Oscar contenders appear on the horizon. The Artist leading Bafta hopefuls. Bafta Film Awards Winners. Scorsese to collect Bafta honour. Artist wins Golden Globes treble. Academy Awards This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Artist has been stealing the show at other awards ceremonies in the run-up to the Oscar nominations.
Civil rights drama The Help has six nominations. George Clooney and Meryl Streep are nominated in the best acting categories. View comments. Published 27 February Published 24 January Published 22 November Published 17 January Published 12 February Already a subscriber? Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in.
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And John Myhre , an Oscar winner for Chicago and Memoirs of a Geisha , provided the stage design that recalled great movie theaters of the past. As the Artist crew — including their canine mascot Uggie — took the stage to celebrate their best picture win, producer Thomas Langmann paid tribute to his father, the late producer and director Claude Berri , who won an Oscar in for a short film Le Poulet and then went on to a distinguished career in France.
On her way to the stage to accept the best actress award for portraying Margaret Thatcher in Iron Lady , Streep paused for a quick embrace of Viola Davis of The Help , whom handicappers had positioned as her main rival this awards season. Spencer, who began awards season as a character actress accustomed to disappearing into bit roles, completed her transformation into a popular personality as she was hailed as best supporting actress for her turn as a rebellious maid in The Help.
The fifth African-American actress to win in the category, she was greeted with the first standing ovation of the night as she made her way to the podium, where she was visibly overcome. Plummer did have a new line prepared. Where have you been all my life? The original screenplay award was reserved for Woody Allen for his time-traveling romantic fantasy Midnight in Paris.
A Separation , the account of a divorcing couple, became the first Iranian entry to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film. The film follows a Memphis high school football team during the course of a winning season which it entered as decided underdogs only to emerge victorious after a series of character-building crises.
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