Watts is the only nomination for The Impossible, the real-life story of a family caught up in the devastating 2004 tsunami.
But for those who saw the film in its initial theatrical run in summer 1993, it did feel like the industry was on the cusp of making the impossible very very real.
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"Madrid don't discard an option until it is truly impossible, " said Real sporting director Miguel Pardeza.
"An elevation is a technical document, " he explains: an idealized view impossible to attain in real life.
In a world where Federal Reserve zero-interest-rate policy has made it impossible to earn any real yield the 10-year Treasury rate is well below 2% on standard-issue bonds, the income payout on high yield bonds (the polite term for junk) is proving too hard to resist.
It is already virtually impossible to talk to a real person on the telephone.
Before long, real reforms seem impossible to achieve with such narrow tax bases and high tax rates.
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Lefties like Paul Krugman and William Greider think that all 2003 to 2007 growth came from leverage legerdemain, but that's only because the Krugman crowd thinks supply side economics is phony, that real growth is impossible to achieve during Republican administrations, etc.
But, as a panel explains, it is impossible to give visitors a real sense of what it was like because the decks of slave ships, containing anywhere from 200 to 500 people, were often no more than a now inconceivable 18 inches high.
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Without the background of Zengid politics or Islamic schisms, and without the context of the conflicts of Christendom, it is impossible for the reader to make real sense of Saladin, or a real king of Richard.
Mr Eldergill said many psychopaths go through life committing anti-social behaviour but no serious crimes and it was impossible to predict those who were a real threat to the public.
What Jobs and Apple did was not tweaking, it was seeing implications and possibilities everyone else was blind to, and pursuing them and making them real even when they seemed impossible.
"Under-13s create a real problem because it is absolutely impossible in the current set of standards to be sure about the age of anyone because children will lie, " he said.
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And that, perhaps, is ultimate reason why the song endures: The remote, mythic beauty the impossible dream turned out to be as real as you or me.
They face opposition from people who contend the real goal is to make it almost impossible for local governments to pass new environmental and zoning rules.
Because each of these three potential outcomes represents a very real possibility, it has become nearly impossible to predict where tax rates will be come January.
While Big Ten football is turning out to be as sleep-inducing as whatever Rip took before nodding off, it's impossible to deny that the ND defense is for real.
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In the real world of policing, it's impossible for law enforcement officers -- particularly those who lack the specialized training given to Border Patrol agents -- to make assumptions about one's legal status without taking race and ethnicity into account.
The real question is whether that revelation will make it impossible for the Obama administration to persist in its delusion that a conciliatory U.S. policy towards Russia will encourage the Kremlin to moderate its repression at home and its aggressiveness abroad?
As I listened to presentation after presentation from scientists who spend their working days trying to protect the public from contamination in food, I was struck by the fact that the real story about what the FDA does is almost impossible to convey to the public.
With a fiat dollar, it is impossible for A and B to know exactly what, in terms of real value, will be repaid.
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But aside from driving the public discourse into the depths of ideological madness, Israel's embrace of fantasy has made it impossible for us to conduct a sober-minded discussion of our only real options.
As Adam Levitin of Georgetown University Law Centre and Susan Wachter of the University of Pennsylvania pointed out in a recent paper on the causes of the housing bubble in America, it is impossible to borrow the Empire State Building in order to sell New York real estate short.
He said he considered moving his family and selling his house, but the current real estate market and the expense of living in California made it impossible.
Yet the real disadvantage of complexity in the international system is that it often makes it impossible for decision-makers to comprehend the challenges they face and to deal with them effectively.
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