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Paramount Pictures was next with six from Hugo and Rango. The acrobats and aerialists of Cirque du Soleil, who performed at the Oscars 10 years ago, staged a return engagement. And John Myhre , an Oscar winner for Chicago and Memoirs of a Geisha , provided the stage design that recalled great movie theaters of the past. As the Artist crew — including their canine mascot Uggie — took the stage to celebrate their best picture win, producer Thomas Langmann paid tribute to his father, the late producer and director Claude Berri , who won an Oscar in for a short film Le Poulet and then went on to a distinguished career in France.

On her way to the stage to accept the best actress award for portraying Margaret Thatcher in Iron Lady , Streep paused for a quick embrace of Viola Davis of The Help , whom handicappers had positioned as her main rival this awards season. Spencer, who began awards season as a character actress accustomed to disappearing into bit roles, completed her transformation into a popular personality as she was hailed as best supporting actress for her turn as a rebellious maid in The Help.

The fifth African-American actress to win in the category, she was greeted with the first standing ovation of the night as she made her way to the podium, where she was visibly overcome. Plummer did have a new line prepared. The awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress each feature five nominees, none of whom have never previously won the award.

Only Plummer has received a previous nomination. None of the actresses have been previously nominated. Elton John and Madonna both wrote songs for movies this year, but neither was nominated for Best Original Song. Chris Shores can be reached at [email protected]. Five Pioneer Valley nature walks to visit before the winter hits.

My first experience with Rocky Horror and Amherst Cinema. Artist Spotlight: Elwingbling. As the first awards were given out, Hugo shot into an early lead as it picked up most of the technical awards, winning for best art direction, best sound editing and best visual effects among others. Asghar Farhadi, winner of the best foreign language film with A Separation, became the first Iranian director honoured by the Academy. Farhadi used his podium appearance to plead for tolerance between the Iran and the US, telling his audience that his country was "spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.

The evening's first major acting award went to Octavia Spencer, for best supporting actress for The Help. Spencer cut an excitable figure as she accepted her award, exclaiming "I'm freaking out! In the novel, an orphan named Hugo Cabret lives inside a train station, working to keep the clocks running so the trains can depart on time.

The book has almost illustrations for its pages and was the first novel to win the Caldecott Medal , a prize given to picture books. He also had automata, as seen in the book. When Martin Scorsese was announced as director for the film version, the reaction of both the literary and film communities seemed to be surprised, but happy.

While rated well by film critics, some have called the box office take for Hugo disappointing. As of Jan. Already a subscriber? Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in. We believe news can and should expand a sense of identity and possibility beyond narrow conventional expectations. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier.

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