The acrobats and aerialists of Cirque du Soleil, who performed at the Oscars 10 years ago, staged a return engagement. 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.
The fashion highlight of the evening, arguably, was Angelina Jolie's slashed-to-the-hip dress as she presented the two screenplay awards. Woody Allen won the best original screenplay award for the third time for Midnight in Paris — but did not, as is his habit, turn up to accept it.
Another notable absentee was the director Terrence Malick, who was nominated for best director — but no excuses were needed for him as The Artist's Michel Hazavanicius walked off with the best director award. At the business end of the evening, the two major acting prizes followed the form book.
As the final award, best picture, approached, The Artist was trailing Hugo 4 to 5. As the two leading contenders, a win for either would result either in a tie or a comfortable win for Martin Scorsese's film. Indeed, Cohen said that he'd fully expected "Rango" to come away with the win. Cohen said that it's always difficult to explain why the Academy votes the way it does, particularly because "they don't vote as a bloc [and] there's not a cabal here.
In , for example, there probably wasn't a person in Hollywood who thought any movie but James Cameron's "Avatar" would win. This year , there was no "Avatar," and in the end, Pixomondo's Rob Legato and his team won for their visual effects work on Martin Scorcese's "Hugo. This was just the second year that the Academy has picked five nominees in the category--there had been three in the past--and that was in part, Cohen explained, because the state of visual effects hadn't yet advanced to the point where there were five films each year that deserved to win.
But now, Cohen added, that's no longer true. The field is much deeper, and "the difference between the first best visual effects [film] and the sixth or seventh is pretty small. Cohen said he had expected "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," with visual effects by "Avatar" winner Joe Letteri and his team at Weta Digital, to snag this year's Oscar. But he also said he wasn't surprised that Legato won for "Hugo. But "Hugo" surely deserved to win, in part because of the way Hollywood may finally recognize that visual effects are an art on par with older specialties like cinematography or sound editing.
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