2011 (84th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2011 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

The Artist, Le Petite Reine/Studio 37/La Classe Américaine/JD Prod/France 3 Cinéma/Jouror Productions/uFilm Production; The Weinstein Company. (France, Belgium, USA) Thomas Langmann, Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role

Jean Dujardin in The Artist, Le Petite Reine/Studio 37/La Classe Américaine/JD Prod/France 3 Cinéma/Jouror Productions/uFilm Production; The Weinstein Company. (France, Belgium, USA)

Actress in a Leading Role

Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady, Weinstein Company/Yuk Films/Pathé/UK Film Council/Canal+/Cine+/Goldcrest Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, France)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Christopher Plummer in Beginners, Olympus Pictures in association with Parts & Labor Production; Focus Features.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Octavia Spencer in The Help, DreamWorks Pictures Production; Touchstone Pictures. (USA, India, United Arab Emirates, UK, France, Canada, Germany)

Directing

The Artist, Le Petite Reine/Studio 37/La Classe Américaine/JD Prod/France 3 Cinéma/Jouror Productions/uFilm Production; The Weinstein Company. (France, Belgium, USA) Michel Hazanavicius.

Animated Feature Film

Rango, Paramount Pictures Production; Paramount. Gore Verbinski.

Art Direction

Hugo, Paramount Pictures and GK Films Production; Paramount. (USA, UK, France) Production design by Dante Ferretti; set decoration by Francesca Lo Schiavo.

Cinematography

Hugo, Paramount Pictures and GK Films Production; Paramount. (USA, UK, France) Robert Richardson.

Costume Design

The Artist, Le Petite Reine/Studio 37/La Classe Américaine/JD Prod/France 3 Cinéma/Jouror Productions/uFilm Production; The Weinstein Company. (France, Belgium, USA) Mark Bridges.

Documentary

(Feature)

Undefeated, Spitfire Pictures Production; The Weinstein Company. TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas.

(Short Subject)

Saving Face, Milkhaus/Jungefilm Production. (USA, Pakistan) Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

Film Editing

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (USA, Sweden, Norway) Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall.

Foreign Language Film

A Separation, Dreamlab Films Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Iran, France) Iran.

Makeup

The Iron Lady, Weinstein Company/Yuk Films/Pathé/UK Film Council/Canal+/Cine+/Goldcrest Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, France) Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland.

Music

(Original Score)

The Artist, Le Petite Reine/Studio 37/La Classe Américaine/JD Prod/France 3 Cinéma/Jouror Productions/uFilm Production; The Weinstein Company. (France, Belgium, USA) Ludovic Bource.

(Original Song)

Man or Muppet from The Muppets, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Walt Disney. Music and lyric by Bret McKenzie.

Short Films

(Animated)

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, Moonbot Studios LA Production. William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg.

(Live Action)

The Shore, All Ashore Production. (UK) Terry George and Oorlagh George.

Sound Editing

Hugo, Paramount Pictures and GK Films Production; Paramount. (USA, UK, France) Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty.

Sound Mixing

Hugo, Paramount Pictures and GK Films Production; Paramount. (USA, UK, France) Tom Fleischman and John Midgley.

Visual Effects

Hugo, Paramount Pictures and GK Films Production; Paramount. (USA, UK, France) Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning.

Writing

(Adapted Screenplay)

The Descendants, Ad Hominem Enterprises Production; Fox Searchlight. Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash.

(Original Screenplay)

Midnight in Paris, Pontchartrain Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Spain, USA, France) Written by Woody Allen.

Honorary Award

To James Earl Jones for his legacy of consistent excellence and uncommon versatility. [ [Statuette]]

To Dick Smith for his unparalleled mastery of texture, shade, form and illusion. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Oprah Winfrey

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Douglas Trumbull

Scientific and Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To Franz Kraus, Johannes Steurer and Wolfgang Riedel for the design and development of the ARRILASER Film Recorder. The ARRILASER film recorder demonstrates a high level of engineering resulting in a compact, user-friendly, low-maintenance device, while at the same time maintaining outstanding speed, exposure ratings and image quality.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Radu Corlan, Andy Jantzen, Petru Pop and Richard F. Toftness for the design and engineering of the Phantom family of high-speed cameras for motion picture production. The Phantom family of high-speed digital cameras, including the Phantom Flex and HD Gold, provide imagery at speeds and efficacy surpassing photochemical technology, while seamlessly intercutting with conventional film production.

To Dr. Jürgen Noffke for the optical design and Uwe Weber for the mechanical design of the ARRI Zeiss Master Prime Lenses for motion picture photography. The Master Primes have achieved a full stop advance in speed over existing lenses, while maintaining state-of-the-art optical quality. This lens family was also the first to eliminate the magnification change that accompanied extreme focus shifts.

To Michael Lewis, Greg Marsden, Raigo Alas and Michael Vellekoop for the concept, design and implementation of the Pictorvision Eclipse, an electronically stabilized aerial camera platform. The Pictorvision Eclipse system allows cinematographers to capture aerial footage at faster flying speeds with aggressive platform maneuvering.

To E. F. “Bob” Nettmann for the concept and system architecture, Michael Sayovitz for the electronic packaging and integration, Brad Fritzel for the electronic engineering, and Fred Miller for the mechanical engineering of the Stab-C Classic, Super-G and Stab-C Compact stabilizing heads. This versatile family of 5-axis camera and lens stabilizers allows any standard motion picture camera to be fitted into the open architecture of the structure. The system can be quickly balanced and made ready for shooting platforms such as helicopters, boats, camera cars or cranes.

To John D. Lowry, Ian Cavén, Ian Godin, Kimball Thurston and Tim Connolly for the development of a unique and efficient system for the reduction of noise and other artifacts, thereby providing high-quality images required by the filmmaking process. The “Lowry Process” uses advanced GPU-accelerated, motion estimation-based image processing tools to enhance image quality.

To FUJIFILM Corporation, Hideyuki Shirai, Dr. Katsuhisa Oozeki and Hiroshi Hirano for the design and development of the FUJIFILM black and white recording film ETERNA-RDS 4791 for use in the archival preservation of film and digital images. Specifically designed for laser film recording and widely used in the industry today, the high-resolution FUJIFILM ETERNA-RDS 4791 film stock is an important step in protecting the heritage of the motion picture industry.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Andrew Clinton and Mark Elendt for the invention and integration of micro-voxels in the Mantra software. This work allowed, for the first time, unified and efficient rendering of volumetric effects such as smoke and clouds, together with other computer graphics objects, in a micro-polygon imaging pipeline.