84th Academy Awards (2012)

Best Picture

The Artist - Thomas Langmann
The Descendants - Jim Burke, Jim Taylor, Alexander Payne
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Scott Rudin
The Help - Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
Hugo - Graham King, Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris - Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum
Moneyball - Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt
The Tree of Life - Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Bill Pohlad
War Horse - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy

Best Director

The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick
The Descendants - Alexander Payne
Hugo - Martin Scorsese

Best Original Screenplay

Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids - Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo
Margin Call - J.C. Chandor
A Separation - Asghar Farhadi

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, Peter Straughan

Best Actor in a Leading Role

The Artist - Jean Dujardin
A Better Life - Demian Bichir
The Descendants - George Clooney
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Gary Oldman
Moneyball - Brad Pitt

Best Actress in a Leading Role

The Iron Lady - Meryl Streep
Albert Nobbs - Glenn Close
The Help - Viola Davis
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Rooney Mara
My Week with Marilyn - Michelle Williams

Best Supporting Actor

Beginners - Christopher Plummer
My Week with Marilyn - Kenneth Branagh
Moneyball - Jonah Hill
Warrior - Nick Nolte
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Max von Sydow

Best Supporting Actress

The Help - Octavia Spencer
The Artist - Berenice Bejo
The Help - Jessica Chastain
Bridesmaids - Melissa McCarthy
Albert Nobbs - Janet McTeer

Best Art Direction

Hugo - Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
The Artist - Laurence Bennett, Robert Gould
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - Stuart Craig, Stephanie McMillan
Midnight in Paris - Anne Seibel, Helene Dubreuil
War Horse - Rick Carter, Lee Sandales

Best 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

Best Original Song

The Muppets - Bret McKenzie for "Man or Muppet"
Rio - Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown, Siedah Garrett for "Real in Rio"

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 Sound Mixing

Hugo - Tom Fleischman, John Midgley
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Bo Persson
Moneyball - Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, David Giammarco, Ed Novick
Transformers - Dark of the Moon - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Peter J. Devlin
War Horse - Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, Stuart Wilson

Best Sound Editing

Hugo - Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty
Drive - Lon Bender, Victor Ray Ennis
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Ren Klyce
Transformers - Dark of the Moon - Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl
War Horse - Richard Hymns, Gary Rydstrom

Best Visual Effects

Hugo - Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler, John Richardson
Real Steel - Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Danny Gordon Taylor, Swen Gillberg
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White, Daniel Barrett
Transformers - Dark of the Moon - Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew E. Butler, John Frazier

Best Costume Design

The Artist - Mark Bridges
Anonymous - Lisy Christl
Hugo - Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre - Michael O'Connor
W.E. - Arianne Phillips

Best Makeup

The Iron Lady - Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland
Albert Nobbs - Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnson, Matthew W. Mungle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Animated Short Film

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore - William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg
Dimanche - Patrick Doyon
La Luna - Enrico Casarosa
A Morning Stroll - Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe
Wild Life - Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby

Best Documentary Feature

Undefeated - TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay, Richard Middlemas
Hell and Back Again - Danfung Dennis, Mike Lerner
If a Tree Falls - A Story of the Earth Liberation Front - Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman
Paradise Lost 3 - Purgatory - Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Pina - Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel

Best Documentary Short Subject

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

Best Foreign Language Film

A Separation - Asghar Farhadi
Bullhead - Michael R. Roskam
Footnote - Joseph Cedar
In Darkness - Agnieszka Holland
Monsieur Lazhar - Philippe Falardeau

Best Live Action Short Film

The Shore - Terry George, Oorlagh George
Pentecost - Peter McDonald, Eimear O'Kane
Raju - Max Zahle, Stefan Gieren
Time Freak - Andrew Bowler, Gigi Causey
Tuba Atlantic - Hallvar Witzo

Best Film Editing

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter
The Artist - Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants - Kevin Tent
Hugo - Thelma Schoonmaker
Moneyball - Christopher Tellefsen