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The Biggest Oscar Snubs Of 2011 - UPDATED
With the 84th Academy Awards coming tomorrow night, let’s take a look at some of the most notable names absent from the list of nominees.

Let’s kick it off with the Best Picture category. While there are certainly plenty of strong contenders that received nods, the failure of any of these six films to garner a nomination has to be considered one of the most significant omissions at this year’s awards show: We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Drive, Bridesmaids, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. There are all among the year’s best films, some of the most widely hailed and recognized, and their absence from a list that honestly includes a few (relatively) weaker nominees is striking.

Turning to Best Directing, there are two especially glaring omissions: David Fincher for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and Steven Spielberg for War Horse. The latter was even nominated for Best Picture. The failure of Fincher’s film to get either a Best Picture or Best Directing nod is particularly surprising as a one-two punch to the film.

In the category of Best Visual Effects, there were three high-profile absentees: Captain America, Thor, and Green Lantern. The first of these is especially surprising, in light of the incredible effects work done to turn actor Chris Evans into a short, scrawny version of Steve Rogers.

There are two songs that received no nominations for Best Original Song: Mindy Smith’s and Daniel Tashian’s “Taking You With Me” from Our Idiot Brother, and Chris Cornell’s “The Keeper” from Machine Gun Preacher. This is a category that has only TWO nominees this year, despite something like 40 eligible contenders, making it potentially the most overall absurd category of nominations this year.
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Bernie Sanders Cuts Hundreds of Campaign Employees : People.com
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders smiles as a bird lands on his podium as he speaks during a rally at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon, on March 25, 2016.

04/28/2016 AT 10:40 AM EDT

says he's not giving up in the race for the White House, despite significantly downsizing his campaign staff.

The 74-year-old junior United States senator from Vermont

four of Tuesday's five major primaries to former secretary of state

, making it virtually impossible for him to win the Democratic nomination.

Sanders now plans to cut hundreds of staffers, his campaign spokesman Michael Briggs confirms to PEOPLE.

"We've gone from a peak of more than 1,000 in January before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary to about 325 to 350," Briggs explains. "We're 80 percent of the way through the primary and caucus calendar and this right-sizing of the campaign staff will leave us with the people we need for a strong finish in California and the other remaining states and territories and the District of Columbia."

Briggs adds, "Our fundraising remains strong. We owe it to the people who have made 7.3 million donations averaging $27 apiece to marshal our resources and spend them wisely and efficiently."

Sanders trails behind Clinton by more than 200 pledged delegates going into the 14 remaining Democratic primaries – including California's on June 7 and next week's in Indiana.

Ahead of Tuesday's primaries, Sanders sent an email to his supporters promising to "fight the narrow path we have to the nomination," according to the

, and said he'd stay in the race until the summer convention.

On Wednesday, the Brooklyn native said of the campaign cuts and Clinton's victories, "what we are going to do is allocate our resources to the 14 contests that remain, and that means that we are going to be cutting back on staff," according to the

He added, "We have had a very large staff, which was designed to deal with 50 states in this country; 40 of the states are now behind us. So we have had a great staff, great people."
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assistant: Bernie Sanders trails Hillary Clinton by more than 200 pledged candidates after Tuesday's primaries