As of 5 p.m. PT, Oscar nomination voting is officially closed.
Multiple conversations with Academy voters all throughout this week have revealed a race far more unpredictable than the pundits’ consensus suggests. While some categories appear locked, others are poised for the kind of upheaval we haven’t seen since 2003, when “The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” dominated, but nominations surprised across multiple categories, such as Keisha Castle-Hughes, Samantha Morton, Djimon Hounsou, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Marcia Gay Harden, along with a rare lone director nomination for another Brazilian auteur, Fernando Meirelles).
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