So here they are, the winners of the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony which took place at the Hollywood and Highland Centre LA and was attended by Hollywood’s finest. The Artist didn’t win as many awards as we thought it might but came away with five awards in total including  three of the biggies – Best Film, Best Actor and Best Director. Hugo also took 5 awards which was more than we thought possible.

The Iron Lady came in with two awards and we were so pleased to see Meryl Streep bring in her third Oscar after being nominated an astonishing 17 times!

The full list of winners are below along with the tally of how many awards each movie one. Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

Awards Tally

  • The Artist – 5
  • Hugo – 5
  • The Iron Lady – 2
  • A Separation – 1
  • The Help – 1
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – 1
  • Undefeated – 1
  • Rango – 1
  • Beginners – 1
  • The Muppets – 1
  • Midnight in Paris – 1
  • The Shore – 1
  • Saving Face – 1
  • The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – 1

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BEST PICTURE:

  • The Artist
  • Moneyball
  • The Descendants
  • The Tree of Life
  • Midnight in Paris
  • The Help
  • Hugo
  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
  • War Horse

ACTRESS:

  • Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
  • Viola Davis – The Help
  • Michelle Williams – My Week With Marilyn
  • Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs
  • Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

BEST ACTOR:

  • Jean Dujardin – The Artist
  • Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  • George Clooney – The Descendants
  • Brad Pitt – Moneyball
  • Demián Bichir – A Better Life

BEST DIRECTOR:

  • Alexander Payne – The Descendants
  • Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
  • Martin Scorsese – Hugo
  • Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris
  • Terrence Malick – Tree of Life

ANIMATED SHORT:

  • Dimanche/Sunday (dir. Patrick Doyon)
  • The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (dirs. William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg)
  • La Luna (dir. Enrico Casarosa)
  • A Morning Stroll (dir. Grant Orchard)
  • Wild Life (dirs. Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT:

  • The Barber of Birmingham (dirs. Gail Dolgin & Robin Fryday)
  • God Is the Bigger Elvis (dir. Rebecca Cammisa)
  • Incident in New Baghdad (dir. James Spione)
  • Saving Face (dir. Daniel Junge)
  • The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (dir. Lucy Walker)

LIVE-ACTION SHORT:

  • Pentecost (dir. Peter McDonald)
  • Raju (dir. Max Zähle)
  • The Shore (dir. Terry George)
  • Time Freak (dir. Andrew Bowler)
  • Tuba Atlantic (dir. Hallvar Witzø)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

  • Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
  • Kristen Wiig & Annie Mumolo – Bridesmaids
  • J.C. Chandor – Margin Call
  • Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris
  • Asghar Farhadi – A Separation

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

  • Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash – The Descendants
  • John Logan – Hugo
  • Aaron Sorkin & Steven Zaillian – Moneyball
  • George Clooney – The Ides of March
  • Peter Straughan & Bridget O’Connor – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

ORIGINAL SONG:

  • “Man or Muppet” from The Muppets
  • “Real in Rio” from Rio

ORIGINAL SCORE:

  • John Williams – The Adventures of Tintin
  • Ludovic Bource – The Artist
  • Howard Shore – Hugo
  • Alberto Iglesias – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  • John Williams – War Horse

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

  • Christopher Plummer – Beginners
  • Kenneth Branagh – My Week With Marilyn
  • Nick Nolte – Warrior
  • Jonah Hill – Moneyball
  • Max Von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

VISUAL EFFECTS:

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
  • Hugo
  • Real Steel
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon

ANIMATED FEATURE:

  • A Cat in Paris (dirs. Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol)
  • Chico & Rita (dirs. Tono Errando & Javier Mariscal & Fernando Trueba)
  • Kung Fu Panda 2 (dir. Jennifer Yuh)
  • Puss in Boots (dir. Chris Miller)
  • Rango (dir. Gore Verbsinki)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

  • Pina
  • Hell and Back Again
  • If A Tree Falls: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  • Paradise Lost 3
  • Undefeated

SOUND MIXING:

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Moneyball
  • Hugo
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  • War Horse

SOUND EDITING:

  • Drive
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Hugo
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  • War Horse

FILM EDITING:

  • The Artist
  • The Descendants
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Hugo
  • Moneyball

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

  • Berenice Bejo – The Artist
  • Jessica Chastain – The Help
  • Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
  • Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
  • Octavia Spencer – The Help

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

  • Bullhead (dir. Michael R. Roskam – Belgium)
  • Monsieur Lazhar (dir. Philippe Falardeau – Canada)
  • A Separation (dir. Asghar Farhadi – Iran)
  • Footnote (dir. Joseph Cedar – Israel)
  • In Darkness (dir. Agnieszka Holland – Poland)

BEST MAKEUP:

  • Albert Nobbs
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
  • The Iron Lady

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

  • Anonymous
  • The Artist
  • Hugo
  • Jane Eyre
  • W.E.

ART DIRECTION:

  • The Artist
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
  • Hugo
  • Midnight in Paris
  • War Horse

CINEMATOGRAPHY:

  • Guillaume Schiffman – The Artist
  • Jeff Cronenweth – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Robert Richardson – Hugo
  • Emmanuel Lubezki – The Tree of Life
  • Janusz Kaminski – War Horse

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