The Artist won five Academy Awards on Sunday including best picture, becoming the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood’s highest honors since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago. Among other prizes for the black-and-white comic melodrama were best actor for Jean Dujardin and director for Michel Hazanavicius.(Associated Press). Here are the winners of the 84th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars Awards) 2012.
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Best Picture: ‘The Artist’

Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, ‘The Artist’

Best Actress: Meryl Streep, ‘The Iron Lady’

Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, ‘The Artist’

Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, ‘Beginners’

Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, ‘The Help’

Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, ‘Midnight in Paris’

Best Animated Short Film: ‘The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore’, William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg

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

Best Documentary Feature: ‘Undefeated’, TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

Best Live Action Short Film: ‘The Shore’, Terry George and Oorlagh George

Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson, ‘Hugo’

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

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

Best Makeup: Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland, ‘The Iron Lady’

Best Costume: Mark Bridges, ‘The Artist’

Best Original Score: ‘The Artist’, Ludovic Bource

Best Film Editing: Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’

Best Animated Feature Film: ‘Rango’, Gore Verbinski

Best Documentary (short subject): ‘Saving Face’, Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Best Original Song: “Man or Muppet” from ‘The Muppets’, Bret McKenzie

Best Foreign Language Film: Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’, Iran

Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, ‘The Descendants’