"Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 96%, based on 333 reviews, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Tense, exciting and often darkly comic, ""Argo"" recreates a historical event with vivid attention to detail and finely wrought characters."" On Metacritic, the film has a score of 86 out of 100, based on 45 reviews, indicating ""universal acclaim"". CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film a rare ""A+"" grade. Naming ""Argo"" one of the best 11 films of 2012, critic Stephen Holden of ""The New York Times"" wrote: ""Ben Affleck's seamless direction catapults him"
"as Mendez, and Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, and John Goodman in supporting roles, was released in the United States on October 12, 2012. It was produced by Grant Heslov, Affleck and George Clooney. Upon release, ""Argo"" received widespread acclaim, with praise directed towards the acting (particularly Arkin's), Affleck's direction, Terrio's screenplay, the editing, and Desplat's score. The film received seven nominations at the 85th Academy Awards and won three, for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. The film also earned five Golden Globe Award nominations: it won Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director, and was"
"Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey and co-produced ""The American"" starring Clooney in 2012. He also worked on 2011's ""The Ides of March"". In June 2012, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2013, Heslov, alongside Clooney and Ben Affleck, won the Academy Award for Best Picture for ""Argo"" (2012). The three men also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and the BAFTA Award for Best Film. Grant Heslov Grant Heslov (born May 15, 1963) is an American actor, film producer, screenwriter and director, known for his producing and"
"began work on his next directorial project, ""Argo"" (2012), for Warner Bros. Written by Chris Terrio and starring Affleck as a CIA operative, the film tells the story of the CIA plan to save six U.S. diplomats during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis by faking a production for a large-scale science fiction film. Anthony Lane of ""The New Yorker"" said the film offered ""further proof that we were wrong about Ben Affleck"". Peter Travers of ""Rolling Stone"" remarked: ""Affleck takes the next step in what looks like a major directing career ... He directs the hell out of it, nailing"
"on the short film ""Awake"", directed by Lori Lovoy-Goran, who won a DGA Student Film Award and a SXSW Competition Award for her documentary short film ""In Between Days"". Chris Terrio Chris Terrio (born December 31, 1976) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 2012 film ""Argo"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Terrio also won the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay of 2012 and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, a BAFTA and the 2013 Los Angeles Film Critics"
"Canadian citizens. After declassification of records, the full details of the operation were reported in a 2007 article by Joshuah Bearman in ""Wired"" magazine. This was loosely adapted for the screenplay and development of the 2012 Academy Award-winning film ""Argo"", directed by Ben Affleck, who also starred as Mendez. Mendez also attended the 70th Golden Globe Awards to give a speech about the film, where it was nominated (and later won) for Best Motion Picture – Drama. Mendez was born in Eureka, Nevada, in 1940 to John George Mendez (1917–1943) and Neva June Tognoni (1919–1995). He attended local public schools."
"Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, filmmaker and businessman. He is the recipient of three Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, one for acting in ""Syriana"" (2006) and the other for co-producing ""Argo"" (2012). In 2018, he was the recipient of the AFI Live Achievement Award, at the age of 57. Clooney made his acting debut on television in 1978, and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the long-running medical drama ""ER,"" from 1994 to 1999, for which he received"
"of Argo had not yet been declassified. The movie was filmed in and around Toronto, and was an American-Canadian co-production. A children's illustrated book about the event was written by 2013 Eric Hoffer Award-winner Laura Scandiffio and Stephen MacEachern entitled ""Escapes!"" The critically and commercially successful film ""Argo"", based on this event, was released in North American cinemas on October 12, 2012. In the film, the role of John Sheardown and his wife Zena were omitted for reasons of length and cost. The film includes elements of both fact and fiction. In particular, the film focuses largely on the role"
"Chris Terrio Chris Terrio (born December 31, 1976) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 2012 film ""Argo"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Terrio also won the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay of 2012 and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, a BAFTA and the 2013 Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Terrio wrote the screenplay for """", the follow-up to Zack Snyder's ""Man of Steel"", based on an earlier draft by David S. Goyer, and"
