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It's an Oscar weekend, not just in Hollywood, but in India too. Academy award-nominated films The Artist, Moneyball, My Week with Marilyn and Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close release in India just as they head for the much-covetted Oscar statuette.
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The Artist leads the top nominations with Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director among others.
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The Artist is about the era of silent films drawing to a close. Two actors find their careers and their relationship influenced by the coming of talking pictures. While popular screen star George Valentin resists the transition to sound, young Peppy Miller embodies a modern age that is leaving Valentin behind.
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Berenice Bejo has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
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Jean Dujardin is a frontrunner for the Best Actor award.
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Moneyball has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor among others.
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Moneyball is about a devastating loss to the New York Yankees in the 2001 playoffs. Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and his assistant, Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), devise a statistics-based formula for choosing potential players.
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Brad Pitt has been nominated Best Actor for his role in the film.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close has been nominated for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor.
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The film is about a young boy who may have Asperger’s syndrome and must deal with the loss of his father on September 11. When eleven-year-old Oskar discovers a key among his father’s possessions, he becomes convinced that finding the lock it opens will help him understand the tragedy of his father’s death.
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The film stars Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks who play the parents of Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn).
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My Week with Marilyn has been nominated for Best Actress (Michelle Williams) and Best Supporting Actor (Kenneth Brannagh).
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Needless to say, My Week with Marilyn is about Marilyn Monroe, the legendary film star whose troubled personal life creates difficulties on the set of her latest film.
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