5. Snub The Boys
By recognizing Argo, you are also denying Oscar wins to two Movie Titans Harvey Weinstein and Steven Spielberg. Weinstein is essentially one of the most successful movie producers and studio heads of today and everyone across the globe knows the name Steven Spielberg, the man behind so many hits. Both men have Oscars and plenty of cash to their name some may feel that enough is enough. While Silver Linings Playbook (The Weinstein Company) and Lincoln (Spielberg) are contenders, Academy voters may enjoy denying these two men the Oscar for Best Picture in a sort of ego-trip type of way. Weinstein and Spielberg have been campaigning hard, but is that enough to stop Affleck and Clooney?