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Film News: Offbeat projects can score for writing -- Academy voters have long professed a deep love and respect for the original, the quirky and the edgy -- movies such as "Fargo," "Pulp Fiction," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Lost in Translation," "Sling Blade" and "The Crying Game." Problem is, Oscar is also wild about the epic, the big historical drama and the conventional -- think "Titanic," "Gladiator" and "Gandhi." And while all the former films were winners, those were in the screenplay categories, while Oscar saved the big prize of best picture for the latter.

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