First Oscar winner
Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Clara Bow in Wings in 1927
As silent movie The Artist tap-dances its way through awards season, we look back at the first movie to win the Academy Award for best picture, 1927's silent epic Wings.
As movie historians will tell you, Wings wasn't just the first film to win a best picture Oscar; it is also the only silent film to achieve that accolade.
By the time Wings took the top prize at the inaugural Oscar ceremony at Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel in 1929, the advent of "talkies" was already sweeping the silent era aside.
Starring Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen, Wings tells the story of two young men who become World War I fighter pilots.
"Wings was definitely the Star Wars, Titanic or Avatar of its day," says Randy Haberkamp, director of educational programmes at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas).
"It's a blockbuster with dynamic state-of-the-art action sequences. Shot at the end of the silent era, it was released in major cities with live sound effects performed behind the screen."
This week, a 21st Century US cinema audience will once again get the chance to see Wings on the big screen in a restored version that includes the original colour tints - with live organ accompaniment by silent film music maestro Clark Wilson.
The event is part of the celebration of Paramount Pictures' 100th anniversary.
"As far as I know, this is the first time in 80 or 90 years that Hollywood has embraced the organ again to score silent movies," Wilson tells the BBC by phone from his native Ohio.
The organist, who has been playing at silent screenings since the 1980s, will recreate the film's original score along with popular tunes from World War I.
In keeping with the style of the silent era, Wilson will accompany the film using a 10-page cue sheet - a "road map" with 21 separate themes.
"While it won't be specifically note for note what you might have heard in 1927, it's what I would have played at a theatre in 1927."
For practical reasons, Wilson points out, organists rarely played from a full musical score - making each performance unique.
But with Wings lasting two hours and 20 minutes, Wilson admits that the organist has an exhausting task.
"In silent cinema, the music can improve a bad picture, or ruin a good one. If we do our job right we disappear behind the film.
"I've had people say they came to watch the organist, but they forgot I was there. That's the sweetest compliment that you can get."
So what is about Wings that made it a worthy first Oscar winner?
Directed by William A Wellman, the film picked up a second Oscar for engineering effects.
Haberkamp says: "Wings was using sound, music, screen size and colour in revolutionary ways for 1927.
"Most importantly in the pre-green screen, pre-CGI era, its stunts required pilots to perform amazing sequences using real planes.
"The actors were shot in flight, as the actual pilot ducked down to allow the cameras to film the actors faces directly."
Shot less than a decade after World War I , the film received support from the American military, yet its budget was nearly $2m at a time when the average film cost about $200,000.
According to Haberkamp, even $1m was considered "extravagant".
"Wings has the biggest rollercoaster of emotions of any silent film that I know," adds Clark Wilson.
"While the battle scenes are incredible, I think the death scene carries more emotion than people expect.
"I've heard many people over the years say they thought silent films were all like the Keystone Kops with out-of-tune piano music - and they couldn't believe that this one made them cry like babies."
British Nominees ready for Oscar Academy Awards
Sunday Hollywood so much glittering for Oscar Academy Award.British Oscar hopeful for Sunday academy awards.
More than 15 of this year's nominees - including Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh and Janet McTeer - attended a special reception in Los Angeles.
"The Oscars are always something that I've watched from my sofa," said first-time nominee Oldman, up for best actor for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
"I'm thrilled that I'm in a year when Meryl Streep is nominated and Billy Crystal is hosting. I'm more chuffed about that - that Billy Crystal is doing it."
The 53-year-old actor added: "It's been wonderful. People love you everywhere you go - they give you free stuff. There's nothing more obscene than watching rich people walk away with all their free stuff."
Kenneth Branagh, who plays Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn, was another of the Oscar nominees who was at the reception hosted by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and British Consul General Dame Barbara Hay.
Branagh said: "I'm relieved and delighted that people feel we did a good job with somebody whom I revered and respected, and who inspired much of what I've done."
