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    What went wrong for 'A Star Is Born' on the road to the Oscars

    by Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times Feb 21, 2019 5 minutes

    Maybe those Oscar obituaries for "A Star Is Born" are premature. Maybe Bradley Cooper's smash-hit romantic remake will make good on more than one of its eight Oscar nominations. Maybe, to use the pitch in Warner Bros.' last-ditch campaign plea, academy members will vote for the movie that makes them feel instead of the movie they simply admire. (Cough. "Roma." Cough.)

    If there's anything we've learned this awards season, it's that there could be 100 people in a room and 99 don't believe in you, but all it takes is just one.

    Full disclosure: I am not that person.

    Lady Gaga first trotted out that "all it takes is just one" talking point at the Venice Film Festival world premiere of "A Star Is Born." She then repeated the story - about how Bradley Cooper, the film's

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