"George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, filmmaker and businessman. He is the recipient of three Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, one for acting in ""Syriana"" (2006) and the other for co-producing ""Argo"" (2012). In 2018, he was the recipient of the AFI Live Achievement Award, at the age of 57. Clooney made his acting debut on television in 1978, and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the long-running medical drama ""ER,"" from 1994 to 1999, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. While"
"a childhood cancer survivor. John Boyd (actor) John H. Boyd (born October 22, 1981) is an American actor. He is best known for starring as Arlo Glass in the eighth and final season of the Fox espionage thriller ""24"" in 2010. He also co-starred in the Academy Award-winning political thriller ""Argo"" (2012) and starred from 2014 to 2017 as FBI Special Agent James Aubrey on the Fox crime procedural comedy-drama ""Bones"" from the 10th season until the 12th and final season. Boyd was born in New York City, New York on October 22, 1981 to character actor Guy Boyd and"
"to Tehran, Iran with six fake Canadian passports and a risky plan to present the assets as Canadian filmmakers. Keeping in mind the potential worst-case scenario should somebody be caught, Mendez disguised the American diplomats as Canadian filmmakers looking to make a movie in Iran. He then exfiltrated all the Americans, as Canadians, safely back to the United States. In 2012, the film ""Argo"" was based on the story of this rescue, starring and directed by Ben Affleck. Mendez has since retired and now is a very successful artist. In the late 1990s, Captain Thomas Willard Ray and his navigator,"
"John Boyd (actor) John H. Boyd (born October 22, 1981) is an American actor. He is best known for starring as Arlo Glass in the eighth and final season of the Fox espionage thriller ""24"" in 2010. He also co-starred in the Academy Award-winning political thriller ""Argo"" (2012) and starred from 2014 to 2017 as FBI Special Agent James Aubrey on the Fox crime procedural comedy-drama ""Bones"" from the 10th season until the 12th and final season. Boyd was born in New York City, New York on October 22, 1981 to character actor Guy Boyd and actress, choreographer and producer"
"Sheila Vand Sheila Vand is an American actress and performance artist of Iranian descent. She is known for her role in Ben Affleck's 2012 Oscar-winning film ""Argo"". Vand made her Broadway debut alongside Robin Williams in 2011 in the Pulitzer-nominated ""Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo"". She has worked with filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour on several projects, including ""Pashmaloo"" which premiered at the Berlinale in 2011 and ""A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night"", which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. She also has an ongoing collaboration with 2013 TED speaker Alexa Meade. Their photo series ""MILK: What Will"
"crisis. The incident was the basis of the film ""Argo"", which won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture, and in which Chambers was played by John Goodman. Chambers was born in Chicago, Illinois, to an Irish-American family. His father Michael emigrated from Newport in Ireland. Chambers trained as a commercial artist and started his career designing jewelry and carpets. Following service as a medical technician during World War II, Chambers found employment repairing faces and making prosthetic limbs for wounded veterans at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Hines, Illinois. He also trained under Ben Nye, then head of make-up"
"returning to the UK. In 1988 he directed a production of Molière's ""Tartuffe"" for the Old Nick Company at the University of Tasmania, Hobart. He is married to Scotland-born British actress, actress Jayne McKenna, best known for her role in popular British soap opera ""Footballer's Wives"". Richard Dillane Richard Dillane (born 1964) is an English actor. He played British agent Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck's 2012 Iran-based political thriller, ""Argo"", winner among other things of the 2013 Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe for Best Picture, and Merv the husband of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson) in Jim Loach's fact-based"
"Grant Heslov Grant Heslov (born May 15, 1963) is an American actor, film producer, screenwriter and director, known for his producing and writing collaborations with George Clooney, which have earned him three Academy Award nominations. As a co-producer of ""Argo"" (2012), he received the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2013. As an actor, he has appeared in films including ""True Lies"" (1994), ""Black Sheep"" (1996), ""Enemy of the State"" (1998) and ""The Scorpion King"" (2002), as well as performing supporting roles in several films made with Clooney. Heslov was born in Los Angeles California, and was raised in its"
