Artist was the best movie the year it won. I thought Argo would win last year and it did. Entertaining movie even if it isn't very factual. King's Speech was pretty boring. A movie about a guy who manages to read a speech on the radio someone wrote for him? Yeah who cares? I never saw the movie about his brother who gave up his thrown to marry the woman from Baltimore. That has to be better. I though Black Swan should have won that year. But King's speech is better than Gladiator.
I like how now that they have 10 nominees they can throw in one terrible low budget movie that has no chance for winning. Like "Tree of Live" which was the worst movie I have ever seen and "Beasts of the Southern Wild" which wasn't very good. It is like we will put in a movie that no one watched to seem like we aren't all about the box office and we pick ones that no one will vote for so not to mess up the evening for everyone.