'Savour every moment'
Branagh's supporting actor nomination this year sets an Oscar record - he is the first person to achieve five different nominations in five categories - supporting actor, actor, director, screenplay and short film.
"Each time it feels like a once-in-a-lifetime thing, so you value and savour every moment," he said.
Phyllida Lloyd, director of The Iron Lady, said she hoped the film would help best actress nominee Meryl Streep to her first Oscar win since 1982.
Streep's portrayal of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has earned her a record 17th acting nomination.
"She's very philosophical about it," Lloyd told the BBC, "but it would mean a huge amount to feel that we've helped to break this almost 30-year deadlock for her."
Nominated documentary feature Hell and Back Again follows the journey of American marine, Sgt Nathan Harris, back home after being wounded in Afghanistan.
The film's British producers, Mike Lerner and Martin Herring, said that Sgt Harris and his wife Ashley - who are both central to the film - would be on the red carpet on Oscar day.
"It's going to be an incredible moment for all of us," Lerner said.
Another documentary maker, Lucy Walker, was nominated last year for Waste Land.
Moving
"Being in the auditorium is a bit of an out-of-the-body experience," she recalled.
The film-maker is nominated again this year for her short documentary The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom - about the survivors of the 11 March 2011 tsunami disaster in NE Japan.
"I tend to make films about people having really challenging situations, and coming through them with great strength and resilience," Walker said.
"I've had the most touching responses from Japan, including one which said: 'I was feeling bad for having lived after the disaster, and then I saw the film and it reminded me what we're living for.' It was very moving stuff."
London-born Andy Nelson is up for his 16th Oscar for his sound mixing work on Steven Spielberg's War Horse. He won an Oscar for his work on Saving Private Ryan in 1999.
"I'm just as crazy about it as I was the first time," he said of his latest nod.
"It's normal for us to have loads and loads of Oscar nominees," said Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
"We've actually won more Oscars than any other country other than the US, and the Hollywood big studios invest more in the UK than any other country - last year they spent more than a billion pounds making films in the UK.
"We've got a lot to be proud of."
The Academy Awards take place in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on Sunday.
Meryl Streep & George Clooney are nominated in the best acting categories
British star Kenneth Branagh will vie for the best supporting actor title, after playing one of his childhood idols in My Week With Marilyn.
"It was a rare honour to play Sir Laurence Olivier," he told the BBC. "To be recognised by the Academy for doing so is overwhelming. I'm absolutely thrilled."
Branagh's challengers are Jonah Hill (Moneyball), Nick Nolte (Warrior), Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close).
Christopher Plummer is also on the shortlist for the movie Beginners, in which he plays an elderly father who comes out of the closet.
With a career that spans 60 years, Plummer's work largely went unrecognised until two years ago, when he was nominated in the supporting actor category for his portrayal of Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station.
If he wins this time, the 82-year-old will become the oldest ever actor to receive an Oscar, surpassing Jessica Tandy who was 80 when she was named best actress for Driving Miss Daisy.
The honour could alternatively go to supporting actor nominee von Sydow, who is also 82.
Kung Fu Panda 2 was recognised in the animated film category, along with A Cat In Paris, Chico And Rita, Puss In Boots and Rango.
Iranian film A Separation, which recently triumphed at the London Critics Circle awards, received two nods, including best foreign language movie and original screenplay.
As always, there were some surprises. Steve McQueen's controversial film Shame, starring Michael Fassbender as a sex addict, was notably absent from the nominations.
We Need To Talk About Kevin and Drive, both of which have proven popular with voters at other awards ceremonies, were also missing from the Academy's longlist.
Oscar Best supporting actor nominees
A look at the best supporting actor nominees for the 84th Academy Awards on 26 February 2012.
