Given this, the weak retail sales seen this year were painting a dark picture.
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While still among the elite top-five shoo-ins for Best Picture (the others being Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Lining Playbook, and Les Miserables), I think this picture needs strong showings in the early awards season to make a comeback and really challenge Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty at this point.
The historic co-op retains much of its turn-of-the-century detailing, including leaded windows, a multi-paned picture window, dark paneled walls, oak doors and original cage elevator.
If "Zero Dark Thirty" does win Best Picture, it will be one of only five times in the past 25 years when the director of the best film didn't also get an Oscar.
No women have made it onto the shortlist for best director at this year's Oscars, while Zero Dark Thirty is the only best picture nominee to have been directed by a woman - Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow.
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So good is this Batman film, that the Academy Awards had to change the way movies are nominated in order to make up for the perceived shortcomings in Oscar balloting that resulted in The Dark Knight failing to get a Best Picture nomination.
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The rear camera doesn't claim an absolute crown for quality now that the Lumia 920 is in the field, but it still produces some of the sharpest, cleanest images we've seen, and it's one of the few that can take photos in the dark with hopes for a truly usable picture.
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So, it was with open arms that female filmmakers welcomed the news that another of Bigelow's films, "Zero Dark Thirty", is up for Best Picture at the Academy Awards this weekend.
Just a day before the official announcement of the Academy Award nominees, all signs pointed toward a Best Picture race between Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty, with Argo a strong third ready to exploit any voting-splitting between those other two films.
Sony is also promoting the film to Academy voters as a contender for Best Picture, and the film is probably a very valid dark horse contender for a nomination.
Each mirror acts as a beam-steering device, controlling whether a single picture element (pixel) in the image is light or dark.
So Laura Bush attempted to paint a picture of her husband wrestling with the great issues in the dark reaches of the night.
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As ever, journalists reporting this story have come looking for symbols of the bigger picture - and this place has now come to signify the dark side of India many see as being behind this gruesome crime.
When Affleck was snubbed for a directing slot, awards analysts initially were counting "Argo" out for the best-picture Oscar, along with Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" and Tom Hooper's "Les Miserables, " which also missed out on directing nominations.
The display also makes dark images even darker and bright images far brighter - providing unparalleled, vivid picture quality.
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Silver, who has a 15-picture guaranteed deal with Warner Bros through his genre production company, Dark Castle, quickly decided to create a martial arts film as a vehicle for Rain.
But wait at the coffee shops after dark to talk to some of Muscat's bloggers and tweeters and a different picture emerges, of tell-tale clicks on the line during phone conversations, of unusual activity on Facebook pages.
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Last December, the New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review both named "Zero Dark Thirty, " a thriller about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, the best picture of the year.
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