The Oscars 2012

Couple of words about the Oscars 2012. Overall, I think this was the fairest distribution of the prizes on my memory. The Artist and Hugo were my favourites, and I am glad they were both given considerable amount of Oscars. The Artist got the important ones, whereas Hugo got the technical ones, but this is perfectly justified. And this dog, Uggie, is now a legend!

I am also glad that the Descendants won almost nothing - it was well below the level of the other movies nominated. And yes, Muppets got the Oscar as well! Nevermind it is for the best original song only, it is still such an achievement for generally not-for-oscars movie.

Rango was also my clear favorite to win the best animation, especially considering the other nominees.

So, overall, that was a very good, and, in my opinion, just ceremony. I can only hope that the tradition of giving the Oscars to the movies that can be understood by wider audience is going to be continued in the future.

P.S. Sacha Baron Cohen was as provocative as usual.

The full list of winners:


BEST PICTURE
The Artist

BEST DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

BEST ACTOR
Jean Dujardin - The Artist

BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christopher Plummer - Beginners

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Octavia Spencer - The Help

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Separation - Iran

BEST ANIMATION
Rango

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Descendants - Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash

BEST ART DIRECTION
Hugo - Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Hugo - Robert Richardson

BEST SOUND MIXING
Hugo - Tom Fleischman and John Midgley

BEST SOUND EDITING
Hugo - Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Man or Muppet, from The Muppets - music and lyrics by Bret McKenzie

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Artist - Ludovic Bource

BEST COSTUMES
The Artist - Mark Bridges

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Undefeated

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Saving Face

BEST FILM EDITING
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
The Shore

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Hugo - Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning

BEST MAKE-UP
The Iron Lady - Mark Coulier and J Roy Helland