Awards season rife with competing loyalties

November 20, 2008 With directors increasingly detouring to other lots and a dissolved relationship between two companies, the race is shaping up as a showcase for Hollywood politics almost as much as it is a place to honor movies. Paramount has a pair of major contenders in David Fincher's romantic-fable "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and in Sam Mendes' broken-marriage drama "Revolutionary Road" (released under its Par Vantage label). Over the past week, both films have begun rolling out to voters and tastemakers.

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