LIVE: OSCARS 2012 - 02/26/2012

Silent feature film "The Artist" received on Saturday evening, four trophies, including one for Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards 2012, awards granted the filmmakers of independent productions, which works with major Hollywood studios.
black and white feature film "The Artist", a tribute to Hollywood silent films, was nominated in five categories at the 2012 edition of the Independent Spirit Awards, a ceremony held Saturday night in Los Angeles, the day before the awards Oscar.

"The Artist" has received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Picture, Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), best leading actor (Jean Dujardin) and best picture (Guillaume Schiffman). "The Artist" tells the story of George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), silent film star who has fallen into oblivion with the advent of sound, unlike the young actress Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), one of his admirers.

Moreover, film awards season has been great so far dominated by "The Artist", who received, among others, a prize for interpretation at Cannes in 2011 (Jean Dujardin), three Golden Globes, seven BAFTA, a Goya, numerous trophies awarded by professional associations in the field, and six Cesar awards.

French feature film "The Artist" is considered a favorite at the 84th Oscar gala, which will take place Sunday night in Los Angeles, and hopes to complete its victorious awards season winning a statuette in the category "Best film "as a novel route for a film that is not Anglo-Saxon. The film is nominated for ten Academy Awards, the first time a French film is selected in many categories of trophies awarded by the American Academy. And if they get an Oscar for best picture, would be unprecedented in the history of these awards, usually given to Anglo-Saxon work.

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Also on Saturday evening, the Independent Spirit Awards gala film "descendants / The Descendants", by Alexander Payne, specialist credited with chances in the race for the Oscars, has received independent film awards for Best Screenplay (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash) and best supporting actress (Shailene Woodley). The film, which takes place in Hawaii, tells the story of a man who is trying to connect emotionally to his daughters while his wife is in coma, following an accident.

VIEW TRAILER "THE DESCENDANTS":

Also, veteran Christopher Plummer received the award for Best Male Actor at the "Beginners" and Michelle Williams won an Independent Spirit Award for his portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in "My Week with Marilyn".

Feature film "Margin Call" by J.-C. Chandos, won two Independent Spirit awards for best debut film and Robert Altman Award, while the drama "50/50" won for best screenplay debut.

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Iranian drama "The Separation" received the award for best international film, and "The Interrupters" was named best documentary.

Independent Spirit Awards, awarded annually by the Los Angeles Independent Film Association, is a major event for films made ​​outside Hollywood's major studios and in need of promotion before the Oscars gala.

Independent Spirit Awards pay tribute to low-budget American films, selected based on criteria such as originality, provocative topics and degree of independent financing. Maximum budget is 20 million - about one third of the average budget of a film studio - data provided in 2006, the Motion Picture Association of America.
Nine films have been nominated for an Oscar this year, while among nominees include actors George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Michelle Williams. According realitatea.net, the 84th Academy Awards gala will be held tonight at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, will be hosted for the ninth time, actor Billy Crystal.

This year's Oscar nominees for Best Picture nine films, including "The Artist" and "The Descendants", winning the Golden Globe, and "The Tree of Life", winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2011. 3D film "Hugo", by Martin Scorsese, won the most nominations (11), followed by "The Artist", with 10 nominations. Black and white film "The Artist", which is a tribute to silent films in Hollywood, was two weeks ago, darling Golden Globe Awards. The film "Moneyball" with Brad Pitt in a leading role, won six nominations, while "The Descendants" with George Clooney, has five nominations. Film "The Help" and "Midnight in Paris" each have four nominations, and "The Tree of Life" was nominated in three categories.

