The cinema has on the whole been kind to Oscar winners large and small, so it is interesting to note that The Artist has not (yet) been a major beneficiary of the so-called Oscar bounce.
Takkas is said to have been paid by instalments into various accounts, including in the Cayman Islands, intended it is alleged, "to conceal the fact the defendant Jeffrey Webb was the beneficiary of the payment".
During his brief tenure in the job, George Entwistle had already begun to dismember the bloated structure installed by John Birt, the improbable beneficiary of the Mendips camorra of William Rees-Mogg and Marmaduke Hussey (those are the truly guilty men).
The most affluent family in Britain, headed by Major General Gerald Grosvenor, owns 77 hectares (190 acres) of prime real estate in Belgravia, London, and has been a beneficiary of the foreign money flooding in to the capital's soaring property market in recent years.
Saudi Arabia is not the only potential beneficiary of Grayling's entrepreneurial spirit.
Had the beneficiary of such largesse from another team been Alejandro Valverde, Davide Rebellin or one of the other pantomime villains of the sport, would the millions of armchair fans have been so quick to anger?
"He promised fantastic returns but, as is so often the case with unauthorised investment schemes, those who invested ended up with significant losses and the main beneficiary of the scheme was Hope himself.
He also sits on the board of Cooper hospital, which both received a grant and is the indirect beneficiary of two more – one to build housing for its students and the other to DioGenix, which the state authority said moved to Camden to work with Cooper.
Ed Miliband, the beneficiary of that underhand tactic in 2010, needs to make it clear that this should not happen again.
Gérin told Mediapart he was not a beneficiary of the trust and said he would be asking for explanations from Le Pen and lawyers.
Meeting "the voice and embodiment of the jazz age, its product and its beneficiary, a popular novelist, a movie scenarist, a dweller in the gilded palaces", the reporter found instead, to his distinct hilarity, that Fitzgerald was "forecasting doom, death and damnation to his generation".
