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Cinemark Robinson Plans Marathon Showing of Academy Award-Nominated Films

The theater at Settlers Ridge offers a special ticket for a day-long screening of four "Best Picture" nominees as well as a grouping of "Oscar Shorts". For a showing of just one Oscar contender, type your ZIP code into the Moviefone finder below.

 

Still haven't taken in all of those Oscar-nominated films you'd intended to see before the curtain rises for the big 85th Academy Awards show Sunday night?

If you've got the better part of a day to spare before then, Cinemark Robinson has a deal for you. For one $30 ticket, movie-goers can spend Saturday afternoon and evening catching four of the contenders for best picture back to back.

Starting at 1 p.m., ticket-holders for this Oscar Marathon can watch "Argo," "Silver Linings Playbook," Zero Dark Thirty" and "Django Unchained." The theater held a similar event last weekend in which it showed other contenders in the best picture category.

Not enough time for that offering, but still hungry for some Oscar-nominated fare? Cinemark Robinson also is showing "Oscar Shorts," featuring nominated short films, at noon, 4 p.m. or 8 p.m. Friday.

To find showtimes of other Academy Award-nominated films playing in or near Robinson and Moon, check out the Moviefone finder above and type in your zip code.

The Academy Awards ceremony, which begins at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, will be televised live on ABC (WTAE locally) in the United States and in more than 225 foreign countries. Various networks will present Oscar-related programming and red-carpet coverage prior to the ceremony, which is scheduled to feature a tribute to James Bond films and performances by singers Adele and Barbra Streisand.

This year's most-nominated film is director Steven Spielberg's historical drama "Lincoln," with 12 nods, followed by Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" with 11. The musical, "Les Miserables," directed by Tom Hooper, and David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook" tied with 8 nominations each.

"Lincoln" was nominated for best picture and brought Spielberg his eighth nomination for best director. A win would be his third in the director category. "Lincoln" also is Spielberg's eighth film to be nominated for best picture; "Schindler's List'' won in 1994.

"Lincoln" garnered a best acting nod for two-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln and supporting acting nominations for Sally Field—a two-time best actress winner who played Lincoln's wife Mary Todd—and Tommy Lee Jones as a radical antislavery legislator.

"Lincoln" also received nominations for cinematography, costume design, film editing, original score, production design, sound mixing and adapted screenplay.

The fantasy adventure "Life of Pi" was nominated for best
picture, best director, original song—"Pi's Lullaby"—adapted screenplay, cinematography, film editing, original score, production design, sound editing and mixing and visual effects.

"Les Miserables," a film adaptation of the long-running musical set in 19th-century France, brought acting nods to lead Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean and Anne Hathaway in her supporting role as Fantine, as well as nominations for costume design, makeup, original song—"Suddenly"—production design and sound mixing.

The Weinstein Company's "Silver Linings Playbook's" eight nominations included best picture and across-the-board nods for its actors: Bradley Cooper—who played a man recently released from a psychiatric institution, and Jennifer Lawrence, his romantic foil—as leads and Robert DeNiro and Jacki Weaver in supporting roles.

This year's awards also break records for oldest and youngest nominees.

French actress Emanuelle Riva, 85, is a contender for best actress for her role in "Amour," nominated for both best picture and best foreign film, while 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis became the youngest-ever best actress nominee for her portrayal of Hushpuppy in "Beasts of the Southern Wild."

Both Riva and Wallis are first-time nominees, as are Cooper and Jackman.

The youngest acting nominee in all categories is still Justin Henry, who was 8 when he was nominated for "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979). The oldest remains the late Gloria Stuart, who was 87 when she received a supporting nomination for "Titanic."

"Silver Linings Playbook" is the first film to be nominated in the best picture, directing, writing and all four acting categories since "Reds'' (1981).

To brush up on your Oscar-related knowledge before Sunday night, here are the nominations:

Best Motion Picture

Argo
Amour

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty 

Achievement in Directing

Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Benh ZeitlinBeasts of the Southern Wild
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Michael HanekeAmour
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Denzel Washington, Flight
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Naomi WattsThe Impossible
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Alan Arkin, Argo
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams, The Master
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables 
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
Sally Field, Lincoln

Best Animated Feature Film

Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

Original Screenplay

Amour, Michael Haneke
Django Unchained, 
Quentin Tarantino
Flight
, John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal

Adapted Screenplay

Argo, Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild
, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi, David Magee
Lincoln, Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

Best Foreign-Language Film

A Royal Affair (Denmark)
Amour
 (Austria)
No (Chile)
War Witch (Canada)
Kontiki (Norway)

Original Score

Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas Newman

Original Song

"Before My Time," J. Ralph; Chasing Ice
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend," Walter Murphy and Seth McFarlane; Ted
"Pi's Lullaby," Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri; Life of Pi
"Skyfall," Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth; Skyfall
"Suddenly," Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boulil; Les Misérables 

Achievement in Production Direction

Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln

Achievement in Cinematography

Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained, Robert Richardson
Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins

Achievement in Costume Design

Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood

Best Documentary Feature

5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for a Sugar Man

Best Documentary Short Subject

Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption

Achievement in Film Editing

Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Achievement in Makeup & Hairstyling

Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables

Best Animated Short Film

Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
Paperman

Best Live-Action Short Film

Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death of a Shadow
Henry

Achievement in Sound Editing

Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Achievement in Sound Mixing

Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Achievement in Visual Effects

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Marvel's The Avengers
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

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