Best drama movie trivia of 2012

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Django Unchained picture

Trivia: When we see the "regulators" riding over the hill on the way to kill Django and Schultz, if you look carefully at the right-center portion of screen, you can see one of the stuntmen fall off his horse and the horse continues to run down the hill without him. To make matters even worse, it appears the stuntman rolls right in front of another horse and gets trampled. (00:41:00)

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Les Miserables picture

Trivia: During production, all of the crew members wore period costumes, just in case they accidentally got caught in a shot.

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Love Never Dies picture

Trivia: When Raoul makes an insulting comment about the Phantom in the bar, the Phantom calls him "insolent boy". When the Phantom appears to the audience for the first time in The Phantom of the Opera, "insolent boy" is his very first line in the song "The Mirror (Angel of Music)".

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Rock of Ages picture

Trivia: Tom Cruise modeled his portrayal of Stacee Jaxx on a combination of Axl Rose from Guns N' Roses and Bret Michaels from Poison.

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Silver Linings Playbook picture

Trivia: This was the first film since Reds in 1982 to earn Oscar nominations in all four acting categories.

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Life of Pi picture

Trivia: Rhythm and Hues won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for this film. It was their third Oscar. But ironically, the company had to declare bankruptcy and lay-off half their staff just a few months before they won. And when the company was brought up during an acceptance speech for the film, the microphone was cut off. This led to widespread demonstrations and protests against the film and director Ang Lee by effects artists, as they are often marginalized, overworked and underpaid by studios.

TedStixon

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Flight picture

Trivia: Nicole's car bears Georgia license plate CHN 320. This is the same plate number used on the General Lee in "the Dukes of Hazzard".

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The Hunger Games picture

Trivia: Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are the only Hunger Game tributes ever referred to by their first and last names. The other tributes are just identified by their first names, even when they're being introduced by Caesar Flickerman during the televised interviews or their scores are being announced on television.

raywest

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Much Ado About Nothing picture

Trivia: Joss Whedon offered Sean Maher the role of Don John after he learned Maher had never played a villain before.

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The Woman in Black picture

Trivia: Daniel Radcliffe plays the same character which Adrian Rawlins, who plays his father in the Harry Potter franchise, played in a 1989 British TV movie.

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Lincoln picture

Trivia: Director Steven Spielberg obtained permission from the museum that holds Abraham Lincoln's original pocket watch to record the sound of the watch for use in the movie. So, in several scenes where Lincoln is in contemplative thought and fiddling with his watch, the ticking watch sound is actually the same as Lincoln heard 150 years ago.

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Argo picture

Trivia: In 2013, this became the first film since 1989's Driving Miss Daisy to win the Academy Award for Best Picture without also earning a Best Director nomination.

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Chronicle picture

Trivia: The backdrop piece that Andrew climbs through at the beginning of his "magic" act is a mock-up of the entrance to the Cave of Wonders from Disney's Aladdin.

Phixius

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Amour picture

Trivia: Emmanuelle Riva earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her portrayal as Anne Laurent. At the age of 85, Riva is the oldest nominee for a Best Actress Oscar.

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Beasts of the Southern Wild picture

Trivia: Quvenzhane Wallis was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for her role as Hushpuppy. At the age of nine, Wallis became the youngest Best Actress nominee in history.

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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World picture

Trivia: The title of this movie comes from a line in the song "Preaching the End of the World" by Chris Cornell.

Phaneron

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