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Best pictures nominees, and their shadows

Let's see, a sweet underdog story in which the love of a good woman and devotion to a bone-crunching sport take a broken man and make him whole. In 1976's "Rocky," it was a wife. This time it's a mother in "The Blind Side," but the story has proved just as uplifting. Photo: "The Blind Side" (above) and "Rocky."

Let’s see, a sweet underdog story in which the love of a good woman and devotion to a bone-crunching sport take a broken man and make him whole. In 1976’s “Rocky,” it was a wife. This time it’s a mother in “The Blind Side,” but the story has proved just as uplifting.

Photo: “The Blind Side” (above) and “Rocky.”  (Warner Bros. / Handout)

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As in 1958’s “Gigi,” an innocent young girl is thrown into the arms of a suave older man, to different ends certainly, but one can almost hear Peter Sarsgaard’s character singing “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” every time he looks at Carey Mulligan’s Jenny in “An Education.”

Photo: “An Education” (above) and “Gigi.”   (Sony Pictures Classics / Handout)

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