Grammy Nominations: 10 Big Shockers and Snubs

The 56th annual Grammy Awards offered a fair share of surprising inclusions, as well as flabbergasting omissions. From Lorde's unexpected snub to Kendrick Lamar's across-the-board triumph, check out the five biggest surprises and five biggest snubs of the 2014 Grammy nominations.

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AMPAS Adds Dubai to Qualifying Festival List For Oscar Short Film Contention

The Academy for Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said Dec. 8 that the Dubai International Film Festival would be joining the ranks of qualifying festivals for the Oscar’s short film competition.

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R.I.P. actor Danny Wells of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

Wells’ death coincidentally comes near the end of what Nintendo has deemed The Year Of Luigi, making this a twilight for the character in more ways than one.

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'Her' Named Best Film by National Board of Review

The National Board of Review on Wednesday revealed its awards for 2013, naming Spike Jonze's Her the Best Film of the Year. Jonze also earned Best Director honors for his work helming the Warner Bros. movie about a man (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with a computer operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson).

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Pixar vs. Disney Animation: John Lasseter's Tricky Tug-of-War

Walt Disney Animation Studios opened Frozen, its 53rd feature, in wide release and set a Thanksgiving weekend record with $93.6 million domestic -- topping Pixar's Toy Story 2 benchmark from 1999. The icy sisterhood tale established itself as a frontrunner for the animated feature Oscar, a category Pixar has dominated. Further underscoring the resurgence of WDAS, Frozen was accompanied by a new short, Get a Horse!, that could win the Oscar in that category.

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ASIFA Unveils List of 41st Annie Awards Nominees

GKIDS’ A Letter to Momo, Universal/Illumination’s Despicable Me 2, GKIDS’ Ernest and Celestine, Disney’s Frozen, Pixar’s Monsters University, DreamWorks’ The Croods and Ghibli/Disney’s The Wind Rises.

The TV categories are also packed with a long list of contenders: The Best Animated TV Series for Children’s nominees are Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, Warner Bros.’ Animation’s Beware the Batman, Disney TV’s Gravity Falls, Nickelodeon’s Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Cartoon Network’s Regular Show, Nelvana’s Scaredy Squirrel and Warner Bros.’ Teen Titans Go!

The General Audience TV Series nominees are FX’s Archer, Bento Box/Fox’s Bob’s Burgers, Disney TV’s TRON: Uprising, Fox’s Futurama and Titmouse/Disney XD’s Motorcity.

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'Fast & Furious' star Paul Walker killed in car crash

Actor Paul Walker, who shot to fame as star of the high-octane street racing franchise "Fast & Furious," died in a fiery car crash in Southern California on Saturday. He was 40.

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