Argo
Looking back, Argo’s Oscar campaign is bizarre. Ben Affleck, snubbed for a Best Director nomination, was somehow “due,” so the Academy gave him the Best Picture award. Not that the 2012 class wasn’t successful. What about Lincoln? Love? Beast of the Southern Wild? Bueller? Is anybody listening from the Academy? Surprisingly, that year a middlebrow drama like “Argo” took the top prize.
Argo
Gwenyth Paltrow
The 1998 Academy Awards had multiple surprising winners. Maybe none more than Gwenyth Paltrow winning Best Actress over Elizabeth’s much more worthy rival Cate Blanchett. Okay, I must admit, that year’s Saving Private Ryan snub was hard to swallow too. It’s generally agreed that Paltrow won the Oscar because Harvey Weinstein was extremely aggressive in his award campaign.
Gwenyth Paltrow