Age: 51
Nominated for: My Week With Marilyn
The character: Sir Laurence Olivier
Oscar record: Four previous nominations - best actor and director for Henry V, as well as a short film nomination for Swan Song and an adapted screenplay nod for Hamlet
The critics said: "As Olivier, Kenneth Branagh relishes playing an even more major actor than he is himself, snapping off lines like 'acting is all about truth, and if you can fake that you'll have a brilliant career", "they wouldn't stand for this kind of nonsense at the Hippodrome at Eastbourne", and "teaching Marilyn to act is like teaching Urdu to a badger" - David Sexton,Evening standard
Age: 28
Nominated for: Moneyball
The character: Baseball number-cruncher Peter Brand
Oscar record: None
The critics said: "A subdued Hill proves himself to be a formidable talent beyond his R-rated comedy motormouth routine" - Alex Zane,The sun
Age: 71
Nominated for: Warrior
The character: Paddy Conlon, father of two estranged martial arts fighting brothers
Oscar record: Two previous nominations - for best actor in The Prince of Tides (1991) and Affliction (1998)
The critics said: "Nolte's Paddy Conlon is chasing a dream of a unified family and success in the ring, and listens to audiobook tapes of Moby Dick throughout. Groan-worthy, but the character arc payoff those tapes enable is as heartbreaking and powerful as any this year, and could garner Nolte Oscar attention despite the shortcomings of the film as a whole" - Clinton Hallahan,The snipe
Age: 82
Nominated for: Beginners
The character: Hal, a father who comes out as gay after the death of his wife
Oscar record: One nomination for best supporting actor in The Last Station (2009)
The critics said: "Beginners is immensely moving, funny and involving, the acting beyond reproach, with Christopher Plummer bringing a rare wit, compassion and unsanctimonious grace to the role of Hal" - Philip French,The observer
Age: 82
Nominated for: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The character: The Renter, a mute old man who helps the film's main character Oskar on his quest to find the lock that fits a mystery key in New York City.
Oscar record: A previous nomination for best actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
The critics said: "Max von Sydow has a superb turn as a mute tenant of Oskar's grandmother" - Claudia Puig,US Today
The Tree of Life
The Artist
Moneyball
The Descendants
Midnight in Paris
The Help
Hugo
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life
Best Actor
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Demian Bichir - A Better Life
Brad Pitt - Moneyball
George Clooney - The Descendants
Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Best Actress
Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis - The Help
Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn
Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh - My Week With MarilynJonah Hill - Moneyball
Nick Nolte - Warrior
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Max von Sydow - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Best Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo - The Artist
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Best Foreign Language Film
Bullhead - Belgium
Footnote - Israel
In Darkness - Poland
Monsieur Lazhar - Canada
A Separation - Iran
Best Original Screenplay
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids - Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig
Margin Call - JC Chandor
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
A Separation - Asghar Farhadi
Best Animation
A Cat in Paris
Chico and Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants - Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Hugo - John Logan
The Ides of March - George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Moneyball - Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin.
Tinker Tailor Solider Spy - Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan
Best Art Direction
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
War Horse
Best Cinematography
The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Best Sound Mixing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Best Sound Editing
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Best Original Song
Man or Muppet from The Muppets - music and lyrics by Bret McKenzie
Real in Rio from Rio - music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown and lyrics by Siedah Garrett
Best Original Score
The Adventures of Tintin
The Artist
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
Best Costumes
Anonymous
The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.
Best Documentary Feature
Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
Undefeated
Best Documentary short
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
Saving Face
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Best Film Editing
The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
Best Animated Short Film
Dimanche/Sunday
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life
Best Live Action short film
Penecost
Raju
The Shore
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic
Best Visual effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hugo
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Best make-up
Albert Nobbs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Iron Lady
Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Clara Bow in Wings in 1927
As silent movie The Artist tap-dances its way through awards season, we look back at the first movie to win the Academy Award for best picture, 1927's silent epic Wings.
As movie historians will tell you, Wings wasn't just the first film to win a best picture Oscar; it is also the only silent film to achieve that accolade.
