OScar Winner 2013 - ARGO?

argo is best movie.its win oscar is very good.

The popularity of movies has little to do with whether the movie collects Oscars. The number of Oscars a movie gets also may not have an effect on whether it gets a best picture Oscar. Oscar voting is based on categories. For best actor, only actors get to vote. For best director only directors get to vote. The same for best actress, screenplay, set design, etc. It's possible that a movie can win a lot of Oscars in categories like best musical score, best song, best set design, best costumes, best film editing, and yet overall it may not win best picture. For some categories like best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, or best supporting actress, the 'best' performance doesn't always win. Sometimes they give it to sentimental favorites, for example John Wayne won for best actor in True Grit. What is unusual here is that Argo was nominated for best picture and not best director.

No it doesn't work like that! The Oscars is not about box office or popularity. That is the People's Choice awards! The Oscars is about the talent and the story. Life of Pi won the lesser awards because it was made artistically. Argo had a better story. I hoped Argo would win. But I picked Lincoln because I know The Academy loves epics. but then again Argo has a better story.

I think this was a great year for the oscars, because usually, 1 movie hits the vast majority, leaving the others behind. I agree with them for this year, because it was really hard for me to pick out who the winners should be, it was a very close race, but I was happy with most of their choices. What you have to understand, is the Academy is around 6000 people, who are all in different divisions of the industry. The chosen highest editors get to vote for best editor, the highest directors get to vote for best director, and so on... but an actor can't vote for best cinematographer, etc. This way, favorites are harder to have, because if a director treats everyone the best, then he will have a better chance to win for best director, not because of his work, but because everyone likes him. Best Picture is a different story, because everyone has a vote on which is the best picture of the year. This is why they let around 10 movies get nominations. They just have to get enough votes to be nominated, and when you have so many more voters, it's easy to get enough votes. A movie that wants to try for an award submits their film to the academy, where all of the members watch those movies, then pick what they feel is their top 5, in that order, of their category. Then, all of those picks are sent to the people who count the ballots, and all of the names come in, where the top 5 are shown as the nominees (sometimes less, sometimes more). There is also talk around Hollywood that changes around the choices, though. A perfect example is Michael Moore. Bowling for Columbine was a massive hit, even having the Cannes Film Festival create a prize for best documentary, and it won the best documentary oscar. When Moore got on stage to accept the oscar, he talked down George Bush, and was heavily booed offstage. After that, even though his other documentaries were seen as the best in the world from most other awards shows and film fests, only Sicko even made in on the list, and that was at the end of George Bush's presidency, where Bush was greatly disliked by the public, and the academy. So this year, Actors loved seeing Daniel Day Louis, and directors loved the work of Ang Lee, but Argo came in 2nd or 3rd place in most categories... but since everyone was so split, when it came to best picture, Argo had the most votes all around. That's why it happened this way. Personally, I didn't feel like Argo was the best movie of the year, I personally loved Django Unchained the most, but I'm still super happy for Quentin Tarantino winning for best screenplay. It's a collection of the top people working in the American Film Industry, experts on a category voting for that category, and I see it as the best way to do it.

Last year Oscar really gave me a shock. This year I can't say much because I have not watch Argo. I did watch Life of Pi and it is good! Yes, Oscar is no more like many years ago where the winner is really obvious and rightful winners ... I hope to see more qualified winners at next year Oscar. Btw, Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress for which movie? I think I missed that movie. The only movie that I watched her acting in was 'Hunger Game' and she is really good. Can't wait to watch Hunger Game 2.

Id like to see the public decide who wins those oscars. As I think the winners are chosen for all the wrong reasons by the academy.

The story, the plotlines, the acting, all of that goes into more of why a movie wins best picture. No one cares about visual effects or sound mixing when it comes to best picture. I mean you can have a crappy movie and get nominated for visual effects or best costuming (just examples). And I have to be honest, a lot less people like Life of Pi than they did the other Oscar nominees. The only significant aware Life of Pi won was Best Director. They didn't even have any nominees in the acting categories.

Lol, I have not seen any of those nominated except Les Miserables. I should see Argo and Life of Pi.

I'm extremely happy for Ang Lee winning Best Director.I jumped out of my chair when I heard his name.Best music too.I'm proud of these Oscars that Life of Pi has won.I don't care about the Best Picture statuette anymore because this nomination is a joke now.Remember the winners of the past few years.When was the last time when a truly great movie won Best Picture?Not a single title comes to my mind.This time it looks like a charity act because the movie has only two awards.Joke of the year.

I sometimes question the winners of Oscars especially when I have watched great films which did not win. I was able to watch Argo but not that attentively since I find it a bit boring. Actually it's not that boring but I just anticipated a lot of action in the film. I already heard a month ago that Argo would win the best picture award and I also read a news that Ben Affleck was very good in directing his first film. I haven't watched Life of Pi yet but tomorrow I will watch it. I've watched The Perks of being a wallflower, I thought it will get some nominations but it did not. I agree when you said that Avatar is better than Hurt Locker but maybe the jury opted for the latter since the story is more relevant. Don't you notice that they prefer stories of war and terrorism.

Or maybe it was just a consolation for ARGO since oscars snub ARGO for other entries of nominees. I like Life of PI much as I like Argo. So I really don't mind. What bothers me is Anne hathaway. I think she's good in les mesirables but not enough for oscar's best supporting actress... Way to go for those who didn't get lucky :)