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    Dujardin earns best-actor Oscar for 'The Artist'

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jean Dujardin has earned the best-actor Academy Award for "The Artist," becoming the only performer to win an Oscar for a silent-film role since the first year of the awards 83 years ago.

    The film's creator, Michel Hazanavicius, won the directing Oscar.

    The supporting-actor prize Sunday went to "Beginners" co-star Christopher Plummer, who became the oldest acting winner ever at 82. Veteran bit player Octavia Spencer earned the supporting-actress prize for her breakout role in "The Help."

    The only other actors to win for silent roles were Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor at the first Oscar ceremony for 1927-28, as the sound era was taking over.

    Dujardin became the first Frenchman to win an acting Oscar. French actresses have won before, including Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche.

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    18 comments

    • Redde Caesari  •  2 mths ago
      bon.
    • Dee  •  2 mths ago
      Felicitations! C'etait un film genial et Jean Dujardin (et son sourire) a bien merite l'Oscar!
    • Patricia  •  Peoria, Illinois  •  2 mths ago
      Greg, You NEED to see "The Artist". Then you can comment. It is a fabulous film;
      DuJardin is wonderful! Oh, and the dog, Uggie is wonderful also. Enjoy!
      • whinner 2 mths ago
        why would I want to watch a b&w silent foreign film? I like to be entertained by movies not impress a bunch of pretentious dolts in a coffee house while they are watching performance art
      • Alan 2 mths ago
        Greg, since you haven't seen "The Artist", then maybe you shouldn't comment on it because it is spectacularly entertaining film containing romance, comedy, and adventure. Calling this "pretentious" and "performance art" makes you sound foolish.
    • Bernadette  •  2 mths ago
      Of course, we Americans are always afraid to give anything to anyone but an illegal, a black, or a foreignor.
    • Russell  •  Houston, Texas  •  2 mths ago
      Silent movie.- what you must make when your lead actor can't speak English and your on a small budget. Not nostalgic, daring, or artsey. Just safe.
    • mare  •  Elmhurst, Illinois  •  2 mths ago
      Wow got an award without saying a word.
      • stephen 2 mths ago
        Thats about how full of themselves these fools have become. I dont even go to the movies anymore.
    • Watt D Fuch  •  2 mths ago
      Gary Oldham got ripped off
    • Dennis Arthur  •  Erie, Pennsylvania  •  2 mths ago
      he deserves it 100%!
    • mc  •  2 mths ago
      How interesting. A headline with no story.
    • Awoke2Thunder  •  2 mths ago
      Durjardin ? Didn't we back them in their war against the Soviet Union ?
    • stephen  •  Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin  •  2 mths ago
      As 99 percent of us will never see this show, Good for him, and what a farce the oscars have become, Silent, really,
      • pdp44734590j 2 mths ago
        99% are morons, so why should anybody care about them?
    • KittyKat  •  Bloomfield Hills, Michigan  •  2 mths ago
      Who? The "Artist" looks like the MOST Boring, Lame movie ever, BTW.
    • Duke Fukin Nukem  •  2 mths ago
      the oscars have become a butt-licking contest..to see how far they can ram their tongue up somebodys #$%$ ......stupid hollywood faaaags
    • whinner  •  2 mths ago
      most of the time it's a picture that no one watched that wins all the awards, this year no one watched it and it was a silent film to boot, Its nothing but a bunch of pompous #$%$ that vote on these awards. Oh no the movie that people went to see isn't the best picture it's this silent black and white film the unwashed masses no nothing about art , what a bunch of bull excrement
    • John  •  2 mths ago
      It's all politics. We're probably trying to get the French to invade Iran with us so we'll start by giving them a few Oscars.
    • Charles  •  Union, New York  •  2 mths ago
      congrats Mitt Romney on your Oscar
      • Retired0ldFarx 2 mths ago
        You're STUPID... IT's OBAMA with the BAD acting as PRESIDENT... That would get OBAMA a RAZZY!!!
      • nicki 2 mths ago
        am I the only one that got your joke Charles? It was funny
    • Richard  •  2 mths ago
      George Cloonie came in last place in best actor category. Many questioned why he was nominated at all.
    • SBSP  •  2 mths ago
      Do we really care about this?
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