Oscar winners (video)

This was not the only award for "The ArtistAs, among others, Jean Desjardins won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Michel Hazanavisus the Academy Award for Best Director. Playing an actor in 1920s Hollywood, 39-year-old Dussarden, who was rather unknown outside of France before the film, became the first Frenchman to be honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor and the first to be nominated after Zera. Depardieu in the 1990s.

The film won a total of five Oscars, the three most important and the Best Original Music Award (Ludovic Burs) and Best Costume Award (Mark Bridges).

The movie Hugo Martin Scorsese also won five Oscars. The children's adventure received the awards for Artistic Direction, Photography, Best Special Effects, Best Sound and Best Sound Effects.

At Meryl Streep was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Iron Lady, in which she plays former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It is the third Oscar to be won by Streep and the first in 30 years, although it holds the record with 17 nominations for the most coveted award in the film industry.

The same film also won the makeup award for Mark Culier and J. Roy Hilland.

At Christopher Plummer was awarded the Second Male Role Award for his role in the film The Beginners directed by Mike Mills, in which he plays an old man who reveals and accepts his homosexuality. The 82-year-old Canadian Plummer, a veteran film and theater actor, thus became the oldest man ever awarded by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has been a candidate only once in the past.

The American actor Octavia Spencer received the Second Actress Award for the way she played the cheeky domestic helper in the film The Help (The Help), which depicts stories of black American women working for wealthy white families in Mississippi in the early days of the civil rights movement. Spencer, 39, who was considered the favorite, has never been nominated for an Oscar before.

In the movie Range was awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. Actor Johnny Depp lends his voice to the eponymous hero, a pet chameleon who ends up in the town of Skoni, where he takes on the role of sheriff. The film is directed by Gore Verbinski.

In the movie Undefeated, directed by Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin, was awarded the prize for best documentary. The film chronicles the efforts of a charismatic volunteer rugby coach to transform a high school team after a year of defeats.

The movie A Separation won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It is the first Iranian film to receive an American Academy Award. The film, written and directed by Iranian Asgar Farhadi, deals with the divorce of a couple and touches on traditions, male-female relationships and the functioning of justice in modern Iran. The film A Divorce was considered a favorite in the category, having won several awards in Europe and the United States. It is the second Iranian film to be nominated for this American Academy Award and the first to win it.

Woody Allen won Best Original Screenplay for the film Midnight in Paris, Best Adapted Screenplay Award shared by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Russ for the film The Descendants), the Best Editing Award went to Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter for the film The Girl with the dragon tattoo directed by David Fitzgerald, while Brett Mackenzie won the award for best original song for Man or Muppet (in The Muppets).

In the least featured categories, the award for best Short Documentary went to saving face Emmy Award-winning Pakistani journalist Sarmin Obaid-Chinoi and American Daniel Zhang - on the subject of women victims of acid attacks in Pakistan - the award for best short animated film in The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenberg, and the Best Short Film Award went to The Shore, written and directed by Terry George.

The ceremony, presented by the veteran American comedian Billy Crystal, was televised live in over 200 countries.

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