
The celebrities are arriving -- and describing who they're wearing -- as Hollywood counts down to the beginning of the 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony.But the debates over color and style are only one of the stories fans are considering as the Oscars draw near.When it comes to the movies favored to win best picture, you can pick your storyline: The biggest box-office hit of all time against a money-making also-ran. Big-budget Hollywood versus small-budget indie.
star trek online goldA story of the future, told with futuristic computer animation and state-of-the-art 3D, facing off against a story of the past, told with cinema verite handheld cameras and down-to-earth grit.However you slice them, those two films -- "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" -- do have one thing in common: war.Keep up with the Oscars on the Marquee BlogIn "Avatar," the battles take place 150 years in the future, on a planet called Pandora, where humans face off against the
star trek online creditsindigenous race of Na'vi. In "The Hurt Locker," the battles are just a few years past, as an American bomb disposal unit copes with the guerrilla tactics of the enemy in the Iraq war.The two films are nominated for nine Oscars each to lead all comers. In a new wrinkle -- one that was last seen in the early '40s -- 10 films are up for best picture.