Last night's Academy Awards commemoration was a hotly contested one, with few categories appearing to accept affirmed winners formed afore they were announced. The Artist was the big success of the evening. The bashful blur brought home bristles Oscars aftermost night, including the coveted Best Picture Prize, angry off allegiant antagonism from The Descendant, The Tree of Life, Moneyball, Midnight in Paris, Hugo, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Abutting and The Help.
Jean Dujardin won the Best Actor award-winning for his advance role in The Artist, part-proving the approach that the Golden Globes are a acceptable indicator of how which way the Oscars will swing. The Artist additionally took home the Director's award-winning for Michel Hazanavicius, the Oscar for Music (Original Score) and Costume Design. The Best Actress Oscar was appropriately close, admitting abounding predicted that the award-winning would go to either Meryl Streep (for The Iron Lady) or Viola Davis (for The Help). Streep eventually took the award-winning home, admitting Davis' co-star Octavia Spencer landed the award-winning for Best Supporting Actress, ensuring the blur didn't go unnoticed. The Best Supporting Actor award-winning had, for many, become a chase amid the octogenarians Christopher Plummer and Max Von Sydow, with Christopher Plummer triumphing, for his achievement as Hal Fields, an aged ancestor who leaves it until backward in activity to acquaint his son that he's homosexual.
Martin Scorsese's Hugo was accepted to booty a few of the statuettes home aftermost night and the family-friendly account eventually won Best Cinematography accolade and the awards for Art Direction and Visual Effects. The blur additionally did appreciably able-bodied in the complete department, demography home the awards for Complete Editing and Complete Mixing.
Complete account of 2012 Academy Accolade Winners
Actor in a Leading Role - Jean Dujardin in "The Artist"
Actor in a Supporting Role - Christopher Plummer in "Beginners"
Actress in a Leading Role - Meryl Streep in "The Iron Lady"
Actress in a Supporting Role - Octavia Spencer in "The Help"
Animated Feature Blur - "Rango" Gore Verbinski
Art Direction - "Hugo" Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
Cinematography - "Hugo" Robert Richardson
Costume Design - "The Artist" Mark Bridges
Directing - "The Artist" Michel Hazanavicius
Documentary (Feature) - "Undefeated" TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Rich Middlemas
Documentary (Short Subject) - "Saving Face" Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Film Editing - "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
Foreign Language Blur - "A Separation" Iran
Makeup - "The Iron Lady" Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
Music (Original Score) - "The Artist" Ludovic Bource
Music (Original Song) - "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets" Music and Lyric by Bret MCKenzie
Best Picture - "The Artist" Thomas Langmann, Producer
Short Blur (Animated) - "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Short Blur (Live Action) - "The Shore" Terry George and Oorlagh George
Sound Editing - "Hugo" Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
Sound Mixing - "Hugo" Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
Visual Effects - "Hugo" Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - "The Descendants" Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Writing (Original Screenplay) - "Midnight in Paris" Written by Woody Allen
