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Academy Award winner, Uggie.

Hope you guys had a good time with the Oscars live-stream/chat/reaction thing! I'll update this post with the winners when I get home in a bit, but in the meantime, if you want to react to the winners, this is the place to do it. Hugo wound up winning most of the technical awards, but The Artist was the big winner, taking home Best Director, Actor, Screenplay, and, of course, Best Picture for the night. Well-deserved awards for the most part, and we'll have plenty of reactions to them on the podcast tomorrow. Again, I'll edit this post tonight when I get home, but if you still feel like posting your reactions, do so here!

Best Picture

• WINNER: The Artist — Thomas Langmann
• The Descendants
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
• The Help
• Hugo
• Midnight in Paris
• Moneyball
• The Tree of Life
• War Horse

Best Directing

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

Best Actor

• Demián Bichir, A Better Life
• George Clooney, The Descendants
• WINNER: Jean Dujardin, The Artist
• Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Brad Pitt, Moneyball

Best Actress

• Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
• Viola Davis, The Help
• Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• WINNER: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
• Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn

Best Supporting Actor

• Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
• Jonah Hill, Moneyball
• Nick Nolte, Warrior
• WINNER: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
• Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Best Supporting Actress

• Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
• Jessica Chastain, The Help
• Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
• Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
• WINNER: Octavia Spencer, The Help

Best Adapted Screenplay

• WINNER: The Descendants — Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash
• Hugo
• The Ides of March
• Moneyball
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Original Screenplay

• The Artist
• Bridesmaids
• Margin Call
• WINNER: Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen
• A Separation

Best Animated Feature

• A Cat in Paris
• Chico & Rita
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Puss in Boots
• WINNER: Rango — Gore Verbinski

Best Documentary Feature

• Hell and Back Again
• If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
• Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
• Pina
• WINNER: Undefeated — Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin, and Rich Middlemas

Best Foreign Language Film

• Bullhead (Belgium)
• Footnote (Israel)
• In Darkness (Poland)
• Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
• WINNER: A Separation (Iran) — Asghar Farhadi

Best Cinematography

• The Artist
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• WINNER: Hugo — Robert Richardson
• The Tree of Life
• War Horse

Best Film Editing

• The Artist
• The Descendants
• WINNER: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
• Hugo
• Moneyball

Best Art Direction

• The Artist
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• WINNER: Hugo — Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
• Midnight in Paris
• War Horse

Best Costume Design

• Anonymous
• WINNER: The Artist — Mark Bridges
• Hugo
• Jane Eyre
• W.E.

Best Makeup

• Albert Nobbs
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• WINNER: The Iron Lady — Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Best Original Score

• The Adventures of Tintin
• WINNER: The Artist — Ludovic Bource
• Hugo
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• War Horse

Best Original Song

• WINNER: “Man or Muppet,” The Muppets — Bret McKenzie
• “Real in Rio,” Rio

Best Sound Mixing

• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• WINNER: Hugo — Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
• Moneyball
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• War Horse

Best Sound Editing

• Drive
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• WINNER: Hugo — Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• War Horse

Best Visual Effects

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• WINNER: Hugo — Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning
• Real Steel
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Best Animated Short Film

• Dimanche/Sunday
• WINNER: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore — William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
• La Luna
• A Morning Stroll
• Wild Life

Best Documentary Short Subject

• The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
• God Is the Bigger Elvis
• Incident in New Baghdad
• WINNER: Saving Face — Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
• The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

Best Live-Action Short Film

• Pentecost
• Raju
• WINNER: The Shore — Terry George and Oorlagh George
• Time Freak
• Tuba Atlantic

Did I miss anything? I was busy watching zombies get shot, stabbed, and their heads run over. Also, jousting.

Haven't watch the show yet, thanks for the spoilers.

Thanks! Rorie.

@KJ said:

Haven't watch the show yet, thanks for the spoilers.

Thanks! Rorie.

You can't honestly tell me you went to a post called "Oscar Winner", and expected that there wouldn't be spoilers.

Don't worry, it's not a spoiler. The zombies didn't actually joust.

Viva le France! I just hope that Dejardin doesn't go the way of Roberto Bernini. OSS 117 forever!

Enjoyed watching it with you guys, thanks for doing that!

I would've chosen The tree of Life but The Artist is an excellent movie and deserved it. Also yay for A Separation! An absolutely flawless movie, and great speech by director Asghar Fahardi.

You Pups in the chat made the Oscars watchable. Though I'm sure the 5 beers helped.

Had a great time on the chat! Been meaning to watch The Artist but other movies have gotten in the way, that and no one wants to go see it with me! And this happened:

@KJ said:

Haven't watch the show yet, thanks for the spoilers.

Thanks! Rorie.

LoL, great going on clicking on the link dumb dumb!

I can't say I disagree with any of the awards given out tonight. I haven't seen The Artist yet, but I really should.

Also, it's nice to have a year's break where a Pixar movie isn't nominated for anything.

Nothing for The Tree Of Life... At least they could have given it the award for best cinematography.

I was busy seeing Children Of Bodom Live.

@LiquidSwords: Can Ryan Seacrest really be so surprised? His career is based on being in front of a camera live. I think a better host would have taken that all in stride. It's not like he can't afford another tux.

Most boringly predictable show ever outside of Original Screenplay and Actress.

@KJ said:

Haven't watch the show yet, thanks for the spoilers.

Thanks! Rorie.

You're funny :) Because you're joking.

Zombies and Sega Genesis held my attention for most of the night, but I did see the final few awards.

Congrats to Rango for ending Pixar's reign of tyranny and taking home the Best Animated feature prize!

@Artie: Midnight in Paris was considered the front-runner for Best Original Screenplay by many, actually. But yeah, Meryl Streep winning for Iron Lady was out there.

Most of the categories weren't too surprising though I was pretty shocked Meryl Streep won for Best Actress. I wonder if this was more of a "Hey, you haven't won in 30 years so here you go" kind of win or if they really thought she was the best. Also, I was kind of hoping A Separation would win for Original Screenplay but oh well. Does anyone know why Woody Allen wasn't there? Is he too good for the Oscars or something?

Bottom line: George Clooney wins because he gets to take Stacey Kiebler home for the night.

Also, Natalie Portman was smoking hot.

Glad Woody got and Oscar! Also glad that Girl with the Dragon Tattoo got something, but I think it shoulda been Rooney though. We get it Meryl is a great actress! Give some others a confidence boost!