The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) must have a sign hanging outside their door: "No wizards, witches, puppets, mutants, bridesmaids, drivers, or samurais allowed!" Because these are the films they nominated for the Best Picture Oscar this year:
- The Artist
- The Descendants
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- Hugo
- Midnight in Paris
- The Help
- Moneyball
- War Horse
- The Tree of Life
Not only are these nine films not in the general movie-going top 10, according to the box office numbers for 2011:
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - $381,011,219
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon - $352,390,543
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 - $281,287,133
- The Hangover Part II - $254,464,305
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - $241,071,802
- Fast Five - $209,837,675
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - $207,533,800
- Cars 2 - $191,452,396
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $185,538,618
- Thor - $181,030,624
- The Artist - 97%
- The Descendants - 90%
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - 46%
- Hugo - 94%
- Midnight in Paris - 93%
- The Help - 76%
- Moneyball - 95%
- War Horse - 76%
- The Tree of Life - 84%
- The Artist - See-it - 10th best film of the year
- The Descendants - See-it - 15th best film of the year
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Skip-it - outside the top 50
- Hugo - See-it - outside the top 50
- Midnight in Paris - Rent-it - 16th best film of the year
- The Help - Rent-it - outside the top 50
- Moneyball - See-it - 3rd best film of the year
- War Horse - Skip-it - outside the top 50
- The Tree of Life - Rent-it - 33rd best film of the year
- Drive
- Source Code
- Moneyball
- X-Men: First Class
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Bridesmaids
- 13 Assassins
- The Muppets
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- The Artist
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