The 84th Annual Academy Awards were presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012 at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®.
THE ARTIST cleaned up in 3 of the 4 major categories with 5 total wins and HUGO performed equally as well, also with 5 total wins. The Weinsten Co. was the studio with the most wins, with 8, followed by Paramount with 6 wins.
And the winners are…
BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
THE ARTIST (The Weinstein Company) | A La Petite Reine/Studio 37/La Classe Américaine/JD Prod/France3 Cinéma/Jouror Productions/uFilm Production, Thomas Langmann, Producer
BEST DIRECTOR
THE ARTIST (The Weinstein Company) | Michel Hazanavicius
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
THE ARTIST (The Weinstein Company) | Jean Dujardin
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
BEGINNERS (Focus Features) | Christopher Plummer
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
THE IRON LADY (The Weinstein Company) | Meryl Streep
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
THE HELP (Touchstone) | Octavia Spencer
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
RANGO (Paramount) | Gore Verbinski
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
A SEPARATION | Iran
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
THE DESCENDANTS (Fox Searchlight) | Alexander Payne, Jim Rash & Nat Faxon
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Sony Pictures Classics) | Woody Allen
BEST ART DIRECTION
HUGO (Paramount) | Production Design: Dante Ferretti, Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
HUGO (Paramount)| Robert Richardson
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
THE ARTIST (The Weinstein Company) | Mark Bridges
BEST DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
UNDEFEATED (The Weinstein Company) | TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay & Richard Middlemas
BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
SAVING FACE (Magnolia Pictures/Shorts International) | Robin Fryday & Gail Dolgin
BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS LESSMORE (Magnolia Pictures/Shorts International) | William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg
BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
THE SHORE (Magnolia Pictures/Shorts International) | Terry George & Oorlagh George
BEST FILM EDITING
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Columbia Pictures) | Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall
BEST MAKEUP
THE IRON LADY (The Weinstein Company) | Mark Coulier & J. Roy Helland
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
THE ARTIST (The Weinstein Company) | Ludovic Bource
BEST SOUND MIXING
HUGO (Paramount) | Tom Fleischman & John Midgley
BEST SOUND EDITING
HUGO (Paramount) | Philip Stockton & Eugene Gearty
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
HUGO (Paramount) | Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman & Alex Henning