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Continuing on with nominations that were and were not expected, we should finish the Best Picture nominations with the ones that were puzzles to me, along with some surprises and snubs, because there always are disagreements when it comes to “Bests.” 

Summer blockbusters followed by fall contenders and holiday hopefuls all have one goal: to score an Oscar nomination.

Sirāt is the razor-sharp bridge that divides hell and heaven, a bridge that all must traverse at some point in life, sometimes repeatedly.

Helen is a high-flying graduate student at Cambridge who is on the cusp of receiving a prestigious fellowship at the Max Planck Institute, the zenith in her field.

In “A Private Life,” Rebecca Zlotowski offers us not just a movie but a platter of comedy, psychodrama, mystery and character study.

“No Other Choice,” Park Chan-wook’s sly send-up of corporate culture, is a clever reworking of Donald Westlake’s novel “Ax,” one adapted previously by French director Costa-Gavras.

“The Choral” was a much-anticipated film. Not only was it written by the dream team of writer Alan Bennett (“The History Boys”) and director Nicholas Hytner (winner of multiple Tony and Olivier awards), but the cast was starry as well, led by Ralph Fiennes.

“Come Closer,” winner of the Ophir (Israel’s Oscar) for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Editing, automatically became Israel’s submission to the upcoming Oscars by winning Best Feature Film.

Part 2 of “Drowning in TV” looks at some of the other new series that you may have heard of, if only because of the starry casts. But not all stars emit light.

The Salter Family Theatre at Beverly Hills High School (BHHS) reopened on Nov. 13 with a student production of Kate Hamill’s “Little Women.”