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A look at likely Oscar nominees ahead of Tuesday's announcements

Oscar nominations arrive Tuesday, and with them the annual outpouring of elation and anger, thanks and fury, the creation and perpetuation of hashtags and a rampant misuse of the word "snub."

"Roma" could become the first Netflix movie nominated for best picture. "Black Panther" might transform Marvel into an Oscar powerhouse. Bradley Cooper could earn nominations for producing, directing, co-writing and acting in "A Star Is Born." Alfonso Cuaron could go one step better, picking up five nods as a producer, director, writer, cinematographer and co-editor on "Roma," a movie that will also be nominated for foreign language film.

And roughly three decades after "Do the Right Thing," Spike Lee might finally earn his first directing nomination, for "BlacKkKlansman."

As for potential flashpoints: A year after Greta Gerwig became the

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