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84th Academy Awards
84th Academy Awards Poster.png
Date February 26, 2012 (2012-02-26)
Site Hollywood and Highland Center
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Host Billy Crystal[1]
Pre-show
Producer
Director Don Mischer[3]
Highlights
Best Picture The Artist
Most awards The Artist and Hugo (5)
Most nominations Hugo (11)
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Duration 3 hours, 13 minutes[4]
Ratings 39.46 million
23.91% (Nielsen ratings)[5]
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The 84th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2011 and took place February 26, 2012, at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC. Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the ninth time. He first presided over the 62nd ceremony held in 1990, and last hosted the 76th ceremony held in 2004.[6]

On June 14, 2011, Academy president Tom Sherak announced at a press conference that, in an attempt to further revitalize interest surrounding the awards, the 2012 ceremony would feature between five to ten Best Picture nominees pending on voting results, as opposed a set number of nominees.[7] In related events, the Academy held its third Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 12, 2011.[8] On February 11, 2012, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Milla Jovovich.[9]

The Artist won five awards, including Best Actor for Jean Dujardin, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius, and Best Picture, the first silent feature to win an Academy Award for Best Picture since 1927's Wings, the inaugrual winner in 1929.[10][11][12][13] Other winners included Hugo also with five awards and The Iron Lady with two awards. Beginners, The Descendants, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Help, Midnight in Paris, The Muppets, Rango, Saving Face, A Separation, The Shore, and Undefeated each won one award. The telecast garnered about 39 million viewers (in North America).

Contents

Winners and nominees

Michel Hazanavicius, Best Director winner
Jean Dujardin, Best Actor winner
Meryl Streep, Best Actress winner
Christopher Plummer, Best Supporting Actor winner
Octavia Spencer, Best Supporting Actress winner
Asghar Farhadi, Best Foreign Language Film winner
Bret McKenzie, Best Original Song winner

The nominees for the 84th Academy Awards were announced on January 24, 2012, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Tom Sherak, president of the Academy, and the actress Jennifer Lawrence.

Films receiving the most nominations were Hugo with eleven, followed by The Artist with ten. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 26, 2012.[14][15][16]

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[17]

Best Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Writing – Original Screenplay Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Best Animated Feature Best Foreign Language Film
Best Documentary – Feature Best Documentary – Short Subject
Best Live Action Short Film Best Animated Short Film
Best Original Score Best Original Song
Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing
Best Art Direction Best Cinematography
Best Makeup Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects

Honorary Academy Awards

The Academy held its 3rd Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 12, 2011, during which the following awards were presented.[18][19]

Academy Honorary Award

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following 18 films received multiple nominations:

The following three films received multiple awards:

Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.[20]

Presenters

Performers

In Memoriam

The annual "In Memoriam" tribute, was presented by host Billy Crystal. Singer Esperanza Spalding performed the Louis Armstrong song "What a Wonderful World" alongside the Southern California Children's Chorus during the tribute.[21][22]

Notable exclusions included Eiko Ishioka, Jeff Conaway, Harry Morgan, Michael Gough, Maria Schneider, Raoul Ruiz, James Arness, Charles Napier, Andy Whitfield, Ryan Dunn, Bubba Smith, and Theo Angelopoulos.[23]

Changes to award categories

On June 14, 2011, Academy President Tom Sherak announced that the Board of Governors approved changes to the following award categories:[7]

  • Best Picture: The number of final nominees can now range from five to ten. The nomination voting process will be the same as before, through preferential balloting, but now only films that receive a minimum of 5% of total number-one votes are eligible for Best Picture nominations. "A Best Picture nomination should be an indication of extraordinary merit. If there are only eight pictures that truly earn that honor in a given year, we shouldn't feel an obligation to round out the number," Academy executive director Bruce Davis explained.
  • Best Animated Feature: This is now a permanent competitive category, and no longer requires the Board to "activate" it annually. Additionally, rules were amended to give the category more flexibility in terms of the number of nominees it can allow.
  • Best Documentary Feature: The category's eligibility period has been modified. Prior to 2011, documentaries that screened theatrically between September 1 and August 31 of the following year were eligible. This has now been changed to match the calendar year from January 1 to December 31. As a transition period, the 84th Academy Awards will accept documentaries that were released between September 1, 2010 to December 31, 2011.
  • Best Visual Effects: Previously, seven short-listed Best Visual Effects contenders were announced several weeks before the official nominations announcement. This number has now been changed to ten to coincide with last year's expansion of the category from three to five nominees.

