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"Meryl Streep and Jean Dujardin have won the top gongs at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts awards. The acting duo personally collected their prizes for &amp;#039;Best Actress&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Best Actor&amp;#039; for their respective roles in The Iron Lady and The Artist at the international segment of the awards formerly known as the AFIs in Los Angeles over the weekend. According to AAP, The Artist was also named &amp;#039;Best Film&amp;#039;, while director Michel Hazanavicius won the &amp;#039;Best Direction&amp;#039; category. The award for &amp;#039;Best Screenplay&amp;#039; was claimed by two joint winners, The Ides of March writers George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon and JC Chandor for Margin Call. The ceremony was attended by Australian A-listers such as Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Liam Hemsworth, Nicole Kidman, Bella Heathcote and Geoffrey Rush, who is president of the Academy. The rest of the AACTA awards will be handed out at the main ceremony at Sydney Opera House on Tuesday, January 31. &amp;gt; Oscars 2012 nominations: Reactions &amp;gt; BAFTA Film Awards 2012 nominations - in full See the full list of winners for the AACTA International segment below: AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius The Descendants Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash The Ides Of March - George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon - WINNER! Margin Call - J.C. Chandor - WINNER! Melancholia - Lars von Trier Midnight In Paris - Woody Allen Moneyball - Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay, Rory Kinnear AACTA International Award for Best Direction The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius - WINNER! Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn Hugo - Martin Scorsese Margin Call - J.C. Chandor Melancholia - Lars von Trier Midnight In Paris - Woody Allen The Tree Of Life - Terrence Malick We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay AACTA International Award for Best Actor George Clooney - The Descendants Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar Jean Dujardin - The Artist - WINNER! Michael Fassbender - Shame Ryan Gosling - The Ides Of March Brad Pitt - Moneyball AACTA International Award for Best Actress Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs Kirsten Dunst - Melancholia Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady - WINNER! Tilda Swinton - We Need To Talk About Kevin Mia Wasikowska - Jane Eyre Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn AACTA International Award for Best Film The Artist - Thomas Langmann - WINNER! The Descendants - Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor Hugo - Graham King, Tim Headington, Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp The Ides Of March - George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Brian Oliver Margin Call - Robert Ogden Barnum, Michael Benaroya, Neal Dodson, Joe Jenckes, Corey Moosa, Zachary Quinto Melancholia - Meta Louise Foldager, Louise Vesth Midnight In Paris - Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Jaume Roures Moneyball - Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt The Tree Of Life - Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner, Sarah Green We Need To Talk About Kevin - Luc Roeg, Jennifer Fox, Robert Salerno Watch Digital Spy&amp;#039;s exclusive featurette of The Iron Lady below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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