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It is Thursday, January 26th.

We are still taping from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

When the Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday, there was something very familiar to me.

Living, a reimagining of the classic Kurosawa story, had scored two nominations, Bill Nahi

for lead actor and the writer, Kazuo Ishigoro, for adapted screenplay.

Living's a small art house movie.

It's rolling out in theaters now,

and it was a pickup at last year's Sundance

by Sony Pictures Classics,

the specialty division of the Sony studio.

Sony Classics has done this over and over,

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