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The 2012 Oscars was Emma Stone’s first time presenting an award and she was super excited. (We’re letting you know just in case you didn’t already get that from her bit.) You know who wasn’t revved up at all, though? Her co-presenter Ben Stiller.

Every year, when the Oscar nominations are announced, a considerable amount of time is spent debating who was snubbed. But for every film that was expecting to get nominated and didn’t, there’s a film that no one was expecting to get nominated and did. This is the story of those films. The movies you’ll look back on and wonder exactly how the heck it ever got nominated for an Oscar.

When the Best Picture is named Sunday at the Academy Awards it will have been selected by the 5,765 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But would things have been different if instead the general public was tasked with awarding the Best Picture Oscar?

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards were held last night. With 12 nominations, “The King’s Speech” walked away with four, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. And the Winners are.....