84th Academy Awards - 2012

The 84th annual Academy Awards or The Oscars took place at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles on Feb 29th 2012. The Artist and Hugo were the big winners on that night. Nine time host Billy Crystal was the host for this year’s Oscar too.

The list of winners for this years Oscars include:

Best Motion Picture : The Artist

Best Actor in a Leading role : Jean Dujardin for ‘The Artist’

Best Actress in a Leading role : Meryl Streep for ‘The Iron lady’

Best Actor in a Supporting Role : Christopher Plummer for ‘Beginners’

Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Octavia Spencer for ‘The Help’

Best Director : Michel Hazanavicus for ‘The Artist’

Best Writing(Adapted Screenplay) : Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Community’s
Dean Pelton for 'The Descendants'

Best Writing (Original Screenplay): Woody Allen won for his screenplay for
‘Midnight in Paris’

Best Animated Film : Rango

Best Original Score : Ludovic Bource for ‘The Artist’

Best Original Song : Bret McKenzie for ‘Man or a Muppet’

Best Documentary : TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Rich Middlemas
for their documentary film ‘Undefeated’

Best Cinematography : Robert Richardson for ‘Hugo’

Best Animated Short Film : The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris
Lessmore

Best Short Film (Live Action) : The Shore

Best Art Direction : Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo for
‘Hugo’

Best Costume Design : Mark Bridges for ‘The Artist’

Best Make Up : Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland for ‘The Iron
Lady’

Best Foreign Language Film : The Iranian film..’A Separation’

Best Film Editing : Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall for ‘The Girl With
The Dragon Tattoo’

Best Sound Editing : Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty for ‘Hugo’

Best Sound Mixing : Tom Fleischman and John Midgley for ‘Hugo’

Best Visual Effects : Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and
Alex Henning for ‘Hugo’

2011 Academy Award Nominations - The Other Nominations

Best Actor In A Supporting Role :
Christian Bale(The Fighter)
John Hawkes(Winter's Bone)
Jeremy Renner(The Town)
Mark Ruffalo(The Kids Are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush(The King's Speech)

Best Actress In A Supporting Role :
Amy Adams(The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
Melissa Leo(The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld(True Grit)
Jacki Weaver(Animal Kingdom)

Best Original Screenplay :
Mike Leigh(Another Year)
Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson.
Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson(The Fighter)
Christopher Nolan(Inception)
Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg(The Kids Are All Right)
David Seidler(The King's Speech)

Best Adapted Screenplay :
Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy(127 Hours)
Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)
Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich(Toy Story 3)
Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen(True Grit)
Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini(Winter's Bone)