Will "The Incredibles" get a best-picture nomination?. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar's Burning Questions] Reference
Will Miramax get shut out of the best-picture category?. From Wordnik.com. [Pass Me An Oscar] Reference
DreamWorks groused that Miramax bought the best-picture award. From Wordnik.com. [Fight Night At The Oscars] Reference
Did watching "Chicago" shim-sham off with the best-picture Oscar inspire you?. From Wordnik.com. [And All That Jazz] Reference
"Man Getting Hit by Football" is an early contender for the best-picture award. From Wordnik.com. [Daimnation!: My big-screen debut] Reference
The number of best-picture nominees has fluctuated during the academy's 83 years. From Wordnik.com. [He Heads the Academy] Reference
The Academy Awards are doubling the number of best-picture nominees from five to 10. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Next Year's Oscars Will Have Ten Best Picture Nominees] Reference
"The Dark Knight" disappointed its fans in missing out on a best-picture nomination. From Wordnik.com. [Hits and Misses in the Virtual Oscars Market] Reference
'Button' leads pack; 'Dark Knight' misses best-picture nod; goose eggs for 'Gran Torino'. From Wordnik.com. [The Curious Case of the Oscar Race] Reference
On Metacritic, best-picture nominee "The Reader" is tied with the latest James Bond flick. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Rate the Ranking Systems of Film Reviews] Reference
And the online store sells only one poster (a lithograph of previous best-picture winners). From Wordnik.com. [Sony Helps Make Your Memories Stick] Reference
But the biggest shift was that the Academy doubled the number of best-picture nominees to ten. From Wordnik.com. [Low Budget Wins the Day] Reference
Of the best-picture nominees, which do you think only slipped in because of the extra category?. From Wordnik.com. [Julia is In! Eva is Out!] Reference
The next year, Steve won the best-picture Oscar for Forrest Gump and couldn't even make the dinner. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside Story Behind the Vanity Fair Oscar Party] Reference
At the Box Office Domestic box-office performance for Oscar best-picture nominees (through Jan. 20). From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Nods Offer Little Boon to Distributors] Reference
Personally, I'd be happy to see any of the 10 best-picture nominees win -- except for The Blind Side. From Wordnik.com. [I'm Already So Over the Oscars] Reference
If Moore's gamble pays off, it could become the first documentary in history to get a best-picture nomination. From Wordnik.com. [WILL OSCAR LISTEN?] Reference
Other directors, notably Steven Spielberg, have had best-picture nominations without getting a best-director call. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Is Talking] Reference
But the best-picture win allows distributors in those countries to "push the movie further," Mr. Barendrecht said. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from Hong Kong's Filmart] Reference
Drama: "The Lost Weekend" (1945), a stinging portrait of an alcoholic and the first of Wilder's two best-picture winners. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Jeff's verdict: the finale is every bit as thrilling as the first two movies, and a good bet to win a best-picture Oscar. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor's Desk] Reference
This weighty complaint is prompted by Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, a sure-thing best-picture nominee set in 2004-era Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [All Pain, No Gain] Reference
Alfred Hitchcock turned Daphne du Maurier's masterpiece "Rebecca" into a pitch-perfect film that won the 1940 best-picture Oscar. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Films From British Books] Reference
Setoodeh: I don't think "The Great Debaters" is on anyone's radar as a best-picture nominee, and I think it will probably fall off. From Wordnik.com. [Julia is In! Eva is Out!] Reference
By the time Kirk and Michael Douglas presented the best-picture Oscar, what had seemed like a "Chicago" sweep had become a nail-biter. From Wordnik.com. [Tale Of A Dark Horse] Reference
Acomba had also directed a movie, Slipstream, that had netted him best-picture and best-director trophies at the Canadian Film Awards. From Wordnik.com. [The Star Wars Holiday Special] Reference
This year, the only one of the five best-picture nominees that is even technically an independent is Miramax's "The Cider House Rules.". From Wordnik.com. [Lurching To Oscar Night] Reference
But months after Pixar's "Up" received a best-picture nod, the animation fan's appetite grows to see a Pixar film win for best picture. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Best Tangential Reasons to See 'Toy Story 3' this weekend [UPDATED]] Reference
In the movie version, which won a best-picture Oscar in 1940, Rebecca dies when, during an argument with Max, she falls and hits her head. From Wordnik.com. [An Overlooked Literary Genius?] Reference
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