Good Bets for Oscar: Even if, deep in your cinephile heart, you feel utter disdain for the Academy Awards and all such events, it can't be denied that the AFI Fest is chock-full of likely contenders. We spy at least three Best Picture nominees and a number of likely acting contenders among these festival titles this year: Silver Linings Playbook, Life of Pi, Rust and Bone, Hitchcock, On the Road, Lincoln, Amour, The Impossible and Quartet.



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