The following is the full list of nominations at the 84th edition of the Oscars:

Best Picture: "The Artist", "The Tree of Life", "Hugo", "Moneyball", "The Descendants", "Midnight in", "The Help", "War Horse" and "Extremely Loud and Incredebly Close "

Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius ("The Artist"), Alexander Payne ("The Descendants"), Martin Scorsese ("Hugo"), Woody Allen ("Midnight in Paris") and Terrence Malick ("The Tree of Life" )

Best leading actor: Jean Dujardin ("The Artist"), George Clooney ("The Descendants"), Brad Pitt ("Moneyball"), Demian Bichir ("A Better Life") and Gary Oldman ("Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy ")

Best Actress: Glenn Close ("Albert Nobbs"), Rooney Mara ("The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"), Viola Davis ("The Help"), Meryl Streep ("The Iron Lady") and Michelle Williams ("My Week with Marilyn")

Best Actor: Kenneth Branagh ("My Week with Marilyn"), Jonah Hill ("Moneyball"), Nick Nolte ("Warrior"), Christopher Plummer ("Beginners") and Max von Sydow ("Extremely Loud and Incredebly Close ")

Best Actress: Bernice Bejo ("The Artist"), Jessica Chastain ("The Help"), Melissa McCarthy ("bridesmaids"), Janet McTeer ("Albert Nobbs"), Octavia Spencer ("The Help" )

Best foreign film: "Bullhead" (Belgium), "Footnote" (Israel), "In Darkness" (Poland), "Monsieur Lazhar" (Canada), "Nader and Simina, A Separation" (Iran)

Best animated feature: "A Cat in Paris" by Alain and Jean-Loup Gagnol Felicioli, "Chico & Rita", by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, "Kung Fu Panda 2", by Jennifer Yuh Nelson, "Puss in Boots "by Chris Miller," Rango "by Gore Verbinski

Best Art Direction: "The Artist" (Laurence Bennett, Robert Gould), "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan), "Hugo" (Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo), "War Horse" (Rick Carter, Lee Sandales)

Best Adapted Screenplay: "The Descendants" (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash), "Hugo" (John Logan), "The IDEs of March" (George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon), "Moneyball" ( Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin), "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan)

Best original screenplay: "The Artist" (Michel Hazanavicius), "bridesmaids" (Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig), "Margin Call" (JC Chandos), "Midnight in Paris" (Woody Allen), "The Separation" ( Asghar Farhad)

Best Picture: "The Artist" (Guillaume Schiffman), "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Jeff Cronenweth), "Hugo" (Robert Richardson), "The Tree of Life" (Emmanuel Lubezki), "War Horse" (Janusz Kaminski)

Best Editing: "The Artist" (Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius), "The Descendants" (Kevin Tent), "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall), "Hugo" (Thelma Schoonmaker ), "Moneyball" (Christopher Tellefsen)

Best soundtrack: "The Adventures of Tintin" - John Williams, "The Artist" - Louis Bource, "Hugo" - Howard Shore, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" - Alberto Iglesias, "War Horse" - John Williams

Best song: "Man or Muppet" in "The Muppets" - Bret McKenzie, "Real in Rio" from "Rio" - Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown, Siedah Garrett

Best Sound Editing: "Drive", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Hugo", "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", "War Horse"

Best Sound Mixing: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Hugo", "Moneyball", "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", "War Horse"

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 Makeup: "Albert Nobbs", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2", "The Iron Lady"

Best Costume: "Anonymous" (Lisy Christl), "The Artist" (Mark Bridges), "Hugo" (Sandy Powell), "Jane Eyre" (Michael O'Connor), "WE" (Arianne Phillips)

Best animated short film: "Dimanche / Sunday", by Patrick Doyon, "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, "La Luna" by Enrico Casarosa, "A Morning Stroll" Grant Orchard and Sue Goff, "Wild Life", by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Best Short Fiction: "Pentecost", Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane, "Raju", by Max Zahle and Stefan Gieren, "The Shore", by Terry George and Oorlagh George, "Time Freak" by Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey, "Atlantic Tuba" by Hallvar Witzø

Best Documentary: "Hell and Back Again" by Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner, "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front", by Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman, "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory", the Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs, "Up", by Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel, "Undefeated" by TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

Best Short Documentary: "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" by Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday, "God Is Bigger the Elvis" by Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson, "Incident in New Baghdad" James Spies, "Saving Face", by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, "The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom" by Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen.

