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    Oscars Survey Says: Most Americans Have No Idea What's Nominated for Best Picture, Who's Hosting the Show

    2017’s Academy Awards will be handed out this Sunday night, and forecasters increasingly expect it to come down to a battle between Damien Chazelle’s La La Land and Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight for Best Picture. According to a new poll on all things Oscars by The Hollywood Reporter, however, couldn’t name those two films — or any of the other seven contenders — as nominees for the award. According to THR’s survey (conducted with the National Research Group in February), 60 percent of the 800 peop

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    2017 Oscar Virgins: 7 First-Time Nominees

    Meryl Streep is nominated once again for her performance in Florence Foster Jenkins. The queen of the big screen broke her own record this year by earning her 20th(!) career Oscar nod – the most for any actor by far (Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson are tied for second place with 12 nominations apiece). But even Meryl had a first time – the 67-year-old’s first nomination came back in 1978 for The Deer Hunter, when she was just 29.

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    Lucas Hedges's Oscar-Nominated 'Manchester by the Sea' Performance in the Spotight in New Video (Exclusive)

    Manchester by the Sea is one of the year’s most critically acclaimed films, and while headliner Casey Affleck has been the prime beneficiary so far with Best Actor awards from numerous critics associations, a Golden Globe, and a possible Oscar, the film’s success owes much to its youngest supporting player, 20-year-old Lucas Hedges. With only a few minor big-screen roles under his belt, Hedges breaks through as Patrick Chandler, the teenage nephew of Affleck’s Lee, who — while grieving over his

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    Oscar Nominee Lucas Hedges on Nailing His Boston Accent for 'Manchester by the Sea'

    At 20, Lucas Hedges is 2017’s youngest Oscar nominee. The Manchester by the Sea breakout brings some much-needed laughs to the devastating drama as Patrick, the confident, hockey- and basketball-playing, boat-working, wannabe rocker with two girlfriends who falls under the care of his disgruntled uncle (Casey Affleck). The actor told Yahoo Movies he auditioned for the role five times before finally getting the green light from writer-director Kenneth Lonergan.

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    SAG Awards: Biggest Snubs and Surprises

    The 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild went as expected — it’s an organization that has a habit of rewarding frontrunners and repeat winners, after all. So it came as little surprise that Emma Stone and Viola Davis took home trophies. Read More: Awards: The Contenders

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    Our Predictions for the 2017 Oscar Nominations

    The nominations for the 89th annual Academy Awards will be doled out at the crack of the Los Angeles dawn on Tuesday morning — and you can watch the livestream here at Yahoo Movies starting 5:18 a.m. PT/8:18 a.m. ET. As always, there’s a healthy dose of suspense in every major race, particularly in three of the four acting categories. (The Oscars themselves will be handed out at the ceremony on Feb. 26.)

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    Ben Affleck Beams With Pride Talking About Brother Casey’s Oscar Buzz

    Ben Affleck joined the Today show and beamed with pride over the awards buzz younger brother Casey has received recently for his performance in Manchester by the Sea. Casey has several nominations, including an Oscar nod in 2008 for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, but has yet to win a major award. He has already received a nomination this year for a Golden Globe for Best Actor for Manchester by the Sea and is widely expected to do the same when the Academy Awards roll around.