Another year and another Academy Awards show down. There were a few highs and the occasional low, but the Oscars results for 2012 have only 1 surprise worth mentioning. Namely, that Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Concords managed to pull off a politically and socially charged coup by walking away with the Oscar for best Original Song thanks to his groundbreaking Man or Muppet.
The big winner of the night, though, was The Artest, which walked away with 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture (Thomas Langmann, Producer), Jean Dujardin for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Director, Michael Hazanazicius. Though The Help didn’t necessarily sweep the floor in the way that it perhaps should have done, but Octavia Spencer walked away with the best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Best Actress in a Leading Role went to Meryl Streep for her drag act in The Iron Lady and the Best Actor in a Supporting Role was given to Christopher Plummer for his role as Hal in Beginners.
In terms of animation, the Oscar for Animated Feature Film went to the Johnny Depp fuelled Rango, while Hugo bagged Cinematography for Robert Richardson, Art Direction for Dante Ferretti (Production Design) & Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration), as well as Sound Editing (Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty), Sound Mixing (Tom Fleishman and John Midgley) and Visual Effects (Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning).
One of the best results went to Woody Allen for best Original Screenplay writing of Midnight In Paris, capping off another classic Oscars night with brilliant in-film segues from Billy Chrystal (not the best song in the world but it was sort of endearing) and a great selection of winners. See below for a full list of Oscars results for the 2012 Academy Awards.
Best Picture
Winner:
The Artist – Thomas Langmann
Nominees:
The Descendants – Jim Burke, Jim Taylor, and Alexander Payne
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close – Scott Rudin
Moneyball – Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, and Brad Pitt
The Tree Of Life – Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, and Bill Pohlad
The Help – Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, and Michael Barnathan
Hugo – Graham King and Martin Scorsese
Midnight In Paris – Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum
War Horse – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
Best Director
Winner:
Michel Hazanavicius – for The Artist
Nominees:
Alexander Payne – for The Descendants
Woody Allen – for Midnight In Paris
Terrence Malick – for The Tree Of Life
Martin Scorsese – for Hugo
Best Actor
Winner:
Jean Dujardin – as George Valentin in The Artist
Nominees:
George Clooney – as Matt King in The Descendants
Demián Bichir – as Carlos Galindo in A Better Life
Brad Pitt – as Billy Beane in Moneyball
Gary Oldman – as George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
Best Actress
Winner:
Meryl Streep – as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
Nominees:
Viola Davis – as Aibileen Clark in The Help
Rooney Mara – as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With Whe Dragon Tattoo
Glenn Close – as Albert Nobbs in Albert Nobbs
Michelle Williams – as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn
Best Supporting Actor
Winner:
Christopher Plummer – as Hal Fields in Beginners
Nominees:
Kenneth Branagh – as Laurence Olivier in My Week With Marilyn
Nick Nolte – as Paddy Conlon in Warrior
Max von Sydow – as The Renter in Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Jonah Hill – as Peter Brand in Moneyball
Best Supporting Actress
Winner:
Octavia Spencer – as Minny Jackson in The Help
Nominees:
Bérénice Bejo – as Peppy Miller in The Artist
Jessica Chastain – as Celia Foote in The Help
Janet McTeer – as Hubert Page in Albert Nobbs
Melissa McCarthy – as Megan Price in Bridesmaids
Best Original Screenplay
Winner:
Midnight In Paris – by Woody Allen
Nominees:
Bridesmaids – by Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
Margin Call – by J. C. Chandor
The Artist – by Michel Hazanavicius
A Separation – by Asghar Farhadi
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner:
The Descendants – by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash from Kaui Hart Hemmings’ The Descendants
Nominees:
The Ides Of March – by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon from Beau Willimon’s Farragut North
Moneyball – by Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin from Michael Lewis’ Moneyball
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011) – by Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan from John le Carré Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Hugo – by John Logan from Brian Selznick’s The Invention Of Hugo Cabret
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner:
A Separation – by Asghar Farhadi
Nominees:
In Darkness – by Agnieszka Holland
Bullhead – by Michaël R. Roskam
Footnote – by Joseph Cedar
Monsieur Lazhar – by Philippe Falardeau