Ceremony information

Billy Crystal hosted the ceremony.

Because of the declining viewership of recent Academy Awards ceremonies, the Academy sought ideas to revamp the show while renewing interest with the nominated films. After the previous year's telecast, whose performance by co- hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway yielded critically negative reviews and a 9% decline in viewership, many within the Motion Picture Academy proposed new ways to give the awards a more populist appeal.

In Augst 2011, the Academy originally chose director Brett Ratner as co-producer of the ceremony with Don Mischer. Actor and comedian and Eddie Murphy was hired by Ratner to preside over hosting duties. However, after Ratner resigned as producer in the wake of using a gay slur when talking about rehearsals, Murphy subsquently stepped down.[24] Immediately, the Academy selected film producer Brian Grazer as a replacement for Ratner, and actor and comedian Billy Crystal was recruited by Grazer to take over hosting duties. Head writer Bruce Vilanch was not involved in writing duties due to other projects.

Hans Zimmer composed and produced the music with Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes.[25]

Voting trends and summary

For the first time since 2008, the field of major nominees lacked a blockbuster at the American and Canadian box offices. In fact, only one of the nominees had grossed over $100 million before the nominations were announced (compared with three from the previous year).[26]

None of the nine Best Picture nominees was among the top ten releases in box office during the nominations. When the nominations were announced on January 24, 2012, The Help was the highest-grossing film among the Best Picture nominees with $169.6 million in domestic box office receipts. Among the remaining eight nominees, Moneyball was the second-highest-grossing film with $75.5 million; this was followed by War Horse ($72.3 million); Midnight in Paris ($56.4 million); Hugo ($55.9 million); The Descendants ($51.3 million); The Tree of Life ($13.3 million); The Artist ($12.1 million); and, finally, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ($10.7 million).[27]

Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 36 nominations went to 15 films on the list. Only The Help (13th), Bridesmaids (14th), Kung Fu Panda 2 (15th), Puss in Boots (16th), Rango (22nd), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (28th), Moneyball (43rd) War Horse (46th) were nominated for Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, or any of the directing, acting, or screenwriting awards.[28] The other top 50 box office hits that earned nominations were Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (1st), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2nd), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (11th), Rio (18th), The Muppets (34th), Real Steel (35th), and The Adventures of Tintin (47th).[28]

Critical reviews

Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times said the show was "Back with the old", "The whole night looked like an AARP pep rally" and "the night was pretty tame." [29] Robert Bianco of USA Today said "Crystal didn't quite meet them[Expectations]. You may have smiled, but with Crystal, we're used to laughing."[30]

Ratings and reception

The American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 39.46 million people over its length, which was a 4% increase from the previous year's ceremony.[5][31] An estimated 77.70 million total viewers watched all or part of the awards.[32] The show also drew higher Nielsen ratings compared to the previous ceremonies with 23.91% of households watching over a 34.64 share. However the program scored a sightly lower 18-49 demo rating with a 11.67 rating over a 34.23 share among viewers in that demographic, essentially flat with last year's numbers.[33]

Sacha Baron Cohen appearance

In effort to promote his new film, The Dictator, actor Sacha Baron Cohen vowed he would appear at the Oscars as the lead character Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen. Fearing some inappropriate stunt would occur, the Academy and Oscars producers threatened to revoke Baron Cohen's Oscars tickets.[34][35] Baron Cohen was to appear with members of the cast of the film Hugo. After some reassurances from Baron Cohen that no disruptions would occur, Academy president Tom Sherak and Oscar show producer Brian Grazer reluctantly approved Baron Cohen's appearance as the Admiral General. However, during pre-Oscar interviews on the red carpet, Baron Cohen appeared with an urn that bore the likeness of the late Kim Jong-il and purposely poured the ashes on E! Live From the Red Carpet host Ryan Seacrest. Academy COO Ric Robertson and a security guard stepped in and removed Baron Cohen.[36]

International telecasts

See also

Portal icon Academy Award portal

References

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