Could this be the year when there are four movies that garner Best Actor Academy Award nominations for black actors? Oscar talk abounds for Idris Elba in "Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom," Chiwetel Ejiofor in "12 Years A Slave," Forest Whitaker in "Lee Daniels' The Butler," and Michael B. Jordan in "Fruitvale Station." I don’t usually make these prognostications, although Oscar speculation has become somewhat of a sport at the Toronto film festival. But because of the the very real possibility of this happening, and the very historical nature of it if it does, I couldn’t resist.
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