Oscar Nominations announced

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Updated On Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

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As Martin Scorsese's Hugo led the pack with 11 nominations, here's a look at all the films that got nominated for the prestigious Academy Awards.

Updated on Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

As Martin Scorsese's Hugo led the pack with 11 nominations, here's a look at all the films that got nominated for the prestigious Academy Awards.

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Martin Scorsese's lavish 3D adventure Hugo won 11 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay. The film is a visually rich tale set in 1930s Paris, about an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station and is obsessed with clock-making and early film pioneer Georges Melies.

Updated on Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

Martin Scorsese's lavish 3D adventure Hugo won 11 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay. The film is a visually rich tale set in 1930s Paris, about an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station and is obsessed with clock-making and early film pioneer Georges Melies.

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Silent film The Artist won 10 nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress among others. The film is about silent movie star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) who wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion.

Updated on Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

Silent film The Artist won 10 nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress among others. The film is about silent movie star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) who wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion.

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The Descendants manages a nomination in almost every category including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay. Alexander Payne's The Descendants is about the relationship of a father (George Clooney) with his two daughters.

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The Descendants manages a nomination in almost every category including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay. Alexander Payne's The Descendants is about the relationship of a father (George Clooney) with his two daughters.

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Veteran director Steven Spielberg's equine epic War Horse got six nods for the Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Music among others.

Updated on Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

Veteran director Steven Spielberg's equine epic War Horse got six nods for the Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Music among others.

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Moneyball received six Academy Award nominations, including four biggies: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Adapted screenplay. The story is about a general manager Billy Beane's (Brad Pitt) attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

Updated on Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

Moneyball received six Academy Award nominations, including four biggies: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Adapted screenplay. The story is about a general manager Billy Beane's (Brad Pitt) attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

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The Tree of Life has won nominations including Best Picture, Best Director. The story centers around a family with three boys in the 1950s, of which the eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence.

Updated on Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

The Tree of Life has won nominations including Best Picture, Best Director. The story centers around a family with three boys in the 1950s, of which the eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence.

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Midnight in Paris has been nominated for Best Picture and Best Director. The film is a romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion.

Updated on Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

Midnight in Paris has been nominated for Best Picture and Best Director. The film is a romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion.

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Best Picture nominated The Help is about an aspiring author of the 1960s who decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid's point of view on the white families for whom she works, and the hardships she goes through on a daily basis. It is also nominated for Best Actress (Viola Davies).

Updated on Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

Best Picture nominated The Help is about an aspiring author of the 1960s who decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid's point of view on the white families for whom she works, and the hardships she goes through on a daily basis. It is also nominated for Best Actress (Viola Davies).

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Best Picture nominated Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is about a nine-year-old amateur inventor. A francophile and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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Best Picture nominated Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is about a nine-year-old amateur inventor. A francophile and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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A Better Life, which has been nominated for Best Actor (Demian Bichir) is about a gardener in East L.A. who struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while trying to give his son the opportunities he never had.

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A Better Life, which has been nominated for Best Actor (Demian Bichir) is about a gardener in East L.A. who struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while trying to give his son the opportunities he never had.

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Best Actor nominated Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is based on the bleak days of the Cold War, when an espionage veteran George Smiley (Gary Oldman) is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.

Updated on Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

Best Actor nominated Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is based on the bleak days of the Cold War, when an espionage veteran George Smiley (Gary Oldman) is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.

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Albert Nobbs sees Glenn Close (nominated Best Actor) play a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.

Updated on Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

Albert Nobbs sees Glenn Close (nominated Best Actor) play a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.

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Tipped to be awarded Best Actress, Meryl Streep plays former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the film The Iron Lady.

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Tipped to be awarded Best Actress, Meryl Streep plays former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the film The Iron Lady.

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is about a journalist (Daniel Craig) who is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), a young computer hacker. Mara was nominated Best Actress for the film.

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is about a journalist (Daniel Craig) who is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), a young computer hacker. Mara was nominated Best Actress for the film.

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My Week with Marilyn sees Monroe played by Michelle Williams, who was nominated for Best Actress. Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.

Updated on Feb 25, 2012 03:11 pm IST

My Week with Marilyn sees Monroe played by Michelle Williams, who was nominated for Best Actress. Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.

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