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Friday, January 11, 2013

The Oscars: Did Your Favorite Film, Actor Get Nominated for an Academy Award?

Seth McFarlane and Emma Stone announced the list of nominees for The Oscars awards yesterday, see the list here.

Steven Spielberg's film "Lincoln" led The Oscar hopefuls with 17 nominations, but Massachusetts' own Ben Affleck was left off the list of hopeful for best director yesterday when the list of nominees was announced. The Huffington Post reports that the media was abuzz when neither Affleck, Tom Hooper ("Les Miserables") nor Katherine Bigelow ("Zero Dark Thirty") made the list for Best Director.   The trio's films did make the list of movies up for Best Picture, along with a host of others, including Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" and Ang Lee's "Life of Pi." Best Actor nominees include former winners Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln") and Denzel Washington ("Flight"). Jessica Chastain received a nod for her role in "Zero Dark Thirty," and …

Friday, February 24, 2012

POLL: Your Choice for Oscar's Best Picture of the Year

Tell us which movie you think deserves to be this year's Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

It's a well known award show scene: The two movie-star presenters, after a little back-and-forth, and a couple of jokes, arrive at the moment everyone has been waiting for. One of them opens the envelope, looks into the camera and says "The Oscar for Best Picture goes to ..." Well, we'll all have to wait until this Sunday's broadcast of the 84th Academy Awards to find out this year's official winner. Today we want to know your choice. If you were a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which nominated film would be your choice for a "Best Picture" Oscar? There are nine films nominated in the "Best Picture" category this year, all of them listed below in the poll. Also, just for fun, if your favorite movie of …

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