"Argo (2006 film) Argo is a 2006 short romance drama film that marks Jordan Bayne's short film writing and directorial debut. Co-written and co-directed by Bayne and Michael Knowles, the film was shot on location in Joshua Tree, California, in 2005. According to production company's official synopsis, ""Argo"" tells the story of two individuals living outside society in the American desert. It explores the struggles of being human in a world seemed bent on crushing the human spirit. Becca (played by Jordana Spiro) is a dispossessed soul whose chance encounter with Cal (played by Marcus Chait) becomes a collision course"
"nominated for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Alan Arkin. It won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Arkin was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. It also won Best Film, Best Editing and Best Director at the 66th British Academy Film Awards, and 37th Hochi Film Award for Best International Picture. Despite its praise, ""Argo"" has been criticized for some specific inaccuracies, in particular for minimizing the role of the Canadian embassy in the rescue, for falsely showing that the Americans"
"Hosseini was also present. Conference discussion paid special attention to the effects upon American public opinion of the 2012 U.S. film ""Argo"", a narratively fictionalised rendition of aspects of the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis that had been nominated for a number of Academy Awards. Also screened and discussed were the 2010 film ""Unthinkable"" and the 2011 film ""Jerusalem Countdown"", among others. While many attendees held the notion that U.S. films served to promote a secret agenda they called ""Hollywoodism"", they often differed in their approaches. Among the 2013 attendees was former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel, who had"
"movie of the events, """", was produced in 1981. In 2012, Ben Affleck produced and starred in a movie titled ""Argo"", which is based on the book ""The Master of Disguise"" by Tony Mendez, a CIA agent involved in the incident. After the film was previewed at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, criticism arose that the film unfairly minimized the participation of the Canadian government, and Taylor in particular, in the extraction operation. This included the addition to the film of several fictional events for dramatic reasons, as well as a postscript text indicating that the CIA let Taylor"
"""Lincoln"" ""Skyfall"" – performed by Adele/written by Adele and Paul Epworth – ""Skyfall"" Life of Pi The Lord of the Rings Judd Apatow The following four films received multiple awards: 18th Critics' Choice Awards The 18th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 10, 2013 at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, honoring the finest achievements of 2012 filmmaking. The ceremony was broadcast on The CW and hosted by Sam Rubin. The nominees were announced on December 11, 2012. Argo Ben Affleck – ""Argo"" Daniel Day-Lewis – ""Lincoln"" as Abraham Lincoln Jessica Chastain – ""Zero Dark Thirty"" as"
"the 1974 novel ""Cogan's Trade"" by George V. Higgins, re-envisioned to take place during the 2008 election. The role led to a string of high-profile roles, including Ben Affleck's ""Argo"" (2012), Gus Van Sant's ""Promised Land"" (2012), and Lynn Shelton's ""Touchy Feely"" (2013) opposite Rosemarie DeWitt, which also stars Ellen Page, Josh Pais, and Allison Janney. For his role as Joe Stafford in ""Argo,"" he studied Persian, which he spoke in his final monologue in the film. In 2013, he appeared in Steve McQueen's ""12 Years a Slave"", which again included Pitt. McNairy filmed his second movie with Michael Fassbender,"
"Gore Verbinski Gregor ""Gore"" Verbinski (born March 16, 1964) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and musician. He is best known for directing the first three films of the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" film saga, ""The Ring"", and ""Rango"". Verbinski is a graduate of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. His most recent film, ""A Cure for Wellness"", was released in 2017. Verbinski won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2012 for his animated action-comedy western ""Rango"". His films have"
"may end up not directing it. Affleck planned to shoot the film in Los Angeles as doubling for Gotham City. He reaffirmed his commitment to direct the film in his appearance on ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"". In late January 2017, Affleck decided to step down as director, but would remain involved as producer and actor. By this point, writer Chris Terrio, who won an Academy Award for writing Affleck's ""Argo"" and also helped script """", had turned in a rewrite of the script. On February 10, 2017, it was announced that Matt Reeves was in talks to replace Affleck as the"
