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      <![CDATA[I have yet to see The Paperboy but do believe this was overall a particularly weak year for movies. I didn't give 4 stars to any film in 2012, and I tend to average 2-3 of them per year.<br>
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As for your interesting question of the last time the best picture won Best Picture, I would say 2007's No Country for Old Men, a rather daring pick for the normally conservative Academy.
        
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      <![CDATA[Matt, if I have to choose, I'd prefer Lincoln or Beasts of the Southern Wild. But frankly, I'm still nonplussed at how few nominations The Paperboy got in all the various awards competitions.
        
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      <![CDATA[So I'm assuming you're Team Lincoln? Or maybe Zero Dark Thirty?
        
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      <![CDATA[As a long, loooooongtime movie fan, and as your former editor, Matt, I'll say that if Argo wins best film, I will slit my wrists, and  maybe yours too. That film -- a decent political thriller but that's about it -- has no more business winning best film, or even being nominated for that matter, than Life of Pi, one of the most disastrous, wrongheaded interpretations of a book I've ever seen.
        
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