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Oscars Open Thread

On the eve of professional baseball returning to Arizona - albeit meaningless baseball, even by spring training standards! - it's time for one of our traditional off-topic threads, for the Academy Awards!

I have actually seen 37.5% of this year's nominees for Best Picture, in The Revenant, The Martian and Mad Max: Fury Road. That's more than usual, though I sense their nominations are probably somewhat of a token gesture by the Academy towards populism, in at least the last two cases - "Quick, we need a couple of films the folks at home might have seen or they'll change the channel!