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OSCAR 2012 - 2012 BEST FILM - 26/02/2012

Silent feature film "The Artist" received on Saturday evening, four trophies, including one for Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards 2012, awards granted the filmmakers of independent productions, which works with major Hollywood studios.
black and white feature film "The Artist", a tribute to Hollywood silent films, was nominated in five categories at the 2012 edition of the Independent Spirit Awards, a ceremony held Saturday night in Los Angeles, the day before the awards Oscar.

"The Artist" has received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Picture, Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), best leading actor (Jean Dujardin) and best picture (Guillaume Schiffman). "The Artist" tells the story of George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), silent film star who has fallen into oblivion with the advent of sound, unlike the young actress Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), one of his admirers.

Moreover, film awards season has been great so far dominated by "The Artist", who received, among others, a prize for interpretation at Cannes in 2011 (Jean Dujardin), three Golden Globes, seven BAFTA, a Goya, numerous trophies awarded by professional associations in the field, and six Cesar awards.

French feature film "The Artist" is considered a favorite at the 84th Oscar gala, which will take place Sunday night in Los Angeles, and hopes to complete its victorious awards season winning a statuette in the category "Best film "as a novel route for a film that is not Anglo-Saxon. The film is nominated for ten Academy Awards, the first time a French film is selected in many categories of trophies awarded by the American Academy. And if they get an Oscar for best picture, would be unprecedented in the history of these awards, usually given to Anglo-Saxon work.

VIEW TRAILER "THE ARTIST":

Also on Saturday evening, the Independent Spirit Awards gala film "descendants / The Descendants", by Alexander Payne, specialist credited with chances in the race for the Oscars, has received independent film awards for Best Screenplay (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash) and best supporting actress (Shailene Woodley). The film, which takes place in Hawaii, tells the story of a man who is trying to connect emotionally to his daughters while his wife is in coma, following an accident.

VIEW TRAILER "THE DESCENDANTS":

Also, veteran Christopher Plummer received the award for Best Male Actor at the "Beginners" and Michelle Williams won an Independent Spirit Award for his portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in "My Week with Marilyn".

Feature film "Margin Call" by J.-C. Chandos, won two Independent Spirit awards for best debut film and Robert Altman Award, while the drama "50/50" won for best screenplay debut.

VIEW TRAILER "MARGIN CALL":

Iranian drama "The Separation" received the award for best international film, and "The Interrupters" was named best documentary.

Independent Spirit Awards, awarded annually by the Los Angeles Independent Film Association, is a major event for films made ​​outside Hollywood's major studios and in need of promotion before the Oscars gala.

Independent Spirit Awards pay tribute to low-budget American films, selected based on criteria such as originality, provocative topics and degree of independent financing. Maximum budget is 20 million - about one third of the average budget of a film studio - data provided in 2006, the Motion Picture Association of America.
Nine films have been nominated for an Oscar this year, while among nominees include actors George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Michelle Williams. According realitatea.net, the 84th Academy Awards gala will be held tonight at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, will be hosted for the ninth time, actor Billy Crystal.

This year's Oscar nominees for Best Picture nine films, including "The Artist" and "The Descendants", winning the Golden Globe, and "The Tree of Life", winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2011. 3D film "Hugo", by Martin Scorsese, won the most nominations (11), followed by "The Artist", with 10 nominations. Black and white film "The Artist", which is a tribute to silent films in Hollywood, was two weeks ago, darling Golden Globe Awards. The film "Moneyball" with Brad Pitt in a leading role, won six nominations, while "The Descendants" with George Clooney, has five nominations. Film "The Help" and "Midnight in Paris" each have four nominations, and "The Tree of Life" was nominated in three categories.

