The Oscars ignored George Clooney and Brad Pitt and presented Best Actor to Jean Dujardin, star of the silent French film The Artist. He was born 19 June 1972 4.50am Rueil Malmaison, France. He has an exuberantly charming Sun Venus in Gemini on his Ascendant making him a larger than life personality. His outgoing temperament is given a considerable boost with his Sun being in opposition to expansive Jupiter in Capricorn and both square onto Pluto Moon in Libra in his 4th. So he’s confident, charismatic, quite a force to be reckoned with. His career has a long ways to go with transiting Saturn only going through his 5th house at the moment. The best is yet to come. Oddly enough he was born less than a month after the Best Supporting Actress Octavia Spencer, awarded for her role in The Help. Born 25 May 1972 she’s a slightly more downbeat and serious Sun Saturn in Gemini in a creative opposition to Neptune with her Moon in intense Scorpio. Like Jean Dujardin she has Jupiter in money-attracting Capricorn. So the present transiting Jupiter in Taurus was doing both their careers and bank balances a great deal of good. Best Actress Meryl Streep just missed being a Sun Gemini by less than a day. Born 22 June 1949 at 8.05 am Summit, New Jersey her Sun is just into Cancer and conjunct a whacky, innovative Uranus. Her 10th house Taurus Moon is certainly benefiting greatly from this year’s transiting Jupiter in Taurus as it heaps more honours on her head. Her career looks to be extending way into the future as well. Best Supporting Actor, the 82 year old Christopher Plummer born on 13 December 1929 in Toronto is a passionately charming Sun Mars Venus in Sagittarius. He also has a Taurus Moon. His Venus opposes laid-back Jupiter in Gemini giving him the charm which brought him to prominence in The Sound of Music many years ago.