Now we have Zero Dark Thirty, a thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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Two films starring Jessica Chastain, Mama and Zero Dark Thirty, took up fourth and fifth place.
The biggest snub was Kathryn Bigelow not earning a directing nomination for Zero Dark Thirty.
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Then there's this movie, "Zero Dark Thirty" about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Originally scheduled for an October 2012 release, "Zero Dark Thirty" was pushed past Election Day to Christmas.
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The films that are getting the most award buzz are Lincoln, Les Miserables and Zero Dark Thirty.
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Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty" was shut out of the prizes, despite five nominations.
Her two current movies, Zero Dark Thirty and the horror film Mama, topped the box office this weekend.
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First and most glaring, notice the lack of a nod for Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty.
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Unusually, there was a tie in the sound editing category - the Oscar was shared by Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall.
"Zero Dark Thirty" is also unusual for a film in that it is an exercise in breakneck investigative reporting.
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Though I am criticizing the film, I liked Zero Dark Thirty a lot.
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Her film, Zero Dark Thirty was expected to be one of the biggest films at the Oscars this year.
Zero Dark Thirty is a military term for very early in the morning.
At the end of the day, though, "Zero Dark Thirty" is a movie.
The makers of Zero Dark Thirty, they went on, had "a social and moral obligation to get the facts right".
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"Zero Dark Thirty is, in some small way, a tribute to those forever affected by the attacks, " the statement said.
Zero Dark Thirty has only been playing in a few theaters though it will go into wide release this weekend.
Like "Argo" or "Zero Dark Thirty, " the film dramatizes a fertile subject in this instance, the language of advertising in modern politics.
Those who have watched Zero Dark Thirty now at least know that water boarding is not some sort of water sport.
Best Actress is also a two woman race between Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook.
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Will best film editing go to "Argo, " the taut minimalism of "Zero Dark Thirty" or the careful rhythms of "Life of Pi"?
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The new film Zero Dark Thirty, about the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden, is the latest example of this phenomenon.
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"Zero Dark Thirty" fictionalized some events and people to keep the story moving as well as to keep sources and U.S. operations safe.
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Zero Dark Thirty has drawn criticism from within the US government with some senators complaining it perpetuates "the myth that torture is effective".
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As some film critics outside the Senate noted, "Zero Dark Thirty" doesn't claim that information obtained from harsh interrogations was central to the manhunt.
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Then-analyst Nada Bakos (who likely is part of the amalgam that created the character of Maya in the movie "Zero Dark Thirty") went to Iraq.
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It's fair to say that Chastain's presence in both "Mama" and "Zero Dark Thirty" had little to do with each film's successful box office performance.
"In addition to providing false advertising for waterboarding, 'Zero Dark Thirty' endorses torture in several other subtle ways, " wrote Jane Mayer in the New Yorker.
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