Argo (2012 Best Picture Winner)
The tenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2012 features the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, Ben Affleck’s Argo. Directed by Ben Affleck from a script by Chris Terrio and starring Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Scoot McNairy and Tate Donovan, Argo was nominated for seven Oscars and won three, including Best Picture.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/argo-2012), Manohla Dargis in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/movies/argo-directed-by-ben-affleck.html), and Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/nov/08/argo-review).
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