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Summary: In preparation for the big event Sunday night, a survey of the top 2012 Oscar contenders with Midday contributors Linda DeLibero, associate director of film studies at the Johns Hopkins University, and filmmaker Christopher Llewellyn Reed, chair and associate professor of the Department of Film and Video at Stevenson University.