Oscar nominations 2012: 'Hugo', 'The Artist' among Best Picture contenders

The nominees for the Oscar award were announced Tuesday morning in Hollywood.

(AP Photo/Columbia Pictures-Sony, Melinda Sue Gordon) / Melinda Sue Gordon/AP Martin Scorsese's love poem to the movies and film preservation, "Hugo," led the pack with a whopping 11 Oscar nominations when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Michael Fassbender, Angelina Jolie and Ryan Gosling are just three of the stars who were overlooked.

The Academy Awards nominations, announced Tuesday, are a mix of nods and double takes. That's fitting in a year when even the number of best picture nominees was a mystery. After just two years of opening up the possibilities from five nominees to 10,

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