By the time Wings took the top prize at the inaugural Oscar ceremony at Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel in 1929, the advent of "talkies" was already sweeping the silent era aside.
Starring Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen, Wings tells the story of two young men who become World War I fighter pilots.
The film is notable for several reasons: its aerial battles, a semi-nude scene involving Clara Bow, a drinking sequence in a Paris bar and some man-to-man kissing.
It also briefly features Gary Cooper in an early role before he shot to Hollywood stardom."Wings was definitely the Star Wars, Titanic or Avatar of its day," says Randy Haberkamp, director of educational programmes at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas).
"It's a blockbuster with dynamic state-of-the-art action sequences. Shot at the end of the silent era, it was released in major cities with live sound effects performed behind the screen."
This week, a 21st Century US cinema audience will once again get the chance to see Wings on the big screen in a restored version that includes the original colour tints - with live organ accompaniment by silent film music maestro Clark Wilson.
The event is part of the celebration of Paramount Pictures' 100th anniversary.
"As far as I know, this is the first time in 80 or 90 years that Hollywood has embraced the organ again to score silent movies," Wilson tells the BBC by phone from his native Ohio.
The organist, who has been playing at silent screenings since the 1980s, will recreate the film's original score along with popular tunes from World War I.
In keeping with the style of the silent era, Wilson will accompany the film using a 10-page cue sheet - a "road map" with 21 separate themes.
"While it won't be specifically note for note what you might have heard in 1927, it's what I would have played at a theatre in 1927."
For practical reasons, Wilson points out, organists rarely played from a full musical score - making each performance unique.
But with Wings lasting two hours and 20 minutes, Wilson admits that the organist has an exhausting task.
"Wings has an intermission, but nevertheless you are absolutely wrung out at the end."
But Wilson says the music mustn't get in the way of the movie. "In silent cinema, the music can improve a bad picture, or ruin a good one. If we do our job right we disappear behind the film.
"I've had people say they came to watch the organist, but they forgot I was there. That's the sweetest compliment that you can get."
So what is about Wings that made it a worthy first Oscar winner?
Directed by William A Wellman, the film picked up a second Oscar for engineering effects.
Haberkamp says: "Wings was using sound, music, screen size and colour in revolutionary ways for 1927.
"Most importantly in the pre-green screen, pre-CGI era, its stunts required pilots to perform amazing sequences using real planes.
"The actors were shot in flight, as the actual pilot ducked down to allow the cameras to film the actors faces directly."
Shot less than a decade after World War I , the film received support from the American military, yet its budget was nearly $2m at a time when the average film cost about $200,000.
According to Haberkamp, even $1m was considered "extravagant".
"Wings has the biggest rollercoaster of emotions of any silent film that I know," adds Clark Wilson.
"While the battle scenes are incredible, I think the death scene carries more emotion than people expect.
"I've heard many people over the years say they thought silent films were all like the Keystone Kops with out-of-tune piano music - and they couldn't believe that this one made them cry like babies."
British Nominees ready for Oscar Academy Awards
Sunday Hollywood so much glittering for Oscar Academy Award.British Oscar hopeful for Sunday academy awards.
More than 15 of this year's nominees - including Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh and Janet McTeer - attended a special reception in Los Angeles.
"The Oscars are always something that I've watched from my sofa," said first-time nominee Oldman, up for best actor for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
"I'm thrilled that I'm in a year when Meryl Streep is nominated and Billy Crystal is hosting. I'm more chuffed about that - that Billy Crystal is doing it."
The 53-year-old actor added: "It's been wonderful. People love you everywhere you go - they give you free stuff. There's nothing more obscene than watching rich people walk away with all their free stuff."
Kenneth Branagh, who plays Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn, was another of the Oscar nominees who was at the reception hosted by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and British Consul General Dame Barbara Hay.
