84th Academy Awards

Date : February 26, 2012

Venue : Hollywood and Highland Center, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Host : Billy Crystal

WINNERS

• Best Picture : The Artist
• Director : Michel Hazanavicius
• Producer : Thomas Langmann
• Best Director : Michel Hazanavicius - for 'The Artist'
• Best Actor : Jean Dujardin - as George Valentin in 'The Artist'
• Best Actress : Meryl Streep - as Margaret Thatcher in 'The Iron Lady'
• Best Supporting Actor : Christopher Plummer - as Hal Fields in 'Beginners'
• Best Supporting Actress : Octavia Spencer - as Minny Jackson in 'The Help'
• Best Screenplay (Original) : Woody Allen - for 'Midnight In Paris'
• Best Screenplay (Adapted) : Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash - for 'The Descendants' adapted from 'The Descendants' book by Kaui Hart Hemmings
• Best Animated Feature : Rango
• Director : Gore Verbinski
• Producers : Gore Verbinski, Graham King, John B Carls
• Best Foreign Language Film : A Separation (Iran) in Persian
• Director & Producer : Asghar Farhadi
• Best Documentary (Feature) : Undefeated
• Directors : Daniel Lindsay & TJ Martin
• Producers : Rich Middlemas, Daniel Lindsay, Seth Gordon, Ed Cunningham, Glen Zipper
• Best Documentary (Short Subject) : Saving Face
• Directors : Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Daniel Junge
• Producers : Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Daniel Junge, Davis Coombe, Alison Greenberg, Sabiha Sumar
• Best Live Action Short Film : The Shore (Irish)
• Director : Terry George
• Producer : Oorlagh George
• Best Animated Short Film : The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
• Directors : William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg
• Producers : Lampton Enochs, Alissa Kantrow, Trish Farnsworth-Smith
• Best Original Score : Ludovic Bource - for 'The Artist'
• Best Original Song : Bret McKenzie - for "Man or Muppet" from 'The Muppets'
• Best Sound Editing : Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty - for 'Hugo'
• Best Sound Mixing : Tom Fleischman, John Midgley - for 'Hugo'
• Best Art Direction : Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo - for 'Hugo'
• Best Cinematography : Robert Richardson - for 'Hugo'
• Best Makeup : Mark Coulier, J Roy Helland - for 'The Iron Lady'
• Best Costume Design : Mark Bridges - for 'The Artist'
• Best Film Editing : Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter - 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
• Best Visual Effects : Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning - for 'Hugo'

FILMS WITH MULTIPLE AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Multiple awards

• 5 awards: The Artist, Hugo
• 2 awards: The Iron Lady

Multiple nominations

• 11 nominations : Hugo
• 10 nominations : The Artist
• 06 nominations : Moneyball, War Horse
• 05 nominations : The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• 04 nominations : The Help, Midnight in Paris
• 03 nominations : Albert Nobbs, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Tree of Life
• 02 nominations : Bridesmaids, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Iron Lady, My Week with Marilyn, A Separation

ACADEMY AWARD RECORDS

• The Artist becomes the second silent film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture behind 1927's film Wings.
• This marks the fourth consecutive year in which one film (The Help) received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
• A Separation wins for Best Foreign Language Film, the first Iranian movie to do so.
• War Horse becomes the first Best Picture nominated film since The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) to get nominated for Picture but no other major Oscars.
• Glenn Close ties the record with Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter for most nominations without a win by an actress (six).
• Viola Davis becomes the second African-American actress (after Whoopi Goldberg) to receive multiple Academy Award nominations. She is also the first African-American actress to receive multiple nominations without ever winning (Goldberg won on her second nomination, for Ghost).
• Jean Dujardin becomes the first French actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the fourth French actor overall to win an Academy Award in a leading role, behind Claudette Colbert in 1934, Simone Signoret in 1959, and Marion Cotillard in 2008.
• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy becomes the first Pakistani to win an Oscar award, for her documentary Saving Face.
• Gary Oldman, after 30 years in film, receives his first nomination.
• Christopher Plummer, at the age of 82, becomes the oldest winner of an Academy Award in the four acting categories. (Jessica Tandy is now second, having won Best Actress for Driving Miss Daisy at the age of 80.)
• Meryl Streep, extending her own record, earns a 17th nomination for an acting award. (Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson are tied for second with 12 nominations.) This was also her first Oscar win since the55th Academy Awards for her performance in Sophie's Choice, 29 years earlier.
• Meryl Streep joins Walter Brennan, Ingrid Bergman, and Jack Nicholson, as the fourth performer with three acting Academy Award's wins, behind only Katharine Hepburn with four wins. Streep also becomes the ninth performer in the last fourteen years to win Best Actress for playing a real person.
• John Williams, with his 46th and 47th nominations (for The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse), becomes the single most nominated musician in Academy history (having been tied with Alfred Newman's record of 45 nominations since 2006), and the second most nominated individual overall, behind Walt Disney's 59 nominations.