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TCM's Robert Osborne on the Best Picture Race

Robert Osborne, the host of Turner Classic Movies, discusses this year's Academy Awards and the Best Picture race, featuring ten nominees instead of the usual five, and reflects on Oscar's past history with the category. And visit the official site for TCM's 31 Days of Oscar to find out more.

Also: Robert Osborne discusses the recipients of this year's Honorary Academy Awards, including actress Lauren Bacall and producer Roger Corman. Watch the video now.

Award Contenders

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Up in the Air -- From Jason Reitman, the Oscar nominated director of "Juno," comes the new acclaimed film "Up in the Air" starring Oscar winner George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.

Up in the Air

Up in the Air (19)

Invictus -- The inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), to help unite their country.

Invictus

Invictus (21)

Nine -- Nine is a musical following a film director named Guido Contini, who is in his middle age. He is trying to complete his next film. His main problem is that he has too many women in his life. Luisa, his wife, Carla his sexy mistress, and Claudia, his muse and protege.

Nine

Nine (12)

The Lovely Bones -- Based on the best selling book by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from Heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.

The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones (24)

The Princess and the Frog -- A fairy tale of a girl named Tiana who becomes a princess.

Disney's The Princess and The Frog

The Princess and the Frog (23)

Fantastic Mr. Fox -- Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life with their eccentric son Ash and visiting nephew Kristopherson. That is until Mr. Fox slips into his sneaky, old ways and plots the greatest chicken heist the animal world has ever seen.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fantastic Mr. Fox (20)

Los abrazos rotos -- A luminous Pen?lope Cruz stars as an actress who sacrifices everything for true love in BROKEN EMBRACES, Academy Award? -winning filmmaker (2003, Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk to Her) Pedro Almod?var's acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema.

Broken Embraces

Los abrazos rotos (14)

Precious -- Precious Jones, an inner-city high school girl, is illiterate, overweight, and pregnant...again. Naïve and abused, Precious responds to a glimmer of hope when a door is opened by an alternative-school teacher. She is faced with the choice to follow opportunity and test her own boundaries. Prepare for shock, revelation and celebration.

Precious

Precious (17)

The Road -- An epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and his young son as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm.

The Road (2009)

The Road (16)

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