For Oscar voters, seeing 'Illusionist' could be believing

December 13, 2006 Films that open early in the year must work some magic to keep Oscar voters from forgetting them. Every year brings Oscar worthy movies that arrived in theaters so many months before the awards season heated up that by now they're at risk to be overlooked in the weekly crush of new contenders. A case in point that's well worth being remembered by Oscar voters is Neil Burger's romantic thriller "The Illusionist," for which Burger received a best screenplay Independent Spirit nomination in late November.

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