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“Every once in a while it’s nice to have a delicious little dessert of a movie. And The Artist, a love letter to a bygone era, is a loveable little pastiche of a movie. Would I have given it the Oscar for Best Picture? No, my heart belonged to Hugo. But it’s so hard to begrudge such a sweet, happy-go-lucky little movie. It doesn’t hurt that the two lead performances as so energetic and charismatic, or that the film is a treasure trove of references to both the real life histories of several silent movie stars and the movies themselves.
Perhaps the reason that The Artist swooping in out of left field to propel itself into the Oscar race, and eventually to become the winner, didn’t bother me was because it is something rare to see during awards season: a comedy that can, doe” read more
Best movies of 2011
Box office earning for 2011's 9 oscar nominees (9 movies items)"2011's ACADEMY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST PICTURE! Production budget:$15 million U.S. earnings:$44,671,682 Worldwide earnings:$133,432,856 Also won oscars for: best actor (jean dujardin), best director (michel hazanavicius), best costume design, best original score Also nominated for: best supporting actress (berenice bejo), best original screenplay (michel hazanavicius), best art direction, best cinematography, best film editing."
Movies I Saw For the First Time in 2012 (98 movies items)"2 Worse Than Listal Rating 2.1 Worse Than IMDb Rating -2.05 Different Than Average Rating"
Movie Diary - October 2012 (13 movies items)"Somehow I didn't like The Artist as much as the big whole crowd did. Of course, it wasn't a bad movie and there were good scenes in it, but it wasn't that high flyer which everyone told me. To be honest I was a little bit bored in between. I considered to give it half a star more because of the great dancing scene in the end. But in the end it was just that one scene which enthused me. Okay there was dancing before, which was great, too, but it didn't weigh that much for me. Maybe if there was a"
