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Game: Match the ‘Big’ One-Word Theme to the Film of the Best Director Nominee

Looks like reduction is the name of the game today! Variety has just asked all five Best Director nominees to sum up their entire film with a one word theme. Well, all of the nominees except David Fincher, who, true to form , had his editors chime in instead. Anyway, just to get your brains fired up in the morning, take a shot at matching each one word theme to the films, which actually have quite a bit overlap… you know, when they are reduced to one word.

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Game: Match the ‘Big’ One-Word Theme to the Film of the Best Director Nominee

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Producer Slams Reviews and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Alex Pettyfer protested salary dispute by not cashing checks… The Little Miss Sunshine team gets back together… an Alfred Hitchcock classic gets teen’d up… and more ahead.

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Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Producer Slams Reviews and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Natalie Portman

It’s time once again to return to Movieline’s recently undertaken mission to honor this year’s acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our daily inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let’s give it up for Best Actress nominee Natalie Portman!

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Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Natalie Portman

Roger Deakins Plays My Favorite Scene: ‘It’s Totally Chilling… and Quite Brilliant’

Much of the emotional power of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Best Picture contender True Grit comes from the contributions of longtime collaborator and nine-time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins, a cinematographer whose compositions and visual choices lend the Western a subtle, nostalgic quality. It’s fitting, then, that when Deakins played My Favorite Scene with Movieline recently, he pointed toward a film that also utilizes the understated to great — but very different — effect.

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Roger Deakins Plays My Favorite Scene: ‘It’s Totally Chilling… and Quite Brilliant’

Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Javier Bardem

It’s time once again to return to Movieline’s recently undertaken mission to honor this year’s acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our daily inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let’s give it up for Best Actor nominee Javier Bardem!

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Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Javier Bardem

VIDEO: James Franco Makes His Own Oscar Promo with an iPhone

I guess this video of James Franco rocking out while an assistant shaves him with what looks like a disposable razor is a promo for his Oscar hosting gig. According to the description, “James likes to relax with a nice shave and a song before he hosts any award shows.” Alright James, don’t you mean three weeks before you host any awards show? In any case, if you were sad that you missed Franco’s karaoke at Sundance, this will help make up for it. And his song choice is fantastic.

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VIDEO: James Franco Makes His Own Oscar Promo with an iPhone

See James Franco and Anne Hathaway Casually Rub Shoulders With a Giant Oscar

“OK, Anne and James, in this one, just lean on that ten foot tall statue and look as casual as possible. No, more casual. That’s it! James, you’re a casual tiger right now!” Oh, sorry, I was just pretending to be the photographer of this brand new promotional still featuring Oscar hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco. This picture tells you absolutely nothing about what kind of job the pair will do on Feb. 27, but it does reinforce what you already knew: Francaway make quite an adorable couple, in a rom-com poster-ready sort of way. Click ahead to see.

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See James Franco and Anne Hathaway Casually Rub Shoulders With a Giant Oscar

Harvey Weinstein Wants to Recut The King’s Speech, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in this humpday edition of The Broadsheet: Ryan Murphy has some choice words for Kings of Leon… J. Edgar finds its icy blonde… a new Oscar nominee is also a new father… and more ahead.

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Harvey Weinstein Wants to Recut The King’s Speech, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Michelle Williams

It’s time once again to return to Movieline’s recently undertaken mission to honor this year’s acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let’s give it up for Best Actress Oscar nominee Michelle Williams!

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Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Michelle Williams

Fighter Co-Producer Ryan Kavanaugh on His Best Picture Nominee and Tough Academy Breaks

Ryan Kavanaugh awoke early today with the rest of the industry, anticipating if and/or how the Academy would recognize his film The Fighter . But even as the Best Picture nominees were listed, and the Relativity Media CEO’ s production was among them, there was something a tad… off about it all.

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Fighter Co-Producer Ryan Kavanaugh on His Best Picture Nominee and Tough Academy Breaks