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"The Artist" wins Best Motion Picture of the Year

   Tonight is Oscar Night. Many of you are watching some are not, but not to worry if you can't get that French production designer's name just right, we will, and we will report it, and all the other winners, just a soon as we can receive those valuable pieces of news of each Oscar winner.

   Oh. And by the way, Billy Crystal's opening number was stunning. And he wasn't even stoned. See James Franco: One can host the Oscars without doing drugs ... and still pull it off.

   Here below are the winners as we are able to post them:

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Winner: Hugo (2011/II) Robert Richardson

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Winner: Hugo (2011/II) Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" is winning an abundance of awards so far tonight.
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Winner: The Artist (2011) Mark Bridges

Best Achievement in Makeup
Winner: The Iron Lady (2011) Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner: A Separation (2011) Asghar Farhadi (Iran)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011)
Octavia Spencer wins Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. Good choice: Above.
Best Achievement in Editing
Winner: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Winner: Hugo (2011/II) Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Winner: Hugo (2011/II) Tom Fleischman, John Midgley

Best Documentary, Features
Winner: Undefeated (2011) Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin, Rich Middlemas

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Winner: Rango (2011) Gore Verbinski

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner: Hugo (2011/II) Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Christopher Plummer for Beginners (2010)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Winner: The Artist (2011) Ludovic Bource
"The Muppets," with Bret McKenzie in the right rear at the piano: Above. Bret McKenzie (right) with band-mate in Flight of the Conchords, Jermaine Clement (left): Below. I really love Flight of the Conchords. Congratulations Bret (pronounced Britt).
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Winner: The Muppets (2011) Bret McKenzie("Man or Muppet")
The Descendants did have some peppy dialogue and was a well paced film: Above.
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Winner: The Descendants (2011) Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Winner: Midnight in Paris (2011) - Woody Allen
Midnight in Paris was Woody Allen's best film in quite a few years: Above.
Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner: The Shore (2011) Terry George, Oorlagh George

Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner: Saving Face (2012) Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Best Short Film, Animated
Winner: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011) William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg

Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist (2011)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Jean Dujardin for The Artist (2011)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady (2011)

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner: The Artist (2011) - Thomas Langmann - producer
"The Artist" wins Best Motion Picture of the Year

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