Best Picture: 'The Artist' wins three top Oscars, including best picture

The issue I have with so many movies today is that there is an incredible amount of gratuitous violence, gore, horrendous behavior, and just plain old nasty stuff.It was, however, the sole win for the most popular (in terms of grosses) of the nine nominated best picture titles. “Rango,” an animated Sergio Leone-inflected Western that suited this Oscar year's obsession with nostalgia and populist mythmaking,"The Artist," a black-and-white homage to the early days of Hollywood,

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