Best Picture of 2011: The Artist

The roaring 20's is an idealistic time to be alive. The economy is thriving and the movies are busting out to great stuff. People love going to see their favorite stars on the big screen. However, everything starts to change when they start adding "talking" to pictures. It's an idea that many in Hollywood was going to fail. After the public falls in love with idea many movies quickly change their style of movie to include talking pictures. However, not a lot a actor have the chops in order to make in talking films. This film follows the story of silent movie actor trying create films in a time when actors realty start to find their voice, and the love story of a young up and come actress who learns that sometimes silence is golden.




The first 100% black and white movie since 1960 to win Best Picture is one of the best to ever come out. The Artist was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five of them, included Best Actor. It's a picture that is so unique the it hard to compare it to any other movie in this day and age. The Weinstein Company apparently knows how to make hit movie this day in age because this is second year in a row that they took home the Best Picture Award. They beat out: Fox Searchlight's The Decedents and The Tree of Life; Warner Brothers' Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close; DreamWorks' The Help and War Horse; Paramount's Hugo; Sony Pictures' Midnight in Paris; and Columbia's Moneyball.


I have loved this film since the first time I saw it on DVD. My only regret about the film is that I did not go and watch it while it was out on the big screen. I always find something new about the film every time I watch it. It's a new experience every time. I know that a lot of people were mad when Jean Dujardin won for Best Actor because he was not an America. I am sorry but that is stupid. If you did an amazing enough job to be nominated for the award, of a movie was the shown in America and was allowed to be apart of the Academy Awards, than if you win you deserved to win the award because of the job you did not because of the nationality. If they didn't want to run the risk of him winning than they shouldn't have allowed it be in the running. However, I digress. This film is one of my all time favorite movies and I am actually going to make my Best Friend Alaina watch this film so I can nerd out.