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French actor Jean Dujardin, best actor winner for his role in “The Artist”, and his wife, Alexandra Lamy arrive at the Oscars. (REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)
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Penelope Ann Miller from the The Artist poses as she arrives at the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood,February 26, 2012. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
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Oscars 2012: The best picture nominees, reviewed
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Oscars 2012: Pixar snub, Tree of Life nomination among Academy surprises
Nine movies — including front-runners The Artist and The Descendants and the long-shot surprise Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close — are in the running for this year’s Oscar, it was announced today.
The nominees include Hugo, Midnight In Paris, The Help, Moneyball, and — in another Academy Award surprise — Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life.
Malick was among the best director nominees, along with The Artists’ Michel Hazanavicius, Hugo’s Martin Scorsese, The Descendants’ Alexander Payne, and Woody Allen for Midnight In Paris. Conspicuous by his absence was David Fincher, director of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which was also snubbed in the best picture category.
It was a good day for Canada: Monsieur Lazhar, by Montreal director Phillippe Falardeau, was nominated for best foreign film, and Christopher Plummer received a nod for best supporting actor for his role as an older man who comes out of the closet in The Beginners. (Photo: Fox Searchlight)
Oscar nominees 2012: Hugo, The Artist, The Descendants score top nods
Martin Scorsese’s lavish 3D adventure Hugo won 11 Oscar nominations Tuesday, ahead of silent movie The Artist with 10 nods for Hollywood’s top cinema awards.
The third most nominations went to baseball movie Moneyball starring Brad Pitt and veteran director Steven Spielberg’s equine epic War Horse, which each got six nods.
Hugo’s nominations included the best picture category, where it is up against eight other movies including The Artist, which has been a favorite for the Oscars after a string of wins and nods in other awards shows.
The other movies nominated for best picture are The Descendants, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Help, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life and War Horse. (Photo: Paramount Pictures)
Golden Globe nominations: The Descendants, The Artist, The Help are this year’s top nominees
Silent movie The Artist painted a pretty picture at the Golden Globe nominations on Thursday, leading all movies with six nods overall including best film comedy or musical.
Following The Artist among top nominees for the Hollywood awards were The Descendants, starring George Clooney as a man struggling to keep his family together, and civil rights movie The Help with five nods each, including both in the key category of best film drama.
Joining Descendants and The Help among the films vying for top drama were four movies, Hugo, Moneyball, War Horse and The Ides of March.
The Golden Globe Awards, which are given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are among the most widely-watched honors programs leading up to the Oscars in February.
