The 84th Academy Awards Nominees and Winners

The biggest and most prestigious entertainment awards, the 84th Academy Awards or known as the Oscar awards 2012. Oscar awards 2012 was held on Sunday, February 26, 2012, this was aired live in the US on ABC. This event was hosted by Billy Crystal and produced by Brian Grazer. A total of 24 standard competitive categories will be presented.

The nominees for the 84th annual Academy Awards were announced by AMPAS on January 24, 2012, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater by Tom Sherak, AMPAS president, and Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence. The Films with multiple nominations are Hugo with 11 nominations, The Artist has 10, Moneyball and War Horse has 6, The Descendants and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has 5, The Help and Midnight in Paris has 4, and with 3 nominations are Albert Nobbs, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and The Tree of Life. While the least nominations with only 2 nominations are Bridesmaids, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Iron Lady, My Week with Marilyn, and A Separation.

Woody Allen, at the age of 76, becomes the sixth oldest nominee for Best Director. Gary Oldman, after 30 years in film, earns his first nomination for his role in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, his 48th film role. Who will win the best picture, best actor or best actress? Let's find out this Sunday by watching the awards night live at 7PM ET on ABC.

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84th Academy Awards Nominees and winners

The nominees for the 84th annual Academy Awards were announced on January 24, 2012, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater by Tom Sherak, AMPAS president, and Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 26, 2012.

Unlike most award categories, the categories of Best Foreign Language Film, Best Makeup, and Best Visual Effects each have a multiple-stage nomination process. For these awards, specific Academy branches choose pre-nominees and then, from that list, final nominees. From the list of final nominees, the AMPAS membership selects the award winner. For example, seven Best Makeup pre-nominees were narrowed down to three final nominees, from which the entire AMPAS membership will choose a winner.

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Picture	Best Director
The Artist – Thomas Langmann The Descendants – Jim Burke, Jim Taylor, and Alexander Payne Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Scott Rudin The Help – Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, and Michael Barnathan Hugo – Graham King and Martin Scorsese Midnight in Paris – Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum Moneyball – Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, and Brad Pitt The Tree of Life – Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, and Bill Pohlad War Horse – Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy	Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life Alexander Payne – The Descendants Martin Scorsese – Hugo
Best Actor	Best Actress
Jean Dujardin – The Artist as George Valentin Demián Bichir – A Better Life as Carlos Galindo George Clooney – The Descendants as Matt King Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley Brad Pitt – Moneyball as Billy Beane	Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs as Albert Nobbs Viola Davis – The Help as Aibileen Clark Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Lisbeth Salander Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Christopher Plummer – Beginners as Hal Fields Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn as Laurence Olivier Jonah Hill – Moneyball as Peter Brand Nick Nolte – Warrior as Paddy Conlon Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as The Renter	Octavia Spencer – The Help as Minny Jackson Bérénice Bejo – The Artist as Peppy Miller Jessica Chastain – The Help as Celia Foote Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids as Megan Price Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs as Hubert Page
Best Writing – Original Screenplay	Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius Bridesmaids – Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo Margin Call – J.C. Chandor A Separation – Asghar Farhadi	The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash from The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings Hugo – John Logan from The Invention of Hugo Cabret byBrian Selznick The Ides of March – George Clooney, Grant Heslov, andBeau Willimon from Farragut North by Beau Willimon Moneyball – Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin from Moneyball by Michael Lewis Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
Best Animated Feature	Best Foreign Language Film
Rango – Gore Verbinski A Cat in Paris – Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli Chico and Rita – Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal Kung Fu Panda 2 – Jennifer Yuh Nelson Puss in Boots – Chris Miller	A Separation (Iran) in Persian – Asghar Farhadi Bullhead (Belgium) in Dutch and French – Michaël R. Roskam Footnote (Israel) in Hebrew – Joseph Cedar In Darkness (Poland) in Polish – Agnieszka Holland Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) in French – Philippe Falardeau
Best Documentary – Feature	Best Documentary – Short Subject
Undefeated – TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay, and Richard Middlemas Hell and Back Again – Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front –Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory – Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky Pina – Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel	Saving Face – Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement – Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin God Is the Bigger Elvis – Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson Incident in New Baghdad – James Spione The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom – Lucy Walker andKira Carstensen
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
The Shore – Terry George and Oorlagh George Pentecost – Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane Raju – Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren Time Freak – Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey Tuba Atlantic – Hallvar Witzø	The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore –William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg Dimanche – Patrick Doyon La Luna – Enrico Casarosa A Morning Stroll – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe Wild Life – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
The Artist – Ludovic Bource The Adventures of Tintin – John Williams Hugo – Howard Shore Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias War Horse – John Williams	"Man or Muppet" from The Muppets – Bret McKenzie "Real in Rio" from Rio – Sérgio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown, and Siedah Garrett
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
Hugo – Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty Drive – Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Ren Klyce Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Ethan Van der Ryn andErik Aadahl War Horse – Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom	Hugo – Tom Fleischman and John Midgley The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Bo Persson Moneyball – Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, David Giammarco, andEd Novick Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush, and Peter J. Devlin War Horse – Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, and Stuart Wilson
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Hugo – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo The Artist – Laurence Bennett and Robert Gould Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Stuart Craigand Stephanie McMillan Midnight in Paris – Anne Seibel and Hélène Dubreuil War Horse – Rick Carter and Lee Sandales	Hugo – Robert Richardson The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Jeff Cronenweth The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki War Horse – Janusz Kamiński
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
The Iron Lady – Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland Albert Nobbs – Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnson, andMatthew W. Mungle Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, and Lisa Tomblin	The Artist – Mark Bridges Anonymous – Lisy Christl Hugo – Sandy Powell Jane Eyre – Michael O'Connor W.E. – Arianne Phillips
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius The Descendants – Kevin Tent Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker Moneyball – Christopher Tellefsen	Hugo – Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, andAlex Henning Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Tim Burke,David Vickery, Greg Butler, and John Richardson Real Steel – Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Danny Gordon Taylor, and Swen Gillberg Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon,R. Christopher White, and Daniel Barrett Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Scott Farrar, Scott Benza,Matthew E. Butler, and John Frazier

Honorary Academy Awards

The Academy held its 3rd Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 12, 2011, during which the following awards were presented.

Academy Honorary Award

• James Earl Jones
• Dick Smith

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Oprah Winfrey

Films with multiple nominations

The following 18 films received multiple nominations:

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

Films with multiple wins

The following films received multiple wins:

• 5 wins: The Artist and Hugo
• 2 wins: The Iron Lady