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On the evening of February 26, 2012, the motion picture The Artist won the Oscar hat trick—best picture, best actor in a leading role, and best direction—at the eighty-fourth Academy Awards, beating out the biggest names in Hollywood. Although it had garnered 10 nominations, The Artist was a dark horse in the race for the Oscars as a French film with a director and cast virtually unknown to the American audience. What made The Artist such an underdog was that it was shot in the style of the motion pictures of the 1920s: black and white and silent (except, of course, for music).
It was also a study in subtraction.
I watched it with my wife in the comfort of our living room two weeks before the awards (courtesy of a friend in the academy). ...
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