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Continuing with their policy of spreading the joy in all categories, the Gotham independent film award nominations has Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants” leading the pack with three noms each, but mysteriously it is Durkin's gem that is pushed aside in a Best Feature category that includes Fox Searchlight's The Descendants and Tree of Life, the other best indie film of the year in Jeff Nichols's Take Shelter, and a pair of films that many of us associate to 2010 in Meek's Cutoff and Beginners.

Here's our LIVE Oscar Blog for what was a fairly predictable and uneventful night that will go down in the books as the failed "Franco and Hathaway" experiment. ABC might want to start planning the format for the 84th sometime next week.

Summit who've entertained several options for The Beaver, might push forward for a potential Sundance release. Big question is: will the fest go for this indie heavyweight? If so, tickets will sell out quicker than any other title offered at the fest. It certainly would be a rather unique situation for thesps Jennifer Lawrence and Anton Yelchin, who might show up at the fest for this film and Drake Doremus' Like Crazy.

Rodrigo García is looking to direct Glenn Close's Albert Nobbs project, Mark Pellington's low budget I Melt With You will get the greenlight soon and Mary Harron will film a horror film (The Moth Diaries) in Montreal.

It's one of those years where the great Atom Egoyan's contribution to cinema is totally insignificant (Adoration received 2 noms) and where Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique, in my books the best Canadian film of the year, grabbed the high count total of eleven nominations for the 30th Genie Awards.