Heads were turned and eyebrows were raised when Ben Affleck failed to receive a nomination in the Best Director category for his work on “Argo.”<\/p>\n
With the direction so essential to the film’s acclaim, the Academy’s failure to recognize Affleck’s work seemed to suggest that voters might not receive “Argo” in the brightest possible light.<\/p>\n
But once “Argo” began receiving award after award in the build-up to the Oscars, it slowly, but surely started to erase that doubt. Director snub or not, “Argo” had far more momentum than any other nominee, and it started to seem a foregone conclusion–rather than a longshot–that it would win the Best Picture prize.<\/p>\n
Sure enough, “Argo,” which also won for Best Adapted Screenply, took the Best Picture prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n