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Oscars: Now We Know the Top 5 Movies Based on Best Picture, Best Director Nominations

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With this morning’s announcement, we now know the top 5 movies of the 10 nominated.

They would be the 5 that overlapped in Best Picture and Best Director.

They are:

“West Side Story” and Steven Spielberg

“Belfast” and Kenneth Branagh

“Licorice Pizza” with Paul Thomas Anderson

“The Power of the Dog” with Jane Campion

“Drive My Car” with Ryusuke Hamaguchi

The other five movies are very good, but without director nominations they fall to the second pack, so to speak.

Of the top 5, “Power of the Dog” has four acting nominations. That would put it in the lead.

“Being the Ricardos” has three nominations but nothing else.

“Pizza” has no acting. “Belfast” has two strong nominees. “West Side Story” has 1.

Let the games begin!

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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