For all the OSCAR winners for 2011 go to ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS FOR THE YEAR 2011 My favourite film this year was HUGO and I guess most in the Academy of Motion Pictures agreed as it won 5 Oscars but so did THE ARTIST. I enjoyed THE ARTIST as well and I must say I was surprised that Michel Hazanavicius won the oscar for Best Director for THE ARTIST. Even though I thought Jean Dujardin deserved best actor I was quickly coming to the realization that HUGO was not going to win Best Picture and that was a disappointment to me. When THE ARTIST was named Best picture I was not surprised but I could just hear all these voices around North America going what the heck is THE ARTIST. This has always been a problem with the Oscars because all too often the film that wins best picture is usually a film that was not releases wide and few have seen them until after the awards when the film is re-released or heads in the video shops or to VOD or Netflix. Oh well, it is the same story each year.