Branagh said: "I'm relieved and delighted that people feel we did a good job with somebody whom I revered and respected, and who inspired much of what I've done."
'Savour every moment'
Branagh's supporting actor nomination this year sets an Oscar record - he is the first person to achieve five different nominations in five categories - supporting actor, actor, director, screenplay and short film.
"Each time it feels like a once-in-a-lifetime thing, so you value and savour every moment," he said.
Phyllida Lloyd, director of The Iron Lady, said she hoped the film would help best actress nominee Meryl Streep to her first Oscar win since 1982.
Streep's portrayal of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has earned her a record 17th acting nomination.
"She's very philosophical about it," Lloyd told the BBC, "but it would mean a huge amount to feel that we've helped to break this almost 30-year deadlock for her."
Nominated documentary feature Hell and Back Again follows the journey of American marine, Sgt Nathan Harris, back home after being wounded in Afghanistan.
The film's British producers, Mike Lerner and Martin Herring, said that Sgt Harris and his wife Ashley - who are both central to the film - would be on the red carpet on Oscar day.
"It's going to be an incredible moment for all of us," Lerner said.
Another documentary maker, Lucy Walker, was nominated last year for Waste Land.
Moving
"Being in the auditorium is a bit of an out-of-the-body experience," she recalled.
The film-maker is nominated again this year for her short documentary The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom - about the survivors of the 11 March 2011 tsunami disaster in NE Japan.
"I tend to make films about people having really challenging situations, and coming through them with great strength and resilience," Walker said.
"I've had the most touching responses from Japan, including one which said: 'I was feeling bad for having lived after the disaster, and then I saw the film and it reminded me what we're living for.' It was very moving stuff."
London-born Andy Nelson is up for his 16th Oscar for his sound mixing work on Steven Spielberg's War Horse. He won an Oscar for his work on Saving Private Ryan in 1999.
"I'm just as crazy about it as I was the first time," he said of his latest nod.
"It's normal for us to have loads and loads of Oscar nominees," said Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
"We've actually won more Oscars than any other country other than the US, and the Hollywood big studios invest more in the UK than any other country - last year they spent more than a billion pounds making films in the UK.
"We've got a lot to be proud of."
The Academy Awards take place in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on Sunday.
Meryl Streep & George Clooney are nominated in the best acting categories
British star Kenneth Branagh will vie for the best supporting actor title, after playing one of his childhood idols in My Week With Marilyn.
"It was a rare honour to play Sir Laurence Olivier," he told the BBC. "To be recognised by the Academy for doing so is overwhelming. I'm absolutely thrilled."
Branagh's challengers are Jonah Hill (Moneyball), Nick Nolte (Warrior), Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close).
Christopher Plummer is also on the shortlist for the movie Beginners, in which he plays an elderly father who comes out of the closet.
With a career that spans 60 years, Plummer's work largely went unrecognised until two years ago, when he was nominated in the supporting actor category for his portrayal of Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station.
If he wins this time, the 82-year-old will become the oldest ever actor to receive an Oscar, surpassing Jessica Tandy who was 80 when she was named best actress for Driving Miss Daisy.
The honour could alternatively go to supporting actor nominee von Sydow, who is also 82.
Kung Fu Panda 2 was recognised in the animated film category, along with A Cat In Paris, Chico And Rita, Puss In Boots and Rango.
Iranian film A Separation, which recently triumphed at the London Critics Circle awards, received two nods, including best foreign language movie and original screenplay.
As always, there were some surprises. Steve McQueen's controversial film Shame, starring Michael Fassbender as a sex addict, was notably absent from the nominations.
We Need To Talk About Kevin and Drive, both of which have proven popular with voters at other awards ceremonies, were also missing from the Academy's longlist.
Oscar Best supporting actor nominees
A look at the best supporting actor nominees for the 84th Academy Awards on 26 February 2012.
