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awardsdaily.com - 22 days ago
The Key to Bumping up Animated to Five Nominees
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Steve Pond at the Wrap does some nice investigative reporting to come up with a tiny little mystery in the world of Oscar watching – the idea that one animated movie could make the difference between three and five nominees. This was touched upon in the comments section of this post ...

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This Is It Madness
Film Experience Blog — ... On a less provocative note, I told ya so on the animated nominees. I knew there'd be five. There's always more contenders than we're aware of... and it's always from the foreign cartoons as I've been saying all year. Why does no one listen to me? I need a new publicist. I'm smart about these things*. ...

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