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Mon, 27 February 2012
Oscars: The Artist wins Best Film Oscar
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10:11
And with that, the 2012 Oscars draw to a close. A phenomenal night for winners and party revellers!
See you all next year!
See you all next year!
10:09
The Artist team gathers on stage to receive the award.
Michel Hazanavicius is the man of the moment. The Artist's final tally at the 2012 Oscars stands at five. The star fo the film, dog Uggie is in attedance too.
10:06
Tom Cruise appears on stage to present the Oscar for Best Film.Nominees: Hugo, The Descendants, The Artist, The Help, Midnight In Paris, The Tree Of Life, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, Moneyball and War Horse. The Oscar goes to... The Artist.
10:00
This is the Oscar legend's 17th nomination and third win after Kramer v/s Kramer and Sophie's Choice. The actress charms all with her fiesty acceptance speech and the magnificent golden gown.
09:59
Nominees: Glenn Close for Albert Nobbs, Viola Davis for The Help, Rooney Maara for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Michelle Williams for My Week With Marilyn. Last year's Best Actor winner Colin Firth looks dapper in his tux as he presents the award. The Oscar goes to Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady.
09:54
Meanwhile, a Twitter post says, " English guy wins Best Actor Oscar last year, French man wins it this year. Europeans stealing American jobs! European threat!"
09:50
We were rooting for George Clooney's endearing Matt King in The Descendants but Jean Dujardin is the man of the moment. "I love you country!" The Artist leading man exclaims.
09:48
Last year's Best Actress winner Natalie Portman, who's working the old Hollywood look, appears on stage to present the Best Actor Oscar. Nominees: Demin Bichir for A Better Life, George Clooney for The Descedants, Jean Dujardin for The Artist, Brad Pitt for Moneyball and Gary Oldman for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Award gos to Jean Dujardin
09:41
While we wait for the BIG moment, here's a bit of news about the sensational Angelina Jolie. Turns out, her brief appearance on stage to present an award was a huge hit with fans.It generated over 3000 tweets a minute! Gee, wonder why!
09:37
The ceremony pays a touching tribute to the people who passed away in the last year. Elizabeth Taylor, Whitney Houston and Steve Jobs feature.
09:32
It's finally time for the Best Actor and Actress gongs! Who will it be? George Clooney or Jean Dujardin? Meryl Streep or Viola Davis?
09:27
Oscar legend Meryl Streep appears on stage to rousing applause. She presents a short clip on Oscar contributers tonight.
09:24
This is the French director's third nomination tonight and first win. "I'm the hapiest director right now and thank you!" he says. This takes the Artist's Oscar tally to three! Way to go!
09:23
Michael Douglas present the Best Director award. Nominees: The Artist, The Descendants, Hugo, Midnight in Paris and The Tree Of Life. And the Oscar gong goes to... Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist.
09:21
And now, with the final acting and direction awards next, the excitement intensifies. Meryl Streep, Rooney Maara, Michelle Williams, Viola Davis and Glenn Close fight it out in the Best Actress category while leading men Jean Dujardin, Gearge Clooney, Brad Pitt,
Demian Bichir and Gary Oldman contend in the Best Actor category.
09:15
Best Animated Short Film Oscar goes to Fantastic Flying Books Mr Morris Lesmore.
09:14
Sharmeem thanks the 'brave women' on whom the film is based.
09:13
The Oscar for the Best Documentary Short Film goes to Saving Face. First Daniel Junge and Sharmeem recieve their first Oscar nomination and award!
09:11 Kristen Wiig and Co. present
Wiig says, "Six beautiful women (some say handsome) are here to present an award." Nominees for Best Live Action award. It goes to The Shore for Terry and his daughter Oorghlah George. It's their first Academy Award.
09:05
So far, Emma Stone and Chris Rock have been billed as the most entertaining award presenters. Wouldn't it be a laugh riot if they're roped in to host next year's Oscars? We sure think so!
09:00
Nominees: The Artist, Bridesmaids, Margin Call, Midnight in Paris and A Separation. The Oscar goes to Woody Allen for Midnight In Paris.
