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2008's Also-Rans

With only a handful of films nominated in the Academy Awards' Best Picture category each year, omissions are bound to occur that leave film buffs and historians scratching their heads. This year, two of the most popular and critically acclaimed films were out of the running, perhaps because of a bias by Academy voters against comic book superheroes ("The Dark Knight") or animation ("Wall-E").

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