Oscar nominations are scheduled to be announced on Jan. 10, while the actual ceremony is set for Feb. 24 and will be hosted by Family Guy guru Seth MacFarlane.

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The Academy has announced the films still in the running for the newly renamed Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar, which was previously known as the Academy Award for Best Makeup. Of these seven films, three will be selected as nominees for the award.

• Hitchcock
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Les Misérables
• Lincoln
• Looper
• Men in Black 3
• Snow White and the Huntsman

• Amour from Austria — Michael Haneke
• Beyond the Hills from Romania — Cristian Mungiu
• The Deep from Iceland — Baltasar Kormákur
• The Intouchables from France — Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano
• Kon-Tiki from Norway — Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
• No from Chile — Pablo Larraín
• A Royal Affair from Denmark — Nikolaj Arcel
• Sister from Switzerland — Ursula Meier
• War Witch from Canada — Kim Nguyen

The following films were submitted to the Academy for consideration in the Best Animated Feature category:

• Adventures in Zambezia
• Brave
• Delhi Safari
• Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
• Frankenweenie
• From Up on Poppy Hill
• Hey Krishna
• Hotel Transylvania
• Ice Age Continental Drift
• A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
• Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
• The Mystical Laws
• The Painting
• ParaNorman
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits
• The Rabbi's Cat
• Rise of the Guardians
• Secret of the Wings
• Walter & Tandoori's Christmas
• Wreck-It Ralph
• Zarafa

• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Never Sorry LLC)
• Bully (The Bully Project LLC)
• Chasing Ice (Exposure)
• Detropia (Loki Films)

• Ethel (Moxie Firecracker Films)

• 5 Broken Cameras (Guy DVD Films)
• The Gatekeepers (Les Films du Poisson, Dror Moreh Productions, Cinephi)
• The House I Live In (Charlotte Street Films, LLC)
• How to Survive a Plague (How to Survive a Plague LLC)
• The Imposter (Imposter Pictures Ltd.)
• The Invisible War (Chain Camera Pictures)
• Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (Jigsaw Productions in association with Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films
)
• Searching for Sugar Man (Red Box Films
)
• This Is Not a Film (Wide Management
)
• The Waiting Room (Open’hood, Inc.)

• Adam and Dog - Minkyu Lee, director
• Combustible - Katsuhiro Otomo, director
• Dripped - Léo Verrier, director
• The Eagleman Stag - Mikey Please, director; Benedict Please, music scores and sound design
• The Fall of the House of Usher - Raul Garcia, director; Stephan Roelants, producer
• Fresh Guacamole - PES, director
• Head over Heels - Timothy Reckart, director; Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, producer
• Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare” - David Silverman, director
• Paperman - John Kahrs, director
• Tram - Michaela Pavlátová, director; Ron Dyens, producer

• A Fábrica (The Factory) - Aly Muritiba, director
• Asad - Bryan Buckley, director; Mino Jarjoura, producer
• Buzkashi Boys - Sam French, director; Ariel Nasr, producer
• Curfew - Shawn Christensen, director
• Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) - Tom Van Avermaet, director; Ellen De Waele, producer
• Henry - Yan England, director
• Kiruna-Kigali - Goran Kapetanovic, director
• The Night Shift Belongs to the Stars - Silvia Bizio and Paola Porrini Bisson, producers
• 9meter - Anders Walther, director; Tivi Magnusson, producer
• Salar - Nicholas Greene, director; Julie Buck, producer

• The Amazing Spider-Man
• Cloud Atlas
• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• John Carter
• Life of Pi
• Marvel’s The Avengers
• Prometheus
• Skyfall
• Snow White and the Huntsman

• The Education of Mohammad Hussein
• Inocente
• Kings Point
• Mondays at Racine
• Open Heart
• ParaÍso
• The Perfect Fit
• Redemption