While a nearly silent, black-and-white throwback film to old Hollywood won best picture at Sunday's Academy Awards, after-parties around town celebrated present day Hollywood with explosions of colour, conversation, pounding music and pure glee.

Notable quotes from the 84th annual Academy Awards presented Sunday in Los Angeles

From George Clooney planting a smooch on Billy Crystal to “The Artist” proving silence really is golden, the awards had plenty of memorable moments.

Meryl Streep joined a very exclusive club on Sunday, winning her third acting Oscar.

Even the hundreds of photographers, TV cameras and webcams around the Hollywood & Highland Center can't capture every starry moment of Sunday's 84th annual Academy Awards.

Christopher Plummer became the oldest-ever Oscar winner on Sunday night.

Baron Cohen arrived in character for his upcoming film, "The Dictator," in which he plays a kind of Moammar Gadhafi parody.

Meryl Streep might join the acting three-peat club with a third Academy Award.

The Oscars are almost upon us, and while the Academy may have left out a few important categories like Best Hairdo, Best Animal Actor and Best Zinger, luckily we haven’t!

The Academy Awards are the film industry's biggest night of the year, and movie fans deserve their own Oscar celebrations.

Will Cirque du soleil get funnyman Billy Crystal onto a trapeze when he hosts the Oscars on Sunday night?

Ten-year Oscar veteran Ben Mulroney will share the screen with a first-time Oscar newbie, Leah Miller.

It's only the 84th year of the Academy Awards, yet the nostalgia factor feels as though Hollywood is celebrating a centennial of some sort.

The Academy Awards will be coming to you live from the same place -- but with a different name.

Throwing a party to watch the Academy Awards is a perfect excuse to get out of the mid-winter Sunday night track pants.

Evelyne de la Cheneliere laughs when asked if she ever considered becoming a teacher like one of her best known creations, Bashir Lazhar.

Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby are nominated for best animated short for 'Wild Life.'

Will silent actor Jean Dujardin beat out his sexy counterparts George Clooney and Brad Pitt?

Revel in all of the glitz and glamour of the Oscars and the stars online.

To create the Oscar-nominated costumes for "The Artist," designer Mark Bridges had to think in both colour and black and white.

Patrick Doyon is well aware of the implications of getting an Oscar nomination for his first professional film, "Sunday."

Even dog actors can get awards in Tinseltown.

Despite delivering three dynamic performances in 2011, the Canadian actor wasn’t recognized by the Academy.

The Oscars aren't until Feb. 26, but winners of the Pawscars are already celebrating.

Phillippe Falardeau was dreaming of a political career rather than a career as an Academy Award-nominated director when he worked as an usher at the National Arts Centre.

The 1920s Jazz Age look worn in the movie is already showing up everywhere from the runway to the red carpet.

The producers of the Oscar-nominated "Monsieur Lazhar" admit they had their doubts that a one-man play about an immigrant schoolteacher could be turned into a movie.

The silver screen veteran says part of her immersion into the oddly genderless persona of Nobbs involved embracing the character's clueless sense of who she is.

Finally, an awards show with some surprises and spontaneity.

The award-winning designer died on Saturday in Tokyo of pancreatic cancer.

Mendes said "Rio" director Carlos Saldanha may want to tie the sequel to the 2014 World Cup, which will take place in Brazil.

The director says he strove to create an intimate but low-key portrait of grief, loss and innocence with his tender school tale "Monsieur Lazhar."

Toronto-born, Montreal raised acting legend Christopher Plummer is just one of the Canadians up for an Oscar.

Sergio Mendes' "Real In Rio" from the animated adventure "Rio" will compete with Bret McKenzie's "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets."

The French star of "The Artist" says its cast and crew knew their challenge by doing a silent, black-and-white film.

The favourites all came away with their predicted boatloads, but a pleasant quirkiness followed.

Two National Film Board of Canada animated shorts are up for Academy Awards.

It's the second year in a row a Quebec filmmaker is vying for an Academy Award.

Knightley admitted she and co-star Michael Fassbender got through the more uncomfortable scenes by turning to alcohol.

The 53-year-old star's fascination with Wallis Simpson - the subject of her new movie 'W.E.' -stemmed from her interest in English history.

For the first time, silent films may bookend the best-picture category.

The veteran Oscar host hints at what's to come in a new video.

Jolie and Pitt fully dressed their part as a glamorous Hollywood power couple at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards.

Were they watering down the drinks at the Golden Globes awardscast?

"The Artist" waltzed away with its first wins of Hollywood's awards season.

Spitting and stammering, her jaw jutting forward and her eyes popping out of her head, Keira Knightley is a frightening force of nature in "A Dangerous Method."

Trumbull's credits include '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'The Tree of Life.'

The films, which include 'Albert Nobbs' and the final 'Harry Potter' will be narrowed down to three.

The actress will join Academy president Tom Sherak at the nominations announcement Jan. 24.

The Academy Award for visual effects is shaping up into a showdown among such heroes as Harry Potter, the X-Men, the Transformers and Captain America.

She's a double Oscar winner with a knack for accents, but Meryl Streep says playing Margaret Thatcher was a challenge.

How do you choose the best Meryl Streep performances? It's like trying to decide what kind of ice cream is best.

Just in time for family-friendly holiday feel-goodery is Steven Spielberg's sweeping, historical epic "War Horse."

The story of a cancer patient and his best friend, the cinematic return of Kermit the Frog and a blood-soaked noir thriller are among the year's Top 10 films as selected by the writers and editors of The Canadian Press.

In this film image released by Focus Features, Gary Oldman is shown in a scene from "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." (AP Photo/Focus Features, Jack English)

Despite the ado about its 18A rating in Canada, "Shame" is the least-sexy movie about sex you will ever see.

After a tumultuous week that saw the departure and replacement of the Oscar show's host and producer, the film academy enjoyed a night of good vibes.

J. Edgar," may not draw cheers, but it remains a riveting attempt by Eastwood to wrestle with big American questions.

Brian Grazer has stepped onto the Academy Awards merry-go-round.

You don't have to know about VORP -- or WHIP, or OPS -- to enjoy "Moneyball."