84th Academy Awards

The **84th Academy Awards** was on February 26, 2012. It was held in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Billy Crystal was the host at this ceremony.

_The Artist_ won five Oscars, which included Best Picture, Best Actor for Jean Dujardin and Best Director for Michael Hazanavicius. Other winners were _Hugo_ with five Oscars, _The Iron Lady_ with two Oscars and _Beginners_, _The Descendants_, _The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore_, _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_, _The Help_, _Midnight in Paris_, _The Muppets_, _Rango_, _Saving Face_, _A Separation_, _The Shore_ and _Undefeated_ with one.

## Nominees and winners

Winners are listed first.

|scope="col" style="background:#EEDD82;" ! style="width="50%"|Best Picture|scope="col" style="background:#EEDD82;" ! style="width="50%"|Best Director|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|scope="row" valign="top"|***Thomas Langmann** - ***The Artist*** **Jim Burke, Jim Taylor, and Alexander Payne - _The Descendants_ **Scott Rudin - _Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close_ **Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, and Michael Barnathan - _The Help_ **Graham King and Martin Scorsese - _Hugo_ **Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum - _Midnight in Paris_ **Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, and Brad Pitt - _Moneyball_ **Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, and Bill Pohlad - _The Tree of Life_ **Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy - _War Horse_|scope="row" valign="top"|***Michel Hazanavicius** - ***The Artist*** **Woody Allen - _Midnight Paris_ **Terrence Malick - _The Tree of Life_ **Alexander Payne - _The Descendants_ **Martin Scorsese - _Hugo_|
|scope="row" valign="top"|***Jean Dujardin** – ***The Artist*** **Demián Bichir - _A Better Life_ **George Clooney - _The Descendants_ **Gary Oldman - _Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy_ **Brad Pitt - _Moneyball_|scope="row" valign="top"|***Meryl Streep**  – ***The Iron Lady*** **Glenn Close – _Albert Nobbs_ **Viola Davis - _The Help_ **Rooney Mara - _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_ **Michelle Williams - _My Week with Marilyn_|
|scope="row" valign="top"|***Christopher Plummer** – ***Beginners*** **Kenneth Branagh – _My Week with Marilyn_ **Jonah Hill - _Moneyball_ **Nick Nolte - _Warrior_ **Max von Sydow - _Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close_|scope="row" valign="top"|***Octavia Spencer** - ***The Help*** **Bérénice Bejo – _The Artist_ **Jessica Chastain – _The Help_ **Melissa McCarthy – _Bridesmaids_ **Janet McTeer – _Albert Nobbs_|
|scope="row" valign="top"|***Woody Allen** - ***Midnight in Paris*** **Michel Hazanavicius - _The Artist_ **Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo - _Bridesmaids_ **J. C. Chandor - _Margin Call_ **Asghar Farhadi - _A Seperation_|scope="row" valign="top"|***Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash** - ***The Descendants*** **John Logan - _Hugo_ **George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon - _The Ides of March_ **Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin- _Moneyball_ **Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan - _Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy_|
|scope="row" valign="top"|***Gore Verbinski** - ***Rango*** **Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli - _A Cat in Paris_ **Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal - _Chico and Rita_ **Jennifer Yuh Nelson - _Kung Fu Panda 2_ **Chris Miller - _Puss in Boots_|scope="row" valign="top"|***Asghar Farhadi** - ***A Separation*** (Iran) **Michaël R. Roskam - _Bullhead_ (Belgium) **Joseph Cedar - _Footnote_ (Israel) **Agnieszka Holland - _In Darkness_ (Poland) **Philippe Falardeau - _Monsieur Lazhar_ (Canada)|
|scope="row" valign="top"|***TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay, and Richard Middlemas** - ***Undefeated*** **Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner - _Hell and Back Again_ **Mashall Curry and Sam Cullman - _If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front_ **Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky - _Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory_ **Gian-Piero Ringel - _Pina_|scope="row" valign="top"|***Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge** - ***Saving Fac*** **Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin - _The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement_ **Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson - _God Is the Bigger Elvis_ **James Spione - _Incident_ **Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen - _The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom_|
|scope="row" valign="top"|***Terry George and Oorlagh George** - ***The Shore*** **Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane - _Pentecost_ **Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren - _Raju_ **Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey - _Time Freak_ **Hallvar Wizø - _Tuba Atlantic_|scope="row" valign="top"|***William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg** - ***The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore*** **Patrick Doyon - _Dimanche_ **Enrico Casarosa - _La Lunda_ **Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe - _A Morning Stroll_ **Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby - _Wild Life_|
|scope="row" valign="top"|***Ludovic Bource** - ***The Artist*** **John Williams - _The Adventures of Tintin_ **Howard Shore - _Hugo_ **Alberto Iglesias - _Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy_ **John Williams - _War Horse_|scope="row" valign="top"|***Bret McKenzie** - ***The Muppets*** <small>("Man or Muppet")</small> **Sérgio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown, and Siedah Garrett - _Rio_ <small>("Real in Rio")</small>|
|scope="row" valign="top"|***Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty** - ***Hugo*** **Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis - _Drive_ **Ren Klyce - _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_ **Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl - _Transformers: Dark of the Moon_ **Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom - _War Horse_|scope="row" valign="top"|***Tom Fleischman and John Midgley** - ***Hugo*** **David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Bo Persson - _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_ **Ron Bochar, David Giammarco, and Ed Novick - _Moneyball_ **Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush, and Peter J. Devlin - _Transformers: Dark of the Moon_ **Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, and Stuart Wilson - _War Horse_|
|scope="row" valign="top"|***Dante Ferretti and Francesa Lo Schiavo** – ***Hugo*** **Laurence Bennett and Robert Gould - _The Artist_ **Stuart Craig and Stephanie McMillan - _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2_ **Anne Seibel and Hélène Dubreuil - _Midnight in Paris_ **Rick Carter and Lee Sandales - _War Horse_|scope="row" valign="top"|***Robert Richardson** - ***Hugo*** **Guillaume Schiffman - _The Artist_ **Jeff Cronenweth - _The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo_ **Emmanuel Lubezki - _The Tree of Life_ **Janusz Kamiński - _War Horse_|
|scope="row" valign="top"|***Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland** - ***The Iron Lady*** **Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnson, and Matthew W. Mungle - _Albert Nobbs_ **Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, and Lisa Tomblin - _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2_|scope="row" valign="top"|***Mark Bridges** - ***The Artist*** **Lisy Christl - _Anonymous_ **Sandy Powell - _Hugo_ **Michael O'Connor - _Jane Eyre_ **Arianne Phillips - _W.E._|
|scope="row" valign="top"|***Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter** - ***The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*** **Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius - _The Artist_ **Kevin Tent - _The Descendants_ **Thelma Schoonmaker - _Hugo_ **Christopher Tellefsen - _Moneyball_|scope="row" valign="top"|***Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, and Alex Henning** - ***Hugo*** **Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler, and John Richardson - _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2_ **Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Danny Gordon Taylor, and Swen Gillberg - _Real Steel_ **Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White, and Daniel Barrett - _Rise of the Planet of the Apes_ **Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew E. Butler, and John Frazier - _Transformers: Dark of the Moon_|