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Ben Affleck: Won Dorian Awards: January 18, 2013 Film of the Year Argo: Won Empire Awards: March 24, 2013: Best Thriller Argo: Nominated Florida Film Critics Circle: December 18, 2012 Best Film Argo: Won Best Director Ben Affleck: Won Best Adapted Screenplay Chris Terrio: Won Golden Eagle Award: January 29, 2014 Best Foreign Language Film: Argo ...
Trivia. FAQ. IMDbPro. All topics. Awards. Argo. Jump to. 96 wins & 156 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 2013 Winner Oscar. Best Motion Picture of the Year. Grant Heslov. Ben Affleck. George Clooney. 2013 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. Alan Arkin. 2013 Winner Oscar. Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. Chris Terrio.
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Feb 25, 2013 · Argo, Ben Affleck's fact-based thriller about the Iranian hostage crisis, rode to victory at the 85th Academy Awards, taking the crowning best picture Oscar to complete a night of triumph. The...
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On November 4, 1979, Iranian Islamists storm the United States Embassy in Tehran in retaliation for President Jimmy Carter giving the Shah, an absolute monarch who was supported by Western powers, asylum in the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution, for cancer treatment. Sixty-six of the embassy staff are taken as hostages, but six avoid capture and a...
Development
Argo is based on the "Canadian Caper" that took place during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 and 1980. Chris Terrio wrote the screenplay based on Joshuah Bearman's 2007 article "How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran," which was published in Wired. Affleck mentioned the influences for the film, which include Costa-Gavras's work, All the President's Men, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and The Battle of Algierswhich served as references. In 2007, the producers Ge...
Filming
After the rest of the roles were cast, filming began in Los Angeles in August 2011. Additional filming took place in McLean, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Istanbul. The scene in which Mendez drives up to and walks into the CIA headquarters lobby was filmed with permission at the CIA's original headquarters building in Virginia; all other scenes set at the CIA were filmed in the basement of the Los Angeles Times Building. As a historical piece, the film made use of archival news footage from...
Critical response
Argo was acclaimed by critics, praising Ben Affleck's direction, the cast (especially Arkin and Goodman), the script, and the editing. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of 364 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Tense, exciting, and often darkly comic, Argo recreates a historical event with vivid attention to detail and finely wrought characters." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a sco...
Reaction by Iranians
Abolhassan Banisadr, foreign minister and then president during the incident, argued that the movie does not take into account the fact that most of the cabinet members advocated freeing all the American personnel quickly. Jian Ghomeshi, a Canadian writer and radio figure of Iranian descent, thought the film had a "deeply troubling portrayal of the Iranian people." Ghomeshi asserted "among all the rave reviews, virtually no one in the mainstream media has called out [the] unbalanced depiction...
Top ten lists
Professional reviewers ranked the film with other releases for 2012, as follows:
Canadian versus CIA roles
After the film was previewed at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, many critics said that it unfairly glorified the CIA's role and minimized the Canadian government's role (particularly that of Ambassador Taylor) in the extraction operation. Maclean'sasserted that "the movie rewrites history at Canada's expense, making Hollywood and the CIA the saga's heroic saviours while Taylor is demoted to a kindly concierge." The postscript text said that the CIA let Taylor take the credit for...
British and New Zealand roles
Upon its release in October 2012, the film was criticized for its suggestion that British and New Zealandembassies had turned away the American diplomats in Tehran. In fact both embassies, together with the Canadians, helped the Americans. The British had initially hosted the American diplomats; however, the location was deemed unsafe as the British embassy itself had been targeted and surrounded by mobs and all involved officials from the various nations believed the Canadian ambassador's re...
Imminent danger to the group
In the film, the diplomats face suspicious glances from Iranians whenever they go out in public, and appear close to being caught at many steps along the way to their freedom. In reality, the diplomats never appeared to be in imminent danger.Taylor's wife bought three sets of plane tickets from three different airlines ahead of time, without any issues. 1. The film depicts a dramatic last-minute cancellation of the mission by the Carter administration and Mendez declaring he will proceed with...
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper, a 1981 television film about the "Canadian Caper".On Wings of Eagles, a 1983 novel by Ken Follett, about Ross Perot's successful rescue of several of his employees from Iran just after the revolution.Argo at IMDbArgo at Box Office MojoArgo at Rotten TomatoesFeb 22, 2013 · Feb. 24, 2013 -- "Argo" took home the top prize as best picture at the Oscars Sunday night, with first lady Michelle Obama announcing the winner from the White House. "You directed a hell of a film," co-producer Grant Heslov told director and fellow producer Ben Affleck. "I couldn't be more proud of the film and more proud of our director."
Feb 25, 2013 · Affleck had played that slight masterfully, making a movie that had long been an Oscar frontrunner into a winsome underdog. In the process, Argo became the first film since Driving Miss Daisy...
