The failure of The Hurricane to win a best picture nomination was a surprise.
Hilary Swank, who has already won a Golden Globe for her role in Boys Don't Cry, is one of the favourites for the best actress Oscar, a category that sees Meryl Streep win a record 12th nomination for Music of the Heart.
Eleven-year-old Haley Joel Osment's nomination for The Sixth Sense showed that the academy's weakness for child actors is alive and kicking, though he is far from the youngest ever.
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However, a few hours later, Bruno Gollnisch, one of Le Pen's oldest and closest friends announced he would also seek nomination to lead the FN's list.
But their comments were only the most blatant overtures among a series of thinly-veiled pitches for the party's nomination to take on a Democrat for the job of commander-in-chief in November.
Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, an independent who is challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party's nomination in 2016, also voted against the bill for similar reasons.
Cameron, and others less combatively, complain that Juncker is being imposed by a parliamentary coup, usurping the prerogative of national leaders to agree on the nomination.
In the leading category she is up against Jennifer Aniston for Cake, Reese Witherspoon for Wild, Felicity Jones for The Theory of Everything, and Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl – a film for which David Fincher (that emailgate star) has a best director nomination.
He then seemed to include the overwhelming favourite for the Democratic nomination, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, in that "billionaire class".
Appearing on ABC at the end of a week in which he declared a run for the Democratic nomination well to the left of Clinton, the independent senator from Vermont said on his first day as a candidate he had attracted 100,000 supporters and raised $1.5m at an average donation of $43.
