The general membership of the motion-picture academy received these DVDs around these dates:

DEC. 12: "Me and Orson Welles," "Loss of a Teardrop Diamond"

DEC. 11: "Invictus," "Star Trek," "The Lovely Bones," "Up in the Air," "Creation," "Inglourious Basterds," "The Road"

DEC. 10: "Public Enemies," "It's Complicated," "This Is It," "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"

DEC. 7: "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"

DEC. 5: "Brothers"

DEC. 4: "Capitalism: A Love Story," "The Men Who Stare at Goats,"

DEC. 3: "The Hurt Locker"

DEC. 1: "Precious," "Bruno"

NOV. 27: "Where the Wild Things Are," "The Informant!," "Two Lovers," "Funny People"

NOV. 25: "District 9," "Julie & Julia," "Pirate Radio," "Away We Go," "Taking Woodstock," "A Serious Man," "Coraline," "Up," the animated feature "9," "The Boys Are Back"

NOV. 17:  "(500) Days of Summer," "Bright Star," "Young Victoria"

NOV. 16: "An Education," "The Messenger"

NOV. 6: "The Stoning of Soraya M."

OCT. 26: "Coco Before Chanel," "Whatever Works," "The Damned United"

OCT. 8: "Anvil!"

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