Oscars highlights: the Academy's big night in pictures

The Artist's Jean Dujardin and co-star Uggie re-enact the kiss Angelina Jolie gave her brother in 2000 . This year, Jolie's brother was nowhere to be seen. But Jolie herself was on hand to present an award - and so was her leg. Jolie with her double-act partner. And Brad Pitt. Price Waterhouse Coopers' Rick Rosas and Brad Oltmans proudly present the sartorial nous that won them a career in accountancy. Inside their very fetching man-bags are the results of the Oscars ballots. Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and two neighbours from Beverley Hills. Sacha Baron Cohen dressed up as a dictator from his upcoming film, The Dictator, brought along what he claimed were the ashes of Kim Jong-il. "It was his dream," Cohen confided, "to come to the Oscars and be sprinkled over the red carpet and Halle Berry's chest again". Mother Delores Hart also wore fancy dress, but unlike Cohen she came as herself. Hart is the real-life star of documentary short, God is Bigger than Elvis. Sandra Bullock ruins a waxwork of George Clooney. Comedian Bret McKenzie - nominated for best original song - in a physical representation of his career trajectory. Bridesmaids' co-stars Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne, and their dates.