The wild card is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Michael Coleman, Geoff Corkish, Juan Turner and Tony Wild swore the oath of allegiance before President Clare Christian and Deemster David Doyle.

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There are outside chances for David O Russell for Silver Lining Playbook, Michael Haneke for Amour and Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild.

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The tastes of the directing branch skews indie, arty, and avant-garde, but from talking to voters, it seems as though the Affleck snub came about simply because a majority of nominators were so sure Affleck was in that they spent their votes on longshots, such as "Beasts of the Southern Wild's" Benh Zeitlin and "Amour's" Michael Haneke.

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They were Linda Bowers-Kasch, Michael Coleman, Geoff Corkish MHK, Peter Hill, Nigel Malpass, Juan Turner and Tony Wild.

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Michael Cuddyer and Todd Helton followed with hard singles to put runners at the corners and Kuroda's wild pitch sent Helton to second but Cuddyer had to hold up when the ball caromed off the backstop and back to catcher Chris Stewart.

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Linda Bowers-Kasch, Michael Coleman, Geoff Corkish MHK, Peter Hill and Nigel Malpass have been nominated alongside Mr Turner and Mr Wild.

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