10 Oscar Shockers

Clint Eastwood got the cold shoulder and Sandra Bullock continues to confound her skeptics. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the biggest surprises of the Oscar nominations.

The Daily Beast

Updated Jul. 14, 2017 11:04AM ET / Published Feb. 02, 2010 4:47PM ET

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Nicole LaPorte is the senior West Coast correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.