How best to slay this beast?

January 26, 2009 Of course the real question, as the movie powers through awards season, is whether the Fox Searchlight release will capture the big prize. It's not unheard of for a film to win the PGA's best motion picture statuette and the SAG's cast award but not the best picture Oscar -- it happened to "Little Miss Sunshine" during the 2007 season and to "Apollo 13" in 1996 -- but it won't be an easy train to stop. Producers and actors collectively comprise at least 30% of the Academy, and while there are many in both guilds who are not Academy members, their awards are pretty good indicators of how those camps will vote.

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