The Artist won five Oscars today, including prizes for Best Picture, directing, and actor in a leading role, while longtime Hollywood luminary Meryl Streep took home her third gold statuette for her role as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

The Artist, a black and white silent film paying tribute to Old Hollywood, also won Oscars for costume design and original music score.

"I am the happiest director in the world right now. Thank you for that," said winning director Michel Hazanavicius.

Producer Thomas Langmann accepted the award for Best Picture. French star Jean Dujardin won for Best Actor.

"I'm shocked," Dujardin said backstage on a "Thank You Cam" provided by the Academy Awards' organizers. Dujardin also thanked his family and the team that helped produce the movie.

Christopher Plummer won the Oscar for Actor in a Supporting Role in the film The Beginners. Octavia Spencer won for Actress In a Supporting Role in The Help.

The other winners were:

Animated Feature Film - Rango, Gore Verbinski

Cinematography - Hugo, Robert Richardson

Art Direction - Hugo, Dante Ferretti (Production Design); Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration)

Costume Design - The Artist, Mark Bridges

Documentary Feature - Undefeated, T.J. Martin, Dan Lindsay and Rich Middlemas

Documentary Short - Saving Face, Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Film Editing - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall

Foreign Language Film - A Separation (Iran) Asghar Farhadi, director

Makeup - The Iron Lady, Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Music (Original Score) - The Artist, Ludovic Bource

Music (Original Song) - "Man or Muppet" from THE MUPPETS, Music and Lyrics by Bret McKenzie

Short Film (Animated) - The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg

Short Film (Live Action) - The Shore, Terry George and Oorlagh George

Sound Editing - Hugo, Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty

Sound Mixing - Hugo, Tom Fleischman and John Midgley

Visual Effects - Hugo, Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Hennig

Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - The Descendants, Screenplay by Alexander Payne, Nat Foxon and Jim Rash

Writing (Original Screenplay) - Midnight in Paris, Written by Woody Allen

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