Kenneth Branagh
Age: 51
Nominated for: My Week With Marilyn
The character: Sir Laurence Olivier
Oscar record: Four previous nominations - best actor and director for Henry V, as well as a short film nomination for Swan Song and an adapted screenplay nod for Hamlet
The critics said: "As Olivier, Kenneth Branagh relishes playing an even more major actor than he is himself, snapping off lines like 'acting is all about truth, and if you can fake that you'll have a brilliant career", "they wouldn't stand for this kind of nonsense at the Hippodrome at Eastbourne", and "teaching Marilyn to act is like teaching Urdu to a badger" - David Sexton,Evening standard
Jonah Hill
Nominated for: Moneyball
The character: Baseball number-cruncher Peter Brand
Oscar record: None
The critics said: "A subdued Hill proves himself to be a formidable talent beyond his R-rated comedy motormouth routine" - Alex Zane,The sun
Nick Nolte
Nominated for: Warrior
The character: Paddy Conlon, father of two estranged martial arts fighting brothers
Oscar record: Two previous nominations - for best actor in The Prince of Tides (1991) and Affliction (1998)
The critics said: "Nolte's Paddy Conlon is chasing a dream of a unified family and success in the ring, and listens to audiobook tapes of Moby Dick throughout. Groan-worthy, but the character arc payoff those tapes enable is as heartbreaking and powerful as any this year, and could garner Nolte Oscar attention despite the shortcomings of the film as a whole" - Clinton Hallahan,The snipe
Christopher Plummer
Nominated for: Beginners
The character: Hal, a father who comes out as gay after the death of his wife
Oscar record: One nomination for best supporting actor in The Last Station (2009)
The critics said: "Beginners is immensely moving, funny and involving, the acting beyond reproach, with Christopher Plummer bringing a rare wit, compassion and unsanctimonious grace to the role of Hal" - Philip French,The observer
Max von Sydow
Nominated for: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The character: The Renter, a mute old man who helps the film's main character Oskar on his quest to find the lock that fits a mystery key in New York City.
Oscar record: A previous nomination for best actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
The critics said: "Max von Sydow has a superb turn as a mute tenant of Oskar's grandmother" - Claudia Puig,US Today
2012 Oscars:Full Nominees
The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius is up for best directorBest Picture
War HorseThe Tree of Life
The Artist
Moneyball
The Descendants
Midnight in Paris
The Help
Hugo
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life
Best Actor
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Demian Bichir - A Better Life
Brad Pitt - Moneyball
George Clooney - The Descendants
Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Best Actress
Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis - The Help
Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn
Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh - My Week With MarilynJonah Hill - Moneyball
Nick Nolte - Warrior
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Max von Sydow - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Best Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo - The Artist
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Best Foreign Language Film
Bullhead - Belgium
Footnote - Israel
In Darkness - Poland
Monsieur Lazhar - Canada
A Separation - Iran
Best Original Screenplay
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids - Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig
Margin Call - JC Chandor
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
A Separation - Asghar Farhadi
Best Animation
A Cat in Paris
Chico and Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants - Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Hugo - John Logan
The Ides of March - George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Moneyball - Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin.
Tinker Tailor Solider Spy - Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan
Best Art Direction
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
War Horse
Best Cinematography
The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Best Sound Mixing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Best Sound Editing
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
Best Original Song
Man or Muppet from The Muppets - music and lyrics by Bret McKenzie
Real in Rio from Rio - music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown and lyrics by Siedah Garrett
Best Original Score
The Adventures of Tintin
The Artist
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
Best Costumes
Anonymous
The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.
Best Documentary Feature
Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
Undefeated
Best Documentary short
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
Saving Face
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Best Film Editing
The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
Best Animated Short Film
Dimanche/Sunday
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life
Best Live Action short film
Penecost
Raju
The Shore
Time Freak
Tuba Atlantic
Best Visual effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hugo
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Best make-up
Albert Nobbs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Iron Lady
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