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Octavia Spencer wins Oscar for supporting actress | |
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The Help's Octavia Spencer has won the best supporting actress Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards. | |
Hotly tipped for the award, Spencer said in an emotional acceptance speech: "Oh my God, thank you... I'm freaking out." | |
The first two awards of the night went to Hugo for cinematography and art direction. | The first two awards of the night went to Hugo for cinematography and art direction. |
Robert Richardson was cinematographer on Martin Scorsese's 3D film and Francesca Lo Schiavo was art director. | |
Rango won best animation, a first Academy award and nominaton for Gore Verbinski, who said it was "made by grown-ups acting like a bunch of children". | |
The film features the voiceover of Johnny Depp, who plays a chameleon. | |
The Oscar for costume design went to Mark Bridges for The Artist, who thanked the Academy "for making a lifelong dream come true". | The Oscar for costume design went to Mark Bridges for The Artist, who thanked the Academy "for making a lifelong dream come true". |
Best make-up went to J Roy Helland and British artist Mark Coulier for The Iron Lady. | Best make-up went to J Roy Helland and British artist Mark Coulier for The Iron Lady. |
Iran's A Separation has become the first Iranian film to win an Oscar, Sandra Bullock presented director Asghar Farhadi with best foreign language film. | |
Set in contemporary Iran, it tells the story of a marriage break-down. | |
Best film editing went to Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall for Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - the pair also won last year for The Social Network - both films were directed by David Fincher. | |
Hugo picked up another Oscar for best sound editing, won by Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty. | |
Another technical category, sound mixing, was also won by Hugo's Tom Fleishman and John Midgley. | |
Best documentary went to Undefeated, a film about an inner city Memphis football team whose fortunes are turned around by a new coach. | |
The executive producer of the film was Sean Combs. | |
Earlier, Morgan Freeman introduced the evening before a comic video was shown of George Clooney waking up Crystal with a kiss - in a parody of his nominated film The Descendants. | |
Freeman said: ""All of us are mesmerised by the magic of the movies. This magnificent event allows us to celebrate the present and look back at its magnificent past". | |
Billy Crystal is hosting the 84th Oscars ceremony at the Kodak theatre in Los Angeles. | |
He joked: "This is my ninth time - just call me War Horse." | |
On the red carpet, British comedy actor Sacha Baron Cohen turned up dressed in a white military uniform and sporting a beard and sunglasses, promoting his upcoming film The Dictator. | |
Cohen arrived holding an urn he jokingly claimed contained the ashes of Kim Jong Il, the late leader of North Korea. | Cohen arrived holding an urn he jokingly claimed contained the ashes of Kim Jong Il, the late leader of North Korea. |
Cohen then tipped the container on to American Idol host Ryan Seacrest | Cohen then tipped the container on to American Idol host Ryan Seacrest |
Nominees on the red carpet included Melissa McCarthy, Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, Michel Hazanavicius, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer. | Nominees on the red carpet included Melissa McCarthy, Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, Michel Hazanavicius, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer. |
Black-and-white silent movie The Artist is hotly tipped to win the coveted best picture Oscar. | Black-and-white silent movie The Artist is hotly tipped to win the coveted best picture Oscar. |