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Film News: Who didn't make it to the nominations list -- What do Bart Simpson, John Travolta and Iraq-themed movies have in common? All were no-shows in noms for the Oscars.

Iraq on Film --A series of films with Iraq at their core has brought ordinary life, war, Islam and Iraqi culture to the Western world. What do Bart Simpson, John Travolta and Iraq-themed movies have in common? All were no-shows in the Oscars noms. In a wide-open year, there were lots of - WASHINGTON - After five years of conflict in Iraq, Hollywood seems to have learned a sobering lesson: The only things less popular than the war itself are dramatic - Undoubtedly, MTV Films did not plan to release the contemporary Iraq war film Stop-Loss in - The Iraq war plays only a peripheral role in Grace is Gone. It is a film about loss greater - The films, as is usual, received a mixed critical reaction from - the Iraq films', also uses current media technologies to represent the rape of a 15-year-old girl and the murder - Despite the Oscar success of the Hurt Locker, Iraq films do badly at the box office?and anyone who's been there knows they're inaccurate. What could it take to give - Which of This Year's Best Picture Nominees Are Secretly About Iraq? - Citing the poor showings of films like Rendition, Lions for Lambs, and A Mighty - Films dealing with the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan from the last - The film is a fictionalized version of a real atrocity: the rape of a teenage Iraqi girl, - Film as Political Vehicle: Two Films Offer Insight into Today's Iraq - Nation is revisionist history about a war barely 50 years old at the time. - The appearance of films critical of Iraq while the war is still going on is utterly remarkable, a tribute to the democratic process and a statement -