The Artist wins five Oscars at the Academy Awards

Silence is Golden – The Artist
Wins 5 Oscars
“The Artist”, the silent movie everyone is talking
about, won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor and
Best Director.

Jean Dujardin
– Best Actor –

Fresh from its success in the BAFTA and Golden
Globe awards, the reatively low budget, “The Artist”,
continued its successful run of award ceromonies and harvested
yet more gold in this years Oscars… soundly trouncing big-budget
Hollywood 2011 releases, such as The Descendants and Hugo.

The Artist outshone the other contender for major category honours,
Hugo. Whilst equalling The Artist in the number of awards, Hugo
had to contend with mainly technical accolades.

Meryl Streep is Margaret Thatcher
Photo Credit: Alex Bailey / Courtesy of Pathe Productions Ltd

Iron Lady
The legacy of Margaret Thatcher continues to touch the lives of
Brits and, for anyone who lived through those years of strikes,
strife and war, she will never be forgotten, whether liked or
loathed. Now the young and the rest of the world can get a taste
of the Thatcher phenomenon, with Meryl Streep’s performance as
Margaret Thatcher in “Iron Lady” which has earnt her
the Best Actress Oscar award.

A special mention should also go to Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland,
who won the Oscar for Best Make-up for transforming Meryl Streep
into Maggie!

Never Too Late
Just to prove that it is never too late to reap glittering prizes,
at the age of 82, Christopher Plummer has won his first ever Oscar
for his supporting role in “Beginners”,

The Winners
The two films that dominated the awards evening, were The Artist
and Hugo. Below, with five Oscars each. Below you can see in which
categories the Oscars were awarded. Click the clapperboard image
to view a trailer.

Scroll down to see the other Oscar winners in the main award
categories… click on the Clapperboard image to pop-up
a trailer.