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Today’s announcement comes with little surprise, but I’m glad to see that Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon are leveling the playing field sort of speak. While Doubt picked up 4 nominations it couldn’t crack the top 5 noms for Best Dramatic Feature and Milk was almost totally taken off the score card – only Sean Penn got a nod.

5,632 submissions were submitted this year with 96 short films making the cut including the impressive Next Floor from Denis Villeneuve (see pic).

Cut down from 24 down to 16 and with less studio content means more films up for sale. Let the buzz begin. Among the must sees: the sombre debut from scribe Oren Moverman (The Messenger), the long awaited debut of Gregor Jordan's The Informers and you'll be surprised by what Killer Films' Katherine Dieckmann's Motherhood might have in store.

As expected the debuts from Sophie Barthes, John Hindman and Cruz Angeles will be the make up of 16 film selection (read my predictions here). I'm already familiar with at least half of the projects as with John Krasinski’s debut and Adam Salky’s feature length film project but of course, the rest were completely off my radar.

Over the last few weeks rumors have been swirling about Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio being eyed as the leads lending credence to this sea change. Now Variety breaks the news that QT has cast his buddy (or disciple depending on how you look at it) fellow director/wanna-be actor Eli Roth in the film and I’m left scratching my head. That’s right, the Hostel auteur will play Sgt. Donny Donowitz – or The Bear Jew to friends and foes – a bat swinging bastard from Boston with anger issues and a chip on his shoulder.