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| Date |
Headline |
| January 23, 2012 |
Costa Concordia disaster: Italian cruise ship capsizes off the coast of Tuscany, killing 32 people |
| February 6, 2012 |
Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, marking 60 years on the throne |
| May 9, 2012 |
Barack Obama becomes the first sitting US president to publicly support same-sex marriage |
| May 20, 2012 |
Facebook goes public in one of the largest IPOs in history |
| June 18, 2012 |
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange seeks asylum at the Embassy of Ecuador in London |
| July 20, 2012 |
James Holmes opens fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 70 others |
| August 5, 2012 |
London hosts the 2012 Summer Olympics, with the United States winning the most medals |
| August 6, 2012 |
Curiosity rover lands on Mars, beginning a mission to explore the planet's surface |
| September 11, 2012 |
US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans are killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi |
| November 6, 2012 |
Barack Obama is re-elected as President of the United States, defeating Mitt Romney |
| November 14, 2012 |
Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against Hamas in the Gaza Strip |
| December 14, 2012 |
Adam Lanza opens fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 26 people, including 20 children |
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Movies of the year
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| Movie Title |
Director |
Genre |
IMDb Rating |
| Argo |
Ben Affleck |
Drama, Thriller |
7.7 |
| Django Unchained |
Quentin Tarantino |
Western, Drama |
8.4 |
| The Avengers |
Joss Whedon |
Action, Sci-Fi |
8.0 |
| Silver Linings Playbook |
David O. Russell |
Comedy, Drama |
7.7 |
| Life of Pi |
Ang Lee |
Adventure, Drama |
7.9 |
| Lincoln |
Steven Spielberg |
Drama, History |
7.3 |
| Zero Dark Thirty |
Kathryn Bigelow |
Drama, Thriller |
7.4 |
| The Dark Knight Rises |
Christopher Nolan |
Action, Thriller |
8.4 |
| Les Mis�rables |
Tom Hooper |
Drama, Musical |
7.6 |
| Skyfall |
Sam Mendes |
Action, Thriller |
7.7 |
| Beasts of the Southern Wild |
Benh Zeitlin |
Drama, Fantasy |
7.3 |
| Moonrise Kingdom |
Wes Anderson |
Comedy, Drama |
7.8 |
| Amour |
Michael Haneke |
Drama, Romance |
7.9 |
| Looper |
Rian Johnson |
Action, Sci-Fi |
7.4 |
| The Master |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
Drama |
7.1 |
| Flight |
Robert Zemeckis |
Drama, Thriller |
7.3 |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
Stephen Chbosky |
Drama, Romance |
8.0 |
| The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey |
Peter Jackson |
Adventure, Fantasy |
7.8 |
| Anna Karenina |
Joe Wright |
Drama, Romance |
6.6 |
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Oscar award winner of year
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| Category |
Winner |
Description |
| Best Picture |
The Artist |
A black-and-white silent film about the transition from silent films to "talkies" in Hollywood. |
| Best Director |
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) |
Hazanavicius won for his direction of The Artist. |
| Best Actor |
Jean Dujardin (The Artist) |
Dujardin won for his portrayal of George Valentin, a silent film star struggling to adapt to the new era of talking pictures. |
| Best Actress |
Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) |
Streep won for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| Best Supporting Actor |
Christopher Plummer (Beginners) |
Plummer won for his portrayal of Hal Fields, a man who comes out as gay at the age of 75. |
| Best Supporting Actress |
Octavia Spencer (The Help) |
Spencer won for her portrayal of Minny Jackson, a maid in 1960s Mississippi who helps a young white woman write a book about the experiences of black maids. |
| Best Original Screenplay |
Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) |
Allen won for his screenplay about a writer who travels back in time to 1920s Paris. |
| Best Adapted Screenplay |
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash (The Descendants) |
The trio won for their adaptation of the novel of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings. |
| Best Animated Feature |
Rango |
A computer-animated Western film about a chameleon who becomes the sheriff of a town called Dirt. |
| Best Foreign Language Film |
A Separation (Iran) |
A drama about a couple who are separating and the impact it has on their daughter and the people around them. |
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