The Artist (2011)

Academy Awards, USA 2012

Won Oscar	Best Motion Picture of the Year Thomas Langmann
	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Jean Dujardin
	Best Achievement in Directing Michel Hazanavicius
	Best Achievement in Costume Design Mark Bridges
	Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score Ludovic Bource
Nominated Oscar	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Bérénice Bejo
	Best Writing, Original Screenplay Michel Hazanavicius
	Best Achievement in Cinematography Guillaume Schiffman
	Best Achievement in Film Editing Anne-Sophie Bion Michel Hazanavicius
	Best Achievement in Art Direction Laurence Bennett (production designer) Robert Gould (set decorator)

The Weinstein Company
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Sony)

A silent film icon has trouble adapting to talkies and spirals into bankruptcy and depression. His wife divorces him and his comeback film is a failure. He spends his time alone drinking or watching his old films. One day he decides to burn them and sets his house on fire, only surviving because of his quick thinking faithful dog. Meanwhile, a girl he once helped get her first job becomes a Hollywood sensation in the sound era. After the fire, she takes him into her mansion to recover, but he is too proud to accept and walks out. Eventually she finds a role for him in one of her movies that he can accept. A breezy, easy-to-take homage to Hollywood's golden age, almost spoiled by the pathetic figure of Jean Dujardin's "George Valentin", who goes from egotistical star to self-loathing has-been over the course of the film.