You may have seen it coming, but it's official: The Artist dominated the 2012 Oscars tonight. Michel Hazanavicius and his team won out, taking Best Director, Best Actor, Best Costume Design, Best Score and Best Film. Martin Scorsese's Hugo was, by any measure, the runner-up, with five well-deserved wins in the technical categories. Meryl Streep won the Meryl Streep award for Best Actress for The Iron Lady, in a slight upset over Viola Davis, giving her three wins out of 17 nominations. Davis may have taken some vicarious comfort from the fact that cast-mate Octavia Spencer won Best Supporting Actress for The Help. Also in the saw-it-coming stakes, Christopher Plummer took Best Supporting Actor and became the oldest ever acting winner. Slightly unexpected victories came in the form of Woody Allen's third Best Original Screenplay win for Midnight In Paris and the Best Editing gong going to the largely-overlooked The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Our in-depth blog has everything you need to know about the red carpet and ceremony as it played out here, and for another, more staccato version of the night, check out our Twitter feed here. The full list of winners are listed beneath the Oscar gallery below and winners tally right at the bottom.
The full list of winners is below: BEST PICTURE
The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse BEST DIRECTOR
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants - Alexander Payne
Hugo - Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick BEST ACTOR
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Demián Bichir - A Better Life
George Clooney - The Descendants
Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt - Moneyball BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Kenneth Branagh - My Week With Marilyn
Jonah Hill - Moneyball
Nick Nolte - Warrior
Max von Sydow - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close BEST ACTRESS
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 BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Bérénice Bejo - The Artist
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Rango
A Cat in Paris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Descendants - Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Hugo - John Logan
The Ides of March - George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Moneyball - Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin
Story by Stan Chervin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids - Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
Margin Call - J.C. Chandor
A Separation - Asghar Farhadi
ART DIRECTION
Hugo - Production Design: Dante Ferretti, Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
The Artist - Production Design: Laurence Bennett, Set Decoration: Robert Gould
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – Production Design: Stuart Craig, Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
Midnight in Paris - Production Design: Anne Seibel, Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
War Horse - Production Design: Rick Carter, Set Decoration: Lee Sandales CINEMATOGRAPHY
Hugo - Robert Richardson
The Artist - Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Jeff Cronenweth
The Tree of Life - Emmanuel Lubezki
War Horse - Janusz Kaminski COSTUME DESIGN
The Artist - Mark Bridges
Anonymous - Lisy Christl
Hugo - Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre - Michael O’Connor
W.E. - Arianne Phillips BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Undefeated
Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth
Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Saving Face
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God Is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom BEST FILM EDITING
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
The Artist - Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants - Kevin Tent
Hugo - Thelma Schoonmaker
Moneyball - Christopher Tellefsen BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Separation - Iran
Bullhead - Belgium
Footnote - Israel
In Darkness - Poland
Monsieur Lazhar - Canada
BEST MAKEUP
The Iron Lady - Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
Albert Nobbs - Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and
Matthew W. Mungle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Part 2 - Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Artist - Ludovic Bource
The Adventures of Tintin - John Williams
Hugo - Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Alberto Iglesias
War Horse - John Williams BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Man or Muppet - The Muppets, Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Real in Rio – Rio, Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown
Lyric by Siedah Garrett BEST ANIMATED SHORT
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore - William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Dimanche/Sunday - Patrick Doyon
La Luna - Enrico Casarosa
A Morning Stroll - Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
Wild Life - Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby BEST LIVE SHORT
The Shore - Terry George and Oorlagh George
Pentecost - Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
Raju - Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
Time Freak - Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
Tuba Atlantic - Hallvar Witzø BEST SOUND EDITING
Hugo - Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
Drive - Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Ren Klyce
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
War Horse - Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom BEST SOUND MIXING
Hugo - Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
Moneyball - Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and
Ed Novick
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
War Horse - Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and
Stuart Wilson BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Hugo - Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Part 2 - Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and
John Richardson
Real Steel - Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier | WINNERS TALLY | | Film | Nominations | Won | | Hugo | 11 | 5 | | The Artist | 10 | 5 | | Moneyball | 6 | 0 | | War Horse | 6 | 0 | | The Descendants | 5 | 1 | | The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo | 5 | 1 | | Midnight In Paris | 4 | 1 | | Albert Nobbs | 3 | 0 | | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 3 | 0 | | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | 3 | 0 | | Transformers: Dark Of The Moon | 3 | 0 | | The Tree Of Life | 3 | 0 | | The Iron Lady | 2 | 2 | | My Week With Marilyn | 2 | 0 | | A Seperation | 2 | 1 | | 
