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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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