Short answer: everybody. A roundup of who's up in arms against which film.
"Argo"
• Ken Taylor. The Canadian ambassador who hid the "houseguests" said the film implied that Canada unjustly got all the credit for the rescue.
• New Zealand, for the film's suggestion that their embassy had turned the Americans away.
• The U.K. The British Embassy actually did help the Americans , but the film suggests otherwise.
• Iran. The country is planning its own anti-Argo film project to counter the "ahistoric film."
• Members of the Latino acting community. Some objected to Affleck's casting himself in the role of the Latino CIA operative Tony Mendez.
"Amour"
• Austria. Although director Michael Haneke is the country's highest-profile filmmaker in years, the nation is piqued that his new highly celebrated work was filmed in French, declaring it ineligible for the top prize at Austria's own film awards. In response, the director withdrew the film from the event entirely.
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
• Advocates for the poor. Some of whom have written that Zeitlin's journey to the Bayou represents social injustice tourism and a "romanticized, mythologized" vision of poverty.
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"Django Unchained"
• Spike Lee, who announced before the film was even released that he would not see it, calling the work "disrespectful to my ancestors."
• Some other African-American writers, who protested the copious use of the "n" word and director Tarantino's "fetish for the broken bodies of slaves."
