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Poor Bob and Harvey Weinstein. “The Reader” is flatlining at the box office as they pray for a Golden Globes miracle, and now Entertainment Weekly adds insult to injury with its project to “recount” the Oscar ballots for five separate years. In the just revealed results, hundreds of Oscar voters and industry professionals voted to “take away” the brothers’ most controversial Best Picture win, “Shakespeare in Love” (1998) and “give” it to Universal’s more deserving “Apollo 13” DreamWorks’ more deserving “Saving Private Ryan.” Worse for the Weinsteins they they stripped “Shakespeare” star Gwyneth Paltrow of her equally controversial Best Actress award and gave it to Cate Blanchett for “Elizabeth.” The EW recall also took away two other long-disputed Weinstein victories. Roberto Begnini’s Best Actor trophy for “Life is Beautiful” now “belongs” to Edward Norton for “American History X” and Renee Zellweger‘s for “Cold Mountain” has been re-voted to Shoreh Agdaghloo for “The House of Sand and Fog.” The Weinsteins did pick up one trophy, with Geoffrey Rush of “Shakespeare in Love” posthumously pushing the late James Coburn (“Affliction”) out of the Best Supporting Actor slot.

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