Oscars 2010: Best films

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Films of a grandiose scale, with larger-than-life characters and fantastic scripts. Hollywood gave us a lot of these the past year. But only a few were able to impress the Oscar jury so much that they actually scored a nomination for Best Film. Here are the lucky 10.

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James Cameron and Jon Landau

With Earth an ecological disaster, a corporation sets its sights on the distant planet Pandora, which possesses a mineral that can be used as a valuable energy source.

To overcome the resistance of the planet's indigenous population, the Na'vi, former Marine Jake Sully is sent to infiltrate the society as a part-human, part-Na'vi avatar, who can operate on Pandora while Jake himself remains in a twilight sleep.

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