Silent romance "The Artist" won five Oscars on Sunday including best film, and Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" also took five of the world's top movie honors, Reuters reported.

The black-and-white film added Oscars for its French star Jean Dujardin and director Michel Hazanavicius, as well for musical score and costume design to its best picture win.

"I am the happiest director in the world right now. Thank you for that," Hazanavicius told the audience.

Scorsese's "Hugo" came into the night with a leading 11 nominations and picked up five wins for cinematography, art direction, sound editing and mixing and visual effects.

Meryl Streep won best leading actress for her role as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady." It was Streep's third Academy Award out of 17 nominations.

Veteran Christopher Plummer, a star of classic film "The Sound of Music," won his first ever Oscar for his portrayal of an elderly gay man in "Beginners," making Oscar history becoming the oldest ever Academy Award winner at age 82.

Octavia Spencer won best supporting actress for her role in civil rights drama "The Help."

In other major wins, the foreign language film award went to Iranian divorce drama "A Separation."

(China.org.cn, CNTV February 28, 2012)

據路透社報道，周日，默片《藝術家》贏得5項奧斯卡獎，包括最佳影片獎，而馬丁·斯科塞斯執導的《雨果》也奪得了5項世界頂級電影獎。

除了最佳影片，這部黑白片還為法國明星讓·杜雅爾丹和導演米歇爾·哈扎納維希烏斯贏得了奧斯卡獎，它還獲得了最佳配樂獎和最佳服裝設計獎。

哈扎納維希烏對觀眾說：“我現在是世界上最快樂的導演。為此感謝你們。”

斯科塞斯的《雨果》帶著11項提名來到該頒獎之夜，摘取了5項大獎，有攝影、藝術指導、音效剪輯、混音和視覺效果。

梅麗爾·斯特里普因在影片《鐵娘子》中扮演英國前首相瑪格麗特·撒切爾而獲得最佳女主角獎。這是斯特里普第3次獲學院獎，她共被提名17次。

曾主演經典影片《音樂之聲》的老演員克里斯托弗·普盧默因在影片《新手》中扮演老年男同性戀而獲得了其首尊奧斯卡獎。他現年82歲，成為最年長的學院獎獲獎者，創造了奧斯卡歷史。

奧克塔維亞·斯賓瑟因其在民權運動劇情片《幫助》中的角色獲得最佳女配角獎。

在其它幾項主要獎項中，最佳外語片獎由伊朗離婚題材劇情片《一次別離》獲得。