This is the movie that won the best picture award at the Oscars and is another very successful project for Ben Affleck. He directs the movie and is the first director of a movie that has won best picture to not have been nominated as best director, and he also acts in his own movie as he has done previously. In fact, unlike Quentin Tarantino who makes guest appearances in his movies, he is the lead actor in this movie.

It is an exciting story and I enjoyed it, but I cannot say that it is better, in my view, than “Lincoln”. It is based on the true story of spiriting 6 Americans out of Iran, with help from the Canadians, by pretending that they are all involved in the production of a movie. That movie, a science fiction movie, allegedly to be set in Iran was called “Argo” and that is from where the movie obviously takes its title. It is an excellent movie, very watchable but I would have voted for “Lincoln” for best picture if I had a vote and one wonders if, part of what swung the vote in Argo’s favour was the fact that when the members of the Academy, who are after all actors, actresses, directors and producers, were faced with a choice between a movie with a historical tale to tell and a more recent piece of history where Hollywood helped rescue the people in Iran via their efforts with a fake movie, that they did not just choose the story that was about their industry. People will always be biased towards a story that is all about them and makes them look good and no doubt that helped with votes.