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From teen comedy ‘The First Time’ to horror flick ‘V/H/S,’ MTV News wraps up the most talked-about premieres. By Kevin P. Sullivan Helen Hunt and John Hawkes in “The Surrogate” Photo: Fox Searchlight For those of us not lucky enough to be in Park City, Utah, right now, the biggest stories coming out of the Sundance Film Festival detail the standing ovations and the distribution deals that filmmakers sign for millions of dollars. With so many films making their premieres at Sundance, it can be difficult to keep track of which ones you need to be paying attention to and looking out for later this year. To help you out, we’ve rounded up the five films that are coming out of Park City with the biggest buzz. Here is our list of the five most talked-about Sundance films. “The Surrogate” With Oscar nominations being announced Tuesday, looking forward to the 2013 Oscar nominees may seem a little premature. That hasn’t stopped festival attendees from heralding the performances from John Hawkes , Helen Hunt and William H. Macy and predicting Academy Award nominations come next January. In the film, Hawkes plays Mark, a man in an iron lung. Mark decides that he must finally lose his virginity and contacts a sex surrogate played by Hunt. “The Surrogate” earned standing ovations and some of the earliest Oscars talk we’ve ever heard. “Beasts of the Southern Wild” One of the outright surprises of the festival came in the form of six-year old Quvenzhan