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Oscar Predictions: Expect 'La La Land' to Sweep

The squabble over the supposed fantasy of Damien Chazelle's film vs. the 'reality' of 'Moonlight' is unlikely to change the outcome on February 26.
Emma Stone attends the 89th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 6 in Beverly Hills, California.
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La La Land is so precisely the kind of film the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences exists to reward that for Damien Chazelle’s musical fantasia not to pick up the Oscar for best motion picture on February 26 seems, at this point, almost unthinkable.

RELATED: Gosling, Stone twirl La La Land toward greatness

03_03_Oscars_01 Emma Stone attends the 89th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 6

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