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Oscar telecast a hot 'Button' issue


January 23, 2009 Oscar show producers Laurence Mark and Bill Condon have promised to pitch a big tent at the 81st Annual Academy Awards, hoping to draw in as many movie lovers -- and TV viewers -- as possible. [...] the 5,810 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences just made their job a little bit harder. Even though the directors, writers and producers guilds all testified that the comic book-inspired movie transcended its genre by showering it with noms, the Academy stopped short of giving the Warner Bros. release its full endorsement.

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