6 Reasons Why Argo Rightly Deserved The Best Picture Oscar
4. Commercial success
Movies that score an Oscar for Best Picture are generally brilliant technically and also achieve commercial success. Argo has not only been acclaimed for its good direction and story, but also for the way it set cash registers ringing at the box office. Commercial performance is considered to be a key benchmark for a movie’s success and Argo has been successful in this regard.
5. Use of dark humor
Argo has won rave reviews from its critics and fans in America and abroad. In fact, acknowledged critic Roger Ebert has praised it for being spellbinding and surprisingly humorous. Famous internet website Rotten Tomatoes which is known to be trusted for its user based movie reviews praised it for its dark comedy. Using dark humor convincingly is a difficult task to achieve.
6. Overall appreciation for all areas of filmmaking as compared to other nominees
One of the reasons Argo rightly deserved the Best Picture Oscar was because it stood out against its fellow nominees for being an overall performer in all departments. The nominees included Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, Michael Haneke’s Amour, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained and Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables. While each of these movies excelled in their own right, Argo emerged to be a complete package of a good acting, excellent direction, good narrative, technically sound and popularity among the masses.
