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Meryl Streep gave the best performance but still managed to be a surprise win, while Billy Crystal gave us a much better show than recent years… with Hugo and The Artist battling for top honors.

The nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards were announced yesterday. And they were… shall we say… uninspired. Several of the year’s best films were ignored outright, while the movies and performances that played to Oscar sentiments were rewarded with nominations, regardless of originality or creativity. Here are 12 observations, or reactions if you will, to the movies that will compete at this year’s Academy Awards.

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Many critics and bloggers assemble top ten movie lists (like the best movies of 2011) this time of year. Many put together ‘worst of’ lists, too. I purposely avoided movies like Jack and Jill and Zookeeper this year, however. Those stinkers were clearly avoidable from the onset.

Unavoidable, however, were the movies I was really looking forward to. You know, the ones with awesome trailers and great potential. The ones that promise to be the next best thing. The movies that don’t live up to those lofty expectations. They may not be the worst movies of the year – in fact, some may be halfway decent – but they commit a greater sin: they break our hearts.

These are the ten most disappointing movies of 2011.

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The number is 26. That’s the amount of Oscar nominations the last three major films Martin Scorsese directed – which all starred Leonardo DiCaprio – earned. The movies also collected approximately $700 million worldwide. Needless to say, the Scorsese/DiCaprio combination has been a critical and financial powerhouse, which makes the prospect of a horror-thriller such as Shutter Island so intriguing.

Read FilmJabber’s full Shutter Island movie review.

Fans have been asking for it for years, and finally their wishes are coming true. Reuters is reporting that Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese are teaming up yet again to do a gangster movie.

Having watched Robert De Niro’s career devolve into what can only be described as forgettable roles in forgettable movies, people have been saying: Why the hell doesn’t he do another gangster movie? At the very least, team up with Scorsese – one of the most consistent directors of our time – with whom he collaborated to deliver some of the best movies of the 20th century, including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Cape Fear.

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