Oscar candidates lagging this year

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It's already July, so where are the Oscar contenders?
Published 7/3/2008 by Gary Susman at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... We're barely halfway through 2008, and already, Variety is complaining that we've hardly seen any Oscar contenders. Sure, there are likely animated feature nominees in WALL-E, Kung Fu Panda, and Horton Hears a Who, and EW's Ken Tucker (among others) thinks ...

Awards Watch: The Brokeback Factor, Part 1
Published 7/9/2008 by Kirby (noreply@blogger.com) at Movie Dearest
... As Variety recently noted, 2008 is now more then half over and, save for a few below the marquee categories, the Oscar race is wide open. Of the films released so far this year, only Richard Jenkins' stand out performance in the indie drama The Visitor has garnered any acting buzz, and certainly no Best Picture contenders have bowed yet. ...