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, a historical drama set during the Iran hostage crisis that sheds light on how an elaborate plan to fake a Hollywood movie helped free six exiled embassy workers, has won the Academy Award for Best Picture.Argo was nominated for seven Academy Awards this year and won three–for Film Editing, Adapted Screenplay and Picture.In reality comic book superstar Jack Kirby and science fiction icon Roger Zelazny, neither of whom appear in the film, contributed (unknowingly at the time) work from defunct projects to the CIA’s effort to make a convincingly-fake film.Affleck was left out of consideration for a Best Director Oscar.”When I didn’t get the Best Director nomination after everybody told me I would, I was depressed. But then that same day I won at Critics Choice which was really torturous because everyone kept asking me all night how I felt,” Affleck said of the film’s Best Picture chances at the Academy Awards earlier this month. “Then we win at the Globes.”Argo was also recently honored with a Producer’s Guild Award and the Golden Tomato, signifying that Argo was 2012′s winner for ‘Best Reviewed Film In Wide Release’ with a 96% positive score at Rotten Tomatoes. It beat out Looper, Marvel’s The Avengers and Skyfall for the honor. The Dark Knight Rises came in at #9 on that list, barely edging out Lincoln, another film that may be competing with Argo for Best Picture consideration at the Oscars.Talking with ComicBook.com about his film Science Fiction Land, which covers the same story as Argo but in a documentary fashion, director Judd Ehrlich said, “We were dealing with many of the themes that I think are now brought even into focus with Argo coming out because we were looking at the line between fiction and reality, fantasy and reality, and so many of the characters sort of live in between those two things. With a Hollywood film coming out, it’s yet another version of the truth, and one that many people will view as the truth but as we know it’s very highly fictionalized and dramatized to make for a compelling film that’s going to do big at the box office around the world.”The award was presented (as you can see below) by Oscar-winning actor Jack Nicholson and First Lady Michelle Obama.