Best Animated Feature
Winner:
Rango – by Gore Verbinski
Nominees:
Kung Fu Panda 2 – by Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Puss In Boots – by Chris Miller
A Cat In Paris – by Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol
Chico And Rita – by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
Best Feature Documentary
Winner:
Undefeated – by Dan Lindsay, TJ Martin and Richard Middlemas
Nominees:
Hell And Back Again – by Mike Lerner and Danfung Dennis
If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front – by Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
Pina – by Gian-Piero Ringel and Wim Wenders
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory – by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Best Short Subject Documentary
Winner:
Saving Face – by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Nominees:
Incident In New Baghdad – by James Spione
The Tsunami And The Cherry Blossom – by Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
The Barber Of Birmingham: Foot Soldier Of The Civil Rights Movement – by Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
God Is The Bigger Elvis – by Julie Anderson and Rebecca Cammisa
Best Live Action Short Film
Winner:
The Shore – by Terry George and Oorlagh George
Nominees:
Tuba Atlantic – by Hallvar Witzø (Tube Atlantic was later stripped of its nomination, as it was discovered that it had been screened on TV before being released in cinemas)
Time Freak – by Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
Pentecost – by Eimear O’Kane and Peter McDonald
Raju – by Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
Best Animated Short Film
Winner:
The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore – by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Nominees:
Dimanche – by Patrick Doyon
La Luna – by Enrico Casarosa
A Morning Stroll – by Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
Wild Life – by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
Best Art Direction
Winner:
Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo on Hugo
Nominees:
Laurence Bennett and Robert Gould on The Artist
Anne Seibel and Hélène Dubreuil on Midnight In Paris
Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillan on Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Rick Carter and Lee Sandales on War Horse
Best Cinematography
Winner:
Robert Richardson on Hugo
Nominees:
Guillaume Schiffman on The Artist
Jeff Cronenweth on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Emmanuel Lubezki on The Tree of Life
Janusz Kamiński on War Horse
Best Film Editing
Winner:
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Nominees:
Michel Hazanavicius and Anne-Sophie Bion on The Artist
Christopher Tellefsen on Moneyball
Kevin Tent for The Descendants
Thelma Schoonmaker on Hugo
Best Visual Effects
Winner:
Hugo – from Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning and Rob Legato
Nominees:
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – from David Vickery, Tim Burke, John Richardson and Greg Butler
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes – Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon and R. Christopher White
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon – Scott Farrar, John Frazier, Scott Benza and Matthew E. Butler
Real Steel – from Erik Nash, Danny Gordon Taylor, John Rosengrant and Swen Gillberg
Best Original Score
The Artist – Ludovic Bource
The Adventures of Tintin – John Williams
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – Alberto Iglesias
Hugo – Howard Shore
War Horse – John Williams
Best Original Song
Winner:
Man or Muppet from The Muppets – by Bret McKenzie
Nominee:
Real in Rio from Rio – by Daniel Junge, Sérgio Mendes and Sieda Garrett
Best Sound Editing
Winner:
Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton for Hugo
Nominees:
Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis for Drive
Ren Klyce for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl for Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns for War Horse
Best Sound Mixing
Winner:
Tom Fleischman and John Midgley for Hugo
Nominees:
Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Peter J. Devlin and Gary Summers for Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, David Parker and Bo Persson for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
David Giammarco, Ed Novick, Deb Adair and Ron Bochar for Moneyball
Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, Stuart Wilson and Gary Rydstrom for War Horse
Best Makeup
Winner:
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland on The Iron Lady
Nominees:
Lynn Johnson, Martial Corneville and Matthew W. Mungle for Albert Nobbs
Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin and Nick Dudman for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Best Costume Design
Winner:
Mark Bridges for the The Artist
Nominees:
Sandy Powell for Hugo
Lisy Christl for Anonymous
Michael O’Connor for Jane Eyre
Arianne Phillips for W.E.
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