1.   The best-film voting went to three ballots and no big studio film was a serious contender.

2.   Also featured will be a sprinkling of studio films and seven foreign selections.

3.   Although the Air Force settings seem naturalistic, fewer extras were hired and costs were shaved across the board, which rarely happens with a studio film.

4.   As an actress, she chose to stick with her penchant for jumping from major studio films to independent features.

5.   Both are propulsive in ways that few studio films ever were.

6.   Blame it on an overload of studio alien films or just plain creative exhaustion among executives and screenwriters.

7.   A contract with a major studio film is the Oscar of homeowner paychecks, followed by television series, commercials and B-grade movies.

8.   A side-effect of the lack of studio films is the impact on Oscar parties, which are taken very seriously in Hollywood.

9.   But Gordon has spent the last decade putting together an increasingly accomplished career as a director of independent films, not that he has anything against studio films.

10.   But he has hardly turned his back on big-budget studio films.