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Oscar Nominations

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Movie Reviews by Cinema Siren

Cinema Siren's Observations of the 2013 Oscar Nominations

Academy Award nomination successes and snubs.

The 85th Academy Awards…These Oscar noms are full of the biggest surprises and snubs in a while, although there are still going to be some complete shoe-ins.   Let's get to it! Will Affleck forever pay for Gigli? Argo and Zero Dark Thirty are both movies that have been highly lauded, with multiple nominations. That doesn't happen in a vacuum. What sense does it make for the directors not to get nominated as well? I speak of Ben Affleck of Argo and Kathryn Bigelow of Zero Dark Thirty, the latter of whom's exclusion is truly shocking.  These directors spend the entire time the film is being made manipulating the end result and aiding the actors in getting their best performances.  Without them, those wonderful movies wouldn't exist. Is it …

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