On 26 February 2012 is the 84th in Los Angeles Academy Awards take place. We present now the big favorites, and tell you what the odds are: George Clooney and Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood to Harry Potter.

“The Artist” is a favorite in Oscar race

The race for the Oscar is opened: the silent film “The Artist” and Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” are allowed to make the greatest hopes. Wim Wenders is one of the aspirants.

(“The Artist”) for his role as a silent film star whose career ends with the advent of sound film, George Clooney (“The Descendants – family and other matters”). This plays a father who wants to keep his family together after his wife after an accident in a coma. Demian Bichir are more nominees than immigrants in “A Better Life”, Gary Oldman as a British spymaster in “Queen, King, Ace, Soldier, Spy” and Brad Pitt as a baseball manager in “The art of winning – Money Ball.”

At the Oscars to the Golden Globe-winners Meryl Streep (“The Iron Lady”) and hope Michelle Williams (“My Week With Marilyn”) on an award as best actress.This is the 17th Streep Nominations, more than any other actor. In their last twelve nominations, but they went away empty-handed. Competition gets Streep Glenn Close as a supposedly male butler in “Albert Nobbs”, Viola Davis as a black maid in “The Help and Rooney Mara as traumatized and vengeful computer genius in” blindness ”

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Oscar chances for Wim Wenders

German director Wim Wenders has been nominated for its 3D homage “pina” for the documentary Oscar. The documentary about the legendary dancer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009, founder of the Wuppertal Dance Theatre, joined the Oscar award in the category “Best Documentary” at about four Homies.

“ Pina ”had initially double Oscar chances, because the film had moved to Germany also in the running for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. In a pre-selection made ​​it “Pina” in the category of “non-English language film,” although in the group of nine leading candidates on Tuesday could not be placed among the top 5 nominees.