Photos: Remembering Uggie: Helping an ‘Artist’ to success

Uggie shows off the award for best motion picture, musical or comedy, that went to “The Artist” at the 69th Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton.

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Jean Dujardin, who won lead actor for the movie “The Artist,” walks off stage with Uggie at the 84th Academy Awards.

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Uggie is held by his trainer, Omar van Muller, during a ceremony before Uggie’s paw prints are immortalized in cement at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

(Arkasha Stevenson / Los Angeles Times)

Uggie, the canine star of “The Artist,” becomes the first dog to make a paw cast in the famed cement in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

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Omar von Muller gets a kiss from his dog Uggie who starred in “The Artist” and has an autobiography coming out.

(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)