f you're reading this article, it means I survived an event I anticipate and dread each year: AMC's Best Picture Marathon, in which every single Best Picture nominee (9 this year!) is screened back-to-back for a captive audience in a single 24-hour block. This year, that meant sobbing my way through Amour before lunchtime, struggling to stay awake as Les Miserables stretched past midnight, and leaving the theater uplifted and exhausted by Beasts of the Southern Wild. (See the full Best Picture Marathon Showcase schedule below.) What were the highlights and lowlights of this year's Best Picture Marathon? Here, read a sample of my live dispatches from the nine-movie showcase — and don't forget to come back for The Week's Academy Awards live blog at 8:00 p.m. ET tonight:
- WATCH: Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly spar over the Obama scandals
- Could the Cleveland kidnapping victims have been rescued sooner?
- WATCH: Suspect defends brutal beheading of London man in broad daylight
- A linguistic dissection of 7 annoying teenage sounds
- Sadly, you are uglier than you think
- How a Ghost Army of American artists helped defeat Hitler
- Is Greek yogurt hurting the environment?
- WATCH: LeBron James' unbelievable, last-second, game-winning shot
- 3 takedowns of the GOP's latest climate change skeptic
- 7 horrifying details from the Cleveland abduction police report
- WATCH: Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly spar over the Obama scandals
- WATCH: Suspect defends brutal beheading of London man in broad daylight
- A linguistic dissection of 7 annoying teenage sounds
- Is Greek yogurt hurting the environment?
- How the White House's war on media backfired
- WATCH: LeBron James' unbelievable, last-second, game-winning shot
- Sadly, you are uglier than you think
- 7 grammar rules you really should pay attention to
- Are we on the cusp of a solar energy boom?
- The politics behind Kanye West's 'New Slaves'
