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The Artist wins eve-of-Oscars gongs (From Wirral Globe)
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The Artist wins eve-of-Oscars gongs
2:12am Sunday 26th February 2012 in National Entertainment News © Press Association 2013
Michel Hazanavicius with the award for best director for The Artist at the Independent Spirit Awards (AP/Joel Ryan)
The Artist has won best picture and three other prizes at the Spirit Awards honouring independent film, a possible prelude to a big night at the Academy Awards for the black-and-white silent film.
The film also won for best director for Michel Hazanavicius and lead actor for Jean Dujardin as a silent-era star whose career crumbles as talking pictures take over in the 1920s. It earned the cinematography prize, too.
The Artist is the best-picture favourite at the Oscars.
Michelle Williams won best actress as Marilyn Monroe in the filmmaking tale My Week with Marilyn.
Supporting-acting honours went to Christopher Plummer as an elderly widower who comes out as gay in Beginners and Shailene Woodley as a troublesome Hawaiian teenager in The Descendants.
