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The black-and-white silent movie, The Artist, swept the 84th Academy Awards with 5 golden statuettes. After more than three decades, actress Meryl Streep bagged her third Academy Award for her role in and as The Iron Lady. Closer home, Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won an Academy Award for her documentary, Saving Face, about acid attack victims.
List of winners at the Academy Awards 2012:
Best Picture: The Artist Thomas Langmann, Producer
Actor in a Leading Role:Jean Dujardin in The Artist
Actor in a Supporting Role: Christopher Plummer in Beginners
Actress in a Leading Role: Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady
Actress in a Supporting Role: Octavia Spencer in The Help
Animated Feature Film: Rango Gore Verbinski
Art Direction: Hugo Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
Cinematography: Hugo Robert Richardson
Costume Design: The Artist Mark Bridges
Directing: The Artist Michel Hazanavicius
Documentary (Feature): Undefeated TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Rich Middlemas
Documentary (Short Subject): Saving Face Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Film Editing: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
Foreign Language Film: A Separation Iran
Makeup: The Iron Lady Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
Music (Original Score): The Artist Ludovic Bource
Music (Original Song): Man or Muppet from The Muppets Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Short Film (Animated): The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Short Film (Live Action): The Shore Terry George and Oorlagh George
Sound Editing: Hugo Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
Sound Mixing: Hugo Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
Visual Effects: Hugo Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): The Descendants Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Writing (Original Screenplay): Midnight in Paris Written by Woody Allen
