“The Artist” took top picture, actor and directing honors at the first Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Intl. Awards Friday evening.

George Cukor’s melodrama, “Edward, My Son” was nominated for one Oscar, Best Actress for Deborah Kerr.

Set in WWII, “The Enemy Below” is a suspenseful take of of submarine warfare between the Americans and the Germans,

David Dinerstein, who helped advise on the “Nobbs” plan and now heads LD Distribution, says withdrawing “Nobbs” from theaters for a month after its one-week Oscar qualifying run in late December helped put a limited budget to its best use.