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Daily Herald subscribers Bob and Patti Jostes of Arlington Heights talk with Daily Herald Film Critic Dann Gire during Sunday's Oscars event at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville.

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Daily Herald Film Critic Dann Gire and Hollywood 360 Radio Network film critic Sarah Adamson host an Academy Awards event at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville Sunday.

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Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com A theater full of people attend the Academy Awards event at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Sunday.

Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com Daily Herald Film Critic Dann Gire and Hollywood 360 Radio Network film critic Sarah Adamson host a Academy Awards event at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Sunday.

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In the end, Oscar voters rallied around Ben Affleck. That's how Daily Herald film critic Dann Gire interpreted the victory of Affleck's “Argo” in the Best Picture competition during Sunday's Oscars telecast. “There's been a tsunami of support for him because he didn't get a nomination for Best Director,” Gire said. “If the Oscar voters hadn't given 'Argo' this award, they would have come off as the very worst sports.”

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    • Daily Herald subscribers Bob and Patti Jostes of Arlington Heights talk with Daily Herald Film Critic Dann Gire during Sunday's Oscars event at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville.
    • Daily Herald Film Critic Dann Gire and Hollywood 360 Radio Network film critic Sarah Adamson host an Academy Awards event at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville Sunday.
    • Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com A theater full of people attend the Academy Awards event at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Sunday.
    • Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com Daily Herald Film Critic Dann Gire and Hollywood 360 Radio Network film critic Sarah Adamson host a Academy Awards event at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Sunday.
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