Wherein our intrepid reporter uses another Saturday to consume as many Best Picture nominees as he can, just in time for the Oscars.
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Seven Things That Will Be Different about This Year’s Oscars Telecast
TIME’s Second Annual Oscar Endurance Test—Two Days, Nine Nominees, One Movie Theater
Wherein our intrepid reporter consumes as many Best Picture nominees as he can and lives to tell the tale.
The 2012 Oscar Race: TIME Picks the Winners
Each day this week, TIME examines a group of Oscar categories to help you ace your office-pool ballot.
Undefeated: Oscar Night Lights?
This uplifting saga about a football team from depressed North Memphis is up for a Best Documentary prize. Does it earn its nomination?
The Oscars vs. Motion Capture: Tintin and Apes Snubs Raise Big Questions About the Academy
Two of this year’s biggest Oscar exclusions have us wondering: in an era of increasing motion capture use, what does it mean to animate a film?
Announcing TIME’s Best Best Picture Bracket. Vote on Oscar’s Greatest Film
Eighty-three movies have been dubbed Best Picture since the first Oscar ceremony in 1927. That year, the silent WWI flying film Wings won the top prize over two other nominees. It remains the only silent film to ever win Best …
Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close’s Quiet Man
The Oscar-nominated actress bases her performance of the title character, a lady disguised as a man, on Charlie Chaplin.
Bridesmaids‘ Melissa McCarthy: Hilarious Performance, Not Oscar Worthy
This year’s Oscar nominations are vacuous in so many ways – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a preposterous choice for best picture – but the focus of the ire “coming out of me like lava” is the Academy’s nomination …
Who the Hell Is…Surprise Oscar Nominee Demián Bichir?
The Oscar Finalists: Silent Picture Double Feature
The Artist and Hugo lead the nominations race, as Meryl, Michelle and Viola compete for Best Actress and friends George and Brad vie for Best Actor
2012 Oscar Nominations: Who Will Win?
The nominations are in, and we’ve got the dish on what it all means. The big battles: The Artist vs. Hugo, Clooney vs. Pitt, Marilyn vs. Maggie — and Dragon Tattoo vs. the Motion Picture Academy