Oscar 2012 Winners

Billy Crystal hosted the Oscar 2012 ceremony on ABC, which took place at the Hollywood & Highland Center, formerly the Kodak Theatre. The silent-era film The Artist won five awards, including the coveted Best Picture prize, at Sunday’s 84th Academy Awards. Check out the winners full list below and the most stunning Oscar 2012 dresses here.

Michel Hazanavicius won the Oscar for Directing and Jean Dujardin won the Actor in a Leading Role award for the black-and-white French film. He said the audience of stars including George Clooney, Michelle Williams, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and members of the Academy:

I am the happiest director in the world right now. Thank you for that.”

The Artist also won for Costume Design and Original Score.

The best-actress prize went to Meryl Streep for her portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Streep’s turn as an elderly Thatcher who is slipping into dementia was too good to be ignored. It was Streep’s third Academy Award out of 17 nominations, and even she reckoned that Oscar voters would think she’s been there, done that. Backstage she termed it Streep fatigue to reporters. Streep joked:

When they called my name, I could feel America saying, ‘Oh why her again?’ But whatever.”

Yet even the steely veteran could not hold back the emotion of an Oscar victory. When she thanked her husband and talked about her career she came close to breaking into tears, and backstage she said it made her feel like a kid again.

Octavia Spencer won for supporting actress for her role in The Help and Christopher Plummer won supporting actor for his part in Beginners. Veteran Plummer, a star of classic film The Sound of Music, won his first ever Oscar for his portrayal of an elderly gay man who comes out to his family in Beginners. He said, looking at his golden Oscar, which was celebrating its 84th awards ceremony:

You’re only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all of my life.”

Hugo was the other big winner of the night. It picked up awards for Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects.

In other major wins, the foreign language film award went to Iranian divorce drama A Separation. Its director, Ashgar Farhadi said:

I proudly offer this award to the people of my country, the people who respect all cultures and civilizations and despise hostility and resentment.”

Asked backstage how he thought the Iranian government might respond, he said he really did not know:

I can’t predict what’s going to happen.”

Comedian Billy Crystal, who returned to emcee the show for the ninth time, had the crowd laughing loudly with an opening video in which he was edited into the year’s top movies.

He was kissed by George Clooney on the lips in a scene out of The Descendants and even ate a tainted pie from The Help. He opened with a monologue in which he jokeв “there’s nothing like watching a bunch of millionaires present each other with golden statues” and sang a comic song about the movies.

Other highlights included stars like Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Adam Sandler and others in brief video vignettes telling audiences why they loved movies. The clips highlighted this year’s themes of reminding people what makes movies magical.

Check out the fullest Oscar 2012 winners:

Best Picture
War Horse
The Artist
Moneyball
The Descendants
The Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
The Help
Hugo
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Best Actress
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Viola Davis, The Help
WINNER – Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn

Best Actor
Demian Bichir, A Better Life
George Clooney, The Descendants
WINNER – Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt, Moneyball

Best Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
WINNER – Octavia Spencer, The Help

Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Nick Nolte, Warrior
WINNER – Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Best Director
WINNER – Michel Hazanivicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

Best Original Screenplay
Michel Hazanivicius, The Artist
Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, Bridesmaids
WINNER – Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
J.C. Chandor, Margin Call
Asghar Farhadi, A Separation

Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Descendants
John Logan, Hugo
George Clooney, Beau Willimon and Grant Heslov, The Ides of March
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin, Moneyball
Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Foreign Feature
Bullhead
Footnote
In Darkness
Monsieur Lazhar
WINNER – A Separation

Best Animated Feature
A Cat in Paris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
WINNER – Rango

Art Direction
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
WINNER – Hugo
Midnight in Paris
War Horse

Cinematography
The Artist
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
WINNER – Hugo
The Tree of Life
War Horse

Costume Design
Anonymous
WINNER – The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.

Documentary Feature
Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
WINNER – Undefeated

Documentary Short Subject
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God Is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
WINNER – Saving Face
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

Film Editing
Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Kevin Tent, The Descendants
WINNER – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Thelma Schoonmaker, Hugo
Christopher Tellefsen, Moneyball

Makeup
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle, Albert Nobbs
Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
WINNER – Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland, The Iron Lady

Music (Original Score)
John Williams, The Adventures of Tintin
WINNER – Ludovic Bource, The Artist
Howard Shore, Hugo
Alberto Iglesias, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Williams, War Horse

Music (Original Song)
WINNER – Man or Muppet from The Muppets, Bret McKenzie
“Real in Rio” from ‘Rio’, Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett

Sound Editing
Drive
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
WINNER – Hugo
Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon
War Horse

Sound Mixing
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
WINNER – Hugo
Moneyball
Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon
War Horse

Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
WINNER – Hugo
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon

Short Film (Animated)
Dimanche/Sunday
WINNER – The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life

Short Film (Live Action)
Pentecost
Raju
WINNER – The Shore
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic

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