So, that’s it folks… another, another awards season, and another thoroughly predictable Academy Awards ceremony. At least this year most of the major awards went to a well-deserving film, namely THE ARTIST. Other notable wins include Scorcesse’s HUGO cleaning up the visual gongs, and the HARRY POTTER coming away with absolutely flip all, despite years of solid blockbuster cinema. Despite all this, the biggest news seems to be Sacha Baron Cohen’s appearance as The Dictator, and pulling a stunt that had him marched off the red carpet quicker than you can say ‘The Academy hasn’t got a sense of humour’. Check out details of the jape here.
Below is the complete list of winners and nominations.
BEST FILM
Winner – The Artist
War Horse
The Tree of Life
Moneyball
The Descendants
Midnight in Paris
The Help
Hugo
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER – Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Alexander Payne – The Descendants
Martin Scorsese – Hugo
Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
BEST ACTOR
Winner – Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Demian Bichir – A Better Life
Brad Pitt – Moneyball
George Clooney – The Descendants
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
BEST ACTRESS
Winner – Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis – The Help
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Michelle Williams – My Week With Marilyn
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner – Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
Kenneth Branagh – My Week With Marilyn
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Nick Nolte – Warrior
Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner – Octavia Spencer (The Help)
Berenice Bejo – The Artist
Jessica Chastain – The Help
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Winner – A Separation (Iran)
Bullhead – Belgium
Footnote – Israel
In Darkness – Poland
Monsieur Lazhar – Canada
BEST ANIMATION
Winner – Rango
A Cat in Paris
Chico and Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner – Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids – Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig
Margin Call – JC Chandor
A Separation – Asghar Farhadi
Winner – The Descendants (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash)
Hugo – John Logan
The Ides of March – George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Moneyball – Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin.
Tinker Tailor Solider Spy – Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan
BEST ART DIRECTION
Winner – Hugo (Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo)
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
Midnight in Paris
War Horse
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner Hugo (Robert Richardson)
The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
The Tree of Life
War Horse
BEST SOUND MIXING
Winner – Hugo (Tom Fleischman and John Midgley)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Moneyball
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
BEST SOUND EDITING
Winner – Hugo (Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty)
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Man or Muppet (The Muppets – by Bret McKenzie)
Real in Rio (Rio – by Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Winner – The Artist (Ludovic Bource)
The Adventures of Tintin
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
BEST COSTUMES
Winner – The Artist (Mark Bridges)
Anonymous
Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner – Undefeated
Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Saving Face
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
BEST FILM EDITING
Winner – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall)
The Artist
The Descendants
Hugo
Moneyball
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Winner – The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore
Dimanche/Sunday
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
Winner – The Shore
Pentecost
Raju
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner – Hugo (Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
BEST MAKE-UP
Winner – The Iron Lady (Mark Coulier and J Roy Helland)
Albert Nobbs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
