Academy award nominations

• With every Oscar nomination day comes the list of the snubbed.
(Washington Post)
• Renee Montagne talks with reporter Kim Masters about some of the likely nominees when the Oscar nominations are announced later in Beverly Hills. Masters is editor-at-large for The Hollywood Reporter, and host of The Business on member station KCRW.
(NPR News)
• Los Angeles (CNN)-- Martin Scorseses Hugo, with 11 Academy Award nominations, and Golden Globe winner The Artist, with 10, lead the list of best picture Oscar contenders announced Tuesday.
(CNN)
• Despite having to wake up at a horribly early hour in Los Angeles, Brad Pitt felt Moneyball hit a home run with Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Actor, for the actors portrayal of Oakland As GM Billy Beane.
(New York Daily News)
• The annual announcing of the Academy Award nominations might not be like Christmas morning, as one member of the Twitterverse quipped early Tuesday (Jan. 24). But, really, its not too terribly far off.
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• Martin Scorseses Hugo is the surprise leader of the 2012 Academy Award nominations with 11 nods, including Best Picture and Best Director.
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• This morning at exactly 5:38:30 am, LAist was among the throng of bloggers, photographers, TV crews and bona-fide journalists in the audience of the Samuel Goldwyn Theater for the 84th Annual Academy Award nominations announcement in Beverly Hills.
(Laist.com)
• ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images. Dan Kois: Of course we shouldnt take the Oscars seriously as a judge of artistic merit! But when was that ever the case? The Oscars reward their kind of movies, and trying to predict that (and argue about it) is fun.
(Slate)