Best Picture The Artist Michel Hazanavicius The Descendants Jim Burke, Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne

ayne Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Scott Rudin The Help Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan Hugo Graham King, Martin Scorsese and Johnny Depp Midnight in Paris Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum Moneyball Michael De Luca, Rachel Horowitz and Brad Pitt The Tree of Life to be determined War Horse Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy Best Actor Demin Bichir A Better Life as Carlos Galindo George Clooney The Descendants as Matt King Jean Dujardin The Artist as George Valentin Gary Oldman Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley Brad Pitt Moneyball as Billy Beane Best Supporting Actor Kenneth Branagh My Week with Marilyn as Laurence Olivier Jonah Hill Moneyball as Peter Brand Nick Nolte Warrior as Paddy Conlon
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Best Director Woody Allen Midnight in Paris Michel Hazanavicius The Artist Terrence Malick The Tree of Life Alexander Payne The Descendants Martin Scorsese Hugo

Best Actress Glenn Close Albert Nobbs as Albert Nobbs Viola Davis The Help as Aibileen Clarke Rooney Mara The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Lisbeth Salander Meryl Streep The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher Michelle Williams My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe

Best Supporting Actress Brnice Bejo The Artist as Peppy Miller Jessica Chastain The Help as Celia Foote Melissa McCarthy Bridesmaids as Megan Price Janet McTeer Albert Nobbs as Hubert Page

Christopher Plummer Beginners as Hal Fields

Octavia Spencer The Help as Minny Jackson

Max von Sydow Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closeas The Renter Best Writing Original Screenplay Best Writing Adapted Screenplay The Descendants Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash fromThe Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings Hugo John Logan from The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick The Ides of March George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimonfrom Farragut North by Beau Willimon Moneyball Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin from Moneyball by Michael Lewis Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan fromTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carr Best Animated Feature Best Foreign Language Film Bullhead (Belgium) in Dutch and French Michal R. Roskam Footnote (Israel) in Hebrew Joseph Cedar In Darkness (Poland) in Polish Agnieszka Holland Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) in French Philippe Falardeau A Separation (Iran) in Persian Asghar Farhadi Best Documentary Short Subject The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin God Is the Bigger Elvis Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson Incident in New Baghdad James Spione

The Artist Michel Hazanavicius Bridesmaids Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo

Margin Call J.C. Chandor Midnight in Paris Woody Allen A Separation Asghar Farhadi

A Cat in Paris Alain Gagnol and JeanLoup Felicioli

Chico and Rita Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal

Kung Fu Panda 2 Jennifer Yuh Nelson Puss in Boots Chris Miller Rango Gore Verbinski Best Documentary Feature

Hell and Back Again Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky

Saving Face Daniel Junge and Sharmeen ObaidChinoy

Pina Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel

The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

Undefeated TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas Best Live Action Short Film Best Animated Short Film Dimanche Patrick Doyon The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg La Luna Enrico Casarosa A Morning Stroll Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe Wild Life Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Pentecost Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane

Raju Max Zhle and Stefan Gieren The Shore Terry George and Oorlagh George

Time Freak Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey

Tuba Atlantic Hallvar Witz Best Original Score Best Original Song "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets Bret McKenzie "Real in Rio" from Rio Srgio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett

The Adventures of Tintin John Williams The Artist Ludovic Bource Hugo Howard Shore Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Alberto Iglesias War Horse John Williams Best Sound Editing

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

Drive Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Ren Klyce

Hugo Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty Transformers: Dark of the Moon Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl

War Horse Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

Best Art Direction The Artist Laurence Bennett and Robert Gould Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Stuart Craig and Stephanie McMillan Hugo Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo Midnight in Paris Anne Seibel and Hlne Dubreuil War Horse Rick Carter and Lee Sandales Best Makeup Albert Nobbs Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle

Best Cinematography The Artist Guillaume Schiffman The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Jeff Cronenweth Hugo Robert Richardson The Tree of Life Emmanuel Lubezki War Horse Janusz Kamiski

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

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin

The Iron Lady Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson Hugo Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning Real Steel Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg Rise of the Planet of the Apes Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett Transformers: Dark of the Moon Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

The Artist Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius

The Descendants Kevin Tent The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Hugo Thelma Schoonmaker Moneyball Christopher Tellefsen