The Artist
Starring
Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, and James Cromwell

Director
Michael Hazanavicius


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The Descendants
Starring
George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Matthew Lillard, and Robert Forster

Director
Alexander Payne


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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Starring
Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, and Max von Sydow

Director
Stephen Daldry


The Help
Starring
Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney, and Sissy Spacek

Director
Tate Taylor


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Hugo
Starring
Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Helen McCrory

Director
Martin Scorsese


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Midnight in Paris
Starring
Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen, and Carla Bruni

Director
Woody Allen


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Moneyball
Starring
Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Kerris Dorsey

Director
Bennett Miller


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The Tree of Life
Starring
Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, and Sean Penn

Director
Terrence Malick


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War Horse
Starring
Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson, Tom Hiddleston, David Thewlis, and Finder

Director
Steven Spielberg


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Ty Burr says ...
"The Artist" has amassed so much pre-Oscar bling that it seems like a shoo-in, but never underestimate the Academys love of a feel-good social message, and dont rule out an upset by "The Help." "Hugo"? My hunch is that too many voters watched the 2-D screener DVD and thus missed a sizable part of the magic.
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Wesley Morris says ...
This is the most self-conscious group of nominees in more than a decade. Wheres "Drive" or "Bridesmaids" or "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"? Were left with "The Artist," a Hollywood movie from France that the people who give us our movies wish they had made. The braver choice would be Terrence Malicks imperfect tower of artistic polarization, which is a movie better built to last forever.
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