Tonight is the 86th Annual Academy Awards! As we do every year, starting at 7pm EST we’ll be live blogging the entire event from the pre-show red carpet extravaganza through the final Oscar acceptance speech and orchestral “wrap it up” movement.

This year’s Oscar nominees have some heavy hitters vying for the top awards, including 12 Years a Slave, American Hustle, Gravity, and The Wolf of Wall Street all up for multiple awards. Actors including Christian Bale, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chiwetal Eijofor, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, and Meryl Streep are up for top awards and it’ll be interesting to see who gets the statue!

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is a Digital Deal of up to 65% Off Award-Winning movies, books, and music, as well as some selections from current award nominees.

Here’s the categories for today’s deal, along with just a few examples of the titles on sale:

— 2.99 or Less Kindle Books:
Jaws, Silence Of The Lambs, The Exorcist, Forrest Gump, Schindler’s List, Philomena, Life of Pi, and many more.
— Digital Movies: Recent Winners & Nominees:
Argo, Life of Pi, Silver Linings Playbook, Django Unchained, The Croods, Star Trek Into Darkness, and more.
— Top HD Movie Picks Under $5:
The Matrix, Gladiator, The Godfather, The Social Network, No Country For Old Men, Independence Day, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more.
— $3.99 Digital Soundtracks:
American Hustle, Rocky, The Godfather, The Who’s Tommy, Ted, Saving Mr. Bank, and more

Saving Mr. Banks was destined to be the first Disney film since perhaps Mary Poppins to accrue countless Oscar nominations across a multitude of categories. Unfortunately, the brilliant drama that explores the roots of how Mary Poppins evolved from page to screen failed to score more than one Academy Award nod. Why so?

This Disney In Depth aims to identify why Saving Mr. Banks may not have resonated with certain critics, despite the warranted buzz it received prior to its release. I also share how Banks should have been recognized at the forthcoming 86th Academy Awards.

Catch up on all of this year’s nominees with a night at the movies!

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The nominees were announced this morning for the 2014 Academy Awards, with American Hustle and Gravity leading the pack with 10 Oscar nominations each, including best picture and best director.

The 86th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will be held in Los Angeles on March 2, 2014 and broadcast live on ABC, will be hosted by Finding Nemo and upcoming sequel Finding Dory star Ellen DeGeneres, who’s taking on hosting duties for the second time.

You can check out the full list of nominees below now!