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7. The Artist Wins Best Picture...And Is Quickly Forgotten (2012)

2012 was an extremely odd year for Best Picture, with the nine-film field consisting largely of comforting, nostalgic films such as The Artist, Hugo and Midnight in Paris, alongside fairly milquetoast, middle-brow films like The Help and War Horse. Oh, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, but the less said about that the better.

Best Picture honours ultimately went to black-and-white, mostly wordless film The Artist, which scored a total of five Oscars (also including Best Director and Best Actor).

But it's also probably the most forgettable and least culturally relevant Best Picture winner of the last decade-plus, having been pretty much forgotten by film lovers and casuals alike already.

Though widely embraced upon release, the consensus seems to be that there's little desire to revisit it, and in the current climate, fondly yearning for the past is a pretty dangerous mindset.

The Artist prevailed in a soft year, but Alexander Payne's The Descendants probably should've scooped Best Picture instead, while Jean Dujardin winning Best Actor over George Clooney (The Descendants), Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Brad Pitt (Moneyball) is not a well-aged decision.