OSCAR 2012 winners announced

The film’s charming star, Jean Dujardin, won Best Actor, while Meryl Streep accepted her first Oscar in 29 years — and her third overall — for playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.
At the age of 82, Christopher Plummer became the oldest person to receive an acting Oscar by winning Best Supporting Actor for Beginners. And an emotional Octavia Spencer finished her dominant awards season by picking up the Best Supporting Actress trophy for The Help.
Tying The Artist with five Oscars was Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, also a tribute to early cinema. The 3-D family film earned awards for its art direction, cinematography, sound mixing, sound editing, and visual effects.
“Nader and Simin, A Separation,†a domestic drama directed by Asghar Farhadi, became the first Iranian movie to win the Oscar for best foreign language film at the 84th ceremony. It was the second Iranian film to be nominated for an Oscar, but the first to win.
At the age of 82, Christopher Plummer became the oldest person to receive an acting Oscar by winning Best Supporting Actor for Beginners. And an emotional Octavia Spencer finished her dominant awards season by picking up the Best Supporting Actress trophy for The Help.
Tying The Artist with five Oscars was Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, also a tribute to early cinema. The 3-D family film earned awards for its art direction, cinematography, sound mixing, sound editing, and visual effects.
“Nader and Simin, A Separation,†a domestic drama directed by Asghar Farhadi, became the first Iranian movie to win the Oscar for best foreign language film at the 84th ceremony. It was the second Iranian film to be nominated for an Oscar, but the first to win.
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