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To be eligible for 81st Academy Awards consideration, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by midnight, December 31, and begin a minimum run of seven consecutive days.

Feature films that receive their first public exhibition or distribution in any manner other than as a theatrical motion picture release are not eligible for Academy Awards in any category.
The 81st Academy Awards nominations will be announced Thursday, January 22, 2009, in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in Canada and more than 200 countries worldwide...