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"Life of Pi picked up two early wins at the 2013 Oscars on Sunday night, while Django Unchained star Christoph Waltz earned his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;We participated in a hero&amp;apos;s journey,&amp;quot; an emotional Waltz said in reference to&amp;#xA0;Django&amp;apos;s director, Quentin Tarantino. &amp;quot;You&amp;#xA0;scaled the mountain because you&amp;apos;re not afraid of it.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nOscars 2013: Academy Awards Red Carpet\r\nWaltz&amp;apos;s Oscar win, for his role as a bounty hunter in the South, comes just three years after he won Best Supporting Actor in 2010 for another Tarantino film,&amp;#xA0;Inglourious Basterds.&amp;#xA0;The Ang Lee-helmed Life of Pi, about a boy stranded at sea with a tiger, earned Oscars for Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.&amp;#xA0;\r\nIn other early Academy Award wins, Disney&amp;apos;s Brave won Best Animated Feature, beating out another favored contender, Wreck-It Ralph, while Anna Karenina won for Best Costume Design and Les Mis&amp;#xE9;rables was recognized for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Amour&amp;#xA0;won Best Foregin Language Film, while Searching for Sugar Man,&amp;#xA0;about the rediscovered rocker Rodriguez, won Best Documentary Feature.&amp;#xA0;\r\nOscars 2013 Winners List\r\nLincoln led the field with 12 Oscar nominations heading into the night, with Life of Pi a close second with 11 nods. But early predictions, including those by Rolling Stone&amp;apos;s own Peter Travers, have pegged Ben Affleck&amp;apos;s&amp;#xA0;Argo as the favorite to win Best Picture.&amp;#xA0;\r\nSeth MacFarlane kicked off the Oscar festivities with a lively monologue that poked fun at Tommy Lee Jones and Mel Gibson and a musical medley featuring Charlize Theron, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe and Joesph Gordon-Levitt.&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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