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" The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius&amp;#039;s black-and-white silent movie, has won the coveted &amp;#039;Best Picture&amp;#039; Oscar at the 84th Annual Academy Awards. The movie, which centres on a silent screen star (Jean Dujardin) who struggles with Hollywood&amp;#039;s transition to talkies, triumphed over rivals Hugo, The Descendants, War Horse, The Help, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life and Extremely Loud &amp;amp;amp; Incredibly Close.  The Artist is the first silent film to win &amp;#039;Best Picture&amp;#039; since Wings in 1928. The coveted &amp;#039;Best Picture&amp;#039; gong is one of five Oscars for The Artist, which also scooped &amp;#039;Best Actor&amp;#039; for Dujardin, &amp;#039;Director&amp;#039; for Hazanavicius, &amp;#039;Costume Design&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Original Score&amp;#039;. Hazanavicius said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d like to say a very, very important thing. I want to say &amp;#039;Hi&amp;#039; to my kids - and it&amp;#039;s 6 o&amp;#039;clock in the morning in Paris, so you should go to bed in 30 seconds! I want to say to my wife, Berenice Bejo, that I love you, but it&amp;#039;s not just about that... you inspired the movie, and you&amp;#039;re the soul of the movie and the positive feeling of the movie.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;I want to thank three people. I want to thank Billy Wilder, Billy Wilder and Billy Wilder. Thank you so much.&amp;quot; More Oscars coverage:&amp;amp;gt; Oscars 2012: 84th Academy Awards - live blog&amp;amp;gt; Sacha Baron Cohen spills Kim Jong Il &amp;#039;ashes&amp;#039; on Ryan Seacrest&amp;amp;gt; Six of Billy Crystal&amp;#039;s best Academy Awards moments - video&amp;amp;gt; Top 10 most outrageous Academy Awards moments&amp;amp;gt; 20 movies that dominated the Oscars&amp;amp;gt; Oscars in numbers Watch the trailer for The Artist below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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