08:58
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash accept their award as George Clooney beams. The Descendants is also nominated in the Best Actor and Best Film categories.
08:57
When it comes to being funny and entertaining, Billy Crystal is a natural! Angelina Jolie flaunts her leg in her Versace gown as she appears on stage to present the Oscar for Adapted Screenplay. Nominees: The Descendants, Hugo, The Ides Of March, Moneyball and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
08:54
Also, it's interesting to see a silent film win an Oscar for Original score.
08:52
Here's an Oscar 2012 trivia: Ludovic Bourse, who won an Oscar for Best Original Score for the Artist, doesn't have any formal training in music composition. This was his first nomination too!
08:48
Will Ferell and Zach Galifianakis present award for Best Original Song. The award goes to The Muppets.
08:46
The BIG contender of the night with ten nominations, The Artist wins it's second Oscar.
08:45
Penelope Cruz and Owen Wilson are one stage now to present the Best Original Score Oscar. Nominees: War Horse, The Artist, Hugo, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Adventures Of Tintin. And the Oscar goes to The Artist.
08:34 Plummer thanks wife in acceptance speech
At 82 years, Plummer becomes the oldest actor to win an Oscar in the Best Supporting Actor category. In his acceptance speech, the actor thanks his wife Elaine, "She should get a Nobel Peace Prize for rescuing me every single day of my life."
08:32 Christopher Plummer wins his first Oscar
Best Supporting Actor nominees: Kenneth Branagh for My Week With Marilyn, Jonah Hill for Moneyball, Nick Nolte for Warriors, Christopher Plummer for Beginners and Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close. Christopher Plummer wins. It's his first Oscar.
08:27
Ben Stiller and Crazy Stupid Love hottie Emma Stone arrive on stage to present the Best Visual Effects Oscar. Fifth Oscar for the Martin Scorsese movie. They are on a roll!
08:17
One of the funniest Oscar hosts, Chris Rock is on stage to present Best Animation Picture. Earlier, he had said, "I'm wearing FUBU!" The award goes to Rango.
08:13
Iron Man stars Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow take to the stage to present the best Documentary Feature Oscar. It goes to Undefeated.
08:05
Everybody seems to be eagerly waiting for the Cirque du Soleil performance. Bring it on! The Muppets present...
07:59
Hugo wins the Best Sound Mixing Oscar too. The film might as well be poised for a sweep!
07:56
The award for Best Sound Editing goes to Hugo. A third Oscar for the Scorsese film.
07:55
The absolutely lovely Tina Fey and the sexiest man alive Bradley Cooper appear on stage to present the Best Film Editing award. Nominees: The Artist, The Descendants, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Hugo and Moneyball. And the Oscar goes to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo!
07:49
One of the most touching moments: When Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie give Octavia Spencer a standing ovation from the wings as she gives an overwhelming speech.
07:47
The Help, for which Spencer won her award, is the highest grossing film among the Best Picture nominees with $169.7 million.
07:43
A hot favourite, Octavia Spencer wins her first Academy Award for her role in The Help. Four of the five nominees in this category were first timers!
07:42
Christian Bale's on stage to present the Best Supporting Actress award. Nominees are : Jessica Chastain for The Help, Berenice Bejo for The Artist, Melissa McCarthy for Bridesmaids, Janet McTeer for Albert Nobbs and Octavia Spencer for The Help.
07:37
Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock appears on stage to present an award for the Best Foreign Film. Belgian, Polish, Irish and Canadian film are contenders in the category. And A Separation from Iran wins!
07:34
In the meanwhile, after much brouhaha, Sacha Baron Cohen was finally allowed to appear at the Oscars dressed as The Dictator, his next film. There was huge outcry over the organisers banning him from attending if he wasn't coming as himself.
07:31
Meryl Streep's The Iorn Lady wins in the Best Makeup category. Streep plays former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Of her role, Streep says, "I couldn't convince myself I was her, let alone others."
07:29
The Artist looks destined to become the first film from a non-English-speaking country to win Best Picture, and only the second silent film ever to do so. Its nominated in ten Oscar categories
07:26
First award for the most feted film of the year.
