Jolie's 'Heart' pumps life into Oscar chatter

June 22, 2007 There's no official starting gun to the annual Oscar race, and the finish line for the 80th Annual Academy Awards isn't until Feb. 24. Actually, months from now, when the Oscar campaigns are in high gear, "Heart's" awards hopes probably will coalesce around Jolie's performance as the actress succeeds in the tricky job of capturing a real-life woman whose tragic story made headlines in 2002. Lionsgate Films already has released Sarah Polley's "Away From Her," a portrait of a couple coping with Alzheimer's, starring a luminous Julie Christie as a woman battling the disease, which could earn the actress the fourth nomination of her career.

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