Best Supporting Actor nominees 2013

oscars 2013 Heavy favorite Hathaway was nominated for her turn as Fantine in "Les Miserables." This would mark the actress' first Academy Award, though she was once nominated for Best Actress for her performance in "Rachel Getting Married." Field earned her place in the field by playing Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln."

If Field wins, this would be her third Oscar. She won two Best Actress awards, most recently in 1985 for "Places in the Heart."

The two stars will face off against Helen Hunt ("The Sessions"), Amy Adams ("The Master") and Jacki Weaver ("Silver Linings Playbook").

Seth MacFarlane, who announced the nominations with Emma Stone, will host the award broadcast on Feb. 24. Oscar are handed out to those who received the most votes from members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a group of working professionals in cinema. More information on the voting process is available at the Academy's website. The Golden Globes - which take place this Sunday - are not voted on by industry insiders, but by the Hollywood Foreign Press.

ben affleck A live-blog of Oscars season is available below, as is a gallery of those honored. Be sure to head back to HuffPost Entertainment for coverage of all things awards.

Good Night, And Good Luck

That's all from the Oscars 2013 live blog here at HuffPost Entertainment! Hope you enjoyed the show. This is Christopher Rosen, signing off.

Ben Affleck Is Not Into Oscar Punditry

From backstage at the Oscars:

When did you feel a tipping point in your favor for this film?

Clooney: Michelle Obama.

patricia clarkson oscars Ben: When they gave us the trophies I was confident that we would win. I don’t get too much into the Oscar-ology and the pontificating. It doesn’t help me to read up on that stuff.

Daniel Day-Lewis' Facial Hair

Backstage at the Oscars with Daniel Day-Lewis:

Was it uncomfortable wearing the beard?

What do you mean? No it's just a beard. Do you wear your hair? It was my very own beard.

What Jennifer Lawrence Thought When She Fell

From HuffPost Los Angeles correspondent Sasha Bronner:

"A bad word. That starts with F."

How Movies Change During Oscar Season

Here's Awards Daily blogger Sasha Stone just after "Argo" won Best Picture.

See, I told you Argo was Crash incarnate. Won the same amount of awards even.

Have you ever seen a movie where you walk out saying, “That was just a great f-king movie”? That’s Ben Affleck’s Argo. Inexplicably, a film that draws its strength from humor and suspense, winds up being more moving the second time through. Perhaps because once you have been through the suspense part of it you get to know the characters better and therefore care about their outcomes more.