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Regardless of what the Academy eventually chooses for Best Picture, Director, and Actor over the coming months, some will be shouting "again?!" when the winner's name is announced.

Out of all the nominees, nearly none of the leaders in major categories are new to the Oscar derby. Previous winners like Robert DeNiro, Sally Field, Denzel Washington, Joaquin Phoenix, Helen Hunt and Philip Seymour Hoffman could all add to their totals on Oscar night. And those are only a few names; the entire Supporting Actor category is made up of former winners!

With the exception of Amour and Beasts of the Southern Wild, the majority of the nominated films also have winners behind them. Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) won Best Director three years ago for Hurt Locker, Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) is a two-time winner for Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List and Ang Lee (Life of Pi) also won a Best Director Oscar previously for Brokeback Mountain.

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The Hurt Locker ran away with this poll taking 41.7% of the vote with Inglorious Basterds lagging behind with 25%, Avatar with 16.7%, Up in the Air with 12.5%, and Precious - which suffered from not being seen most likely - took last with 4.2%

Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds received most of their votes from the U.S. but a majority of Avatar's votes come from overseas.

For a long while it looked like the Best Picture winner would be a surprise, but at this point of the race it's leaning heavily to Team Bigelow. Be sure to tune in Sunday for the big show.

It's still early but with Avatar yet to be seen and Up in the Air, and Precious all leading voting blocs The Hurt Locker will need to make its push early.
(Courtesy: Awards Daily)