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"The Oscars are this Sunday, and if you haven&amp;#x27;t seen all the Best Picture nominees, you&amp;#x27;ve probably at least heard all about each of &amp;#x27;em. But for all you movie trivia geeks like myself, I figured you&amp;#x27;d like some little-known factoids to impress all your friends at your watch party. Enjoy! Zero Dark Thirty -In military terms, &amp;quot;Zero Dark Thirty&amp;quot; means 12:30 a.m., but it also, according to director Kathryn Bigelow, refers &amp;quot;to the darkness and secrecy that cloaked the entire decade long mission.&amp;quot; -Jessica Chastain still has the voicemail saved from when Bigelow called to offer her the role. &amp;quot;I listen to it often,&amp;quot; she confessed. Life of Pi -Newcomer Suraj Sharma has no former acting experience&amp;amp;#8212;in fact, he only auditioned for the role because his brother asked him to come along with him&amp;amp;#8212;but won the role out of over 3,000 young men who auditioned. -Tobey Maguire was originally cast in the movie, but director Ang Lee cut him because he thought the actor was too famous. Argo -The movie shows the famous Hollywood sign crumbling and in disrepair, but the old Hollywood sign was actually replaced in 1978&amp;amp;#8212;a full year before the Iran Hostage Crisis, which began in 1979. -Ben Affleck&amp;#x27;s first directing project was a short called I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney. True story. Lincoln -After Daniel Day-Lewis had developed the voice he wanted to use for Lincoln, he wanted to keep it so private that he sent director Steven Spielberg the recording in an envelope with skull-and-cross bones on it. -Spielberg wore a suit every day on set because he wanted to fit in with the cast. Silver Linings Playbook -Other than his Rush Hour movies, this is the first film Chris Tucker has been in since 1997&amp;#x27;s Jackie Brown. -During the scene where Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence get into a fight outside a movie theater, take notice. The marquee reads The Midnight Meat Train, which is a 2008 film starring... yep, Bradley Cooper. Beasts of the Southern Wild -Quvenzhane Wallis actually fibbed about her age to get the role&amp;amp;#8212;she was five, but the minimum age for consideration was six. -Dwight Henry, who plays Wallis&amp;#x27;s father in the movie, owned a bakery across the street from the casting agency. During a slow hour, he read for the part. But during the audition process his bakery moved locations, and the crew had a hard time locating him! Amour -Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, 82, had broken his hand during filming. -The pigeon scene was shot 12 times because the director Michele Haneke kept trying to direct the bird. Django Unchained -The last name of Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz&amp;#x27;s character) is possibly a reference to Paula Schultz&amp;amp;#8212;the name on the gravestone that the Bride (Uma Thurman) is buried alive under in Kill Bill: Vol. 2. -Quentin Tarantino said that Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington&amp;#x27;s characters are meant to be the great great great grandparents of character John Shaft (from the Shaft movies). The hint? Kerry&amp;#x27;s character is named Broomhilda Von Shaft. Les Miserables -The original Broadway and West End Eponine, Frances Ruffelle, was in the movie too&amp;amp;#8212;she played a prostitute. -Eddie Redmayne&amp;#x27;s audition was on his iPhone&amp;amp;#8212;he recorded himself singing during a movie break! Did you know any of these? Any surprise you?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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