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Oscar liveblog: The ultimate tea leaf shows a ‘Hurt Locker’ message

By Steven Zeitchikwriter 
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Tyler Perry’s intro for best editing is entertaining (“Alec Baldwin keeps walking up to me and saying, ‘I loved you in “The Blind Side”.’ ”) but the announcement of “Hurt Locker” as the winner is telling. It’s only happened once in the last 10 years that a best-picture nominee wins editing and doesn’t go on to take the big prize (“The Aviator” in 2004). James Cameron, it might be time to start sweating.

--Steven Zeitchik

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Steven Zeitchik

Steven Zeitchik is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper from 2009 to 2017, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all.

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