New York - Timing is everything in the Oscar race. Except when it's not.
This year's Academy Awards field has done more than most to upend traditional rhythms of Hollywood's awards season, a normally finely-tuned red-carpet ballet. Not my tempo the indelible line from JK Simmons' music instructor in the best-picture nominated Whiplash has been the season's mantra.
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