{blackbabes} What's ahead for Oscar's elite?

The long trek to the Academy Awards ended with Sunday's broadcast. Now it's time for the class of 2012 to get back to work. USA TODAY breaks down where we'll next see the Oscar stars.

Jean Dujardin

After his best-actor Oscar win as a silent-film star, the man referred to as the George Clooney of France will find his voice again as he begins filming the French romantic thriller Möbius in April. Dujardin also will appear in the French comedy Les Infidèles (The Players), which has been picked up by The Weinstein Co. for distribution in the USA this year.

Meryl Streep

The best-actress winner jumps into comedy, playing a wife trying to spice things up with her husband (Tommy Lee Jones) by visiting a relationship guru (Steve Carell) in Great Hope Springs (due Aug. 10). This fall, she'll start filming a role as Julia Roberts' mother in the movie adaptation of August: Osage County (2013).

Christopher Plummer

Don't expect the 82-year-old Plummer to slow down. After winning his first Oscar for his supporting role in Beginners, he will star in the HBO film Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II (no airdate yet). Plummer also will appear in a one-man play he wrote, A Word or Two, this summer at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival in Canada.

Octavia Spencer

With her award for best supporting actress in hand, she's starting work for a role as a Vegas card dealer in writer/director Diablo Cody's still-untitled film. After that, she'll appear in the indie film Smashed (due this year)

and in the futuristic Snow Piercer (2013).

Viola Davis

She lost out on the actress award, but Davis' next movie might foretell her response: Won't Back Down (Sept. 28), in which she'll star with Maggie Gyllenhaal as crusading parents working to transform their children's failing school. Davis soon starts to shoot Ender's Game (2013) in New Orleans, playing a military psychologist.

George Clooney

He'll follow his best-actor nomination by getting stuck in space with Sandra Bullock in Gravity (Nov. 21). The two play astronauts tethered together in peril after a routine space mission goes awry. He also plans to star in and direct The Monuments Men (no release date), about art experts chasing down the works stolen in World War II.

Jessica Chastain

Chastain was everywhere in 2011, during which she became a supporting-actress nominee, but she'll slow it down in 2012 with a voice appearance in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (June 8). She'll also star as a gun moll in Wettest County (also starring Oscar nominee Gary Oldman; due in August), and she'll continue to shoot director Kathryn Bigelow's secretive next film, believed to be about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

Glenn Close

The best-actress nominee is already at work on the fifth season of Damages, which will air this summer on DirectTV's Audience Network. She's expected to shoot the murder thriller Therese Raquin alongside Elizabeth Olsen in Eastern Europe this summer.

Brad Pitt

Look for the best-actor nominee to go on a violent tear in Cogan's Trade (Sept. 21), where he stars as a Mob enforcer. In December, Pitt will play United Nations researcher Gerry Lane, who tries to stop the outbreak of a deadly zombie pandemic in World War Z (Dec. 21). And he'll produce Twelve Years a Slave (no release date), in which he'll take on a small role.