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Oscar nominations 2022: All the snubs and surprises

LOS ANGELES — Oscar nominations arrived Tuesday morning, and, as you might expect, reactions around town ranged from finger-snapping approval to all the lonely people working out their disappointment by that tried-and-true "Power of the Dog" method of walking outside and twirling a hula hoop with the burning rage of a thousand suns.

There were surprises, of course, pleasant and otherwise. And there were omissions, which, for the sake of alliteration and search engine optimization, we'll call "snubs" — though in all but the rarest of cases, motion picture academy voters weren't deliberately setting out to signal their disapproval. Or, who knows, maybe they were. This is Hollywood, after all, where grudges run deeper than the fault lines that cross our fair land of sunshine and

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