07:25
Lovely ladies Cameron Diaz and JLo present the Oscar for Best Costume Designs. Nominees include Jane Eyre and Hugo.
07:24
Hugo is up for nominations and it's already won two! It's turning out to be a promising night for the film.
07:21
We think he might be a tad overdressed. Trying too hard, perhaps? Who wouldn't after last year's Anne Hathway-James Franco fiasco.
07:20
About Crystal's performance as a host so far, the audiences are divided -- while many liked it, others thought it was lukewarm. Some are just thankful it wasn't James Franco singing!
07:19
And here's a quip we almost missed from host Billy Crystal, ""Nothing takes the sting out of world's problems like watching millionaires give each other golden statues."
07:16
Based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo, the film recieved universally positive response. Hugo wins another award for Best Art Direction.
07:14
Tom Hanks presents the award to Robert Richardson for Martin Scorsese's Hugo.
07:12
Billy Crystal's act is already garnering quite positive feedback. You killed it, mister!
07:09
A Twitter post informs us that this one happens to be one of Crystal's longest opening montages,
07:09
Jean Dujardin beams from the audience as Crystal introduces The Artist, one of the nine Best Picture nominees.
07:07
"It's my ninth time hosting the Oscars so call me a war horse," Crystal gets quite a few laughs!
06:53 Tom Hanks takes to the winner's gallery
Two-time winner Tom Hanks says he doesn't even remember his winning moment. So does last year's winner Natalie Portman.
06:48
The action now shifts to the Kodak Theatre. There's a lot of cheering as the stars take their seats.
06:47
The action shifts inside to the Kodak Theatre. There's a lot of cheering as stars take their seats.
06:43 Best actor nominee Pitt
Cloney's pal Brad Pitt looks dapper in a sharp tuxedo and says he's excited to be nominated along side good friend Clooney. He's nominated for Moneyball.
06:42 George Clooney with Stacy Kiebler
The stunning couple is in great spirits. Kiebler is in Marchesa.
06:39 Best Supporting Actress nominee Glenn Close arrives
Close is nominated for her role in Albert Nobbs.
06:36
The veteran actress looks radiant in Zac Posen.
06:34
The stunning actress is wearing a chic Tom Ford dress.
06:32
How I Met Your Mother's Jason Segal is overwhelmed -- it's his first Oscar appearance!
06:31
The 'breathtaking' Cameron Diaz is all perky and giggly as she talks to Tim Gunn in a dreamy Gucci gown with a train. She looks even hotter with her new short hair.
06:29
Apart from the nominees, everybody's keen to know what Billy Crystal is going to offer as the host of the 84th Academy awards.
06:28
The gorgeous Penelope Cruz arrvies solo in a grey tulle strapless gown.
06:22
The ultimate diva, Jennifer Lopez graces the red carpet in a beautiful cutout gown.
06:18
And it's back to fashion guru Tim Gunn raving about his fashion favourites. It's Williams' tiered red carpet dress. And of course the queen of comedy Tina Fey looking her glam best in her gown.
06:16
Don't you just love the French and their adorable accent?
06:15
Jean Dujardin flaunts his moves on the red carpet in a fine tux. I'm not a star, "I'm a human," he says.
06:13
Oh look! It's Manny (Rico Rodriguez) from Modern Family at the Oscars
06:13
The dishy Colin Firth arrives and says he enjoyed playing the baddie in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
06:12
And Hollywood's funny woman (It's Fey if you were wondering) wants a musical act from Crystal.
06:11
And it's the fabulous Tina Fey on the red carpet looking gorgeous in a custom Carolina Herrera dress.
06:10
Bridesmaids actress Kristen Wiig says, as she arrives on the red carpet, that she's looking forward to a jazzy opening from this year's host Billy Crystal.
06:07
Best Supporting Actress nominee Melissa McCarthy of Bridesmaids arrives with her mother. The actress look really cute as she poses with her mother.
06:05
My Week With Marilyn actress Michelle Williams arrives in a cute Louis Vitton dress and says she's excited about being at the Oscars. Well, she is nominated for the Best Actress gong!
06:04
Best Actress nominee Viola Davis walks the red carpet in a stunning Vera Wang strapless gown.
06:02
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