Awards season is over for another year. Last night’s Oscars saw the big award go to—surprise, surprise—The Artist, which picked up a total of five wins (Best Film, Actor, Costume Design, Original Score and Director) out of its ten total nominations. Also heading home with a quintet of statuettes was Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, whose wins in many of the more technical categories—Best Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects, in addition to Best Cinematography and Art Direction—had the legendary director’s name thrown out in thank you speeches time and time again during the first half of the show. (For a while there, it seemed like he was mentioned more than the Academy itself.)
In an night devoid of any big surprises, there was still an upset courtesy of Meryl Streep, who won for Best Actress courtesy of her performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Though Streep has been nominated a grand total of 17 times, only three of those have been wins, and the last time she found herself ascending the stage at the Kodak Theatre to deliver an acceptance speech was in 1983 for Sophie’s Choice. Besides wins for Streep and The Artist‘s Jean Dujardin, the night’s acting awards went to The Help‘s Octavia Spencer and Christopher Plummer, whose Best Supporting Actor win for his turn in Beginners makes the actor, aged 82, the oldest winner in Oscar history.
A complete list of winners is below. For more information, visit www.oscars.org.
Best Movie
The Artist, Thomas Langmann
Best Actor
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Best Actress
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Best Supporting Actress
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Best Animated Feature Film
Rango, Gore Verbinski
Best Art Direction
Hugo, Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
Best Cinematography
Hugo, Robert Richardson
Best Costume Design
The Artist, Mark Bridges
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Best Documentary Feature
Undefeated, Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin, Rich Middlemas
Best Documentary Short
Saving Face, Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Best Editing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Best Foreign Language Film
A Separation, Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Best Makeup
The Iron Lady, Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland
Best Original Score
The Artist, Ludovic Bource
Best Original Song
“Man or Muppet”, Bret McKenzie, The Muppets
Best Animated Short Film
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Best Live Action Short Film
The Shore, Terry George and Oorlagh George
Best Sound Editing
Hugo, Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty
Best Sound Mixing
Hugo, Tom Fleischmann, John Midgley
Best Visual Effects
Hugo, Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants, Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Best Original Screenplay
Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen
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