Why This Year's Best Picture Race is a Total Crapshoot

Why This Year's Best Picture Race is a Total Crapshoot. Four of the nominees would not surprise us if they won, but the other five wouldn't shock us, either.
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Can You Solve the Seven Planets Riddle? The key is to simplify the search for criminals who jump from one planet to another.
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The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes.’ You might be surprised to find where Grandma's recipe really came from.
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To Boldly Stay: How Deep Space Nine Upended Star Trek by Exposing Utopia's Dark Side. Keeping the action in one space station forced the writers to look in new directions.
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18 Images That Prove Cats Are Our Masters And Not The Other Way Around. Cats don't care about your silly rules.
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The Truth About Queso (And How Chipotle Got It Wrong). The evolution of the Tex-Mex treat includes the influence of fondue and Welsh rarebit.
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Did Human Sacrifice Help People Form Complex Societies? Maybe, but the findings tell a much more complicated story.
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Weird Camera Effects. Unearthly images are not caused by aliens or ghosts, just modern technology.