Oscars 2012: Results

The 84th Academy Awards ceremony has just ended. The show went pretty much as anticipated, approving major award predictions.

The Artist took away five awards, three of them in the main categories: Best Picture, beating so many as eight other nominants there (the rule changed to allow no less than 5 and no more than 10 in June 2011), Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius and Best Actor for movie’s star Jean Dujardin. It became the first silent motion picture in 83 years to win Best Picture (after Wings, which won Best Picture in the 1st Academy Awards).

Martin Scorsese’s Hugo ended up taking home five statuettes as well (had 11 nominations), triumphing in more technical side categories like Best Visual Effects and Best Editing.

As unsurprising as a surprise of such night can be, was Meryl Streep’s Best Actress win for her role in Iron Lady (she has three Oscars and 17 nominations in her account now), pushing aside The Help star Viola Davis. Iron Lady was the third and final film with multiple wins also taking Oscar for Best Makeup.

Below is a full list of the winners at the 2012 Oscars:

Best Picture
The Artist

Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)

Best Actor
Jean Dujardin (The Artist)

Best Actress
Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)

Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer (Beginners)

Best Supporting Actress
Octavia Spencer (The Help)

Best Writing – Original Screenplay
Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash

Best Animated Feature
Rango – Gore Verbinski

Best Foreign Language Film
A Separation – Asghar Farhadi

Best Documentary – Feature
Undefeated – TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay, and Richard Middlemas

Best Documentary – Short Subject
Saving Face – Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Best Live Action Short Film
The Shore – Terry George and Oorlagh George

Best Animated Short Film
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg

Best Original Score
The Artist – Ludovic Bource

Best Original Song
“Man or Muppet” from The Muppets – Bret McKenzie

Best Sound Editing
Hugo – Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty

Best Sound Mixing
Hugo – Tom Fleischman and John Midgley

Best Art Direction
Hugo – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo

Best Cinematography
Hugo – Robert Richardson

Best Makeup
The Iron Lady – Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Best Costume Design
The Artist – Mark Bridges

Best Film Editing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Best Visual Effects
Hugo – Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, and Alex Henning

Look for full awards list with nominees here.