Academy Awards 2012

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Winner:
The Artist: Thomas Langmann

Nominees:
The Tree of Life: Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Grant Hill, Dede Gardner
The Descendants: Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: Scott Rudin
The Help: Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
Hugo: Graham King, Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris: Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum
Moneyball: Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt
War Horse: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role 

Winner:
The Artist: Jean Dujardin

Nominees:
A Better Life: Demián Bichir
The Descendants: George Clooney
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Gary Oldman
Moneyball: Brad Pitt  

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role 

Winner:
The Iron Lady: Meryl Streep

Nominees:
Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close
The Help: Viola Davis
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Rooney Mara
My Week with Marilyn: Michelle Williams

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role 

Winner:
Beginners: Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer became the oldest winner of a competitive Oscar, at 82, surpassing the achievement of Jessica Tandy.

Nominees:
My Week with Marilyn: Kenneth Branagh
Moneyball: Jonah Hill
Warrior: Nick Nolte
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: Max von Sydow

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role 

Winner:
The Help: Octavia Spencer

Nominees:
The Artist: Bérénice Bejo
The Help: Jessica Chastain
Bridesmaids: Melissa McCarthy
Albert Nobbs: Janet McTeer  

Best Achievement in Directing 

Winner:
The Artist: Michel Hazanavicius

Nominees:
Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen
The Tree of Life: Terrence Malick
The Descendants: Alexander Payne
Hugo: Martin Scorsese  

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Winner:
Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen
Woody Allen was not present at the awards ceremony. Presenter Angelina Jolie accepted the award on his behalf.

Nominees:
Margin Call: J.C. Chandor
A Separation: Asghar Farhadi
The Artist: Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids: Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay 

Winner:
The Descendants: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash

Nominees:
Hugo: John Logan
Moneyball: Stan Chervin (story), Steven Zaillian (screenplay), Aaron Sorkin (screenplay)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
The Ides of March: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon  

Best Cinematography 

Winner:
Hugo: Robert Richardson

Nominees:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Jeff Cronenweth
The Tree of Life: Emmanuel Lubezki
War Horse: Janusz Kaminski
The Artist: Guillaume Schiffman

Best Art Direction 

Winner:
Hugo: Dante Ferretti (production designer), Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decorator)

Nominees:
War Horse: Lee Sandales (set decorator), Rick Carter (production designer)
Midnight in Paris: Hélène Dubreuil (set decorator), Anne Seibel (production designer)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2: Stuart Craig (production designer), Stephenie McMillan (set decorator)
The Artist: Robert Gould (set decorator), Laurence Bennett (production designer)

Best Achievement in Costume Design 

Winner:
The Artist: Mark Bridges

Nominees:
Anonymous: Lisy Christl
Hugo: Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre: Michael O'Connor
W.E.: Arianne Phillips  

Best Sound Mixing

Winner:
Hugo: Tom Fleischman, John Midgley

Nominees:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Peter J. Devlin
War Horse: Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, Stuart Wilson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Bo Persson
Moneyball: Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, David Giammarco, Ed Novick  

Best Achievement in Film Editing

Winner:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter

Nominees:
Hugo: Thelma Schoonmaker
Moneyball: Christopher Tellefsen
The Artist: Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants: Kevin Tent  

Best Sound Editing  

Winner:

Hugo: Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty  

Nominees:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Ren Klyce
Drive: Lon Bender, Victor Ray Ennis
War Horse: Richard Hymns, Gary Rydstrom

Best Visual Effects  

Winner:
Hugo: Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning

Nominees:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew E. Butler, John Frazier
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2: Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler, John Richardson
Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White, Daniel Barrett
Real Steel: Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Danny Gordon Taylor, Swen Gillberg  

Best Makeup

Winner:
The Iron Lady: Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland  

Nominees:
Albert Nobbs: Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnson, Matthew W. Mungle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2: Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin  

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song 

Winner:
The Muppets: Bret McKenzie For the song "Man or Muppet".

Nominee: 
Rio: Carlinhos Brown (music), Siedah Garrett (lyrics), Sergio Mendes (music) For the song "Real in Rio".  

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score  

Winner:
The Artist: Ludovic Bource

Nominees:
The Adventures of Tintin: John Williams
Hugo: Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Alberto Iglesias
War Horse: John Williams  

Best Short Film, Animated 

Winner:
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore: William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg

Nominees:
Sunday: Patrick Doyon
La luna: Enrico Casarosa
A Morning Stroll: Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe
Wild Life: Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby  

Best Short Film, Live Action  

Winner:
The Shore: Oorlagh George, Terry George  

Nominees:
Pentecost: Eimear O'Kane, Peter McDonald
Raju: Max Zähle, Stefan Gieren
Time Freak: Andrew Bowler, Gigi Causey
Tuba Atlantic: Hallvar Witzø  

Best Documentary, Short Subjects  

Winner:
Saving Face: Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy  

Nominees:
God Is the Bigger Elvis: Rebecca Cammisa, Julie Anderson
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement: Robin Fryday, Gail Dolgin
Incident in New Baghdad: James Spione
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom: Lucy Walker, Kira Carstensen  

Best Documentary, Features  

Winner:
Undefeated: Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin, Rich Middlemas  

Nominees:
Hell and Back Again: Danfung Dennis, Mike Lerner
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front: Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Pina: Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel  

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year  

Winner:
A Separation Iran.

Nominees:
Bullhead Belgium.
Footnote Israel.
In Darkness Poland.
Monsieur Lazhar Canada.

 Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Winner:
Rango: Gore Verbinski

Nominees:
A Cat in Paris: Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli
Puss in Boots: Chris Miller
Kung Fu Panda 2: Jennifer Yuh
Chico & Rita: Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal  

Academy Award of Merit  

Winner:
Franz Kraus (for the design and development of the ARRILASER Film Recorder)  

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Winner:
Douglas Trumbull

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