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    Why the Oscars are primed to go Mach 10 with 'Top Gun: Maverick'

    by Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times Nov 10, 2022 4 minutes
    From left, Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer on the set of "Top Gun: Maverick."

    LOS ANGELES — Uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer has a long resume — box office billions from franchises like the "Pirates of Caribbean" and "Bad Boys" movies, several hundred (and counting) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" episodes and enough cinematic explosions to have inflicted hearing damage on generations of audiences.

    The one item missing from the 79-year-old Bruckheimer's CV: an Oscar nomination.

    Now, maybe you feel that omission is not glaring but earned. Like, what, Bruckheimer should have been nominated for "Pearl Harbor"? Or "National Treasure"? He has always been a populist, concerned with putting people in the seats, not the whims of Oscar voters. The academy can have its "prestige." He'll take the Happy Meal

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