The following is the full list of nominations at the 84th edition of the Oscars:

Best Picture: "The Artist", "The Tree of Life", "Hugo", "Moneyball", "The Descendants", "Midnight in", "The Help", "War Horse" and "Extremely Loud and Incredebly Close "

Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius ("The Artist"), Alexander Payne ("The Descendants"), Martin Scorsese ("Hugo"), Woody Allen ("Midnight in Paris") and Terrence Malick ("The Tree of Life" )

Best leading actor: Jean Dujardin ("The Artist"), George Clooney ("The Descendants"), Brad Pitt ("Moneyball"), Demian Bichir ("A Better Life") and Gary Oldman ("Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy ")

Best Actress: Glenn Close ("Albert Nobbs"), Rooney Mara ("The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"), Viola Davis ("The Help"), Meryl Streep ("The Iron Lady") and Michelle Williams ("My Week with Marilyn")

Best Actor: Kenneth Branagh ("My Week with Marilyn"), Jonah Hill ("Moneyball"), Nick Nolte ("Warrior"), Christopher Plummer ("Beginners") and Max von Sydow ("Extremely Loud and Incredebly Close ")

Best Actress: Bernice Bejo ("The Artist"), Jessica Chastain ("The Help"), Melissa McCarthy ("bridesmaids"), Janet McTeer ("Albert Nobbs"), Octavia Spencer ("The Help" )

Best foreign film: "Bullhead" (Belgium), "Footnote" (Israel), "In Darkness" (Poland), "Monsieur Lazhar" (Canada), "Nader and Simina, A Separation" (Iran)

Best animated feature: "A Cat in Paris" by Alain and Jean-Loup Gagnol Felicioli, "Chico & Rita", by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, "Kung Fu Panda 2", by Jennifer Yuh Nelson, "Puss in Boots "by Chris Miller," Rango "by Gore Verbinski

Best Art Direction: "The Artist" (Laurence Bennett, Robert Gould), "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan), "Hugo" (Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo), "War Horse" (Rick Carter, Lee Sandales)

Best Adapted Screenplay: "The Descendants" (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash), "Hugo" (John Logan), "The IDEs of March" (George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon), "Moneyball" ( Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin), "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan)

Best original screenplay: "The Artist" (Michel Hazanavicius), "bridesmaids" (Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig), "Margin Call" (JC Chandos), "Midnight in Paris" (Woody Allen), "The Separation" ( Asghar Farhad)

Best Picture: "The Artist" (Guillaume Schiffman), "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Jeff Cronenweth), "Hugo" (Robert Richardson), "The Tree of Life" (Emmanuel Lubezki), "War Horse" (Janusz Kaminski)

Best Editing: "The Artist" (Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius), "The Descendants" (Kevin Tent), "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall), "Hugo" (Thelma Schoonmaker ), "Moneyball" (Christopher Tellefsen)

Best soundtrack: "The Adventures of Tintin" - John Williams, "The Artist" - Louis Bource, "Hugo" - Howard Shore, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" - Alberto Iglesias, "War Horse" - John Williams

Best song: "Man or Muppet" in "The Muppets" - Bret McKenzie, "Real in Rio" from "Rio" - Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown, Siedah Garrett

Best Sound Editing: "Drive", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Hugo", "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", "War Horse"

Best Sound Mixing: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Hugo", "Moneyball", "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", "War Horse"

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 Makeup: "Albert Nobbs", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2", "The Iron Lady"

Best Costume: "Anonymous" (Lisy Christl), "The Artist" (Mark Bridges), "Hugo" (Sandy Powell), "Jane Eyre" (Michael O'Connor), "WE" (Arianne Phillips)

Best animated short film: "Dimanche / Sunday", by Patrick Doyon, "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, "La Luna" by Enrico Casarosa, "A Morning Stroll" Grant Orchard and Sue Goff, "Wild Life", by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Best Short Fiction: "Pentecost", Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane, "Raju", by Max Zahle and Stefan Gieren, "The Shore", by Terry George and Oorlagh George, "Time Freak" by Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey, "Atlantic Tuba" by Hallvar Witzø

Best Documentary: "Hell and Back Again" by Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner, "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front", by Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman, "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory", the Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs, "Up", by Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel, "Undefeated" by TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

Best Short Documentary: "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" by Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday, "God Is Bigger the Elvis" by Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson, "Incident in New Baghdad" James Spies, "Saving Face", by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, "The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom" by Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen.

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