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Best Picture Oscar Goes To The Artist, Twitter Reacts

The Artist won the coveted Best Picture Oscar.

Here’s the trailer:

The nominees were:

Hugo
Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers

Midnight in Paris
Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers

Moneyball
Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers

The Tree of Life
Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner and Grant Hill, Producers

War Horse
Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

The Artist
Thomas Langmann, Producer

The Descendants
Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Scott Rudin, Producer

The Help
Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers

Here’s the Twitter reaction:

If The Artist winning Best Picture gets more people to go see it, then it has served a purpose. But, this is the wrong pick. #Oscars 41 seconds ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

WOW!!! The Artist Best Motion Picture of 2012! It’s true Welcome Back Silent Film! #Oscars 1 minute ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

Yay! The Artist wins the Award for the best picture. A silent film that left me speechless! #Oscars 1 minute ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

@theglamgangblog Best Motion Picture: The Artist. Next year the #Oscars will be held in France. 1 minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

And the award for best picture goes to…The Artist! I guess this is another movie that I have to add to my must-see list! #Oscars 2 minutes ago via Twitter for iPad ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

I’d write a joke about The Artist winning Best Picture, but it would just be redundant #oscars #tweetroast 2 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

The Artist is Best Picture?!? BOOOOOOOOOOO. Disagree. Goodnight. #Oscars 2 minutes ago via Twitter for Android ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

Essentially a flip book won 5 oscars. Including best picture. Really!? #oscars 3 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

Wow. The Artist! What an achievement for a silent film to win best picture in this day and age #Oscars 3 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

So The Artist wins Best Picture… Shocker! Lol, not. I couldn’t sit through it though I’m afraid. Just not my type of thing. #Oscars 3 minutes ago via UberSocial for Android ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

Hurray for The Artist for Best Picture! Now I have to go see it 🙂 #oscars 4 minutes ago via Twitter for Android ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

& Afterall, ‘The Artist’ evening. Congrats for Best Picture #Oscar. Confession: I didn’t like it but have to watch it again now. #Oscars 4 minutes ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

thank god Hugo didn’t win best picture. #Oscars 4 minutes ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

Well it’s finally over with that anti-climatic win for best picture. Ugh, out of 9? #Oscars 5 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

Thank you Academy for at least getting the main one right. The Artist wins the Best Picture award. #Oscars 5 minutes ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

they used the soundtrack of Moneyball to announce best Picture nominees and did it win? NOO pffft #Oscars 5 minutes ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

Best Picture goes to the one movie I’ll probably never watch. I don’t do silent films #sorry #oscars 6 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

I don’t think “The Artist” deserved “Best Picture” #Oscars. 6 minutes ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto