Argo took home the Best Picture Award, Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for his fictional portrayal of Abraham Lincoln.

Critical favorite Zero Dark Thirty was shut out of the major categories but won an Oscar for Best Sound Editing.

Below are the nominees and winners for the major categories:

Best Picture
Amour
Argo�WINNER
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln�WINNER
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook�WINNER
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Director
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi�WINNER
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man�WINNER

Best Original Screenplay
Amour, Michael Hankie
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino�WINNER
Flight, John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal

Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo, Chris Terrio�WINNER
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin,
Life of Pi, David Magee
Lincoln, Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

Best Original Song
"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice, music and lyric by J. Ralph
"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from Ted, music by Walter Murphy; lyric by Seth MacFarlane
"Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi, music by Mychael Danna; lyric by Bombay Jayashri
"Skyfall" from Skyfall, music and lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth�WINNER
"Suddenly" from Les Mis�rables, music by Claude-Michel Sch�nberg; lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil