Life of Pi's Ang Lee has officially won the award for Best Director at the 2013 Oscars, beating out the likes of Lincoln's Steven Speilberg, Silver Linings Playbook's David O. Russell,Beasts of the Southern Wild's Benh Zeitlin and Amour's Michael Haneke amongst several other notable filmmakers.

Adele won her first Oscar on Sunday for the song Skyfall in the category of Best Original Song. The United Kingdom native performed the James Bond theme song earlier in the evening on live television. The award also marked Adele's first ever Oscar nomination.

Actor Seth MacFarlane hosted the Academy Awards on Feb. 24 and in his opening monologue he spoke about the different films in which actresses flashed their cleavage, picked on specific starlets sitting in the audience. The 39-year-old continues to voice characters in Family Guy, the series he created, and American Dad while preparing for the show on Feb. 24. He said it is "very vocally taxing" because there is a lot of screaming and yelling he is required to do, which has left him "a little exhausted."

Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Hudson and others performed at the Academy Awards on Feb. 24 in a tribute to the revival of big-screen musicals during the last decade.