"MacFarlane, host of the ceremony, and actress Emma Stone. ""Lincoln"" received the most nominations with twelve total, and ""Life of Pi"" came in second with eleven. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 24, 2013. ""Argo"" was the fourth film to win Best Picture without a directing nomination, following 1927's ""Wings"", 1932's ""Grand Hotel"", and 1989's ""Driving Miss Daisy"". As co-producer of ""Argo"", George Clooney became the third individual to win Oscars for both acting and producing. By virtue of his nomination for Best Original Song in ""Ted"", host Seth MacFarlane became the first person since James"
"Richard Dillane Richard Dillane (born 1964) is an English actor. He played British agent Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck's 2012 Iran-based political thriller, ""Argo"", winner among other things of the 2013 Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe for Best Picture, and Merv the husband of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson) in Jim Loach's fact-based movie ""Oranges and Sunshine"". He was Wernher von Braun in the BBC television docudrama ""Space Race"", Nero in Howard Brenton's play ""Paul"" at the National Theatre of GB and appeared several times as Stephen Maturin in the BBC radio adaptations of the Patrick O'Brian ""Aubrey–Maturin"" novels"
"Arbor in 2010 where he was in a fraternity and received a BFA in Theater Performance. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Chicago. During filming for ""Chicago Fire"", he lived with his costars, Joe Minoso and Charlie Barnett. Yuri Sardarov Yuri Sardarov (born January 28, 1988) is an American actor and producer. He has done extensive work in the theater. Since 2012, he has starred on NBC's ""Chicago Fire"". He is the executive producer for ""Apex"". Yuri Sardarov is half-Georgian, half-Armenian and moved to the United States at age 2. Sardarov attended Glenbrook North High School, near Chicago,"
"guest roles on ""Lie to Me"" (2009), ""Numb3rs"", ""Bones"", and ""Law & Order"" (all 2010). In 2012, she co-starred in Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film ""Argo"", based on the Iran hostage crisis. DuVall played Cora Lijek, a Japanese-American who was one of the six American diplomats rescued from Iran in 1980. She, along with the rest of the ""Argo"" cast, received the 2013 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Also in 2012, DuVall appeared in a recurring role on the of the FX anthology series ""American Horror Story"", as Wendy Peyser. In 2014,"
"Arbitrage (film) Arbitrage is a 2012 American thriller drama film directed by Nicholas Jarecki and starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth and Brit Marling. Filming began in April 2011 in New York City. It opened in U.S. theaters in September 2012. Sixty-year-old magnate Robert Miller (Richard Gere) manages a hedge fund with his daughter Brooke (Brit Marling) and is about to sell it for a handsome profit. However, unbeknownst to his daughter and most of his other employees, he has cooked his company's books in order to cover an investment loss and avoid being arrested for fraud. One night,"
"of J. Lee Thompson, who stages several spectacular (rather than gory) battle scenes with the same finesse he displays in the film's more intimate moments."" David McGillivray wrote that ""almost every line of the Corringtons' thin script attests the strain of having to find anything new for the apes to say or do."" In the 2012 film ""Argo"", based on the 1980 ""Canadian Caper"" rescue from Iran of U.S. diplomats hiding at the Canadian ambassador's residence, Tony Mendez gets the idea for the fictitious ""Argo"" cover story from watching ""Battle for the Planet of the Apes"" on television. This was"
"distinguished New Zealand diplomat and international lawyer, Chris Beeby, portrayed in Ben Affleck's film, Argo. Beeby was born in Meanwood, Leeds, Yorkshire, and immigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1906. He was educated at New Brighton School and Christchurch Boys High School, and initially studied law at Canterbury College, before switching to Christchurch Training College to study primary teaching. Beeby met Beatrice Newnham while they were both undergraduate students and they were married in 1926. Beeby gained an MA in 1926, and had been working as a part-time lecturer during the latter part of his studies. He worked"
"Festival. Argo (2006 film) Argo is a 2006 short romance drama film that marks Jordan Bayne's short film writing and directorial debut. Co-written and co-directed by Bayne and Michael Knowles, the film was shot on location in Joshua Tree, California, in 2005. According to production company's official synopsis, ""Argo"" tells the story of two individuals living outside society in the American desert. It explores the struggles of being human in a world seemed bent on crushing the human spirit. Becca (played by Jordana Spiro) is a dispossessed soul whose chance encounter with Cal (played by Marcus Chait) becomes a collision"